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Oracle Academy, Oracle's global philanthropic education program brings you Oracle Academy Tech Chat where we discuss how Oracle Academy helps prepare the next generation's work force. In this podcast Tyra Crockett, Senior Manager Oracle Academy North America, interviews experts across the Oracle ecosystem about their experience and advice for educators and their students.

  1. Tips and tricks for better usage of Oracle Academy teaching resources – guideline from practical experience, with special focus on solutions for frequent challenges

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    Tips and tricks for better usage of Oracle Academy teaching resources – guideline from practical experience, with special focus on solutions for frequent challenges

    In this podcast, Dusa Vukovic, Principal of the Grammar School for Computer Science, Oracle Academy Teacher and Oracle Academy Instructor speaks from her experience using Oracle Academy materials in the classroom, as well as an instructor for Oracle Academy. She speaks about practical things teachers will discover while using Oracle Academy curriculum in their classrooms. ------------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:37:04 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy helps prepare the next generation's workforce. 00:00:37:06 - 00:01:10:06 Unknown I'm your host, Ljiljana Krkić. Oracle Academy program manager. In this episode, I'm delighted to be joined by Dawsonville College principal of the Grammar School for Computer Science. Oracle Academy teacher and Oracle Academy instructor. She will speak about her experience using Oracle Academy materials in her classroom with her students, as well as an instructor for Oracle Academy. She will speak about practical things teachers will discover while using Oracle Academy curriculum in their classrooms. 00:01:10:08 - 00:01:37:02 Unknown Hi, Dusa. Welcome. Could you please tell us a little bit about your background and your current role? Hello. And also coach, I'm the principal of the grammar school for computer science. It's a school with a especially demanding curriculum designed for students talented in computer science. I have more than 20 years of experience in teaching programing in database topics. 00:01:37:04 - 00:02:06:17 Unknown I'm also author of the several textbook, on computer science since 2010. I have been an instructor for teacher courses within the Oracle Academy program, leading training sessions in Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey, Austria and the Czech Republic. This is really impressive. And could you please describe in more details your early experience with Oracle Academy, and what led you to become an Oracle Academy member as a teacher? 00:02:06:17 - 00:02:36:23 Unknown I'm aware that, especially in the past, but even today, education often provides a lot of theoretical knowledge without giving students a clear sense of how it's applied in the real world. When I first heard about the Oracle Academy program, I immediately thought, this must be different. Oracle is known for its excellent software solutions. So I assumed that their courses would be packed with real world examples and content that could be applied immediately. 00:02:37:01 - 00:03:04:22 Unknown Online courses and training are now a standard part of daily life. Back in 2007, when I took my first Oracle Academy course, very few people had ever experienced online training. Many couldn't imagine what it's like. The online portion of the training back then was nothing like we have today. It involved live chat sessions with only occasional image, and the internet connection was dial up. 00:03:05:00 - 00:03:30:01 Unknown I still remember the sound of the modern screechy as it connected to the landline. It's so funny to think now about the landline. Most people don't even use today. For me, it was an incredibly experience that back in 2007, I was able to follow from my home and online course with instructor Pat Hays was teaching from her office in the United States. 00:03:30:03 - 00:03:56:11 Unknown It really showed me how Oracle was not just keeping up with technological advancements, but actively applying them. That experience inspired me to be a part of that kind of innovation. I wanted to offer my students the opportunity to stay on the cutting edge of technology, learning skills that could be immediately applied in real world scenarios. Yeah, these were really very specific times. 00:03:56:17 - 00:04:23:22 Unknown And tell us, what were some of the key challenges you experienced and how did you overcome them? This is an excellent question. One of the biggest challenges when working with students is capturing their interest and keeping their attention. Many people myself included, agree that this issue is even more pronounced today, largely because kids are surrounded by technology and endless distractions on the internet. 00:04:24:00 - 00:04:52:21 Unknown However, the question of attention and engagement is an essential part of the teaching and learning process. When students are engaged, then focus. The results are always better. They don't just learn a single lesson. It's not about that. It's about developing a desire to keep learning and discovering new things throughout their lives. The Oracle Academy materials play a significant role in sparking students interest and keeping them engaged. 00:04:52:22 - 00:05:23:11 Unknown Students quickly realize that these aren't just abstract concepts, but practical skills that can help them secure good jobs. The lessons give them an opportunity to acquire valuable knowledge and skills that are highly relevant to the real world. In my classes when I teach, I organize activities in a way that maximizes student involvement. I don't just stand in front of students delivering delivering lectures. 00:05:23:13 - 00:05:54:01 Unknown Let me give you some examples. When we are starting a new lesson, I give the students a list of questions that they need to answer by exploring the new materials they read, the lessons they go through, the content and search for answers. In that case, the reading is far from boring. The reading is engaging and interactive. All students are given the same amount of time and the same set of questions, and they are required to write down their answers. 00:05:54:03 - 00:06:22:06 Unknown Later, we compare the results as a group with the goal of helping each student see where they stand and what they can improve. For example, if one student answers 27 questions, another only 15, we analyze what happened. What challenges they face. What could have they done differently? It encourages peer learning as they teach each other through their mistakes and success. 00:06:22:08 - 00:06:57:08 Unknown I also use Oracle Academy Solve it with SQL workshop to encourage students to explore new tools. I provide them with lessons and instructions and they work through the materials practically using a new IT tool, something they haven't used before. At the end, we assess the results together, discussing what went well and what could be improved. This hands on approach not only builds technical skills, but also develop critical thinking and problem problem solving abilities. 00:06:57:13 - 00:07:25:14 Unknown Thank you. And I agree. Focus is a challenge for all of us nowadays. And thank you for all of the advices regarding the groups and organization. And now this leads me to, another question. Tell me, how do you start your school year with new students? How do you introduce Oracle Academy to them? Oh, well, at the beginning of the school year I create Oracle Academy accounts for all students. 00:07:25:16 - 00:07:54:22 Unknown So that gives them access to complete learning materials throughout the year. We go through the curriculum gradually, and I always make sure to point out which lesson we've reached or which specific task we're working on. In that way, they can track their progress for hands on work. Their plenty of examples and exercises within the course itself. I make sure to go through those tasks in class. 00:07:55:00 - 00:08:28:11 Unknown Sometimes we work together. For example, I'm at teacher's computer demonstrating things we have to do, and all students follow on their own computers at other times. I assign tasks for them to complete independently while I circulate around the classroom. Occasionally we practice quiz questions during class, which helps them prepare for the certification exam. When we go over quiz questions, we always discuss them. 00:08:28:13 - 00:08:56:22 Unknown If I notice from their answers that they haven't fully grasped something, we revisit the lesson afterwards. Do I make more example to make things clearer for my students? Wonderful. And now from your teacher's, perspective, you have been Oracle Academy instructor for teacher courses for many years. Could you please tell us more about that experience? Well, this is very important for me. 00:08:57:00 - 00:09:33:07 Unknown The experience I have as an Oracle Academy instructor for teachers working with teachers is especially valuable. Each teacher brings their own experience from the classroom. Those experiences are always visible during training sessions. The process of knowledge exchange in teacher training is never one sided. While I train teachers on how to use Oracle Academy materials in their lessons, I also absorb knowledge from them about their teaching methods and how they work with their students. 00:09:33:09 - 00:10:02:03 Unknown When you're a teacher, your focus isn't just on the subject matter. The main focus is on how to help students acquire knowledge and skills. The way a teacher learns sometimes might not be the same way a student needs to learn. We don't all alone in the same way. Some people prefer to read a lot. They best learn by carefully going through the lesson, only moving to the task. 00:10:02:06 - 00:10:38:16 Unknown After reviewing everything thoroughly. Others skip the long texts. They don't like to read. They go straight to the tasks and they then return to the lesson text only when they need help solving a problem. Some students enjoy learning through competition. Others dread it. These are just a few examples in direct work with students in the classroom. The process of teaching and learning reveal

