Digital Impact Radio

Steve Tindall and Stanislav Tanev talk about Oracle Integration 3, a fully managed, preconfigured environment that gives you the power to integrate your cloud and on-premises applications, and gain insight into your business processes.

Alistair Green, Senior Vice President for JAPAC Cloud Engineering, shares his insights from Oracle CloudWorld, hearing about how Oracle is solving the world's most complex problems, maximising what is possible with SaaS, OCI, On-Premise in a Multi-Cloud Ecosytem, and working with Partners.

Stanislav Tanev and Steve Tindall talk about Oracle Process Automation, which helps rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes in the cloud, supporting processes across SaaS, APIs and Standalone.

Manoj Mathen, AI/ML Distinguished Cloud Architect talks about helping organisations with their AI/ML Journey, whether supporting Data Analysts as Citizen Data Scientists, through to Data Scientists can build, train, and deploy models with Data Science Cloud. Manoj also explains the characteristics of an AI/ML Journey, needing its own respective ecosystem, talking through real customer examples.

Mark Rakhmilevich Senior Director, Blockchain Product Management takes us through the focus on evolving the Oracle Blockchain Platform and Oracle Database Blockchain Tables in the cloud and on-premises to meet the needs of customers and partners for a scalable, secure, production-ready platform to support blockchain solutions.

Robert Greene, Oracle VP of Product Management talks about Exadata Cloud@Customer, being able to create both Autonomous and Exadata Database VM Clusters on Exadata Cloud@Customer platforms from X7 Gen 2 to the newest generation. This provides organizations a single platform for their Modernisation Approach whether it includes a traditional approach to managing data, or what is possible with the Autonomous Database Category.

Raj Modi, Strategic Client Advisor for Healthcare highlights the importance of Data and Technology in the role it should play with Patient Engagement. Raj sets the landscape of why this is important, and shares how Oracle is meeting this challenge, whether it is in the area of Real World outcomes, Digital Therapeutics or Patient Experience.

Chaitanya Koratamaddi from Oracle's APEX Product Management team discusses getting started with APEX by highlighting new features in the latest release. Chaitanya also gives us a sneak peak into the APEX roadmap.

Learn more: https://apex.oracle.com/en/

Suhas Uliyar talks about Oracle Digital Assistant and discusses what's possible with its Low Code Designer. Suhas also touches on his team's roadmap which includes the future of healthcare.

Peter Williams, Executive Director, Healthcare Industry for Oracle Japan & Asia Pacific talks pandemic response from Oracle with the introduction of the Oracle Health Management System (OHMS). From patient monitoring to cohort analysis to vaccine distribution, Peter discusses OHMS and sheds light on how it's being used around the globe.

Kevin Lazarz, Database Product Management, talks about what has changed with Oracle LiveLabs. LiveLabs gives access to Oracle's tools and technologies, with a wide variety of 400+ labs and workshops.

Tim Hickey, Master Principal Cloud Architect talks about Roving Edge that delivers cloud computing at the edge of networks and in disconnected locations.

Balamalai Ranganathan, Head of Ramco Strategy, discusses the role HR & Payroll systems, enabling employee well-being, with cloud based technologies, including Digital Assistants.

Monica Godoy, Oracle APEX Product Manager based in Colombia, talks through the following: What is Oracle APEX, skills you need, how to get started, APEX use cases, and the latest in the 22.1 release (approvals, improved page creation, etc.).

Mr CM Grover, MD and CEO, talks about IBSFINtech as a Make-In-India company, established by Ex-Bankers, having rich experience in banking, finance and treasury, that have released a SAAS Capability, called TMS InTReaX with Treasury, Risk and Trade Finance Management Capabilities as an offering available for Major International Corporations through to Small to Medium Size Organisations. Mr CM Grover and Nimesh Prakash talk through their recent Journey with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and why it was chosen.

