Tag: Database

Join Oracle Database experts Markus Michaelwicz, Oracle, and Rene Antunez, Pythian, for a lively discussion around why RAC is relevant (and more powerful than ever), the flexibility RAC provides to the database, and the impact on application availability. Featured Speakers: Markus Michaelwicz, Oracle Corporation; Deiby Gonzalez, Pythian

Public Cloud. Private Cloud. Hybrid Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud these days, so why are people so hesitant to move there? Join Oracle Database experts Charles Kim, Viscosity North American, Scott Spendolini and Brian Spendolini, Oracle Corporation, for a lively discussion around the best use cases for different cloud setups (and when cloud…

Jeff Erickson, content strategist for database and data-driven innovation at Oracle, wrote about the four expert tips that Erik Benner, Vice President of Enterprise Transformation at Mythics Inc., came up with to help ensure Oracle Autonomous Database success. Of Benner’s four suggestions, one will help you get started, two will save you money, and one is a tip to avoid.

Leveraging the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can help finance leaders and organizations easily, quickly, and securely gain control over financial data. As a finance leader, you're likely eager to discover insights and make decisions faster than ever. Whether you're analyzing expenses, optimizing cash flow, or evaluating your credit exposure, timely and trustworthy data is vital to your success. By taking more control over your financial data, you can be more confident in your analysis and more effective in influencing business decisions. 

Leveraging the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can help HR leaders and organizations easily, quickly, and securely gain control over HR data. As an HR leader, you’re likely eager to discover insights and make decisions faster than ever. Whether you’re analyzing budgets, retention, or recruiting effectiveness, timely and trustworthy data is vital to your success. By taking more control over HR data management, you can be more confident in your analysis and more effective in influencing business decisions.

Dhvani Sheth, Solution Engineer at Oracle, showed how Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can provide useful data analysis and visualization to HR departments. Hiring the right people requires a lot of time, money, and effort. However, hiring the wrong people can be just as costly, if not more so. Without using data analytics to make data-driven decisions, HR departments may be prone to hire based on a cognitive bias that they aren’t aware of. Instead of using traditional techniques, HR can use data analytics and visualization to find patterns within large volumes of data to make insightful hiring decisions for the company.

David Huffman, Solution Engineer at Oracle, explained to users how Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud can provide organizations and analysts with insights into accurate, comprehensive data.

For the airline industry, flight delays are a serious problem. This problem ultimately cripples customer satisfaction and retention, wreaks havoc on schedules, and reduces revenue. What if airlines could move past expensive, time-consuming, legacy IT approaches? This could help them harness their data to better analyze, understand, and mitigate flight delays. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can help them do exactly that.

There may be times when it makes sense to consider an open source-based DBMS like Postgres along side your Oracle databases. The session will cover how to migrate from Oracle to Postgres, quickly and without risk, by taking advantage of automated tools to analyze and convert definitions, tables, views, stored procedures and indexes.

Introducing the latest Database from Oracle: Oracle Database 19c.  Oracle Database 19c is currently slated to be a "Long Term Support Release" meaning there is good reason for many customers to consider upgrading to Database 19c as older database versions including 11x and 12x will be moving into desupported mode.  This session will cover what's…