Get a clear, CTO-level overview of the benefits and limitations of running Oracle Pluggable Databases on AWS RDS, including key constraints, operational considerations, and recommendations for enterprise workloads.

With OCI Database Management, you can view all your databases, deployed anywhere, on a single pane of glass. The service is cloud native, making it fully managed by Oracle for upgrades, patching, etc. It leverages true cloud elasticity with low operations cost and connects to Oracle Database 11.2.0.4 and above. Read more to find out about all of its features.

*Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Drop Tank manages gas station loyalty technologies and programs for many of America’s best-known fuel brands. Millions of transactions and diverse POS systems bring the complexity of both scale and scope to their cloud-based data warehouse and analytics system. You’ll hear how ADW, OAC, ODI, and Oracle CX cloud work together to provide reporting and analytic insight to marketers and program managers. This real-world case study will highlight what worked well, what didn’t, and what the future promises.

Objectives:

• Share the challenges that Drop Tank faces in integrating diverse data sources into a comprehensive solution in Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud.
• Discuss the data modeling challenges necessary for reporting complex retail transactions across thousands of individual store locations and diverse audiences for analytics.
• Review the guiding principles and preferences that helped this implementation succeed. Discuss what it’s like to be on the cutting edge of Oracle’s technologies.

Presented by:

Tim Vlamis, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.
Timothy Miller, Drop Tank
Doug Schieder, Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

As part of Quest Forum Digital Event: Innovation Week, Sandra Cheevers, Senior Director of Oracle Cloud Product Marketing, presented an overview of Oracle’s Cloud Computing strategy. Cheevers discussed Intelligent Applications, Autonomous Database, and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as the complete solution for your organization’s needs.

William Hardie, Vice President of Oracle Database Product Management, recently shared that customers who are wishing to utilize the Machine Learning, Spatial, and Graph features of Oracle Database are no longer required to purchase additional licenses. This is keeping with Oracle's mission to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities. 

Dimitri Gielis, the founder of AOP and APEX R&D, wrote about the best and cheapest Oracle APEX hosting - Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

Databases are critical to organizations and represent a significant part of total IT spend. That is why you want to deploy your database on the best-optimized platform and protect your data with backups. The Cloud is transforming the way enterprises do business for the better, and backup is no different. That’s where Oracle Cloud Backup for Oracle Database comes into play.

Alan Zeichick, Director of Strategic Communications for Oracle, wrote in Forbes about Oracle’s expansion of its global data center footprint and the Cloud regions that Oracle has been opening worldwide.

On August 1, Oracle announced the general availability in all commercial regions of Oracle Functions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's functions-as-a-service (FaaS) platform.