Forward to a Friend For you this week: Learn about new ways businesses are adapting to the gig economy. Then discover how cloud-based development on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helps small and creative companies take on big enterprise data challenges. Plus, how 5G is Big Telecom’s chance to disrupt the disrupters.  — Jeff Erickson, Oracle  Visa and Oracle Partner to Get You Paid Faster What’s the question every gig worker and independent contractor wants the answer to? How they are going to get paid. Recently developers from Visa and Oracle teamed up to streamline the payment process, by making Visa Direct payments right from finance software. Learn more about their solution. A Better Way to Link Cloud Apps with Enterprise Data Solve the puzzle: A company’s critical customer data is in a multiterabyte on-premise database, and the marketing application that uses it runs in the cloud. How can the cloud-based software quickly access and use that on-premise data? Consulting company Embel Assist cracked this problem for its customers. Should Telecom Carriers Accelerate 5G Spending? Incumbent carriers stand to generate more than half of their revenue from 5G business services during the next decade, executives said at Oracle OpenWorld in September. But there are many challenges to overcome: For one, they have to move fast, lest other, smaller entrants take the lead.  Tech Dive: Turn Conversation Design Ideas into a Chatbot In this article from Oracle Magazine, learn how to use the Conversation Designer in Oracle Digital Assistant by creating an example prototype of a chatbot for ordering pizza and pasta. First you need to download a free trial of Oracle Cloud.  Press Release: 64% of People Trust a Robot More Than Their Manager People have more trust in robots than their manager, according to the second annual “AI at Work” study conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace. In fact, 82% of people think robots can do things better than their manager. What else did the global survey reveal? Get Started Build, Test, and Deploy Applications on Oracle Cloud—for Free Video: Introducing Oracle Cloud Free Tier Events Five Habits to Increase Oracle Cloud IQ November 5 | online Register Oracle Modern CX Summit November–December | various locations Register Oracle Modern Cloud Day November–March | various locations Register Oracle OpenWorld  January 14–15, 2020 | Dubai February 12–13, 2020 | London April 21–22, 2020 | Singapore June 17–18, 2020 | São Paulo Register Modern Business Experience 2020 March 23–26, 2020 | Chicago Register Get Cloud Leader newsletter every week. Subscribe Stay Connected

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