Recent Posts by Eric Jacobsen

Recently in an article in Oracle Magazine titled "It’s All About Trust," Alan Zeichick, a principal analyst at Camden Associates, talked about how Blockchain is a secure system for conducting trustworthy transactions with customers, partners, and competitors. He interviewed Mark Rahkmilevich, Oracle's Blockchain Product Management Director “Blockchain lets you conduct transactions securely without requiring an intermediary, and records are secure and immutable. It also can...

Cheers from down under! That’s what I’d imagine the Heineken Urban Polo chatbot might say when you say hello on Facebook Messenger!  Facebooks has over 2 billion active members every month. And many people, especially digital natives, are very comfortable chatting thru a messenger app. Sure, mobile apps are still cool, but there's a limit to how many apps someone is going to download and use.  With messaging apps, that's on everyone's smartphone! What a brilliant way to...

Since Oracle announced its Blockchain Cloud Service at OpenWorld in October, there has been a lot of buzz in the news and on the internet.  Recently, Linda Hardesty wrote the following article, "A Blockchain Service Built on Oracle Cloud Expedites Loan Processing" on sdxcentral.com.  She described how Oracle Partner AuraBlocks is using Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service to help its customer Biz2Credit verify the identity of borrowers.  “They [Biz2Credit] thought there was an...

Today, Oracle Announced that it is launching its enterprise-grade Blockchain Cloud Service. Read more in the Press Release. Using Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service (BCS), you can securely and reliably extend business processes and accelerate B2B transactions.  Oracle BCS is comprehensive distributed ledger cloud platform that will allow you to provision blockchain networks, join other organizations, and deploy & run smart contracts to update and query the ledger. You can also...

OpenWorld 2017 is just around the corner. The hardest part is choosing which sessions to attend.  From product releases to industry updates and hands-on labs, the session list is never ending it seems. If you are focused on Blockchain, here is a complete list of blockchain sessions offered at OpenWorld 2017. To help you narrow down the list even further, here are 5 key sessions that you might want to catch at the conference:   General Session: Manufacturing, High Tech, Automotive...

OpenWorld 2017 is just around the corner. The hardest part is choosing which sessions to attend.  From product releases to industry updates and hands-on labs, the session list is never ending it seems. If you are focused on Application Development, here is a complete list of app dev sessions offered at OpenWorld 2017. To help you narrow down the list even further, here are 5 key sessions that you might want to catch at the conference:   Stepping up to the New Stack: Oracle...

Originally written and published by: Shay Shmeltzer | Director of Product Management - Oracle If you are a user of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, you might have noticed some new features in your environment when you came back to work after the long weekend. We rolled out a new version that has a bunch of useful new features for developers. Here is a quick recap of new capabilities you can leverage today! Import/Export Data Command Line: Do you need to...

Originally written and published by Shay Shmeltzer | Director of Product Management - Oracle Over the weekend we rolled out a new cloud service — Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service. Those who’ll check out the demo videos will see a lot of resemblance to Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service, which makes sense since VBCS is just a rename of ABCS. The reason we renamed the service is that we believe the new name better reflects the unique features of this service in...

Blockchain technology has the potential to dramatically enhance enterprise business value by enabling near real-time, distributed transactions across customers’ ecosystems and by enabling secure, tamper-proof data sharing.   Recently, Oracle joined the Hyperledger consortium because of the consortium's approach to blockchain using open source collaboration, modular architecture, horizontal/cross-industry technology support, and support for enterprise needs. Oracle looks forward...