Oracle Annuounces GraalVM Enterprise Edition

Oracle features Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, that is built around the global standard for enterprise-class database integration, Java SE. GraalVM Enterprise is really a multilingual virtual machine, and delivers even greater efficiency, better isolation, and greater agility for enterprises in cloud and hybrid environments.

GraalVM is fantastic for cloud native environments since it starts services as much as 100X faster and reduces memory usage as much as 5X by compiling programs, including Java applications, ahead-of-time. Fast startup and occasional footprint make GraalVM good for running microservices, Function-as-a-Service and repair mesh.

GraalVM's core features include:

• GraalVM Native Image, like an earlier access feature--enables scripted applications to become compiled in advance right into a native machine-code binary
• GraalVM Compiler--generates compiled code to operate applications on the JVM, standalone, or baked into another system
• Polyglot Abilities--supports Java, Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Language Implementation Framework--enables applying any language for that GraalVM atmosphere
• LLVM Runtime--permits native code to operate inside a managed atmosphere in GraalVM Enterprise

Efficiency

GraalVM Enterprise contains optimization algorithms that look for possibilities to accelerate application processes by rearranging compiled code. Adding these, along with other, algorithms typically offer an additional 20% application performance improvement, yet still time lowering the memory footprint.

These include:

• Path Duplication--specializes optimizations for every code path according to profiling
• Aggressive Method Inlining and Escape Analysis--removes more unnecessary function calls within the GraalVM Enterprise Compiler than every other compiler
• Advanced Vectorization--uses positive aliasing and-level map/reduce/fill vector analysis to vectorize complex loops

GraalVM Enterprise turns up to 3x performance enhancements on a multitude of measurements within the new JVM benchmark known as “Renaissance,” that was recognized at most esteemed programming language conference-PLDI.  The benchmark and gratifaction answers are maintained by Charles College in Prague.

Security

GraalVM Enterprise includes security measures to deal with a few of the common causes of security application vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows in native code. Most real-world applications today in managed languages like Java, JavaScript or Python include native libraries to enhance performance of compute-intensive code. However, these native libraries may form a back-door that may enable an assailant to bypass VM-level isolation features like bounds-checks and garbage collection, which increases the opportunity of security vulnerabilities for the application.

Thinking about individuals issues, GraalVM Enterprise features a “managed mode” for native libraries according to our LLVM bitcode runtime. Safe Mode compiles even individuals servings of the applying implemented in C code to make use of managed memory, garbage collection and bounds-checks, that really help safeguard against common security applications vulnerabilities like buffer overflows. Additionally, GraalVM Native Image improves security by reduction of the application attack surface by putting just the code required by the application in to the runtime, removing unused code that expands the attack surface.

Agility

The multilingual abilities of GraalVM allow legacy applications to become modernized and brand new ones to become built faster. Outdoors source library ecosystem for all those supported GraalVM languages can be obtained for your application, not only the main one for that language that you authored the applying. Legacy applications could be re-written one piece at any given time instead of all at one time and new cloud microservices can mix multiple languages without any performance overhead. Developers may use diagnostic tools, including GraalVM Visual VM, NetBeans and Chrome debugging across language limitations, leading to faster diagnosis and development. GraalVM is made to be embeddable in almost any other server or runtime with virtualized interfaces for just about any access points. For instance, GraalVM Enterprise is built-into Oracle Netsuite and also the Oracle RDBMS Multilingual Engine.

Oracle ERP Cloud a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant

Gartner has named Oracle ERP Cloud an innovator in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises. We’re very happy to get this to report open to our readers with this compliments.

This is actually the third consecutive year that Oracle ERP Cloud continues to be acknowledged as an innovator in Gartner’s report. From 10 products evaluated, Oracle ERP Cloud lies greatest for “ability to execute” and farthest suitable for “completeness of vision.”

We feel it's because the suite’s comprehensive financial management abilities, global achieve, proper concentrate on a multitude of industries and regions, along with a quite strong roadmap for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Based on Gartner, “Leaders demonstrate an industry-defining vision of methods core financial management systems and procedures could be supported and improved by moving these to the cloud. They enhance a obvious capability to execute this vision through products, services, and go-to-market strategies.”

Purchasing Innovation and Customer Success

“Oracle remains laser-centered on our customer’s success. We’re dedicated to ongoing significant investments in innovation that will help our 6,000-plus ERP Cloud customers drive operational excellence in finance,” stated Rondy Ng, senior v . p . of Applications Development at Oracle. “We are ecstatic to become known as an innovator by Gartner within this report. We feel this can be a validation in our product strengths, investment focus, and customer successes.”

