An Ignoble Experiment: Real-world data fights COVID-19

Week of July 5, 2021

Real-world data delivered in real time proved crucial in the COVID-19 fight. Startups put NVIDIA GPUs to work in customer service, retail, and healthcare. Learn to build a fun game—or a business application that has complex UI controls—with Java. Also: SaaS provider WorkForce improves performance 30% with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

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“We’ve never before gotten results this quickly.”

— Dr. David Agus, Founding Director and CEO, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine

Dr. Data

Real-time, real-world data has proved invaluable for fighting COVID-19, with the UK leading the way. For example, researchers there discovered that dexamethasone—an inexpensive, widely available steroid—could reduce mortality by 20%. These kinds of analytics are essential to future healthcare effectiveness.

Retail therapy

Who would’ve guessed that millennials increased purchases of fancy napkins by a whopping 337% last year? It’s just one of the hidden gems in a new consumer study by Oracle that also showed consumers gave in to guilty pleasures, shopped online more, and tried new brands at unprecedented rates.

Cloud power

Startups are using NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs for data-intensive, high-performance cloud applications to solve a range of problems—at greater efficiency and lower cost. The use cases include using chatbots for customer service, reimagining physical retail, and identifying true heart-attack symptoms.

Renewable by 2025

Oracle is helping customers reduce their carbon footprint while leading the way toward a more sustainable future, pledging to power its global operations—both facilities and cloud—with 100% renewable energy by 2025.

FEATURED TECH

Duke diversion

Learn to build a fun game featuring Duke, the Java mascot, and get started building 2D games—or business applications that have complex UI controls—with minimal code, using JavaFX and the FXGL library.

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Work better

Workforce management SaaS provider WorkForce Software improved performance 30% after moving from Microsoft Azure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, while boosting application reliability, scalability, and ultimately, user experience.

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A new reporting platform for managing installed Java versions and applications

Web microservices development in Java that will Spark joy

Database consolidation using Oracle Autonomous Database with fractional OCPU and granular storage allocation

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