Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
June 24, 2026
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News Flashes
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are now offering Oracle AI Database@AWS to customers in Spain, enabling customers to now run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), a global leader in mental health research and care, is leveraging Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to help it drive change through research, clinical care, education, and advocacy.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it has awarded Oracle a $395.8 million Federal HRIT Modernization Core Human Capital Management (HCM) contract to deliver the federal government's first governmentwide HR platform. Powered by Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), the new platform will replace more than 100 separate systems and serve as the single, governmentwide system of record for workforce management under OPM's Federal HR 2.0 initiative, according to Oracle.
Think About It
Are data infrastructures ready to deliver insights at the speed of thought—or, for that matter, at the speed of an AI prompt? For decades, batch processing was the mode of data delivery—and organizations built their analytical environments in which information was several hours, or maybe a day, old. Then, as the digital economy evolved, certain parts of the data infrastructure moved to near real time, meaning results to queries were delivered within a half-hour to several hours.