Seattle Sounders score with data science | Java 17's giant leap ahead

Week of September 20, 2021

Machine learning on Oracle Cloud provides a crucial assist in the Seattle Sounders soccer club’s search for match-winning strategies. Java 17 is a big deal, rolling out performance and stability improvements and extended support. How to upgrade to Java 17—and why you really want to. Also: How did CRM systems go so wrong?

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“We didn’t just want a database that was faster. We also wanted a flexible data science platform that would let our data scientists do what they do best. With Oracle, we don’t have to worry about back-end data infrastructure.”

—Ravi Ramineni, Vice President of Soccer Analytics and Research, Seattle Sounders FC

Scoring with data science

For today’s pro sports teams, data is essential to winning. Seattle Sounders FC is looking to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science to help players perform better, such as using machine learning and computer vision on video footage to spot patterns of play that lead to goals.

Hot Java

Java 17 arrives with new language features, faster performance, support for new platforms, and years of extended support. Java 17 also includes new capabilities to simplify coding, extend Mac support, and limit changes that could break code in the future.

Where CRM falls short

CRM was supposed to help sellers sell more, but instead it’s a bureaucratic nightmare. Most sellers would rather clean the bathroom than update their CRM. Oracle’s Rob Tarkoff vents on the very specific ways CRM is failing sellers and companies.

Making it

Marissa Martinez always dreamed of attending the University of Texas at Austin. As a first-generation, low-income student, she fulfilled that dream. Now she has joined Oracle as a marketing specialist, drawn by support for employees from diverse backgrounds.

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