Recent Posts by Bertrand Matthelie

In a previous blog, we’ve looked at 4 ways retailers can harness disruption with Oracle Autonomous Database. Let’s now turn our attention to the financial services industry. Time is running out for traditional banking. The past decade’s Fintech phenomenon, as a pool of agile innovation, has changed banking forever. Technology giants have also been working to unbundle financial services, and they tend to be very effective at managing customer profiles as well as anticipating...

Rapid and profound disruption is impacting the retail industry. The uncertainty, speed, and frequency of unpredictable events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, are prompting retailers to re-assess their operating environment, suffer higher costs due to enhanced safety precautions for both staff and customers, increase home delivery services, and improve agility in response to market requirements. While retailers may have adopted digital platforms to enable e-commerce,...

94% of business professionals say data analytics is important to their business growth and digital transformation. Business teams are eager to access ever more data to quickly answer new questions arising every day. However, analysts often struggle to efficiently turn a growing mountain of data into insights. Did you know that CFOs spend on average 2.24 hours/day sifting through spreadsheets? While business teams usually turn to IT for help, IT teams tend to have a hard time...

We're very excited to announce the General Availability of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service! Oracle MySQL Cloud Service allows you to accelerate innovation and to rapidly, securely and cost-effectively develop & deploy modern applications powered by the world’s most popular open source database. Built on the proven MySQL Enterprise Edition and powered by the Oracle Cloud, it provides a simple, automated, integrated and enterprise-ready cloud service that enables organizations to...

Oracle OpenWorld is right around the corner and now is the time to plan your agenda! My Schedule enables you to effectively plan your conference and reserve you seat in sessions. You’ll also get notified of potential updates. Last year we had to turn down folks for a number of MySQL sessions so it does make sense to book your seat in advance... Go ahead and start by adding the General Session "MySQL’s State of the Dolphin & Customer Experiences" to your agenda now! Rich...

Want to easily find out about the MySQL sessions taking place at Oracle OpenWorld? Check out our Focus on MySQL @ OpenWorld page. Conference sessions, Tutorials, Hands-on Labs, Birds-of-a- Feather as well as the MySQL General Session are listed with their time and location. Not registered for Oracle OpenWorld yet? Do it Now! You'll learn about the latest MySQL developments and plans, meet the engineers and get all your questions answered. You'll get the chance to network with...

Although smartphone penetration and 3G/4G coverage is increasing, the cost of data access is still beyond most people’s reach in emerging markets. The GSMA Foundation estimates (i) that only one-fifth of mobile connections in Sub-Saharian Africa are based on 3G, with 4G accounting for less than 1% of the connection base. The GSMA also estimates that "despite the shift in the region towards smartphones and mobile broadband, nearly 450 million connections will still be based on...

We sometimes get the question "Will MySQL scale to meet my needs?". Well, consider the following examples: Booking.com processes 2 billion events/day relying on MySQL. Facebook started out with MySQL, and scaled to 1.6 billion monthly active users. Playing Candy Crush? You’re not the only one, 850 million games are played/day, served by MySQL. PayPal built a globally-distributed database with 100 TB of user-related data based on MySQL Cluster. It is used for fraud detection...

Want to learn how to unleash the power of MySQL 5.7? Oracle’s MySQL team is running a series of Tech Tours across EMEA, join us! MySQL 5.7 is 3x faster than MySQL 5.6 and improves manageability. Our technical experts will help you understand how to leverage the latest innovations in InnoDB performance & scalability, replication, JSON support, instrumentation with the Performance Schema, GIS, optimizer improvements and more! You’ll also understand how the world’s most popular...