Oracle Technologies, Skills, and Certifications

It’s a giant in IT. During last decades, Oracle grew as the leading relational database (RDBMS) vendor. In recent years, this giant has been expanding to the wide area of enterprise information management.

Core Technologies

Now, Oracle is more than database. Oracle technologies cover wide ranges from development to implementation, from database to business intelligence. Major Oracle technologies include:

• Database (Oracle 9i, 10g Enterprise Server RDBMS)
• Application server (Oracle 12i AS)
• Case tools (Oracle Designer)
• Development tools (JDeveloper for Java, Oracle Form)
• Business intelligence (Oracle Discoverer)
• ERP and CRM (Oracle E-Business Suite)

Top Skills

An Oracle expert should get skills on the following Oracle products that reveal top values in IT industry:

1. Oracle database skill: Oracle database server is Oracle’s flagship product. It never falls, and is not likely fall in the future. That makes Oracle database skill highly valuable.
2. Oracle web application development: Oracle AS is gaining popularity nowadays, and there are a lot of jobs using this skill.
3. Oracle enterprise software: Since Oracle acquired PeopleSoft which already owned J.D.Edwards, Oracle's enterprise application technology is getting much more stronger.  Its E-Business Suite is not bad too. 

Oracle Certifications

Among many different certifications from Oracle, the one that has true value is:

• Oracle Certificated Database Administrator

To become Oracle Certified DBA, you need to get Oracle Certified Associate certification first. The next level of Oracle Certified DBA is Oracle Certified Master, but generally Oracle Certified DBA is more recognizable and just good enough for career success in database filed.

More Oracle certificaton information:
http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html

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