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  2. The Transformative Power of Low Code Development

    11월 25일

    The Transformative Power of Low Code Development

    In this Episode Orlaith Lawton speaks with Oracle ACE Roberto Capancioni about the importance of APEX and why it is the world's most popular low-code application platform. ------------------------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:35:14 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to Oracle Academy Texas, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce. 00:00:35:15 - 00:01:03:22 Unknown I'm your host Orlaith Lawton. In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of the low code software development and explore how it's reshaping industries, streamlining workflows, and enabling faster innovation. Our guest today is Oracle Ace Roberto Journey, and he shares his expertise on Oracle Apex, the world's most popular low code application platform. You're very welcome, Roberto. 00:01:04:02 - 00:01:34:01 Unknown Lovely to talk to you. And thank you so much for being our guest today on our podcast. Start off, Roberto, can you please give me a little bit about your background and your current job role? Thank you all for inviting me. If I'm open for me to be here with you and to share my knowledge in Oracle Apex and the Oracle technology in general, because I'm very, enthusiast of these environments. 00:01:34:01 - 00:02:37:17 Unknown And I try to explain why. My name is Roberto. I'm, I'm an engineer, and, I've been working in, in I.T for about 30 years. I started, focusing in databases or relational databases and, application development that many years ago for multi utility companies, also in, service sectors company. At the moment I work with mainly exclusively in apex project because they're a when I found the apex about 15 years ago, I thought that it was the, the only take for developing application in, in my career and the, in the the following of this podcast, I try to explain, explain why I also collaborators, 00:02:37:19 - 00:03:14:13 Unknown as a trainer and the also a consultant with companies and also education institution. So, I'm, I'd like to explain to student mainly to student and school because I think that at the moment the there is the need of this kind of, example of code of, the middle word technology, because, Oracle technology is suitable for company and also for educational institutions. 00:03:14:15 - 00:03:48:01 Unknown Thank you, Roberto, for that. And what is apex and what are the benefits of using Apex? Okay. In the apex is the, so-called low code development platform. Why low code look on? Because it the code at the moment is, mainly. And the hype word because the when you say low code, do you want to say that everybody can develop, quick and dirty applications. 00:03:48:03 - 00:04:30:01 Unknown And if you want, the apex can also do that. You can, develop in about an hour a very simple application. But the, the secret is that is also low code application. So it's suitable for business user, for student, for junior developers and also for enterprise applications or grades of housing because the technology that is below apex, that is the Oracle database is an enterprise platform. 00:04:30:01 - 00:05:16:07 Unknown So every company can leverage of database and the, the, low code, the environment, the to develop to develop application. So the secret is that, if you know, languages, if, you know, business problem, apex can without writing, single frontend code, the frontend means all the code that you have to write to create the web application that that usually it's not simple for also, for all the, old style, developers, apex do it for you. 00:05:16:07 - 00:05:51:11 Unknown So you can have to write frontend code. Also business code that you know that also or developers can do in they career and they don't know, web application because they are doing another job with apex. You can develop it quickly. Business application. So why is this the world's most popular low code application platform? I think for, for several reasons. 00:05:51:11 - 00:06:24:12 Unknown First of all, apex is included inside the, he tried the the Oracle database license, if you haven't to pay for apex because, apex is the database. Oracle is an extension of the database Oracle. So if you have a database, you data but you have to pay nothing to have Apex. You have a really apex in your environment. 00:06:24:12 - 00:07:23:01 Unknown You have even the two, provide the, application server or other, tech inside your component. Because if you have Oracle database, you have a really also apex. So, it's, it's very simple to start, but also, if you haven't developed with it and the it is, a mature technology because, even if, only this year we hear about, apex because when, Oracle became, cloud company about two, five years ago mainly, you know, also before, but, it's, the last five years that that there was an explosion in the cloud of Oracle apex became strategic because is inside the the cloud technology 00:07:23:01 - 00:08:02:03 Unknown of of Oracle. Sure. Oracle has auto language database. Autonomous database is a platform as a service that Oracle asks for. For the companies, you with a simple, subscription you and access, instantaneously to the database in the cloud. And also, apex also updated the maintain need that fine tuning the from Oracle you UI to be, online subscription and all is, provided for you. 00:08:02:03 - 00:08:37:13 Unknown So it's very easy to have an environment that is secure, is maintaining with the GDPR, at the moment. But, watchdog every DPO has to concern about the, the security, the, the explosion, exploitation and the all the problems that you have to maintain updated your environment with the autonomous database, the Oracle do it for you and apex is it inside the autonomous database. 00:08:37:15 - 00:09:20:18 Unknown So with a minimal effort, you have a mature, enterprise ready. GDPR really needs to read the environment. And, inside the your organization. So, I think that the company appreciate that because determinative there are several out there native. But only tools, only development tools. So Oracle is a complete the stack from the infrastructure from the Sabara database middleware, application server from them. 00:09:20:18 - 00:09:49:15 Unknown But, it it is the only product in the world, that can do that at the moment. That's a very detailed account of this. Thank you so much for that. Roberto, may I ask you can apex help with generators, AI or AI? Apex makes it easy to integrate AI model and external services inside the, inside is environment. 00:09:49:17 - 00:10:26:11 Unknown Mainly because, apex is the DB oracle. So as you know, the last, version of the, Oracle database is a 23 I why I mainly because you use that and marketing subject all today. All all products are AI but Oracle provide the SAP environment agent in the EAS autonomous cloud that can integrate with apex. 00:10:26:13 - 00:11:02:15 Unknown Apex has the, enterprise ready Add-On to, integrate with, a Lem agent that so you can do in ad declarative way without to, hassle, experience program because there are several weeds. And the several. Yeah. It really application inside the, the the gallery and the, demo product that, installed in provided in the apex environment. 00:11:02:17 - 00:11:48:17 Unknown So, always the AI is, increasing every way. The model, the MCP server, today we can have also tool that the provide the ASR, in interface to interact with the, agent that in, in the industry from which are GP3, cloud, IEEE, all the, the agent that we ever in at the moment and apic is the, enterprise ready to do that for the novice and the for the experience developer? 00:11:48:19 - 00:12:49:08 Unknown How do you see apex being used in the future? I believe that the apex will, becoming increasingly strategic for the organization. And the speed to, to see many extension also because of AI, IoT analytics. Don't forget that Oracle as wide ecosystem side that is cloud. The from the diffusion application that the software as a service application that Oracle provide to the companies and the analytics application we have in Oracle analytic servers in the apex again, can be the, the Swiss knife that the can integrate with the tailor made this process, all the orchestration, all the workflow that we can have between all 00:12:49:08 - 00:13:23:09 Unknown the Oracle ecosystem product but not also Oracle because the in the mean the Odeon world or the, enterprise application as a software as a service application and the, the rice there is that there are the, the standard interfaces to, interact with, the other products. Is convenience also focused on development, of integration. 00:13:23:09 - 00:13:57:19 Unknown So apex can do, invite development environment for software application, software as a service application, but also also integration application. And at the moment this is the most important things for the companies because all the companies, has ERP, cloud Europe very valued and the expensive environment and that are migrating in cloud. 00:13:57:21 - 00:14:42:22 Unknown So we are losing the but ability to connect directly with the database, because at the moment that they have on premise, product, when they, on cloud is more difficult to interact directly with the database. So they have an API, they have Rest services. They and, need other, tools to interact with the application to get, to fetch all their data for business intelligence, application front orchestration, AI application and data analysis. 00:14:43:00 - 00:15:21:09 Unknown Oracle apex can help a lot. And this is one of the my main, a job at the mome

