Oracle

Oracle was a 2019 Nittany AI Challenge participating company. They are not a participating company for 2020.

Visit the Platform Access and Training Materials page for information about current participating companies.

Obtaining Access to Oracle Cloud

Access $300 of free credits, good for up to 3,500 hours of Oracle Cloud usage, by completing the form found at https://myservices.us.oraclecloud.com/mycloud/signup. These credits can be used on all eligible Cloud Platform and Infrastructure services for 30 days from the time of signup. 

To access training resources, you will also need to sign up for an Oracle Academy Individual Membership (free) at https://academy.oracle.com/en/membership-join-oracle-academy.html.

All interested teams selected at the Idea Phase to move to the Prototype Phase will gain access to the Oracle Cloud Innovation Accelerator, a higher education and research program that grants Oracle Cloud credits to university-affiliated individuals to build prototypes and create products. Benefits of the Oracle Cloud Innovation Accelerator program include:

If interested in the Oracle Cloud Innovation Accelerator program, please contact Brad Zdenek directly at baz122@psu.edu.

Tools

Oracle API Catalog Service
Search, publish, and share APIs

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs
Explore a full listing of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs

Oracle Github
Access over 150 repositories to kickstart your work with Oracle Cloud

Oracle Graphpipe
Machine learning model deployment made simple

Terraform Templates (e.g. MapR, MongoDB, Couchbase) for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Terraform examples for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Platform

Training

To access many of these training resources, you will also need to sign up for an Oracle Academy Individual Membership (free) at https://academy.oracle.com/en/membership-join-oracle-academy.html

Incentives

Read about the Oracle Advantage, an incentive program ensuring that two teams leveraging Oracle technologies make it through to the final phase of the Challenge.