Oracle Magazine, May/June 2019
IN THE FIELD ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2019 118 That user group ethos might have been simpler to follow 36 years ago when Oracle was releasing version 3 of its single product a relational database Today with Oracle providing a complete stack of cloud and on premises technology the challenge is a bit more expansive UKOUG now is a broadbased user group that covers many different sectors from our apps community to our JD Edwards community a separate user group that merged with UKOUG when Oracle acquired PeopleSoft which had acquired JD Edwards and also quite a large tech community says Tierney who is also an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and Oracle ACE Director Across those communities the user group supports several horizontal and vertical communities We have people who are very vertically focused on perhaps a database technology says UKOUG Member Advocate Chair and fellow Oracle ACE Director Neil Chandler And then weve got the horizontal folks as well like our higher education or public sector community who want to talk about how they are using the cloud UKOUGs business applications side has more of a cloud focus because of SaaS Chandler adds whereas the tech side is much more diverse Its got a huge on premises focus So we kind of package our members into three areas We have what we call our traditionalists and then we have the apps folks who are already fully in the cloud and then weve got our transitioning members ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES I like the machine learning within Oracle Database says Brendan Tierney a member advocate and board member of UKOUG I think its a nice product because the data is in the database Theres no data movement we can do the machine learning right on the spot We can expose the machine learning by using some very simple commands through SQL or we can REST enable it for HTTP access
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