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From CloudWorld to AI World: What This Change Really Tells Us

Written by Phil Wilson | Aug 18, 2025 12:02:49 PM

When I first heard that Oracle was renaming its flagship event from CloudWorld to AI World, my first thought was: Well… there it is. 

It wasn’t surprising. If you’ve been paying attention to how Oracle has been evolving its Fusion Applications, OCI, or even its executive messaging over the past 12 months, this shift was inevitable. Cloud, while still foundational, is no longer the headline. AI is. 

But it’s more than a name change. It’s a signal. A public declaration that the future of enterprise software is not just about where it runs—it’s about how it thinks. 

And that has serious implications for all of us in the ecosystem: Partners, Consultants, Customers, System Integrators. 

For the past few years, we’ve seen organizations ask, “How do I move to Oracle Fusion Cloud?” That was the big question. The answer involved infrastructure, implementation timelines, managed services, lift and shift, etc. 

Now the question has evolved. It’s become: “Now that I’m on Oracle Cloud, how can I do more with less?” 

“How do I keep up with change?” 

“How do I take the friction out of governance, testing, or rollout?” 

And increasingly: “How can AI help me make better decisions, faster?” 

That shift in questioning is exactly why Rapid4Cloud exists—and why we’ve been building the way we have. 

We’ve never believed in automation just for the sake of it. We believed in intelligent automation. Automation that learns from what you do. That can predict how long your tasks will run. That can fix its own scripts. That can tell you what changed, what broke, and what’s likely to break next. Not 10 weeks from now—today. 

So when I saw Oracle change the name of the event to AI World, I didn’t see it as a pivot. I saw it as a milestone. The moment the industry caught up with what we’ve been quietly working on. 

At this year’s event, we’ll be back—proud to be sponsoring, and more excited than ever to show what intelligent automation actually looks like when it’s live, when it’s real, and when it’s helping Oracle customers move faster without sacrificing control. 

We’ll have a booth in this event, and we will soon announce where it is. You’ll find us running live demos of the Rapid4Cloud Platform, showing off our predictive engine, and, more importantly, having real conversations about how AI can help your team—not replace it. 

Because in the end, it’s not just about automation. It’s about enabling people to focus on the work that matters. 

See you in Vegas!