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  3. APEX in the real world

    11월 18일

    APEX in the real world

    In this Episode Tyra Peirce speaks with speaks with Oracle ACE Satwik Reddy about how businesses leverage Oracle APEX to build powerful applications without the need for extensive coding. ------------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:35:04 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce. 00:00:35:05 - 00:01:11:14 Unknown I'm your host, Tyra Peirce. In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of low code software development and explore how it's reshaping industries, streamlining workflows, and enabling faster innovation. Our guest, Oracle ace Satwik Reddy, shares his expertise on how businesses leverage Oracle Apex to build powerful applications without the need for extensive coding. Welcome Chadwick or Hyder. To start off, can you give me a bit about your background and your current job role? 00:01:11:16 - 00:01:40:09 Unknown Hey there.  Developer tech enthusiast standing around an accidental quarter turn full time epics. Advocate. I have been working with Oracle Apex for over 13 years now. Here, like it's more than a decade deep in the loop code. It all began, back in my grad school. Like, me and my couple of friends, like, we are doing a hackathon and we were dabbling in different programing languages, trying to build a website. 00:01:40:11 - 00:02:11:02 Unknown And that's when, we stumbled across Oracle Apex. And honestly, it just clicked and we loved it. Since then, apex has been my jam and butter. Like, let's say right now I work as an apex technical lead. That means I do a lot of hats, like gathering requirements from stakeholders, designing scalable applications like a team of developers like, and make sure that when built, actually solves the real world problems. 00:02:11:04 - 00:02:37:17 Unknown And think of me as an orchestra conductor, like making sure every piece of the development puzzle fits licensing and hits the right notes in terms of performance, scalability, and reliability. And I also handle the production support and mentor the junior dev developers. Docker reviews write production design documents, and make sure every project stays aligned with the big picture goals of the organization. 00:02:37:17 - 00:03:07:19 Unknown So yeah, like yeah, a lot of moving parts, but with epics things move fast, faster, smoother than we would think. I love that you're so involved in the apex development from the beginning to the end. You're mentoring the junior staff and new apex developers, so you are quite the apex expert. So for my next question, what is low code application and what is low code application development and why should students learn it? 00:03:07:21 - 00:03:39:04 Unknown Great question. Let's start with low code and why it's not just a buzzword but a game changer, especially for students. In the morning the of building software. Right. Like low code. Development doesn't really, rely heavily on manual coding. Instead of writing thousands of lines of code, you visualize tools and like drag and drop interfaces, templates, reusable components, which can help you build apps quickly and efficiently. 00:03:39:06 - 00:04:01:00 Unknown And think of it like this. Like, instead of starting from scratch, low code gives you a toolbox full of ready made pads. You just snap them together, kind of like digital Lego and build what you need. And now, like here, here's where it gets even cooler. A lot of these platforms like Oracle Apex are adding more AI powered features. 00:04:01:02 - 00:04:39:23 Unknown That means you can build apps that analyze data and make predictions, create smart forms that adjust in real time to what the user types are. Even automate workflows like using AI driven decision making. So what used to take weeks or months to code? You can just create in days? Sometimes maybe has help now, like why students? Why should students care like live in break down this and like local development right is in high demand across industries making it a valuable skill that boosts employability for people from all backgrounds. 00:04:40:01 - 00:05:10:11 Unknown Like, you don't need to be a computer science major like any business students or educators, even art students, anyone who can learn low code and use it to solve real world problems. And it also helps in quick prototyping because let's say you want an idea for an app, you can go from concept to working name in a way you can already, or even an idea that's huge for class projects like hackathons or even the startup pitches. 00:05:10:13 - 00:05:43:06 Unknown Or if you're building any, demo or doing something. And it's also budget friendly. I can is doing a great job by giving it for free with Oracle database, which means you don't need to spend a dime to get started. And it also helps when prepping for the future. Like as AI becomes part of our daily digital tool and local platforms, helps build smarter apps without needing to be data cities like. 00:05:43:08 - 00:06:18:21 Unknown And it's like having AI as the coding copilot. And when it comes to choosing the platform, Oracle Apex stands out. In that case, it's tightly integrated with the Oracle database. It scales easily from story projects to full enterprise systems. It supports cloud and on premise deployment, and many of the big organizations uses like QR and finance, health, manufacturing or retail and also pharmaceutical and stuff. 00:06:19:00 - 00:06:49:11 Unknown Here, students aren't just learning theory, they're gaining real world resume really skills. So if I sum it up or the bottom line is low code is leveling the playing field locally, it's like leveling the playing field with tools like Oracle, apex, and a bit of creativity. Students go from I have an idea to I built an app faster than I had, and with AI in the mix, they're winning smarter, faster, and with more impact. 00:06:49:12 - 00:07:10:01 Unknown I love that answer because it shows that students don't have to be a computer science major. They can get, they can get ramped up pretty easy. And through Oracle Academy and through Oracle, they can get access to apex for free. So I think that that's a, a really great way to kind of get involved. Which leads to my next question. 00:07:10:03 - 00:07:32:16 Unknown What role does apex play in the broader landscape of cloud computing and enterprise applications? Since Oracle Apex isn't just a developmental, it plays strategic role in the world of cloud computing and in your business. To break it down, in today's digital world, like every company from startups to global chains is moving to the cloud and AI. 00:07:32:18 - 00:08:03:06 Unknown And they're not just storing the data up there. They're building apps, training operations, and making real time decisions all in the cloud. But here's the catch building cloud apps from scratch can be so expensive and complicated. Especially you are dealing with legacy systems or any complex business need. That's where the picks up just as it's a low cloud, low code platform that acts like an accelerator for digital transformation. 00:08:03:08 - 00:08:35:01 Unknown It helps organizations like build secure, scalable, and data driven apps without the heavy lifting. So instead of like spending six months coding a custom dashboard you can build in a week, or you can reuse, market apps or Apex apps, which were inbuilt, given like when we installed Oracle Apex inside the database or connected. And also the apps are directly connected to Oracle Database and they're also hosted in the Oracle Cloud and ready to go live. 00:08:35:03 - 00:09:03:03 Unknown That's huge for enterprise teams who need to move fast and stay secure. And here's a strategy. Like epics, epics plays three big roles in the cloud and enterprise landscape, which acts as a bridge builder. Epics connects users with I.T, helping them build apps together. Hey, you don't want to wait for a development team to free up with low code. 00:09:03:08 - 00:09:36:04 Unknown Business analysts and even power users can start prototyping apps themselves, and it's also a cloud catalyst like for organizations like for moving to the cloud. Epics need some things, so it's already integrated with our cloud infrastructure. Teams can deploy apps without worry about setting up servers, managing databases, or securing the backend. It's all everything is. Building. And then next is a major and it's a cost cutter and enterprise world. 00:09:36:05 - 00:10:11:21 Unknown Like building app apps often means big budgets and a long time that change is that you can get faster development, fewer bugs, and easier maintenance all at a fraction of the cost. And because it's part of the Oracle ecosystem, apex fits seamlessly into the existing enterprise environment. So companies that already rely on Oracle for database or ERP systems or analytics or any other aim, they don't have to reinvent the wheel epics just Plex right in. 00:10:11:23 - 00:10:38:18 Unknown It's like having a custom app factory sitting on top of one of the world's most powerful cloud platforms, and for storing. This is good because landing epics doesn't just teach you to build apps, it teaches how you could first look how cloud first companies think and operate, and innovate. That I love how apex is fully integrated into everything Oracle related. 00:10:38:18 - 00:11:11:10 Unknown And so that leads to my next question. Can you share some examples of how different industries utilize Low-code development? Looker isn't just like for one industry or one kind of app. It's a v

