For you this week:
We explore the burgeoning role of the chief data officer. Then we look at the future of clinical trials as they evolve to include AI and “smart” assistants. Finally, we get tech advice for high-growth businesses and offer a step-by-step guide for developers using an autonomous database.
— By Jeff Erickson, Oracle
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| The Arc of the Chief Data Officer: On a Path Similar to CFOs’? | | Much as modern chief financial officers (CFOs) strive to create a strategic view of their organization’s financial future, chief data officers (CDOs) can integrate all aspects of how their organization gathers and creates value from data. “When CEOs can rely on their CDOs to articulate the organization’s data strategy, it will be a clear sign that the role has reached its potential,” says Chuck Hollis, senior VP of cloud infrastructure at Oracle. The CDO trajectory. |
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| | How Voice Assistants Could Change Drug Research | | Digital “smart” assistants may be able to aid patients, caregivers, and pharmaceutical companies involved in clinical trials and drug tests. So tech companies are moving quickly to develop artificial-intelligence-based software that can support and also protect the most-private conversations between patients and clinicians, says Katherine Vandebelt, who heads clinical innovation at Oracle. Five changes she sees coming. |
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| | Tech Advice for High-Growth Businesses | | For Cetera, America’s second-largest independent financial advisor network, the catalyst to move to the cloud was a desire to improve productivity, deliver better data analytics, and eventually leverage artificial intelligence and robotics. “By moving to the cloud, we avoided making substantial investments in infrastructure, took control of our own data, and had fewer dependencies on IT,” says Jeff Buchheister, CFO at Cetera. The biggest surprise. |
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| Events | Hands-on Workshop: Experience Autonomous Cloud
July 24 | Dublin, Ireland |
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| Accelerate Your Business with Oracle Cloud
July 26 | Mumbai |
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| Oracle Cloud Test Drive – San Francisco
July 30 | San Francisco |
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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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