Recent Posts by Hiren Ruchandani

Here’s your chance to attend Oracle OpenWorld October 22-25 in San Francisco this year!   The Oracle Cloud Platform Viewer's Choice Award will run from Oct. 2nd through Oct. 15th, 2018. To participate Oracle customers need to:   Create a video (formal or informal) about how an Oracle Cloud solution is transforming your life - both personal and at work. Talk about the business challenges and quantifiable benefits you are seeing using the Oracle Cloud solution. Feel free to make...

In the business world, there is a growing trend called BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). BYOD refers to employees and customers who prefer to bring their own personal mobile device into the workplace and use it in place of traditional desktop computers or company-provided mobile devices for accessing company applications and data. Because of BYOD, it has become important for businesses to develop their mobile apps and be able to send them to many different mobile devices that...

Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP Group) is the national energy company in Croatia. They have been managing the generation, distribution and supply of electricity for more than a century, and in the last few decades, have been also managing the distribution and supply of heat energy and natural gas.   Figure 1: About Hrvatska elektroprivreda (HEP Group) There is a significant DevOps movement inside HEP, and the teams that develop ADF applications were looking to simplify the burdens...

Veritone is a leading artificial intelligence company that has developed the Veritone Platform, which unlocks the power of AI-based cognitive computing to transform and analyze unstructured public and private audio and video data for clients in the media, politics, legal and law enforcement industries. Veritone’s open platform integrates an ecosystem of best-of-breed cognitive engines and powerful applications, which are orchestrated together to reveal valuable, multivariate...

The State Bank of India is a public sector banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Like other financial companies, it has a strong focus on security that includes identity fraud detection, signature validation, and multi-form authentication. To help drive continued innovation for their security initiatives, SBI has launched a curated hackathon for start-ups and developers to showcase their cutting-edge solutions. For their second...

A major technology hub and the tenth largest city in the U.S., San Jose, California has over 1 million residents and more than 75,000 businesses. As a major municipality, the leadership in San Jose is focused on providing municipal services to citizens with a modern level of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.    When San Jose needed a new service request and communications management solution for their citizens, they turned to Oracle. Deploying Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle...

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is one of the leading research universities in Australia with a strong reputation for excellence and enterprise.      UWA used to manually edit and create complex offer letters — from selecting over 25 different letter templates to personalizing 90 data fields for student information, such as credit assessment and fees — in a Microsoft Word document. They then uploaded the offer letters to the admissions portal for domestic students...

UBI Banca is the fourth largest Italian commercial banking group in terms of market cap with almost 2,000 branches and over 22,000 staff.    Growing security threats against financial institutions and new regulatory requirements were the catalyst for UBI Banca to adopt a state of the art security system. They needed to minimize the threat of cloud security breaches and address GDPR & NIS regulatory requirements. They also wanted to provide the security and operations teams with...

The City of Las Vegas, Nevada publishes a large portion of the data it collects on its website for citizens to see and use. The biggest reason is for transparency. The second reason is the chance to crowd-source solutions for public health, energy usage, emergency response, and a wide range of other challenges. However, publishing all this data means someone must gather it, manage privacy and legal issues, put the data on a public site, and then keep it up to date. The City of...