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For you this week:
We season your reading with salt-tracking from Brazil and discover how AI is helping colleges spot students at risk for dropping out. We also look at the reasons Oracle made openness a cornerstone of its cloud infrastructure, and get a few pointers from a veteran user of the autonomous database.
— By Jeff Erickson, Oracle Editor-at-Large
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| How Brazil’s Refinaria Nacional de Sal Shook Things Up |
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| While tourists are drawn to Cabo Frio’s white-sand beaches and bright-blue ocean water, salt producers such as Refinaria Nacional de Sal are drawn by nearby salt marshes. Here, wind, sun, and sparse rain cause the water to evaporate and leave behind salt to be harvested, cleaned, and refined. Refinaria precisely traces the production process end to end—from raw material to store delivery—with fast, accurate data flow from IoT sensors and Oracle Cloud. The next move in the cloud. |
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| The Four Pillars of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
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| When it comes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle is committed to openness, says Oracle Vice President Kyle York. “With the strong shift to cloud native technologies and DevOps methodologies across businesses of all sizes, companies want an open cloud that offers flexibility and avoids lock-in,” says York. “Oracle embraces open standards so organizations can pursue hybrid and multicloud strategies.” Top price/performance and two additional pillars. |
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| Colleges Find New Ways to Spot At-Risk Students |
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| How can administrators use tech to retain students? Use the cloud to identify those at risk. If “successful students…eat breakfast three days a week and lunch one day a week, participate in X number of extracurricular activities or clubs, and go to at least one freshman event in the fall,” school administrators will be able to track students outside those norms and provide them more advisor outreach, says higher education expert Vicki Tambellini. Three more expert ideas. |
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| Nonprofit Lowers Cost to Fight Childhood Malnutrition |
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| Each day, MANA makes about 425,000 lifesaving meals of ready-to-use therapeutic food containing fortified milk and vitamins suspended in peanut butter. To improve operations and, in turn, reduce prices, MANA automates tracking of its manufacturing processes, equipment, inventory, and more. MANA gets discounted licensing, coaching, and support from Oracle NetSuite employees. |
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| Events |
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Breakfast Seminar: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud
May–June | Various Locations |
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Oracle Cloud Day
May 21 | Warsaw, Poland |
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Modern B2B Marketing: What Is the Next Era of Marketing Automation?
May 23 | Online |
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Oracle Code One 2019
September 16–19 | San Francisco |
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Oracle OpenWorld
September 16–19 | San Francisco |
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