Melliyal Annamalai talks about Autonomous Database with graph capabilities - including Graph Studio - which further automates graph data management, simplifies modeling, analysis, and visualization across the graph analytics lifecycle. Melliyal highlights this Graph Capability, especially within the Autonomous Database being of interest to Pure Graph, JSON and Database Developers.

Oracle Analytics lead Darryn Hinett talks through the recently released new Oracle Analytics Capabilities from January 2022 through to March 2022, including details of the upcoming roadmap.

Brenda Banning, Vice President, Architecture and Industry Strategy, JAPAC discusses the organisational shift from traditional pursuit of a Destination Fit for Purpose 10 year Solution, to an Enduring/Adaptable organisation approach which includes elements of Platforms, Data Management all leading towards Organisation Flexibility and Agility.

Stuart Coggins, Data Innovation Practitioner, talks about the Oracle Red Bull Racing Innovation Garage which included the following: F1 Race Simulator, Analytics Dashboard, VR and AR Experience, Cloud Building Blocks Car and Fan Engagement with CrowdTwist.

Jason Lowe, Oracle Cloud Specialist, Developer Communities catches up with University of Queensland's, Dr. Christoph Breidbach, Senior Lecturer. Hear their discussion about preparing students for a future that has not been invented yet, where technology, innovation and business models are valued and considered.

Steve Tindall, HQ Integration Product Manager, discusses where the integration industry going, what’s new? Future trends? Digital transformation is still the driver, with Oracle IAP – Intelligent Automation Platform. Adding Digital Assistant and AI to make a platform that can discover, analyze, design, automate, measure, monitor, heal and reassess.

Steve Tindall, HQ Integration Product Manager, discusses what's coming, which includes Many New Adaptors (eg eBay, SugarCRM, etc), Redwood UI Experience, B2B improvements and Greater Flexibility in Billing, as well as Infrastructure and Delivery Methods.

Steve Tindall, HQ Product Manager, focusses on Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) a powerful platform for application integration, process automation, with built in machine learning recommendations, supporting the designing and mapping of integrations, and some of the achievements over the last 12 months.

Benjamin Arnulf, Senior Director, Analytics Product Strategy discusses the Oracle Analytics Leaders Program, who are forward-thinking analytics skilled executives who promote innovation inside their companies while networking and inspiring other leaders. Benjamin also talks through the upcoming Analytics Capability Roadmap.

Benjamin Arnulf, Senior Director, Analytics Product Strategy discusses the Augmented Analytics Experience that comes out of the box for SaaS Applications such as Oracle ERP, HCM, SCM and Netsuite.

Benjamin Arnulf, Senior Director, Analytics Product Strategy highlights the trend from Visual Base Exploration type Analytic Products to Augmented Analytics with NLQ, NLG, Digital Assistants to Auto Insights.

Martin Lambert introduces the term "Anytime Modernisation", helping organisations practice both Cloud Speed and Technical Debt. This enables customers to modernize operations and reduce costs, at speed.

Joshua Chua, Oracle Product Manager talks about the Oracle Autonomous Database, a fully managed, pre-configured database environment with four available workload types (Transaction Processing, Data Warehouse, APEX, JSON) across 3 deployment choices (Shared, Dedicated/Public Cloud, Dedicated/Cloud at Customer).

Jason Reinhardt, Oracle Product Manager talks about the Oracle Data Management Choices, from on-premise to the many cloud variants such as Autonomous Shared and Dedicated, Database Cloud Service, Exadata Cloud Service and Exadata Cloud at Customer.

Stuart Coggins and Darryn Hinett, Data Innovation Practitioners, talk about SailGP, sailing’s fastest racing league, that relies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to deliver real-time data. Stuart and Darryn discuss how they will be using the Machine Learning Services to further explore and gain data insights.

Jason Grogan, Database Lead, talks through the recently released Autonomous Data Guard which gives users the ability to enable a standby database for each ADB instance in just one-click. Jason also explains how Database Disaster Recovery can be that simple.