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  4. 11월 4일

    Demystifying Tech Roles: Account Cloud Engineer

    Unlocking the Role of an Account Cloud Engineer at Oracle What does it take to bridge technical expertise with real-world customer impact? In this episode, we dive deep into the role of the Account Cloud Engineer (ACE) at Oracle—a unique position that sits at the intersection of technology and customer engagement. Often misunderstood as solely technical, ACEs play a vital role in presales, partnering with sales teams to guide customers through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions. From shaping architectural designs to providing ongoing support, ACEs are key to delivering value-driven cloud transformations. Listeners will discover: How ACEs collaborate with sales to co-design custom cloud solutions for clients The importance of soft skills—like communication, collaboration, and curiosity—alongside technical acumen What a typical day looks like for an ACE, including demos, workshops, customer calls, and problem-solving How cloud certifications, mini-courses, and real-world experience can jump-start your cloud career Why asking the right questions helps uncover and solve customers' real challenges We also spotlight the Generation Oracle (GenO) program—a global initiative dedicated to launching tech careers for people from all backgrounds. Whether you're a student, educator, or career switcher, GenO offers structured training and direct pathways into dynamic roles such as ACE, sales, consulting, and more. Ready to jumpstart your cloud journey? Explore Oracle Academy's free cloud curriculum and certifications, and check out Academy Bytes for bite-sized learning. Whether you're pursuing a career in cloud or curious about the world of presales, this episode is the perfect place to begin. Resources Mentioned: Oracle Academy : Free cloud curriculum and resources for educators and students Oracle University : Training and certification Generation Oracle Careers : Entry paths into Oracle -------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript:    00:00:00:00 - 00:00:35:10 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation workforce. 00:00:35:11 - 00:01:04:04 Unknown I'm your host, Rick Blake, our being the Oracle Academy program manager for the Benelux and the region. So what we're going to discuss today, in this episode, we're exploring what it is really like to work in cloud tech, especially in the AI's role at Oracle. Lily will share her journey into tech, what the job involves day to day, and some honest advice for students and educators thinking about careers in this space. 00:01:04:06 - 00:01:26:20 Unknown Lily Griffin works in Oracle for three years, currently program manager for Oracle Academy for the UK and the Nordics. Previous to this, Lily worked as an account Cloud engineer for Oracle in the UK. Today we will discuss what an Account Cloud Engineer is and Lily's experience in the role. Lily, are you ready? I'm ready. Very good. Let's start. 00:01:26:20 - 00:01:53:15 Unknown Lily, a warm welcome to this podcast. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from you. From your knowledge and your experiences. So to kick it off, Lily, if I look at the top 50 global technical roles, I can see that data and cloud are strongly represented in the top ten jobs. Even in various roles. Can you please explain what an account cloud engineer and as we call it, is? 00:01:53:16 - 00:02:25:09 Unknown Yeah, of course they as mentioned, Ace stands for Account Cloud engineer. And at Oracle it's a pre-sales role. So that means that you're involved before a sale happens. You're working with customers to help them understand Oracle's cloud offering, guiding them through, solutions, architecture and product features. I guess what's great is that you're involved, that your involvement doesn't end once the deal is signed. 00:02:25:11 - 00:02:51:01 Unknown You're sort of. You continued to be the customer's technical point of contact for Oracle Cloud infrastructure, and it becomes very consistent relationship so they know who to reach out to if they have any questions. Need guidance or want to explore any other capabilities. I think that ongoing support helps build trust and makes the role feel really rewarding. 00:02:51:03 - 00:03:15:14 Unknown It's a technical role, but it's also very people focused. So you might be talking about networking in one call and chat bots in the next. So you need to really comfortable switching gears and sort of having a wide range of conversations. I'd also say you don't work alone either. So as an ace, you're paired with one or more one or more sales reps. 00:03:15:16 - 00:03:41:03 Unknown And the ones sort of driving the sales process of building relationships and creating opportunities. You're their technical counterpart, so you're helping shape the solution and making sure it fits into the customer's needs. When it works well, it's a real partnership. And while it's definitely a technical role, it's important to mention soft skills as they are just as important. 00:03:41:05 - 00:04:09:05 Unknown So communication, problem solving, collaboration. And those are kind of the key ones. And you're not just exploiting tech, you're helping helping people make decisions on standing value and feeling confident in the solution that you're offering. Good at Lily. Interesting. That sounds indeed like balancing both technical and soft skills. How do you find this job as an ace and what is it? 00:04:09:05 - 00:04:33:03 Unknown Was it a rule you saw yourself doing? Well, if you'd asked me ten years ago what I'd be doing now, I definitely wouldn't have said cloud engineer or program manager for Oracle Academy. For that matter. But, I didn't originally plan to go to university. And at the last minute, I signed up for a business management undergraduate course at my local college. 00:04:33:05 - 00:04:59:01 Unknown So in the UK, that's typically for students aged 16 to 18 straight after secondary school. However, my particular college did, did degree level, courses, and I lived at home and I spent three years learning the ins and outs of business. And when I graduated, I'll be honest, I still didn't know what I wanted to do. 00:04:59:03 - 00:05:20:22 Unknown And I was really lucky to go traveling after university. And I came back a lot earlier than I expected due to Covid. So when I got back, I still had no idea what direction I want to take. And honestly, I don't think we talk about that enough. I feel like the pressure to have it all figured out. 00:05:21:00 - 00:05:43:10 Unknown And there's often that expectation that you should know exactly what you want to do. And I felt that's, like, rarely the case. Oh, maybe that was just for me, I don't know. But eventually, my business spring kicked in and I started doing some research about what industries were growing and what careers were in demand at that time. 00:05:43:12 - 00:06:06:05 Unknown And the answer felt quite clear to me. It was technology. So I felt like you could see that it was booming for a while, but I didn't have the soft skills to break in. During lockdown, I started sort of teaching myself Python. A little bit of all, doing some online courses, reading textbooks and eventually deciding to take a on a conversion. 00:06:06:05 - 00:06:30:05 Unknown Masters in Data Science. That one year completely changed my career path and led me to my first job as a data analyst. So straight out of university. And then a year later, I joined Oracle through the Generation Oracle program, which led me to the Ace role. Thank you, Lily, for sharing your experiences in an open and transparent way. 00:06:30:07 - 00:06:54:14 Unknown I think this is really relevant for students, young adults on their way to their first entry level job. S on paper, starting a career looks like it's a straight line. In practice, it could look like a road full of twists and turns, isn't it? So, Lily, I understand this Generation Oracle program was relevant for you. Could you brief explain what Generation Oracle is? 00:06:54:16 - 00:07:22:06 Unknown Yes. So generation Oracle or Gen two, as we often call it, is a global career program run ins of many countries. So it offers roles, across a wide range of disciplines, including sales, customer success, cloud engineering and consulting. And what's great is that it open. It's open to anyone looking to start or switch a career in tech. 00:07:22:10 - 00:07:53:17 Unknown So for God, less of your age or background, the program gives you structured training over a couple of years, and by the end you sort of move into that role or something similar within Oracle. For me, it was an incredible opportunity and it really gave me the foundation I needed to become a fully fledged ace. I will say as well, if you're curious to hear any more about the Jono experience, then do keep an eye out because I've heard there's a dedicated Jedi podcast coming soon. 00:07:53:19 - 00:08:16:01 Unknown But you'll be able to hear from others who have gone through the same program. That sounds good. Lily will stay tuned for the general podcast a bit from another angle. Now, if I may. The Daisy, which is the Digital Economy and Society Index published by the European Commission, presents on entry level IT jobs and the digital skills gap. 00:08:16:05 - 00:08:48:15 Unknown A couple of interesting things, like around 40% of adults in the European Union lack basic digital skills. Many entry level IT roles now require more than just basic skills, as candidates need to know coding, cloud and analytics tools. This means also

