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Rohit Bhandari
Rohit Bhandari

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Oracle Releases: Driving Innovation and Business Efficiency

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Oracle takes a calculated approach to providing innovative technology solutions with its quarterly release cycle. These methodical upgrades include important improvements to databases, business apps, cloud infrastructure, and security frameworks. Oracle’s quarterly upgrades help businesses maintain their competitiveness, maximize operational effectiveness, and smoothly incorporate cutting-edge technology without interfering with ongoing business procedures. Let’s look at the main features of a new Oracle Release:

The Oracle Release Cycle

There is an organized release pattern that is usually adhered to by Oracle, whereby new updates are issued in two most common forms, long-term support versions and quarterly updates. Benefits that come with every release include enhanced system functionality, better security, and improved performance, especially on the user end where efficiency must be a priority. As a case in point, even with the shocking rate of changes that Oracle Database 21C encompassed, predominantly Blockchain Tables and native JSON data types were made available for the enterprises without disrupting the business processes.

Main Features of Oracle Release

Better Cloud Solutions: Due to the growing move of organizations to cloud computing, this, for the most part, accounts for the release of high-performance enhancements within the Cloud components of Oracle. For instance, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) includes next-generation capabilities like high-performance computing (HPC), database-as-a-service (DBaaS), and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Their assistance allows organizations to work on load management more effectively and helps reduce costs by taking advantage of the flexible infrastructure provided by the Cloud.

Innovations in Databases: The database is the most significant product of the company; hence, there’s constant development of new releases of the leader’s Oracle Database. Each of these enhancements addresses issues associated with security, expansion, and support for the new generation of machine learning and AI capabilities. As an example, Oracle’s Autonomous Database removes the need for ‘headcount’ to complete such repetitive adaptive functions as patching and tuning, thereby allowing the IT team’s attention to be focused on more valuable activities.

Advanced Business Solutions: Oracle’s business applications such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), HCM (Human Capital Management), and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) get regular feature updates. This enables organizations to optimize their processes, work better in collaboration with others, and promote creativity and innovation in the organization’s line of business.

Focus on Security: Each release of Oracle is targeted towards the improvement of security. It seeks to ensure all systems are safe from current and future threats from hackers. Owing to security enhancements such as encryption or advanced auditing, Oracle renders frequent security threat updates to make sure the organization’s data is always protected.

Integration of Updates: Besides, Oracle pays attention to the integration of new features with the previous features seamlessly. This means that a new technology can be installed in an organization with minimal to no interruptions to business activities. This is further made possible with Oracle’s support of CI/CD pipelines as seen with its automated testing features that help in the timely deployment of upgrades enabling organizations to be agile and competitive.

Conclusion

Oracle provides its clients with consistent upgrade service, which illustrates the company’s commitment towards sustaining clients’ businesses through providing modern technological solutions. These include releases rich in new features, added Cloud functionality, and improved security that help firms in perfecting their operations. To this end, companies look to Opkey, the most trusted no-code test automation platform. This is because it is an Oracle partner. It makes it possible to test every release easily making implementation quick and efficient while at the same time reducing downtime and improving business productivity ensuring that the enterprises keep up with Oracle’s prospects of technology in the future.

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