Learn more: https://blogs.oracle.com/datawarehousing/post/announcing-autonomous-data-guard

Mark Nelson talks about Oracle Verrazzano Enterprise Container Platform which provides a curated container stack that developers and DevOps engineers can use to deploy, secure, and manage container workloads, including microservices and traditional applications.

Get started by going to verrazzano.io.

Larry Fumagalli, Jose Cruz and Mike Blackmore explain what a Data Mesh is, and why an organization want to implement one.

Learn more: https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/datamesh-ebook.pdf

Mr. Kumar CK, Director, Technology and Mr. Anshuman PS, Project Head of Kensoft Infotech talk about what Kensoft has provided for banking and non-banking organisations with their Unified Loan Lifecycle management capability.

Learn more: https://www.kensoftnet.com/

Steve Lawton, Analytics and Data Science Lead, discusses the three choices Oracle has to offer around machine learning and data science.

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Connor McDonald, Database Advocate talks about the "Challenges for the Modern DBA,” who is experiencing what is possible in the cloud world, with the many automated support mechanisms that come with DB Choices whether a VM-based DB, Database Cloud Service or Autonomous Database. DBAs have better tooling access to conduct the expected testing around BackUps, High Availability, Security, Auditing, and Patching.

For more Connor McDonald go to: https://connor-mcdonald.com/

Stanislav Tanev, Oracle Integration lead explains a clever integration approach for organisations that handles both change and back end complexity, with capabilities such as abstraction, routing, connectors, and content based routing. This approach also enables the simple introduction of technologies such Blockchain, IOT, and Digital Assistants.

Darryn Hinett, Oracle Analytics lead talks through both some of the recently released new Oracle Analytics Cloud capabilities from January 2021 through to July 2021, including some of the upcoming Planned Roadmap.

Jason Grogan, Database Lead, talks through the recently released new Database Actions which is a web-based interface for data development, data insights and charting, data tools for loading and cataloging, administration and monitoring for the Oracle Autonomous Database.

Deloitte Partner Marcelo Scalia talks about Match Cloud, an automated cloud-based data quality and insights solution for consolidating, cleansing, matching and sharing a golden view of your master data (Consumers, Leads, Contacts, Patients, Students, Employees, Partners, Suppliers, Agents, Products, Assets, etc.) across multiple and disparate data sources and channels so that it can enable your business to personalise and optimise business experiences in a digital world.

Vas Kuhaluri is back to discuss Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service - the real-time cloud service for migrating, integrating, or off-loading data between both cloud to cloud + cloud and non-cloud databases. Learn how you can quickly configure an Oracle GoldenGate environment in the cloud without having to set up the infrastructure or platform requirements by yourself.

Oracle Product Manager Loic Lefevre talks about his work on the Dragon Stack which provisions the Always Free Autonomous Database and generates the source code for a pre-configured REACT frontend. This provides a speedy outcome for getting access to a flexible developer environment who needs access to a no-fuss database with choices of a React frontend, Spring-Boot Petclinic webapp, JSON or CSV Data loaded.

Oracle Product Manager Loic Lefevre talks about Oracle innovations for application developers: Java, Converged Databases, Data Science, Enterprise apps, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Multi-Cloud. Loic discusses what Oracle is doing across GraalVM, MySQL, Linux with a focus on improving the developer experience without compromising on enterprise-grade capabilities (security, resilience, performance).

Nilesh Gupta, SVP and Global Head, Cloud Services, talks about driving business value across multiple industry verticals with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Gupta notes why OCI is the perfect companion when your organisation is looking for a faster cloud experience with 3i-Infotech codifying such as "Cloud Adoption in a Box", which also includes its Orion ERP, amongs other relevant workloads.

Regional Vice President of Cloud Engineering in JAPAC - Alistair Green - discusses Thailand’s Forth Smart, who use Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Machine Learning and Oracle Analytics to improve operations and test new offers in its fleet of kiosks which bring electronic banking to rural areas.