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    AI and Security

    In this episode host Oracle Academy Program Manager Benelux & DACH Rik Bleeker speaks with Oracle expert Thomas Minne on the crucial intersection of Artificial Intelligence and data security, explaining why the Oracle Database is foundational to both. Drawing on his 15 years as a DBA and current role in Oracle's EMEA CTO office, Thomas shares practical strategies for implementing AI responsibly without compromising sensitive information. Listeners will learn how features like Real Application Security and Label Security safeguard data, why AI vectors require the same protection as raw data, and hear real-world stories from industries like finance and healthcare. Thomas also discusses how AI can both enhance and threaten security, and offers career advice to students keen on mastering IT fundamentals and safely experimenting with Oracle LiveLabs. Whether you're a student, educator, or just curious about AI security, this episode is packed with insights to help you innovate confidently and securely. -------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:35:13 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation workforce. 00:00:35:13 - 00:01:08:08 Unknown I'm your host, Rick Bleeker, are being the Oracle Academy program manager for the Benelux and the region. In this episode, Oracle expert Thomas Minne explores how artificial intelligence and data security intersect. And why'd Oracle Database is at the center of this? All with 15 years of DBA experience and now part of Oracle's EMEA CTO office. Thomas shares real world insights on how organizations can use AI responsibly while protecting sensitive data. 00:01:08:10 - 00:01:35:18 Unknown From healthcare to finance, I offers huge opportunities, but only if security is in from the start. The topics we're going to cover today is why I makes data security more important than ever. How Oracle databases features like real application security and label security protects sensitive data. The risk of vectors in AI workflows. Why they need the same protection as raw data. 00:01:36:00 - 00:02:12:12 Unknown Real world stories of securing large financial systems. AI as a double edge sword basically strengthening the defenses but also usable by attackers. Career advice for students master it fundamentals. Explore AI workflows, and practice safely with Oracle Life Labs. So security also today isn't a barrier. It's an enabler. With the right governments, access controls, and hands on learning. Students and educators can explore AI confidentially and responsibly. 00:02:12:14 - 00:02:45:19 Unknown Today, we're joined by Thomas Minne, Oracle database Expert and Data Security Blackbelt. Thomas, welcome and an absolute pleasure to have you on this podcast. As a start, Thomas, could you tell us about your background and current role at Oracle? Thank you Rich. Hello everyone. Well, I work in the EMEA office of the CTO at Oracle. So focusing on data security, I have spent 15 years as an Oracle DBA, starting in infrastructure and gradually moving closer to application development, helping teams build performance and world design systems. 00:02:45:20 - 00:03:16:20 Unknown I'm also an Oracle Certified Master. In my current role, I advise customers on protecting their most valuable assets and their data. I specialize in Oracle database security features like encryption, auditing, identity and access management, data masking also, and other security goodies. So my work combines engineering, technical representation and also collaboration with project management, all with one goal keeping data safe while enabling innovation. 00:03:16:23 - 00:03:41:11 Unknown That sounds good Thomas. Thank you so much. So today's topic is AI and security and domains. If I look at the top 60 global technical roles, I and cloud roles are strongly represented in the top ten in various roles and jobs. Why is security so important in the context of AI and how does it connect to the Oracle database? 00:03:41:13 - 00:04:15:12 Unknown Great question. First, AI isn't magic. It's just a set of tools that process data. And whenever we talk about data, security becomes essential. AI system use techniques like larger language models, lens vectorization and retrieval, augmented generation, and drag. All of these interact with data and sometimes highly sensitive data. For example, in healthcare, Oracle Database Store patient records. You can't connect that kind of database directly to a public AI model. 00:04:15:12 - 00:04:54:06 Unknown You could accidentally expose private medical information. I can absolutely add doctors and researchers, but only if access is controlled, the right person at the right time, and the right context. Without those safeguards, the risks outweigh the benefits. And that's the challenge. Making sure that even if the data are highly sensitive, we manipulate those data safely to sarcomas. Listening to the security on its own in it is already a challenge to what is your opinion, a security, an extra challenge for companies when enabling with new AI capabilities? 00:04:54:08 - 00:05:19:14 Unknown Exactly. Companies are no longer asking should we use AI? They are now asking how can we use AI securely? That's where Oracle Security Features comes in, helping organizations build secure, compliant pipelines for AI solution while still benefiting from AI. Spoiler. And is that challenge is not taken seriously. It will prevent them to move on with their project. 00:05:19:16 - 00:05:55:00 Unknown Got it. Thomas. So, as we all know, security is crucial for organizations. Community security processes, however, are often seen as painful or complex, time consuming and even slowing down projects. How do you look at this? It's true. Unfortunately, and security can seem like extra work, but it is the reality. You can't escape it. The potential damage from the breach to both individuals and companies is huge, and companies must also be compliant with the different regulations. 00:05:55:02 - 00:06:19:03 Unknown I like to flip the perspective. Security can actually. Oh, to move you to move faster. If you can guarantee that only authorized holes in your application can see sensitive data. You unlock the ability to use that data in AI workflows with confidence. Without that, companies tend to lock their data in a bunker safe, but effectively use less. 00:06:19:05 - 00:06:45:08 Unknown So security becomes an enabler. It's the condition that allows you to use AI responsibly. The closer AI tools gets to the data, the more fine grained access control becomes non-negotiable. Think of it as an investment. If you understand your data, its sensitivity, and how to control access, you can safely leverage powerful AI capabilities. Okay, okay, it almost got it. 00:06:45:08 - 00:07:09:18 Unknown But even then, still, there are multiple options. So why the Oracle database? There's a lot of new open source tools that could help build AI pipelines, aren't there? Yeah. It's true that there are two key points. First, the sensitive data there are already in the Oracle database. And many of our customers are already running critical system on our infrastructure. 00:07:09:19 - 00:07:41:22 Unknown And they're happy with the performance but also the availability of our platforms. So moving data into another system like an open source vector database forced you to duplicate security measures across platforms, adding complexity and risk. In addition, you may lose the benefits of a highly available and performant platform. So, Gunns Oracle Converged Database strategy lets you store data, owns and run multiple workloads SQL, graph, vector search, analytics, spatial all in one place. 00:07:41:22 - 00:08:13:21 Unknown So security is built into the core, not bolting on later. With Oracle 23 AI database, these capabilities are unified, enabling innovation without compromising protection. Okay, clear. Understood. Thomas, thanks for elaborating. And but how do you look then at the relationship between data governance on one side and AI security evolving on the other? Data governance is absolutely critical. The team help us understand what data we have. 00:08:13:21 - 00:08:40:08 Unknown It's sensitivity and applicable regulations. They're the bridge between technical teams and compliance requirements. Simply put, you can't design an effective security strategy if you don't know which data is sensitive. For example, when I worked at a major bank in Luxembourg, I collaborated with colleagues from the data governance and business intelligence team to design security for a new data warehouse. 00:08:40:13 - 00:09:18:22 Unknown We classified the data and determine how to secure it. Access was controlled along multiple axis data domain, so over 50 domains with different sensitivity level inside each subsidiary user and access only to certain subsidiaries data on play data only HR could access it and also customer personal information, GDPR compliance and protection of personal information. All these control were unforced directly in the database, so each user only saw what they were authorized to access for their workflow. 00:09:18:22 - 00:09:56:14 Unknown The same principle apply AI solution should only access allowed data features like Rear Application security, virtual Private database or label security can enforce these rules and ensures AI tools operate safely and compliantly. LeClair did. That explains about the relationship and Thomas could AI itself help improve database security in the future

