An Oracle APEX developer presents the progressive web app approach. By Jeff Erickson November/December 2018 Just about any mobile phone user would rather click an icon to open an app full-screen than type a long URL in a browser. So web developer and Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) expert Vincent Morneau went looking for a way for his web apps to deliver something closer to that native mobile app experience. He found it in a relatively new mobile publishing...

Mark Rittman has taken a professional journey that gives him a unique vantage point on Oracle’s new autonomous database cloud services. He’s a CTO once renowned in Oracle analytics circles, who, after a change of firms, became steeped in the world of agile, open source-powered startups. And there he thought he would stay. Until he tried an autonomous database on Oracle Cloud. “I suddenly saw that I could bring that startup agility to any business,” Rittman says, who recently st...

Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud offers scale, security, and predictability, but without the DBA getting involved. By Jeff Erickson October 10, 2018 Mark Rittman has taken a professional journey that gives him a unique vantage point on Oracle’s new autonomous database cloud services. He’s a CTO once renowned in Oracle analytics circles, who, after a change of firms, became steeped in the world of agile, open source-powered startups. And there he thought he would stay. Until he...

If you can ask Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa to search databases for restaurants and obscure bands, why can’t you ask them to search or update the databases of your enterprise resource planning (ERP) or human resources (HR) applications? This question, or something like it, crossed the minds of Jorge Rimblas and Christoph Ruepprich—both of whom are database developers and Oracle ACEs. But as data professionals, the question wasn’t academic. They each took the initiative to answer...

Data professionals connected back-office applications to voice assistants. Here’s what they learned. By Jeff Erickson September/October 2018 If you can ask Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa to search databases for restaurants and obscure bands, why can’t you ask them to search or update the databases of your enterprise resource planning (ERP) or human resources (HR) applications? This question, or something like it, crossed the minds of Jorge Rimblas and Christoph Ruepprich—both of whom...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but use a cloud-based database that will never meet the functional, performance, and cost standards the company will need once the app goes into full production. Here’s the fix: Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Cloud Service now lets you order up a powerful, scalable Oracle...

This article originally appeared on Forbes Oracle Voice http://ora.cl/c8jM2 In the ever-evolving digital economy, fortune favors the curious. It also favors those who know how to make good use of data—the black gold of digital business. “It’s a great time to be a database developer,” says Jorge Rimblas, a database developer who spoke at the recent ODTUG Kscope technology conference in Orlando, Florida. “But you have to keep learning” to stay on top. Rimblas, a specialist in Oracl...

This article originally appeared on Forbes on Oracle Voice. http://ora.cl/xt3IY Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer, has said Oracle’s new autonomous database ranks among “the most important things we’ve ever done.” That’s because it deploys, optimizes, patches, and secures itself with no human intervention, bringing new levels of performance, security, and efficiency. So how is this autonomous database playing in the real...

Companies may give up their servers, storage, and entire data centers when they move to the cloud, but their need for support services doesn’t go away, it changes. Recognizing a growing need for enterprise-class support in the cloud, Oracle is making its Platinum-level support services available at no additional cost to all customers of Oracle Fusion software-as-a-service applications. “Our objective is to put out a service capability that is simply the best—bar none,” said...