Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
August 19, 2026
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
Oracle is introducing new Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications and AI agents for HR to help organizations accelerate workforce development, strengthen internal mobility, and respond to emerging skills needs.
Oracle is releasing the latest version of Oracle Trusted Answer Search to help close the gap between enterprise applications that already contain the right reports, workflows, and pages and the employees looking for them.
Quantinuum, a leading quantum computing company, and Oracle are forming a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Under the partnership, OCI customers will be able to directly access Quantinuum's Helios, through OCI's quantum service, alongside OCI's high-performance computing (HPC) and GPU infrastructure.
Think About It
Database professionals have long understood that applications live or die by the quality of the data used to test them. Yet test data management (TDM) has historically been handled as a secondary concern. It is usually approached manually, in an inconsistent way, and frequently rushed. In an era of agile development, DevOps, and continuous delivery, this approach is no longer viable. At the center of modern TDM is a capability that DBAs can no longer afford to ignore: flexible provisioning.