Vas Kuhaluri discusses how organisations around the world are focused on managing the impact of disruptive events, looking at best practices ensuring business resiliency. You can break resiliency into two pieces: Business resilience requires people and processes in order to maintain continuous business operations in the event of disruptions and data center outages. IT resilience involves people, process and technology to maintain availability of business applications. IT resilience is the heart of digital business and essential to run core business operations, including business resiliency and disaster recovery. Vas talks about the many HA/DR Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Choices.

Philip Chua, Co-Founder and CEO of TOFFS Technologies talks about Secured Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, making the Internet secure for organisations, with speed and security. Philip Chua talks about TOFFS Technologies developing solutions that help improve customers’ web and mobile application performance, as well as improve their security posture on the Internet.

Mark Hornick, Senior Director for Oracle Machine Learning explains the components and uses of Oracle Machine Learning, and how it was introduced originally in the Oracle Database. Hear how Oracle Autonomous Database supports data scientists for machine learning projects, with capabilities such as notebooks, automated machine learning, APIs for Python, R, and SQL, as well as parallelism and scalability to support machine learning projects. Mark explores how "AutoML" serves as a data scientist productivity tool while enabling citizen data scientists to take advantage of powerful in-database machine learning algorithms. Learn about options to deploy your models, the ability to understand why a given prediction was made, and how to get started with Oracle Machine Learning.

Lyn Ward and Jason Lowe talk about the United Nations World Creativity and Innovation Global Hackathon 16-19 April 2021 where Oracle is the Lead Technology Sponsor, working with Hackmakers. This episode covers the optimisation of sustainable practices for health, education, the economy, and the future of work.

Jason Lowe Technology Advocate, shares his Hackathon history, and the positive experience they are able to provide for both individuals and organisations. Jason discusses how to prepare yourself for an upcoming Hackathon, including the different types of people in your team, including the Hipster, the Hacker, the Hound and the Hustler. Jason talks about the different Hackathon stages from Formation, to Research, to Solutioning (Prototyping, Build) to the three minute Pitch.

Karthik Sukumar Technology Advocate talks about organizations, wanting their future workforce to be innovative, creative and collaborative. Universities are enabling these soft skills and value to students to be job ready. Karthik highlights hackathons provide an opportunity where people come together to solve problems, as teams with creativity, innovation and collaboration, and are able to do this over a short period of time, where these skills are further developed and exercised.

Stuart Coggins Technology Advocate and Innovation Practitioner talks about the role and importance of Hackathons, and the benefits they provide for individuals, teams and organisations. Hackathons provide a great vehicle for learning, teaming and validating ideas with high energy and fast outcomes. Stuart talks about Innovation as a skill, that can be developed, helping turn ideas into something you can see and touch, that can then be iterated with creativity and imagination. Stuart highlights, hackathons being a great and safe place for exercising innovation skills and ideas.

Connor McDonald, Database Advocate aware of the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon, helps developers start fast whether it is taking a JSON Document or a Relational Approach, providing some tips on how to validate your idea very quickly. For the experienced SQL Developer, Connor also walks through the subtlety of SQL Constructs such as "WITH" and "Match Recognize", to both help simplify and turbo-charge what is possible with your data. Connor McDonald also discusses his many channels, to help people with their SQL Skills, such as devgym, podcasts all available from https://connor-mcdonald.com/

Bo English-Wiczling, Head of DevRel Operations talks about Oracle Application Express (APEX) as a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, secure enterprise apps, which would help both beginner and experienced developers especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Guillermo Ruiz, head of Oracle Developer Relations talks about the Importance of Developers as Change Agents, always looking for opportunities to improve with a Sharing, Value and Maker Mentality. Guillermo Ruiz talks about his vision for dev.o for the many different developer personas with different entry points. Guillermo highlights Hackathons, being the ideal place and time for developers to come together, sharing how to take and idea to an outcome, with lots of learning, teaming and fun, but also with responsibility, especially for the upcoming UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Hackathon.

