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Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Oh, #OOW19, where should I start? There were compelling sessions, brilliant people, and an entire playpen of puppies. But the most exciting part hands down was the technology and new concepts announced at the event, starting with this simple yet bold claim that kicked off Oracle OpenWorld 2019: Oracle is a people-focused, data-driven organization. This message was everywhere at the conference. I saw proof of it in the technology I was fortunate enough to experience and heard about it firsthand from customers already using it at their organizations. It was also evident at the ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. When GreenGo launched in 2016, the Hungarian startup sought to offer an alternative mode of transport. The first electric car-sharing service in its area, GreenGo offers services to those who regularly travel around Hungary’s bustling capital, Budapest, but are not keen on maintaining a car or paying for parking in the city. Cars can be booked through the mobile application before pickup, and once the user has stopped using the car, the fee for usage is automatically withdrawn from the user’s bank account. In the years since GreenGo first took to the streets, the company’s ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Competition to build retail mindshare and customer loyalty has never been more fierce. Brands must continually evolve their products and deliver a personalized approach to win the hearts and minds of customers. Delivering the technology that helps them do exactly that, Portugal Country Leader Bruno Morais, and Mike Webster, senior vice president and general manager Oracle Retail, today unveiled a new Innovation and Technology Center in Porto. The center will focus initially on delivering breakthrough retail innovations leveraging the latest technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. “Oracle Portugal is delighted to see Oracle’s Global ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Avi Ben-Menahem. One of the best ways to speed up securing your cloud deployments is to focus on the most impactful security best practices. Best practices for securing any service begins with a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity risk and how to manage it. As an Azure customer, you can leverage this understanding by using security recommendations from Microsoft to help guide your risk-based decisions as they’re applied to specific security configuration settings in your environment. We partnered with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to create the CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark v1.  Since that ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matthew Calder. Who spends their summer at the Microsoft Garage New England Research & Development Center (or “NERD”)? The Microsoft Garage internship seeks out students who are hungry to learn, not afraid to try new things, and able to step out of their comfort zones when faced with ambiguous situations. The program brought together Grace Hsu from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Christopher Bunn from Northeastern University, Joseph Lai from Boston University, and Ashley Hong from Carnegie Mellon University. They chose the Garage internship because of the product focus—getting to see the whole development cycle from ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Montgomery. As customers have moved their workloads to the cloud, we’ve seen a growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices. Microservice-based architectures help improve scalability and velocity but implementing them can pose challenges. For many Java developers, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud have helped address these challenges, providing a robust platform with well-established patterns for developing and operating microservice applications. But creating and maintaining a Spring Cloud environment requires work. Such as setting up the infrastructure for dynamic scaling, installing and managing multiple components, and wiring up the application to your logging ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Ibushak, a Mexican ecommerce provider, is using Oracle NetSuite to help Mexican brands unlock new revenue opportunities and meet changing customer expectations. With NetSuite, Ibushak has streamlined financials, optimized inventory management and gained a comprehensive view into its core business processes so that it can personalize the customer experience and drive brand loyalty. Founded in 2004 by brothers Mauricio and Salomon Bouzali, Ibushak is focused on making it easier for Mexican brands to conduct business online. The company currently works with more than 300 brands in Mexico and is tapping into a thriving industry, which ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. salauno, a nonprofit focused on delivering visual health services, is using Oracle NetSuite to support its mission of providing high-quality, accessible eye care services to all of Mexico. With NetSuite, salauno has been able to focus time and resources on its mission by increasing supply chain efficiency and gaining a single view of the financial data of its entire organization. Founded in 2011, the company has performed more than 35,000 surgeries that have restored vision and provided low-cost and quality ophthalmologic care, including treatments like cataract surgery and diabetic retinopathy, to more than 300,000 patients ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. OUTFRONT Media, which manages more than 500,000 outdoor advertising canvases, including the New York City MTA and the Bay Area’s BART, is getting smarter and faster in showing its customers the advantages of outdoor ads. The longtime Oracle Database Cloud customer this year upgraded to Oracle’s Autonomous Data Warehouse, gaining more-robust data-crunching with machine learning capabilities for faster time to market, enhanced performance and scalability, and a more flexible consumption-based cost model. In combination with Oracle Analytics, OUTFRONT’s Technology Services organization is collaborating with business lines to quickly create valuable reports and dashboards and make ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business. The new roles, which include software development, cloud operations, and business operations, will support Oracle’s rapidly expanding infrastructure customer base, and come as the company rolls out new product innovations and rapidly opens cloud regions around the globe. “Cloud is still in its early days with less than 20 percent penetration today, and enterprises are just beginning to use cloud for mission-critical workloads,” said Don Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Our aggressive hiring and ... Read More