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  6. 10월 7일

    Part II of AI for Data: When Data meets Intelligence

    AI is driving a remarkable transformation throughout the industry, delivering unprecedented productivity gains and enabling rapid insights from vast amounts of data. In the second of a two-episode season premiere, Tirthankar Lahiri, SVP of Mission-Critical Data and AI Engines, discusses how Oracle AI Vector and embedded machine learning search are harnessing the power of AI to unlock value from enterprise data. AI is triggering an incredible transformation across the industry, enabling breakthrough improvements in productivity and rapid insights across massive volumes of data. However, in order to fully harness the power of AI, it is necessary to enable AI processing where the data resides. Oracle AI vector and built-in-machine learning search bring the power of AI to enterprise data, and allow developers to build sophisticated RAG and Agentic frameworks that leverage the full power of the converged database architecture of Oracle Database — including its class-leading scalability, fault-tolerance, and enterprise-grade security. Furthermore, Oracle database provides several mechanisms to make data "AI-ready" by enabling declarative data intent for AI. In this session, we will describe these techniques, and more, to explain how to truly build an AI for data solution in this rapidly changing AI landscape! ------------------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:36:04 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares next generation's workforce. I'm your host, Tyra Peirce. 00:00:36:06 - 00:01:02:02 Unknown This is the second episode in our two part presentation. AI for data when data meets intelligence. In this episode, our guest speaker to thank Tirthankar Lahiri, senior vice President for mission critical data and AI engines at Oracle, concludes his presentation on AI and enterprise data. If you've not heard episode one yet, please go to oracle.com/podcast where you will find all episodes of Oracle Academy Tech Chat. 00:01:02:04 - 00:01:32:05 Unknown Now let me hand over two to thank for the conclusion of this presentation by. Hey guys, thank you very much for joining. It's a great pleasure to be presenting AI for data. Now let's talk about vector sequel. I've already mentioned this briefly earlier, so I won't spend too much time on this, but basically you can do vector distances to find similar, objects using the vector distance function and very simple query finding the customers that are similar to this photo. 00:01:32:07 - 00:01:55:00 Unknown And I wonder what the top five customers and we could add other complex conditions. Like I said earlier, maybe only one customers in San Francisco that match this photo. Again, that filter will be added to the query to find only the customers matching the photo in San Francisco. We could join, various with other tables as well. 00:01:55:01 - 00:02:25:20 Unknown For instance, we could join it with a status table that finds the customers only with a certain spending tier. So this sort of, you know, extension gives me, again, as I said earlier, the power of composing SQL with complex conditions to run very sophisticated searches. Okay. Once again, in the query, you can also specify how accurate you want the search to be, regardless of the index accuracy. 00:02:25:20 - 00:02:48:01 Unknown You can make a search more accurate by spending more time on the search by going deeper in the index. Same deal. The index. The default accuracy. Maybe the default was that 85%, but I want 95% for a certain search. I want to do a deeper search. This directive with the SQL lets me do exactly that. I can specify again how much I want in the SQL itself. 00:02:48:01 - 00:03:13:16 Unknown Maybe it's a different search. Maybe my recommendations initially were great. I want like a really deep recommendation based on my last search. My last browsing or buying patterns. So this lets me crank up the knob, crank up the dial rather for the accuracy based on my use case. Again, to allow the search to proceed deeper into the vector index. 00:03:13:18 - 00:03:34:07 Unknown Okay. All right. I'm going to, you know, vector index support transactions. There's not a whole lot to say about that. As you update the data, the vector indexes get maintained. The core indexes, you know, I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on this because some of this is very oracle specific. But we scale our Oracle database in a number of different ways. 00:03:34:09 - 00:03:58:12 Unknown And each of those scale out mechanism, the Oracle database runs on multiple physical computers. All of those mechanisms support vector indexes. So vector vector search can scale out on nodes of a compute cluster easily. You could also scale out using something called sharding, which is a way to scale the vector, the result to a global scale. 00:03:58:12 - 00:04:18:02 Unknown So imagine I have, you know, a database that's logically sharding across multiple continents. I essentially can build a vector index on each shard and do a global search that runs very fast, because if I'm searching for products that are, let's say Italian coaches, for instance, I would only search the Italian shard and not the other, the other shards. 00:04:18:02 - 00:04:38:19 Unknown So you get performance improvements as well as localization of your search results. Okay. So I'm going to skip some of this and go to the next step. So I want to talk about. So some some just some simple use case vector search before I get to my other topic I wanted to cover quickly today I think I have ten minutes left. 00:04:38:23 - 00:05:03:02 Unknown So yeah. So there's lots of use cases. Like I said, for just plain vanilla I like to search lots of use case. I just find me similar support tickets. Find me someone matching this biometric pattern. Similar products find me manufacturing defects. You know, text search using some similarity. If I miss similar documents or, you know, browsing made, etc. those are very standard vector search case. 00:05:03:02 - 00:05:25:09 Unknown But let's talk about generative AI. That's, you know, the big new thing nowadays. And generative AI is really what made vector search very, very important as a primary use case for vector search because it lets you interact with business data using natural language. So why do I do a vector search for this? Because it lends to all of the work. 00:05:25:09 - 00:05:54:03 Unknown Anyway, you know, everyone here must have used GPT or Grok or Gemini. Why do I need vector search? Well, here's the reason why. Generative AI is, basically answers natural language questions. You ask a question, for instance, in the support example, I want to know why my laptop keeps rebooting as an example. I also love them. They basically uses the question and it's general knowledge to answer the question. 00:05:54:03 - 00:06:13:21 Unknown And maybe it doesn't know. It might get a bad response if you just toss them ungodly without any other other information. You may not get a good answer that you like. It might. It might tell you that just by buying your laptop with a laptop is rebooting. Buy a new one. That's not a good answer, but I spent $20 buying a laptop and I wouldn't want to hear that. 00:06:13:23 - 00:06:37:00 Unknown Especially if it was a MacBook that was expensive. That's a bad answer for me. This is not a great answer. And why is that? Because it doesn't know anything about your support incident or other incidents. So it alarms are very, very smart, but they're generalist. They're trained on broad data from the internet, not on specific private data. 00:06:37:02 - 00:06:58:07 Unknown And they can also hallucinate as we know. Right. So what we need to do is to add vector search to improve results. Search quality. What we do is using vector search, we could augment prompts with private database content to provide better answers, which avoids having to create an alarm on sensitive data and this is called drag. 00:06:58:07 - 00:07:21:01 Unknown As everyone knows, this is a very popular technique today. Retrieval augmented generation. So you could again include the question in a vector sent to a vector database to find relevant support incidents, that dig into the reports and augment them with the reports and the question, and then send the whole thing there alarm and then get a better answer. 00:07:21:03 - 00:07:54:05 Unknown It said, you know, it might say, hey, you might need to apply the OS update if that's what you're seeing, because there could be other reports that look similar. Now, you could do even better with Oracle database or the enterprise database to handle that search, because now I can also include customer data and product data, not just the support vectors, but other information that I can also use to augment the response with, to provide even further clarity on what was going on with that customer. 00:07:54:07 - 00:08:27:07 Unknown So again, same deal. I send the question to the customer, to the to the vector database to generate the vector, to look up relevant support request. So I have the question why does my laptop keep reporting a convert that to a vector? I use that to search the vector database, and then I use the vector database to not only generate the incident reports, but I also return the matching product and customer data to find the reports, the support, incident description and resolutions augment them with product information. 00:08:27:07 - 00:08:52:13 Unknown So this is the laptop with a certain middle manufacturing profile. And the customer was i

