Analytic functions usually improve performance and reduce complexity of SQL-queries with multi-row dependencies. But for many developers/DBA's/end-users they are still a complex and mysterious operation. This presentation will explain analytics for developers, users and DBA's. In a live demonstration, I show the audience how to build queries with analytic functions with increasing complexity. First we…

Big Data is growing exponentially, requiring massive-scale infrastructure however, business analytics has shifted from reactive to proactive analysis; this is the era of streaming data (a.k.a. Fast Data). Apache Hadoop is very good for analyzing data at rest but cannot handle streaming data. Big Data analytics needs new Big data frameworks. Apache Spark brings in-memory processing and…

Machine learning gets a lot of attention, but behind the buzz and futuristic ideas, there’s some very powerful technology you can use today. Whether you are a business leader or an IT expert, you can find out in this session what the fuss is all about. You’ll learn about the different kinds of ML techniques,…

In the past you used to have to buy servers and/or hosting services to manage your technology stack. Now there are numerous options which allow you to quickly and easily deploy your applications on the cloud. The tough part is deciding which cloud offering or tools to use. This session will cover the different cloud…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c provides powerful tools for building Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) private clouds.  However, in order to provide effective private cloud services, Enterprise Manager 13c requires access by users other than administrators. Through the use of web-based, self-service portals, users are now able to build…

Everyone is talking about Cloud Computing, but there seems to be wildly differing perspectives on what it means, how it works, and the costs and benefits of such a model. When it comes to databases and other business critical applications in the cloud, the message is even more confusing. In this session, we will discuss what House of Brick is seeing and hearing from large enterprises to small businesses. The session will present the “right questions” to ask about Tier 1 applications and cloud – from private to public and other key SaaS/DBaaS considerations.

Do you feel like you are behind on understanding the Oracle Public Cloud? Have no idea what capabilities exist and how they work together? Are you wondering how public cloud will fit into your hybrid architecture strategy or how you can use public cloud to increase time to market, respond to the business faster and…

Today's businesses need to move quickly - a longer time to market could potentially mean lost revenue. To achieve this, applications need faster development lifecycles and applications need to get data faster. This results in stretched IT resources, frustrated staff, complex or insufficient infrastructure and failed projects. Traditional IT organizations struggle to move applications to…

Docker is a great way to launch isolated applications into your infrastructure. Oracle has expanded their Docker support across many of the products, and if you’re already taking advantage of those Oracle cloud credits then Oracle Container Cloud Service may be the way to start utilizing Docker at your company. We will go through the…

NOTE - this is v2.0 update of a session delivered at Collaborate last year... REST or Representational State Transfer is a design style that has become the most important technology for applications and services deploying on the web today. Consequently, Oracle has also embraced RESTful services and has exposed a rich set of tools and…