Oracle's Announcement of Oracle Code Assist and Its Partnership with OCI and Microsoft Underscore Its Commitment to Generative AI Technologies

Oracle's Announcement of Oracle Code Assist and Its Partnership with OCI and Microsoft Underscore Its Commitment to Generative AI Technologies

This IDC Market Note examines Oracle Code Assist's value proposition in the context of the larger landscape of AI coding assistants. "The announcement of Oracle Code Assist underscores Oracle's commitment to both AI and generative AI technologies as modalities of transforming software development and developer experience, especially in light of Oracle's announced collaboration with Microsoft on expansion of Microsoft Azure AI to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure," noted Arnal Dayaratna, research vice president, Software Development at IDC. "In particular, Oracle Code Assist's AI-based coding assistance for Java, NetSuite SuiteScript, PL/SQL, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will deliver a slew of capabilities across the software development life cycle including unit test generation, code explanation, and code annotation. One notable differentiator of Oracle Code Assist involves leveraging the company's experience with Java to optimize code suggestions, code generation, and language version updates. This ability to harness expansive training sets for Java means that Oracle Code Assist has the potential to outperform its competitors with respect to Java-related development."