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Comment by dekerta | Hacker News Reader

Not surprising that Oracle's promotional video for Flexcube is all corporate-speak and buzz-words, and doesn't actually show the product or even explain what it does. https://videohub.oracle.com/media/t/1_mxpp4dyv

All enterprise software is terrible like this. It's because the people ordering the software are disconnected from the people who will have to use it

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> "Oracle's new machine learning adapter unlocks intelligence engrained in individual operational patterns."

This made me laugh so hard, I can just imagine some bank executive hearing this and nodding, thinking they're going to change the world somehow.

> Blockchain

> The system is embedded with a patented blockchain adapter that enables Oracle FLEXCUBE to interface with any blockchain system. The adapter enables a seamless interchange of information between Oracle FLEXCUBE and external blockchain data setscan work with any version of Oracle FLEXCUBE with minimal changes. The easy configurability of the adapter enables banks to leverage blockchain technologies to solve business problems,improve process efficiency, reduce risk and enhance straight through processing.

I think I'm just being trolled now

It's like the Turbo Cloud Encabulator brought to life: https://youtu.be/7LOF7KM7UhY (https://youtu.be/m84IoMeo3qE is also quite good).

Well there’s your problem, Citi clearly hadn’t purchased the blockchain module or this couldn’t have happened.

I couldn't stop laughing while watching that video. It sounds like a parody. Does that type of video seriously convince CTOs to buy FlexCube?

“Infusing operational agility” - WTF?

This is golden. It's spoken like a voice synth. "cut operating costs, deliver high volumes, and transfer these benefits to its customers", then "meanwhile, at the back office, ... Oracle's new Machine Learning adapter unlocks intelligence ingrained in indivudual operational patterns".

Makes me wonder if they used GPT-2 "AI" to generate the video... Might make more sense if they had...

Well, they did transfer high volume benefits to the customers, only $500M worth they weren't expecting.

So cringe-inducing!

"best in breed"

"pre-integrated"

"...unlocks intelligence ingrained in..."

such presentations remind me of Rockwell's Retro Encabulator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

I just watched that video and now I know even less about the product than I did before (which was nothing).

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