Oracle ERP Cloud includes complete abilities across financials, procurement, project portfolio management, enterprise performance management (EPM), and risk management. It had been named the only real  Leader in Gartner’s 2019 “Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Midsize Enterprises.” Oracle seemed to be named an innovator within the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions” (positioned greatest for the opportunity to execute) and it was named a  Leader within the 2018 “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions.”

Along with Oracle Logistics Management Cloud and native integration using the broader Oracle Cloud suite-including human capital management (HCM) and customer experience(CX)-Oracle helps customers stand above altering expectations, build adaptable organizations, and realize the potential for the most recent innovations.

Oracle’s broad portfolio of cloud choices has received significant industry recognition. Additionally to ERP, Oracle is constantly on the win accolades across its comprehensive cloud suite. Find out more about what leading analyst firms say and browse testimonials of Oracle Cloud.

2019 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships Come to Newport Beach

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and Oracle announced today that Newport Beach Tennis Club and also the Tennis Club at Newport Beach Country Club assists as host sites for that 2019 Oracle ITA National Fall Titles November 6-10. The men’s and women’s finals is going to be held at Newport Beach Tennis Club.

The big event returns to Los Angeles for that second time within the last 3 years. Arizona’s Surprise Tennis & Racket Complex held the tournament in 2018. The JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Indian Wells Tennis Garden co-located in 2017.

“Oracle’s dedication to college tennis is constantly on the guide our sport towards the forefront of intercollegiate athletics,” ITA Ceo Dr. Timothy Russell stated. “The ITA is proud our titles are the very best in college sports. We're very excited arrive at Newport Beach, which offers to ensure an incredible student-athlete experience.”

The Newport Beach Tennis Club features 19 lighted tennis courts along with a sunken center court with stadium seating. It's located numerous professional occasions throughout its history, such as the Davis Cup and Oracle Challenger Series. The Tennis Club at Newport Beach offers 24 outside courts.

“Oracle remains dedicated to collegiate tennis and making certain youthful players obtain the chance to enhance their games and compete in great venues,” Oracle Chief executive officer Mark Hurd stated.  “We’re searching toward seeing American collegians and juniors play some very nice tennis only at that year’s Oracle ITA National Titles.”

The Oracle ITA National Fall Titles features 128 from the nation’s top collegiate singles players (64 men and 64 women) and 64 doubles teams (32 men’s teams and 32 women’s teams). It's the only event around the collegiate tennis calendar that highlights competitors all five divisions (NCAA Divisions I, II, III, NAIA, and Junior College) playing within the same tournament. Now in the third year, the big event replaced the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Titles.

The Oracle ITA National Fall Titles joins the Oracle ITA Masters among two major collegiate tournaments locked in the Los Angeles area and co-backed by Oracle and also the ITA. The Oracle Masters returns to Pepperdine College and also the Malibu Racket Club for that fifth consecutive year and it is scheduled for Sept. 26-29.

Oracle Names Rona Fairhead to the Board of Directors

The Oracle Board of Company directors today announced it has unanimously elected Rona A. Fairhead towards the company’s Board of Company directors. The election works well by This summer 31, 2019 and increases how big the Board to fifteen company directors.

“I am extremely pleased to welcome Mrs. Fairhead towards the Board,” stated Ray Ellison, Chairman from the Board of Company directors and Chief Technology Officer. Bruce Chizen, Chair from the Nomination and Governance Committee, added, “Mrs. Fairhead is definitely an accomplished leader with extensive worldwide experience of finance, risk management, government matters and global operations.  The Board may benefit from her unique perspective.”

Mrs. Fairhead, 57, most lately offered as Minister of Condition for Trade and Export Promotion, Department for Worldwide Exchange the Uk from September 2017 to May 2019. She formerly offered as Chair from the British Broadcasting Corporation Trust (BBC) from 2014 to 2017. From 2006 to 2013, Mrs. Fairhead offered as Chair and Ceo from the Financial Occasions Group Limited, that was a division of Pearson plc, and, just before that, she offered as Pearson’s Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Pearson, Mrs. Fairhead held a number of leadership positions at Bombardier Corporation. and Imperial Chemical Industries plc. Mrs. Fairhead formerly offered like a director of HSBC Holdings plc and PepsiCo, Corporation.

People of Oracle’s Board of Company directors serve one-year terms and are a symbol of election in the company’s next annual meeting of stockholders in November 2019.

