Introduction

Kate Mitchell I Our conversation with Kate Mitchell reviewed her experience working at Oracle with Larry Ellison in the midst of the database wars, the emergence of data warehousing and analytics and what led to successes in the first era of data analysis. Our conversation also covered the significant changes afoot with the transition from a centralized to decentralized infrastructure – from cloud/mobile to intelligent edge computing – along with the key considerations involved with choosing and deploying the appropriate technology to the right business problem in order to get the right information to the right place at the right time. Looking forward, Kate discussed the potential for AI and machine learning to drive profound transformation of business.