Hey, Data Experts: Voice Assistants Are Calling Your Name

If you can ask Apple Siri or Amazon Alexa to search databases for restaurants and obscure bands, why can't you ask them to search or update the databases of your enterprise resource planning (ERP) or human resources (HR) applications? This question, or something like it, crossed the minds of Jorge Rimblas and Christoph Ruepprich--both of whom are database developers and Oracle ACEs. They each took the initiative to answer the question and learned lessons along the way. "It's a great time to be a database developer," says Rimblas, who has worked with Oracle Database since 1995. "But you have to keep learning," he says.