Retraced Steps up the Game with Oracle 23ai Upgrade

With our vision to lead in supply chain transparency and sustainability, Retraced's recent upgrade to Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) 23ai marks a powerful step forward in harnessing cutting-edge ✂️ technology for impactful change. This update enhances our capabilities and introduces features like Select AI, AI Vector Search, and enhanced JSON handling.

🍃Seamless Transition and Built-In Scalability

The transition to Oracle ATP 23ai was seamless, with minimal downtime thanks to automated scaling and Oracle's support—if you don't count the snacks our Infrastructure Team seemed to have "misplaced"! ATP 23ai’s resource management automatically adjusts compute power and storage, letting our product team focus on adding value and simplifying the process to just a click, enabling smooth application of changes to the new version.

🤖Select AI: Talking to Our Data

One of the key enhancements in 23ai is Select AI. Select AI could enable us to interact with our database using natural language, potentially translating descriptions into SQL queries. For example, asking, “What is the highest risk scoring facility process in a network?” could generate a query to retrieve the relevant data. This feature could make development across multiple data sets easier, provide insights for our product team, and ultimately empower our customers to access data more easily and potentially make data-driven decisions.

🔍AI Vector Search: Enhancing Smart Search

AI Vector Search is crucial for enhancing how we process and search unstructured data. Our platform holds large volumes of supply chain documentation. AI Vector Search has the potential to embed documents into vector space, possibly enabling semantic searches beyond simple keyword matches. This would allow our internal support team to find and evaluate information with greater precision, even without exact keywords. For example, they could search for “fair labor practices” and find relevant matches, regardless of phrasing.

💪Enhanced JSON Handling: Making Data Work for You

Oracle ATP 23ai's enhanced JSON capabilities, such as JSON Duality Views and JSON Schemas, could help us handle data more efficiently and securely. JSON Duality Views unify relational and document models, while JSON Schemas provide structure validation, ensuring data integrity and consistency. These improvements could help detect anomalies early and potentially prevent compromised data, contributing to secure integration of diverse supply chain data—making our developers' work even more robust.

A New Foundation for Innovation

This upgrade to Oracle ATP 23ai builds a foundation for the next wave of supply chain innovation. Combining natural language querying, enhanced search, and dynamic JSON handling could make data work harder, potentially uncovering new insights for us and our users. All of these, topped with out of the box Cross-regional Disaster Recovery - means we can assure our customers that their critical data is safe, even in the event of regional disruptions. With built-in encryption, data integrity, and high availability, Oracle ATP 23ai helps us maintain compliance and continuous global access, while excelling at bringing out the most impactful product we could master. All developers hands on deck!