Oracle Magazine, May/June 2019
DATA TYPES ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY JUNE 2019 25 Other members are from municipal governments that are interested in using blockchain to track property documents he says But if youre shipping thousands of low cost commodity parts like calculators as one SIG member does the blockchain investment might not be worth it yet he adds IoT is further along Ward says citing a couple of use cases from the group Wards partner in the Emerging Tech SIG Hans Kolbe brought a use case from German aluminum manufacturing companies he works with They need to track their actual costs in excruciating detail and do forecasting on the raw material cost and prices says Kolbe That requires a combination of the IoT big data and Oracle Applications Were thinking we can feed data directly to the apps but we need to test it and run it by SIG data experts such as Ward Kolbe says Ward is also exploring IoT and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Were using IoT on the farm to measure animal health and proactively order veterinary services he says The project uses tiny sensors in a cows stomach to catch health signals early We get information off the device and stream it through Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service and into an Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse instance so we can do reporting and some predictive analytics he says Then we feed that into Oracle ERP Cloud Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud so we can schedule veterinarian visits create billing events and pass everything through in an automated fashion NEXT UP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Ward says its important for people who work with data to keep up with the cloud and AI because those technologies continue to create opportunities with Oracle Autonomous Database being a prime example Its getting easier every year to apply these technologies because people have figured out what works and theyve curated that and pack
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