GoCardless Banks on NetSuite to Support International Expansion

GoCardless, a worldwide direct debit network headquartered within the United kingdom, has selected Oracle NetSuite to aid its mission to accept discomfort from getting compensated for companies with recurring revenue. With NetSuite, the fintech company, which increased by 60 % within the this past year, has had the ability to automate financial management which help lessen the complexities of operating across multiple markets, currencies and tax laws and regulations because it quickly expands its worldwide operations.

Founded this year, GoCardless has produced a worldwide bank debit network to rival debit and credit cards, in addition to a platform made to take invoice, subscription, membership and installments. As interest in its services grows, with $10 billion in transactions annually and 40,000 customers all over the world, GoCardless needed just one, scalable business platform that may supply the visibility and control needed to optimise its financial reporting. Following a careful evaluation, GoCardless selected NetSuite to handle and automate core business processes.

“Since applying NetSuite, we've gone from fundamental accounting to performing in-depth financial analysis,” stated Catherine Birkett, CFO, GoCardless. “We are now able to report financial close faster and much more precisely, rapidly and simply setup new subsidiaries, and efficiently meet our stakeholders’ reporting needs. This really is incredibly valuable once we still expand into untouched markets the best of this about NetSuite is we've an answer which will scale with this growth path for many years.”

With NetSuite, GoCardless can boost the agility of their financial operations because it expands globally. By gaining a unified view in to the business, GoCardless will improve enabled to deal with the complexness it faces with entering new worldwide markets making decisions more with confidence and rapidly.

“GoCardless includes a very advanced business design that's altering the way in which organisations collect payments,” stated Nicky Tozer, VP of EMEA, Oracle NetSuite. “As its network expands to pay for The United States, Australia and most 30 Countries in europe, GoCardless needed just one and scalable business platform that may support its future growth for this reason it selected NetSuite.”

About GoCardless

GoCardless is really a world leader in recurring payments. GoCardless’ global payments network and technology platform go ahead and take discomfort from getting compensated for companies with recurring revenue. Greater than 40,000 companies worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless every month, and also the business processes $10bn of payments every year. GoCardless presently has five offices: United kingdom, France, Australia, Germany and USA.

About Oracle NetSuite

In excess of twenty years, Oracle NetSuite helps organizations grow, scale and adjust to change. NetSuite supplies a suite of cloud-based applications, including financials/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR, expertise automation and omnichannel commerce, utilized by greater than 18,000 customers in 203 countries and dependent territories.

Austrian Service Provider Evolves Digital Offerings with Oracle

Service providers in the media industry must boost revenue while also developing new digital offerings to meet changing customer demands. As ORS Group evolved from a network operator to a digital content gateway, it needed to enable the delivery of modern TV and radio solutions via terrestrial, satellite, cable and IP networks. Leveraging the Oracle Digital Experience for Communications platform, ORS Group will be able to get products to market faster, increase operational agility, and lower the cost of customer service for providers delivering digital content.

“As we support the continued market and technology innovations in the distribution of digital content, ORS needs both flexible technology and trusted partners who can help us navigate the waves of change,” said Michael Wagenhofer, chief executive officer, ORS. “The Oracle Digital Experience for Communications platform provides us a complete, agile solution to support our core business, enabling flexibility, rapid product introduction and fast solution configuration as we continue our digital transformation.”

The Oracle Digital Experience for Communications platform, featuring Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management, provides an enterprise-grade subscription management engine for digital, media and 5G services. The platform has been proven to scale in real-time across even the most challenging industries and business models, spanning both B2B and B2C. Coupled with Oracle Service Cloud, another key element of the platform, ORS will be able to help its users better serve and understand their customers and quickly deliver the right answers to their questions through their preferred service channels.

As the Oracle solution is delivered via the Oracle Cloud and managed by Oracle Communications Consulting, ORS will be able to free up valuable IT resources and benefit from comprehensive ongoing updates that are provided standard in this cloud solution.

“As enterprises and service providers shift to match market demands and reinvent themselves as digital service providers, they’re seeking deeper insight about their customers and means to engage them via new digital channels,” said Doug Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications. “To achieve this, focused media service providers, such as ORS and the biggest providers alike need to engage the market in a truly ‘digital’ manner through simplification of process, organization and systems that then enable automation for scale and efficiency.”

