Eight sustainability champions | Enhancing Java with records

Week of April 25, 2022

Eight organizations, from a Japanese ministry to a Slovenian consultancy, build sustainability into their businesses and champion environmental progress. Related: Sustainability isn’t just important for the planet: It’s also key to attracting top employees. Oracle CIO Jae Sook Evans shares her lessons learned from moving decades-old, critical on-premises applications to the cloud. In our new Industry Spotlight section, retailer Now Optics uses AI for clear customer vision. Also: Learn to use the record keyword for better Java development.

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“Social alignment is a priority for employees today in making work decisions.”

— Nancy Estell Zoder, Vice President of Product Strategy, Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management

Recognizing sustainability

Oracle recognizes eight organizations for excellence in incorporating sustainability into their operations, leveraging Oracle Cloud to benefit their businesses and the environment. Recipients include Japan’s Ministry of the Environment, Boston startup Oceanworks, Indian manufacturer Jaquar Group, retailer Woolworths South Africa, and restaurant chain Chipotle.

HR and the environment

Today’s workers demand their employers commit to protecting the environment. Here are three actions human resources leaders should take to show support for a company’s sustainability efforts—not just on Earth Day, but every day.

Cloud migration lessons

Large companies moving to the cloud face the daunting task of migrating thousands of applications, developed over decades, that run critical business processes. That was certainly true for Oracle CIO Jae Sook Evans as she led Oracle’s cloud migration. Here are four lessons she learned—including to centralize and rationalize.

Industry spotlight | Retail

Seeing customers clearly

Now Optics, a United States eye health retailer with more than 250 stores in more than 20 states, uses artificial intelligence language capabilities built into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to analyze sentiment from customer feedback.

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Gold records

A recent addition to Java, the record keyword reduces boilerplate and errors while making code more readable. Developer and author Bruce Eckel walks through the details of working with records.

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