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Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release National Grid Brings Customers’ Energy Journey to Life Video energy reports from Opower increase customer click-through rates by 12X Redwood Shores, Calif.—May 28, 2020 Watch the video National Grid is helping its customers better understand their energy journey, 90-seconds at a time. In partnership with Oracle Utilities Opower, National Grid launched a pilot of their first-ever video energy reports. In an animated story, customers received personalized insights on their natural gas usage last winter and advice on how to save energy and cut costs. Sent to 33,000 customers in Upstate New York via ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Authored by: Georges Saab (VP, Java Platform Group and Chair, OpenJDK Governing Board) It is hard to believe that it has been 25 years since Java became officially available. On the other hand, it seems like several eras have passed - and in some sense, they have. I still remember the sense of excitement I had joining JavaSoft, hanging out with the small but devoted team that looked forward to every day we got to work on this cool new language. The team came from a wide background of programming languages and runtime design, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Named a Leader in Email Marketing Service Providers by Independent Research Firm Oracle Responsys continues industry leadership, scoring highest in strategy category and achieving the highest possible score in the artificial intelligence, analytics, and vertical capabilities criteria Redwood Shores, Calif.—May 20, 2020 Oracle today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. May 2020 report, The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q2 2020. This year’s report evaluated 13 email marketing service providers based on 23 criteria, which are split into three categories—current offering, strategy, and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Graph Visualization Boosts Fight Against Money Laundering Investigation Hub provides financial investigators a new way to probe criminal networks Redwood Shores, Calif.—May 20, 2020 Oracle Financial Services has made its in-memory graph visualization tool, Investigation Hub, available in its enterprise case management application and in other third-party AML case managers. Investigators can interactively scrutinize money laundering networks and apply graph analytics to increase the effectiveness of their investigations. Unlike point solutions, this capability also saves on technology integration costs and the need for additional training on new tools. Research firm Gartner named ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Blog A Bee-Inspired Story: Smart Data Lessons from the Hive By Amanda Jobbins, SVP, Marketing and Digital Demand Generation, EMEA and JAPAC—May 20, 2020 On this World Bee Day, it’s frightening to think what the world would be like without bees. A number of news stories recently have investigated the decline in bee populations and the likely impact this will have on our food supply and the environment. Considering bees pollinate 70% of the world’s major food crops and 87% of all flowering plants, the prospect of the extinction of these fascinating creatures is unthinkable ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Blog Oracle Helps Advertisers Reach the Right Result with Moat Reach By Kevin Whitcher, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle Data Cloud—May 19, 2020 “Here comes the pitch. It’s a deep drive. This one’s got a chaaaance… and it’s gone!,” exclaims the announcer, “Touchdown, Cubs!” Using football metrics in a baseball context is jarring and confusing, as it doesn’t explain what is actually happening. That same disconnect is the reality for cross-platform advertisers, who have faced a similar challenge in trying to measure deduplicated audience reach across TV and digital channels, as each medium has ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. In this blog entry we'll take a look at some of the new features inside Oracle Database 20c which has just been refreshed to version 20.3 on the Oracle Cloud's DBCS platform. Oracle Database 20c is the next release of Oracle's multi-model database. Like the versions that have preceded it, Oracle Database 20c provides industry leading scalability, availability and security for both OLTP and analytical workloads. It supports relational, JSON, XML, spatial, graph, columnar, OLAP and unstructured data, enabling you to focus on building applications without having to worry about how to persist such data. Support and Previous ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Staying connected in these times is a challenge for nearly all teams and communities. Fortunately, there are solutions, like 8x8, that enable teams to connect from anywhere, anytime, and on any device. Teams can stay productive and continue their daily business activities with as little disruption as possible, all at a manageable and fair cost from a cloud platform. 8x8 is a cloud communications company that provides free and paid secured video conferencing solutions to many top enterprises and organization globally. The Gartner Leader in Unified Communications as a Service is trusted by over ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. The original plan for my first day at Oracle was to be in Chicago for the Modern Customer Experience conference on March 23. Instead, because of COVID-19 and shelter-in-place mandates, I began my new role from my home in Atlanta.   Onboarding as a new member of the marketing team under these circumstances was unlike anything I've ever experienced in my career. If things had been “normal,” I would likely have flown two or three times in my first month because our team, our customers, and our partners are located all over the world. Coming in from ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By Marc Seewald, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle Amid COVID-19, every underlying driver of and assumption about “business as usual” is being challenged. We lack the historical data we’d normally look to in a crisis, and we also lack the trends that would help forecast what things might look like once we come out the other side. This is where scenario planning comes into play. It can help us visualize the future, plan for multiple scenarios and assess how to respond to each one. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that companies can’t place ... Read More