Gaming Solutions Provider Doubles-Down on Oracle

Betinvest LTD, an international gaming solutions provider, has bet on Oracle to monetize its innovative i-gaming digital services. With the ability to handle high transaction volumes common in the gaming industry, Oracle Monetization Cloud will enable Betinvest to offer partners a single, agile system for handling their complex business needs while helping ensure compliance with international financial system standards.

Betinvest provides a software platform that enables betting on more than 80 sports around the world. With 20 years of industry experience, the award-winning solution is developed and supported by hundreds of IT specialists, trading analysts and statisticians. Innovating in high-growth areas such as eSports, virtual gaming, mobile gaming and data feeds, Betinvest requires its technology tools to easily scale so the business can quickly launch new services using a variety of data formats. Operating with the promise of no downtime, the company delivers real-time data and accurate statistics to clients across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

“As the first client in the gaming industry to use Oracle Monetization Cloud we can provide our global partners with the tools to manage their digital wallet balances in real time and understand all the financial aspects of their high-volume business activities,” said Olena Kopeikina, Chief Financial Officer of Betinvest LTD. “We are integrating Oracle Monetization Cloud into one of our clients’ platforms, which will give them a new, flexible billing system, revenue management capabilities and the ability to manage their players using a single tool. In addition, using a billing system like this will make our partner companies more transparent in dealing with banks and investors.”

Oracle Monetization Cloud provides Betinvest partners with a single system to manage player information, currency balances and digital wallets, tracking all transactions and financial activity. This comprehensive and unified view of each player enables Betinvest to deliver personalized support for partners on technical, risk management and trading matters.

“As businesses innovate into the growing digital services arena, they require powerful monetization capabilities to handle high volume, real-time, complex transactions and integrate with third party solutions,” said Doug Suriano, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Communications. “The gaming industry is one of many facing these challenges today. Betinvest and Oracle Monetization Cloud make a winning combination, and Betinvest can now deliver these flexible capabilities to its partners and players.”

Oracle Participates in NSF Cloud for Scientific Research Project

Oracle is participating in a project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and facilitated by Internet2 to create innovative cloud computing capabilities for science applications and scientific computing research.

Internet2, a non-profit advanced technology community founded by colleges and universities, will manage two phases of the project. Known as Exploring Clouds for Acceleration of Science (E-CAS), the project will analyze cloud platforms to determine their strengths and capabilities for research and computational science across several academic disciplines.

Phase 1 will support six scientific and engineering applications and workflows with cloud computing capabilities. Then, two projects from the original six will be funded for a further year, measuring the scientific impact and results.

“Oracle is committed to ensuring that campus challenges are met, and the research and education communities are provided with the best technology to be successful,” said Jenny Tsai-Smith, vice president, Curriculum Development of Oracle. “Working with Internet2 and the National Science Foundation on E-CAS we are able to help these institutions gain access to the cutting-edge cloud computing technology they need to further ground-breaking discoveries through research.”

“The E-CAS project intends to accelerate scientific discovery through the integration and optimization of commercial cloud service advancements with cyberinfrastructure resources,” said Jamie Sunderland, executive director of service development at Internet2. “It also aims at identifying gaps between cloud provider capabilities and the potential for what they could provide to enhance academic research; and provide initial steps in documenting patterns and leading deployment practices to share with the community.”

Oracle partners with educators, researchers, students and university-affiliated entrepreneurship programs to create solutions that deliver significant positive impact to humanity and our world. Through the Oracle Cloud Innovation Accelerator program, Oracle grants cloud credits and provides technical support in support of those efforts. For example, one accelerator participant, The University of Bristol, is using cloud credits their cloud credits for various research projects in chemistry and life sciences.

“The University of Bristol is proud to be working so closely with Oracle to explore the prospects of doing things in a different way. It is undoubtedly the case that high capability computing is ever more central to the science endeavor,” said Professor Guy Orpen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus at the University of Bristol. “Being able to access these capabilities in Oracle Cloud through the Oracle Cloud Innovation Accelerator program lowers barriers to entry so that more exploratory research, more groundbreaking and innovative research can be done.”

Oracle is in collaboration with the Internet2 NET+ program through an agreement with Mythics, providing services on a provisional basis to Internet2 member institutions at a discounted community pricing structure. As such, research institutions can leverage Oracle’s computing capabilities in conjunction with Mythics to access a dedicated network connecting universities with federal and state agencies.

As an Internet2 industry member, Oracle has been contributing to this collaborative environment and working with a large cross-section of the research and education community to ensure that the Oracle Cloud meets campus challenges and benefits all member institutions’ teaching, learning and research needs.

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