Recent Posts by Grant Ronald

article by Grant Ronald, May 2018 One of the most common questions that gets asked when someone starts building a real bot is “Why am I getting strange intent resolutions”. For example, someone tests the bot with random key presses like “slkejfhlskjefhksljefh” and finds an 80% resolution for “CheckMyBalance”. The first reaction is to blame the intent resolution within the product. However, the reality is that you’ve not trained it to know any better. This short article gives a...

Oracle Forms, as technology, underpins tens of thousands of applications across the globe and in particular in the Nordic region if you pay tax, use the railways, eat fish, use a phone, transport goods by truck, book into a hotel or even if you furnish your home with particular brand of popular furniture then in all likelihood there is an Oracle Forms system keeping that business running. Whilst we all recognize the importance of stable data-driven enterprise applications we...

Location based services are one of those features which elevates mobile apps into a completely different, almost stratospheric level when compared to the humble desktop application.  In this LinkedIn article I talk about the opportunities presented by location based services  - which is coincidentally supported in Oracle MCS!

Great offer from Oracle partners Auraplayer and Sofbang.  They are willing to take business logic from your existing Oracle Forms business, and they will build a NEW mobile application which encompasses that functionality....and they will do it for FREE! You don't get a better offer than that.  A low risk approach to adopting mobile (they won't touch a single line of your existing code), and someone else builds the mobile application for you. Click on the link to find out...

A couple of weeks ago I posted on LinkedIn about A New Interest in Oracle Forms which talked about the possibilities of building new mobile use cases on top of existing Oracle Forms business logic exposed through Oracle Mobile Cloud Serivce.  This really piqued interest because whilst Oracle Forms underpins so many business today, its not something that is viewed as modern or "dynamic". But the possibility to expose existing Forms logic out to new mobile clients really opens...

The proverbial they say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what isn't said is how much time and effort it takes to paint the picture in the first place, certainly you don't re-paint the picture for every gallery viewing! The mobile analytic data captured via Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) can be extremely valuable in a similar fashion.  It can tell us who uses our mobile applications, how they use them and when they are used as example.  So wouldn’t it be nice to...

Reuse, Reuse, Reuse its the Developer’s mantra. You go through all the effort to define in Oracle Mobile Cloud Service a Mobile Backend, specify all the endpoints and methods of your APIs, test all the Connectors and Storage collections to support a mobile application. Then you find out that some of those definitions and components can used in other mobile applications. Being the good developer you are, you’re more than willing to share those definitions with other service...

One of my roles in Oracle is technology enablement.  I'm focused on getting our customers up and running with Oracle tech using a variety of different aids such as tutorials, white papers, videos and of course books.  If you are looking to skill up on Oracle tech then  Packt Publishing have an offer of 50% off their Oracle ebooks & videos if you use this following code ALLEBKVID50.  Gives you a good opportunity to get some good tech books at half their price.

Anyone (and I know there are THOUSANDS of you) who have an Oracle Forms system somewhere in your company might be aware that Forms is having a bit of resurgence.  Oracle Forms 12c was released last month with a bunch of new features.  However, there is one other killer reason to be taking stock of your Forms investment: the UKOUG Tech15 conference is next month with some of the biggest and brightest brains talking about Oracle Forms. Mike Ferrante, the product manager for...