Blockchain for Supply Chain: Uses and Benefits Are you considering the blockchain for supply chain management? Supply chains have countless moving parts -- literally and figuratively -- relying on a dynamic process with many involved parties. While records now exist in the digital space, there is limited interoperability between most tracking and logistical platforms. But by consolidating resources onto a blockchain, supply chain management becomes streamlined with more robust security and accessibility, all while delivering transparency and visibility. Why Blockchain for Supply Chain Let’s co ..read more

COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the importance of authoritative data and authenticated data sources in medical field. From the early days of reporting on cases and hospitalizations around the world, individual test results reported by test providers in and outside the regular labs, to vaccine supply chains and vaccination records as shots-in-arms ramp up the health authorities, researchers, pharma industry, and regulators depend on accurate, real-time, trusted data from a vast number of diverse government and commercial organizations. And in some cases distrust of government authorities ..read more

p.small { line-height: 0.2; } p.big { line-height: 1.0; } div.a { background-color: lightgrey; width: 700px; padding: 10px; margin: 40px; } div.b { background-color: lightgrey; width: 660px; padding: 10px; margin-left: 80px; } We have recently released Blockchain App Builder version 1.4.0 - a low-code development environment for Oracle Blockchain Platform. The App Builder brings speed and business agility to chaincode development, and enables innovation by making blockchain and smart contract accessible to broader development community without requiring specialised skill sets. I ..read more

(Adapted and extended from 101 Blockchains Conference Keynote delivered jointly with Deloitte’s Wendy Henry on Dec. 15th – our part starts 1:15:35 into the recording.) Enterprise Spending Priorities in Post-COVID World As pandemic swept the world this year, many companies saw a significant drop in their business, and anticipating a prolonged economic contraction focused on cost savings and optimizations. Unsurprisingly, enterprise IT spending overall and emerging technology spending in particular has re-focused on generating near-term savings, risk reduction, and business optimizations. The or ..read more

They are here! Initially announced at OOW 2019 and described in my post-OOW blog post, the blockchain tables are now generally available as mentioned in the Introducing Oracle Database 21c post announcing availability of the latest release in the Oracle Cloud Database Service Virtual Machine (for RAC and single instance) and Bare Metal Service (single instance). It's also available in the Autonomous Database Free Tier Service in Ashburn (IAD), Phoenix (PHX), Frankfurt (FRA) and London (LHR) regions. General availability of Oracle Database ..read more

Simplicity is critical, especially for startup founders working with novel technology like blockchain.  Simplicity is the reason three startups chose Oracle Blockchain Platform Cloud Service. The Oracle for Startups program features free cloud, startup-exclusive discounts on the Oracle Blockchain Platform, Cloud Service plus business and technical support from Oracle for Startups. With those benefits,  Circulor, retraced, and AtCash discovered a blockchain solution that worked for their business and their customers.  "Our experience was that it was very easy to architect th ..read more

In my last post I showed how to create, run, and test a smart contract using the Blockchain App Builder. In this post I’ll cover how we can take the newly developed smart contract and deploy and test it with an instance of the Oracle Blockchain Platform. The major difference between running and testing a smart contract in the Oracle Blockchain Platform cloud service versus running it locally is that we can’t use things like nodemon to automatically restart and reload the chaincode container. Running locally, we use Docker to spin up the various Hyperledger Fabric components on the local system ..read more

In my last post I introduced the Oracle Blockchain App Builder and some of its features. In this post I’ll dig into more detail about the specification file that is used to drive the development of the smart contract and how the resulting chaincode can be tested in minutes. The specification file is the heart of the application to be built on the Oracle Blockchain Platform. It defines the assets/objects to be managed by the smart contract and the behaviors/functions associated with each of those assets. While the example used only shows a single asset, a car, a specification file can specify ..read more

In my last post I introduced the Oracle Blockchain App Builder and some of its features. In this post I’ll dig into more detail about the specification file that is used to drive the development of the smart contract and how the resulting chaincode can be tested in minutes. The specification file is the heart of the application to be built on the Oracle Blockchain Platform. It defines the assets/objects to be managed by the smart contract and the behaviors/functions associated with each of those assets. While the example used only shows a single asset, a car, a specification file can specify ..read more

The Blockchain App Builder for the Oracle Blockchain Platform is a new component that extends our vision of making enterprise blockchains easy and quick. Since the initial release of the platform in 2018, our focus before has been on simplifying the infrastructure, configuration, integration, and operations tasks. Now we aim to bring the same ease and simplicity to building smart contracts that are at the heart of any enterprise blockchain. The Blockchain App Builder (BAP) is designed to simplify and speed up the development of smart contracts for the Oracle Blockchain Platform, a pr ..read more