Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Oracle has  release of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. This new platform -not to be confused with Oracle's previous solution, has been built almost entirely from the ground up to satisfy modern API management requirements.I have been lucky enough to be part of the beta programme and have actually been implementing the product for the last 4 months or so (but trying it for almost a year now). In this blog post I share some of the insight and experiences I've gained in...

In this blog we look at the specific aspects of Chatbots and elaborate on its four integration parts. Read our previous blogs in this series: Why Chatbots, Maturity levels and Intelligence. Chatbots are like any other application; they have a need for integration. In basic form the Chatbot integrates with the Channels, the Intelligence Providing systems, Backend systems  and it offloads Usage information for later improvements and intelligence determination. All four...

You want to get the most out of your digital transformation initiatives. But if you lack visibility and access to key information assets and functionality across your operations, these initiatives can be severely limited. To deliver the omni-channel customer and employee-centric solutions you desire, all your information and functionality must be accessible in a consistent way throughout all your channels. The only way to attain this is with comprehensive and matured APIs,...

Snapchat, Instagram, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, cloud image recognition services, and more. Designers and developers of chatbots are surrounded by the atomic unit of images, their combined storytelling power, and the innovative possibilities imaging technology presents for conversational interface solutions at work and play. A smartphone sans camera today is the exception to the norm, and the means to take pictures with your device is more powerful than ever in...

For Oracle Partners we offer an API Platform Cloud Service resource kit (community membership required): · Sales kit · Online training and certification: API Platform Cloud Service Partner Sales Rep GLP and API Platform Cloud Service Partner Sales Consultant GLP · API trial service · API CS Whitepaper & API Platform Cloud Service Data Sheet & Apiary Data Sheet · API Platform Cloud Service Documentation · Upcoming API hands-on trainings · API CS website & OTN page SOA &...

Dear WebLogic & Developer Partner Community, Registration for the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2018 is open. This year we offer four conference tracks Enterprise Process & Integration and API Management, Application Development with Microservices and Containers, Mobile & Chatbot & Content Management and Innovation: blockchaine and machine learning. As part of the conference we also give you as a partner to exhibit solutions based on the Oracle cloud. In case you are...

  · Automating Oracle SOA Deployment with Maven and Oracle Developer Cloud Service Learn how Oracle Developer Cloud Service's Maven plugin enhancement can provide access to the Oracle Maven repository, simplifying build and deployment of SOA composites on Oracle SOA Cloud Service. Read the article. · Podcast: 10 Services, 5 Developers, 1 Hour - A Cloud Integration Story Five developers integrated ten Oracle Cloud PaaS services in one hour in front of a live conference...

If you was evaluating Oracle RDK UI template, probably you noticed information popup coming up, when RDK home page is loaded. Popup is loaded through showPopupBehavior listener, which is executed on Welcome page load event. Such popup is not required in practice, and usually is disabled. But as soon as you disable it, there will be layout issues with Welcome page. User information widget will not align the name and menu navigation items will not be ordered correctly: Read the...

Next I my BAM Series, a post about BAM KPIs. First the theory from the oracle documentation Understanding KPIs There are two major types of performance indicators: outcome metrics and driver metrics. Outcome metrics, sometimes called lagging indicators, measure business activity that a strategy is designed to achieve, such as return rate per month or average call processing time for the last moving hour. Driver metrics, sometimes called leading indicators, measure business...