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  7. 10월 7일

    AI for Data: When Data meets Intelligence

    AI is driving a remarkable transformation throughout the industry, delivering unprecedented productivity gains and enabling rapid insights from vast amounts of data. In this two-episode season premiere, Tirthankar Lahiri, SVP of Mission-Critical Data and AI Engines, discusses how Oracle AI Vector and embedded machine learning search are harnessing the power of AI to unlock value from enterprise data, and allow developers to build sophisticated RAG and Agentic frameworks that leverage the full power of the converged database architecture of Oracle Database — including its class-leading scalability, fault-tolerance, and enterprise-grade security. Furthermore, Oracle database provides several mechanisms to make data "AI-ready" by enabling declarative data intent for AI. In this session, we will describe these techniques, and more, to explain how to truly build an AI for data solution in this rapidly changing AI landscape! ------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:34:07 Unknown Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce. 00:00:34:09 - 00:01:03:23 Unknown I'm your host, Tara Pierce. This is the first of two episodes on AI for data when data meets intelligence. Our guest speaker is to thank Carly Harris, senior vice president for mission critical data and AI engines at Oracle. Here's responsible for the data engine for Oracle database, including areas like AI, vector search, indexing and data compression. He also manages the Oracle Times ten in memory and the Oracle NoSQL database product teams to thank her. 00:01:03:23 - 00:01:33:13 Unknown Has 30 years of experience in the database industry and has worked on a variety of areas such as performance, scalability, manageability, caching, in-memory architectures and developer focused functionality. He has 71 issued and several pending patents. A bachelor's in computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology and a master's in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In the first episode to thank our talks about how data makes AI intelligent and how enterprises are using AI to get greater value from their data. 00:01:33:15 - 00:01:59:19 Unknown Over to you to thank her. Hi. Hey, guys. Thank you very much for joining. It's a great pleasure to be presenting AI for data. This is an exciting time in technology. AI is ubiquitous. AI changes everything. And I actually makes data intelligent. Let's talk about that today. So you know Oracle is working on AI. As many of you know, at many levels in the enterprise stack. 00:01:59:21 - 00:02:31:22 Unknown We have AI initiatives for applications, AI initiatives for services. I for data. And we're building a lot of AI infrastructure, as you seen from the news. Now I'm going to focus on AI for data. That's the focus of my presentation today. How we bring AI, the power of AI and unleash it on enterprise data. So Oracle's goal is to make AI for data extremely simple for basically everything. 00:02:32:00 - 00:02:54:08 Unknown So no matter what kind of end user you are, whether you're an expert, an AI, or a developer, or a DBA random list, every single persona should be able to leverage AI for data. We want to make it possible for all applications to leverage AI for data and benefit all workloads with the AI for data. So this is the goal that we have for AI for data. 00:02:54:08 - 00:03:25:05 Unknown Now, there's again basically two classic kinds of AI in the classical sense. So let's quickly talk about one before I get to what's new. So the traditional AI, was basically called algorithmic AI. Algorithmic here is based on machine learning models, typically non neural net designed to do predictions classifications, forecasting etc. and for data science people, you know that there's many different machine learning algorithms. 00:03:25:07 - 00:03:44:06 Unknown And these are all now available in Oracle database. So if you want you can use one of these models. This is the ever evolving list. You can use one of these models to load to first of all to train, you know, a sorry, you could use one of these algorithms. Excuse me. I keep that in the trunk. 00:03:44:08 - 00:04:05:22 Unknown These are algorithms. You can use one of these to train models and then to run inferencing using these models. So you imagine you can take, you know, linear linear regression. The algorithm used that to train a model and then applied that to data in real time to basically do predictions. So that's what in database machine learning lets you do. 00:04:06:00 - 00:04:30:18 Unknown And we've had this, capability for a while now. So what is new is something called I vector search, which is the primary focus of a presentation today. And this is newer, you know, and if this is beyond classical machine learning. So basically yeah vector search the new technology that enables searching for data by semantics rather than values. 00:04:30:20 - 00:04:54:11 Unknown The why why is this important? Because if you look at what databases traditionally do, for those of you who've been in the database field or have studied databases, databases essentially do what we call value based searches, where given a value, they can search by that value, like for instance, finding the revenue by each product. That's a very typical search you run inside of a database. 00:04:54:13 - 00:05:22:10 Unknown And they've excelled at this through various, you know, techniques like query optimization, SQL document processing, etc.. However, there is an ever increasing volume of unstructured data which you really can't search by value, but they have to be searched by semantics or meaning, like, you know, photos or images or description. Long complex textual descriptions. There's no real value that you can search those with. 00:05:22:10 - 00:05:52:08 Unknown Effectively, you need to search them essentially by their semantic content, not by the value content. For instance, finding products that match a particular photo or match a description that's not really something a database could do very well in the past. And this is a very important, an ever growing use case, because, you know, businesses need to do this today on a routine basis, forgetting about AI just in general to keep the business running in a healthy fashion. 00:05:52:10 - 00:06:25:14 Unknown There's a lot of examples of use cases where a business needs a search its data by, sort of the semantics. For instance, if you know, you have parts going into the sub line for manufacturing, the photo, the part should, quickly tell you whether that part might be defective, when customers log in to e-commerce sites, then when you browse products, so you try to check out a certain product, there is a desire from the e-commerce site to see what else they could then recommend to you in real time. 00:06:25:16 - 00:06:43:19 Unknown These are all examples. Another one is, of course, biometrics. You know, I'm coming in to the airport. I need to, you know, I go through facial recognition. They want to make sure that I'm the person I said I am when I, you know, when I submitted my visa application. So all of these cases require semantic search, not value based search. 00:06:43:21 - 00:07:11:12 Unknown And, vector searches. Exactly. That enable searching data based semantics. That's precisely what it does. And it does that using a construct primitive known as a vector, which is very simple actually. You know, if you think about this, the beauty of this is the basic concept is very easy, very simple. A vector is simply a long string of numbers that capture the semantics of much more complex data. 00:07:11:12 - 00:07:36:14 Unknown And they're produced by something I call black magic deep learning, machine learning models that take this, you know, unstructured set of data on the left, apply these complex algorithms and machine learning algorithms to that data and then outcomes a vector. It's actually incredible that this this actually works, that you can take something as sophisticated as a Picasso painting and convert that into a string of numbers. 00:07:36:14 - 00:07:59:16 Unknown That represents that painting. That's basically what a vector does. It's a string of numbers encoding the semantics. And once you do that, well, how do you then measure for similarity? The way you do that is by measuring the mathematical distance between the vectors. Now for those of you who've of course all of you are familiar with the vector concept, I'm sure from mathematics and physics. 00:07:59:18 - 00:08:22:09 Unknown Basically, vectors are points in multidimensional space, and there's many different ways to measure distance between them. You know, a simple example, a simple distance function is what we call Euclidean squared. We just take the square of the difference, the sum of the differences of each coordinate. That's a that's one distance for a function. However, there's many formula for distance. 00:08:22:11 - 00:08:45:07 Unknown And each machine learning model and each data scientist prefers a different one. Let's talk about how vectors get used in the real world. Now, if you think about, a very simple business example, I know that most of you not not, you know, business people, but most of you use products and sometimes, you know, products go wrong and you have this file, you know, ask for help from customer support. 00:08:45:08 - 00:09:10:11 Unknown Support incidents are very complex, documents, very complex entities. They involve a lot of different attributes. And typically looking fo

