Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
September 17, 2025
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 Health is launching the Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare to help organizations take advantage of the rapid advances in AI. The Oracle AI Center of Excellence for Healthcare offers a hub of resources and expertise that will help health systems and hospitals deploy and optimize AI across their organizations, according to the company.
Oracle is releasing Java 25, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, helping organizations drive business growth by delivering thousands of improvements that boost developer productivity and enhance the platform's performance, stability, and security.
Oracle announced that the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) will move its mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Delivered in collaboration with Red Reply, and Shield Reply, the Reply Group companies specializing in Oracle technologies, and prime contractor Thales, NCIA will move its on-premises workloads to OCI to benefit from OCI's sovereign cloud solutions, high performance, availability, AI innovation, and enterprise-grade security.
Think About It
Years ago, before the rise of the gig economy, people developed their careers over time, often more slowly than desired. Folks who became DBAs, Data Modelers, or Data Architects had a rule-following gene they were either born with or grew. And that aspect of their mentality was greatly leveraged into how procedures and change progressed in their areas of influence. Such perspectives created a serious consistency, and constancy of purpose that fit well into the demands of the job. The rules were guardrails on how tasks within the framework were done.