Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Visual conversation flow is a first thing to create, when you want to build chatbot. Such flow will help to define proper set of intents along with dialog path. Otherwise it is very easy to get lost in conversation transitions and this will lead to chatbot implementation failure. Our chatbot for medical system doesn't make any decisions, instead it helps user to work with enterprise system. It gets user input and during conversation leads to certain API call - which at the...

Currently the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) only comes as "customer managed". Among others this means that you as a customer have access to management consoles. It also means that you determine when to apply patches, as Oracle does not do that for you. The following describes how easy that is.Oracle Cloud solutions can come in two flavors: Oracle Managed and Customer Managed. The first means that maintenance, including patching is done by Oracle. You don't have to ask for...

Oracle Bot comes with a very sophisticated language detection and translation service. You can attach either a Microsoft or Google service to the environment and make use of it within your bot. Oracle Bots dev guide talks about it here. But, these translation services are not free. So for my development purposes I created a custom component, which does the same for me but for FREE. Introducing Yandex APIs (https://tech.yandex.com/translate/). It is simple and easy to use. And...

The transformation of Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) into Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) continues to progress. If you’ve read our earlier posts (such as this) on the subject you’ll remember that ICS becomes part of OIC, and depending on which version of OIC you take you will also see other components including: Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) Process Cloud Service (PCS) Insights Whilst the product is evolving, the heart of  our book remains very relevant to the...

Oracle Bots comes with platform Translation services, which you can connect to Google or Microsoft services to translate the bot to user default locale. But what if you want to control this auto-translation and restrict the bot to only a few languages. Or want to do Intent matching properly or extracting the Entities properly depending on the language.In the following Bot Design pattern, I will explain how to approach a development of an Oracle Bot which support multiple...

Since a few years we create a special Christmas card for the community. In 2015 we started with a Christmas delivery process implemented in Oracle Process Cloud Service. In 2016 multiple SaaS services have been integrated by drag and drop to process the Christmas presents. Last year Santa Claus handled the Christmas wish list as a dynamic case. This year you can talk to our Santa Claus Chatbot. Make sure you submit your wish list to Santa Claus and Rudolph to bring you the...

  There are many tools in the market to design, develop, and test API’s. Some of these tools could be used separately. Some others could be combined. Every time a change is introduced in the design or implementation of an API, it would be nice to have tests and builds run automatically. Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that allows builds and tests to be triggered every time new code is pushed to the repository. There are may tools that could be...

Since a few years we create a special Christmas card for the community. In 2015 we started with a Christmas delivery process implemented in Oracle Process Cloud Service. In 2016 multiple SaaS services have been integrated by drag and drop to process the Christmas presents. Last year Santa Claus handled the Christmas wish list as a dynamic case. This year you can talk to our Santa Claus Chatbot. Make sure you submit your wish list to Santa Claus and Rudolph to bring you the...

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