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    Multi-tenancy in Cloud Computing

    In this episode host Tyra Peirce chats with Rolando Carrasco, an Oracle ACE Director based in Latin America. Rolando and Tyra speak about Multi-tenant cloud. What it is, what it isn't, and when it should be used. --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:34:01  Unknown  Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students with in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started. Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce.    00:00:34:03 - 00:01:02:16  Unknown  I'm your host, Tyra Peirce. Today I'm joined by our Rolando Carrasco. Rolando is an Oracle Ace director based in Latin America. He has been in the IT industry for the past 25 years, working for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Then in 2010, he started his own consulting firm where he is currently the CTO. His work has been focused on distributed systems, working with several integration platforms, API management tools and the cloud.    00:01:02:18 - 00:01:29:06  Unknown  He is a constant speaker at both local and global development conferences. Welcome, Rolando. Oh thank you Tyra. So to start off, can you give me a bit about your background and your current job role? Yes. Thank you Tyra. Now I'm currently the CTO for a Mexican consulting firm here in Mexico. The name is CES, and I've had this role for the past 15 to 16 years now.    00:01:29:08 - 00:02:07:13  Unknown  And as you already mentioned, my experience is focused on distributed systems. And probably, I will say, the evolution of those type of needs in terms of integration in the cloud now. And I will say that I have a mixed profile in terms of, development, if you will, and also experience on sales and pre-sales and architecture, or so I will say that I have that type of hybrid more a rosary and my experience is being focused mostly and in the Latin American region, from Mexico to Brazil.    00:02:07:15 - 00:02:32:21  Unknown  Today our focus is on, multi-tenancy and cloud computing. Can you tell me what a multi-tenancy is and cloud computing and how does it differ from single tenancy? I can say that multi-tenancy is the ability to have different organizations working separately, and that's the key. But we'll be using the same infrastructure okay. Even though they share this infrastructure.    00:02:32:23 - 00:02:57:07  Unknown  The main thing, as I said, we already mentioned is that those different organizations are isolated. They can see each other, they can see their data. And I can say that normally service providers work in this fashion. They offer their services to several gateway stations or customers. And from the infrastructure standpoint, they share the infrastructure now along all those organizations.    00:02:57:09 - 00:03:25:08  Unknown  And the difference, the difference between multi-tenancy and the single tenancy is that which single tenant, every organization use its own infrastructure. I mean, there is nothing to share between them or among them, but you need to deliver on a specific infrastructure for every single organization. So which follows on to my next question. Can you share a real world example of multi-tenant cloud implementations?    00:03:25:10 - 00:04:03:19  Unknown  Yes, absolutely. I will say that the software as a service market and the software as a service, providers and application owns most of them. And I can say that both big companies such as Oracle and small companies or even startups, they use these type of model offering these, those type of services. For example, an email application and the one that we normally use, Outlook or Gmail or any of that type of email application is a clear example of then we all have an account.    00:04:03:21 - 00:04:26:22  Unknown  The infrastructure is the same. We don't care as a user, we just use the service as its own, as it's been, offered to, to us. So, the users are not aware of that. And I will say that probably the users are not even interested in if it is a multi-tenancy or not, but all I what I was trying to I was trying sorry to explain.    00:04:27:00 - 00:04:51:19  Unknown  Is that mostly those type of SaaS applications use this model. For example, maybe you or the audience are aware of applications such as Monday.com or Bitly. The shortener, URL application, or any other type of application that you normally use that you just use and you just subscribe to it. It is so very clear example of behind the scenes is working in a multi-tenancy fashion.    00:04:51:21 - 00:05:15:22  Unknown  That actually makes sense. The Bitly one makes sense to me because I've used it before. And same with like my email. My email. Programs. I understand how that would work. Like, you access it one way, but you might be touching multiple clouds. So that's that's actually really, really fascinating for me. So on to my next question. Why do organizations choose a multi-tenant architecture over a single tenant one?    00:05:16:00 - 00:05:45:22  Unknown  I will answer that in two ways. And the first one is for service providers. These multi-tenancy model may imply the reduction of several cost and operations because instead of provisioning dedicated infrastructure and all the consequences that it that it has, they use just one single, infrastructure and that single infrastructure is the one that they operate. They your grade and then they maintain.    00:05:46:00 - 00:06:13:17  Unknown  But at the same time they isolate the organizations as as we mentioned in, in the past questions or in the previous questions. And the second thing is for organizations who create their own software, I mean, that they are looking to create a solution. They are building, an application they will like to or free to many customers, and they need to deliver it in, in such a way that they need to reduce their own cost.    00:06:13:19 - 00:06:43:18  Unknown  Then probably they are going to choose these type of models because it is going to be not that expensive. And for example, in terms of Oracle technology, a Oracle's database is a very clear example of the unorganized organization, sorry, an organization that is looking to create an application which uses a database. But it happens that these database needs to be separated, be separated because the departments needs to be isolated.    00:06:43:18 - 00:07:10:23  Unknown  Just to give an example, this type of organization can leverage from the Oracle database technology. And in the specific the database multi-tenant option one single database engine, but multiple databases running on that very same engine. So I would say that those two things are the ones that are going to make an organization to use this multi-tenancy model that is that also makes a lot of sense to me.    00:07:10:23 - 00:07:45:09  Unknown  Like if you need to separate your databases, you want to separate your data, you want to make sure that it's controlled and then only accessible by a certain group of people. That also makes sense to me as well. Which leads to the next question how does multi-tenancy impact database management in cloud applications? I will say that it reduces the complexity of managing different databases with a whole set of infrastructure, because if you think about it and you have separate databases, then you need probably different persons to manage those different layers.    00:07:45:11 - 00:08:10:14  Unknown  So in the Oracle database multi-tenancy model or in a database dependency model, it is just one single infrastructure. So you reduce the number of persons or the team that is managing the infrastructure. The second thing is the streamline is streamlining the database provisioning and the provisioning, because you just need to take care about let me say it in this way just as database.    00:08:10:14 - 00:08:38:22  Unknown  So for it that's that's the there's the thing that you need to manage and you need to deploy or, or provision or the provision instead of the whole infrastructure. The third thing is to consolidate the database management. You are consolidating in a single group of persons and sometimes it is just one single DBA. You leave me managing different databases with, you know, very same infrastructure or the very same infrastructure.    00:08:39:00 - 00:09:07:01  Unknown  You can also consolidate database monitoring. So you have a single glass of pane if you will, where you can check the different databases that you are running in this multi tenancy model, instead of having separated monitoring tools or monitoring applications, working on top of these different databases, you have one single glass of paint on modeling of new organization.    00:09:07:01 - 00:09:29:05  Unknown  You will be easier because you already have the infrastructure. You just need to provision the database for this new department or organization and probably already mentioned it, but I think is is okay to repeat it to reduce the number of DBA is managing all that infrastructure. I like that, I like that it's all about streamlining and making sure that they you don't need as many resources.    00:09:29:06 - 00:09:48:01  Unknown  Managing certain types of things like the DBA is can go out and expand into doing different types of work. And it's that's a little bit more interesting. Or you have like a, a person that is just an expert in one area, which I think  is kind of helpless. You can spread your resources out and make them a little bit more nimble and flexible.    00:09:48:01 - 00:10:21:21  Unknown  So

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