Kirsty Linehan talks to Gillian Triggs, a passionate defender of human rights and vocal advocate of social justice, who currently holds the position of assistant secretary general, assistant high commissioner for Protection – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We hear Gillian Triggs talks about hopes, and the role of data and technology plays, to achieve more immediate and lasting impact.

Surend Dayal - CEO of Magia Solutions - discusses the role of ERP and CX SaaS solutions and how Magia has helped enterprise government and higher education build digital platforms that support a smooth experience for customers, staff, and partners.

David Lucido - managing director at Sentient Hubs - talks about a new class of decision support: A platform that enables integrated impact-assessment across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. David talks through a customer case study using this platform which enables convergence across the diverse ecosystem.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies discusses the importance of APIs at National Pharmacies to support business change and innovation. An API-led approach helps create a low-cost, low-risk environment for the organization's Digital Experiences. APIs provide the loose coupling between back-end core applications to support the rapid change taking place in the pharmacy industry.

Ryan Klose, general manager for National Pharmacies talks about the history and role of data at National Pharmacies. Initially isolated inside applications for specific users, data is now blended, assembled, and improved, all while supporting fact-based decisions and recommendations across the organisation. This benefits both the consumer and employee experience.

Shridhar Rane, Sr. Vice President, 3i-Infotech talks about a range of products that enable banks to efficiently manage their retail operations, including internet and core banking, fraud detection, universal lending, and risk management, as well as specialized corporate banking products to manage risk, asset liability, payments and treasury. Shridhar highlights how the Cloud Economy is not only a term that is getting popular these days, but how significant it is for the Banking sector and how Cloud Adoption is helping deal with Security in the Banking Sector. 3i-Infotech is a leading organisation that is serving both On-Premise and Cloud Based Needs backed by the Oracle ISV Ecosystem.

Sandesh Bilagi, Senior Vice President for ANZ and Oceania at Ramco Systems, which offers enterprise software on cloud for Global Payroll, ERP and M&E MRO for Aviation. Sandesh Bilagi talks about how Ramco Payroll, operating in over 50 Countries, generates over 30 million payslips per year, and knows how to take care of one of the most critical parts of a business, "Thats Paying your Employees". Sandesh elaborates on the experience front, what the future of payroll looks like, with a variety of AI/ML based examples. Sandesh also shares the importance of the Oracle Cloud & ISV Team for the Ramco Payroll Journey.

Open Spatial's CEO, Colin Hobson and CTO, Johan Nel talk about their data management and spatial experience, which included the 1994 South African Elections through to what they are doing now many organisations around the globe, whether they be Utilities, Airports or Universities with proven converged data and spatial technologies for engineering, maintenance and facilities, allowing organisations to effectively manage spatial and non-spatial data, enabling improved data accuracy and record keeping, elegant data integration for better decision making and responsive maintenance planning, whether it be on-premise or cloud based.

Jason Grogan, Database Lead introduces Scott Evans, Oracle APEX Developer who talks about why he chose Oracle APEX for JobCloud.com.au, which is about how to use a Data Driven approach for Integrating Your Entire Workforce, before, during and after a Building Construction Process. Scott talks about how Oracle APEX has been the perfect Low Code Platform, that lets you move fast for proving, validating and testing your thinking whether you are the Developer, Business Owner or many persona users that play a role through the Construction Process.

Vas Kuhaluri, Director-Enterprise Data Platform-Asia Pacific talks about converged databases providing support for Spatial data for location awareness, JSON for document stores, IoT for device integration, in-memory technologies for real-time analytics, and of course, traditional relational data. Vas also highlights while providing support for all of these data types, a Converged Database can run all sorts of workloads from IoT to Blockchain to Analytics and Machine Learning. The Oracle Converged Database, is a great example of being able to handle any development paradigm, including Microservices, Events, REST, SaaS, and CI/CD.