Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
June 6, 2018
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News Flashes
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire DataScience.com, whose platform centralizes data science tools, projects and infrastructure in a fully-governed workspace.
Calling it the last upgrade you'll ever do, Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison yesterday unveiled "the world's first automated enterprise cloud application upgrade product" which will enable Oracle customers to reduce the time and cost of cloud migration by up to 30%. In fact, said Ellison, during a webcast showcasing the new features, it is now easier to move from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Fusion ERP in the cloud than it is to upgrade from one version of E-Business Suite to another. "And, when you are in the cloud, that is the last upgrade you will ever do because all upgrades are in the cloud and done automatically."
Think About It
Since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018, organizations have hopefully already emerged from the strategy phase and are now well into implementation. However, the nuances of GDPR are something most of us are still trying to comprehend—and we probably won't truly understand all of it for a while. In the hustle to reach compliance, errors will likely have been made. In the process of GDPR planning and execution, there are four key areas that companies need to be wary of. If not managed carefully, they can slow down the process of achieving, and maintaining, compliance goals.
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If you ever wonder why some things are the way they are in the database environment, or if you're new to Oracle and have the privilege of starting with versions that have GUI friendly tools, this story from Michael Abbey might help with that. It is a view into several versions of Oracle and development along the way.
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