Recent Posts by Alan Zeichick

“Where are our best prospects?” the CEO asks the sales manager. “Two companies in our market are merging—how will that affect us?” the CEO asks a business analyst. To answer these types of questions with enough depth to make decisions, management teams need lots of data that’s relevant to the decisions and actions the team must face. What’s more, the data must be easily analyzable by traditional business intelligence tools and artificial intelligence. But simply having access...

With Oracle DataFox, business data is accurate, fresh, dynamic—and AI-powered. By Alan Zeichick May/June 2019 “Where are our best prospects?” the CEO asks the sales manager. “Two companies in our market are merging—how will that affect us?” the CEO asks a business analyst. To answer these types of questions with enough depth to make decisions, management teams need lots of data that’s relevant to the decisions and actions the team must face. What’s more, the data must be easily...

“Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019” demonstrates the importance of visibility, shared responsibility, and a CISO seat at the table. By Alan Zeichick March/April 2019 Want to protect your assets in the cloud? You need to know what those assets are and who is using them. Your security teams must be able to see everything going on in the cloud infrastructure, from the cloud’s core to its edge. They need to be certain about which parts of your cloud applications are...

Phishing attacks, unpatched systems, and unauthorized cloud applications are creating unrelenting risk for enterprise security teams. Automation of threat monitoring and patching of software vulnerabilities is often the best way—and increasingly the only effective way—to tackle those challenges.   That’s one of the key conclusions from a research project jointly conducted by Oracle and KPMG. The Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019, released in February, examines many...

Six out of ten medium and large enterprises are already undertaking a strategic review of 5G wireless, according to a new survey about the coming high-speed cellular communication standard. And given their sunny outlook on 5G, it’s easy to see why they’re making plans: More than 80% of the 265 key decision-makers surveyed believe 5G will increase employee productivity, reduce costs, enhance the customer experience, and improve business agility. On the income side of the...

The Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament scores points and engages fans with an intelligent chatbot. By Alan Zeichick January/February 2019 Deuce. Advantage. Match point. What will happen next? Thrilling action—and the best players in the world—await tennis fans at the Mutua Madrid Open tournament each year. On the court, spectators watch players such as Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep battle for supremacy. Off the court, there’s MatchBot, an innovative chatbot that helps everyone...

Charles Nutter remembers when, working as a Java architect, he attended a conference and saw the Ruby programming language for the first time. And he was blown away. “I was just stunned that I understood every piece of code, every example, without knowing the language at all,” recalls Nutter. “It was super easy for me to understand the code.” As a Java developer, Nutter began looking for an existing way to run Ruby within a Java runtime environment, specifically a Java virtual...

The university built the chatbot using the intelligent bot capability in Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise. By Alan Zeichick October 3, 2018 In Australia, at 8 a.m. on ‘Results Day,’ thousands and thousands of South Australian year 12 students receive their ATAR (Australia Tertiary Admissions Rank)—the all-important standardized score used to gain admission to universities across Australia. The frustrating challenge: many are eligible to add as many as nine school...

Simplified Java coding. Less garbage. Faster programs. Those are among the key features in the newly released Java 10, which arrived in developers’ hands only six months after the debut of Java 9 in September. This pace is a significant change from Java’s previous cycle of one large release every two to three years. With its faster release cadence, Java is poised to provide developers with innovations twice every year, making the language and platform more attractive and...