Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The new version of Oracle Developer Cloud Service introduces a host of new features. Here is a quick run down of the new functionality you can leverage: New Build & Continuous Integration Architecture Customers can now use dedicated build servers that will be used for their build jobs. The build servers leverage Oracle Cloud Compute and Storage instances. The dedicated servers can be configured to include various software packages directly from inside DevCS. Integration with...

In this blog entry, we will take a look at the way a dynamic process deals with a process that ends with an exception. We will implement this in our “Register Order” process. We modeled the process as depicted below: When saved, published and activated, we start a new dynamic process; of course through our famous form: The expectation is that Register Order starts and that we can start executing the task. When we open the process and click the “Abort” button on the “Save in...

  A common requirement for bots is to support multiple languages. To address this requirement, Oracle Intelligent Bots provides the ability to configure translation services from Google and Microsoft to auto-translate user input messages and bot responses. If you don't want bot responses to be auto-translated then a second option is to use Resource Bundles instead. All the before mentioned options work great for building multi lingual bots, but require messages to be defined in...

Dear PaaS Partner Community, Registration for the emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019 is open. This year’s conference takes place from April 8th to 10th in Mallorca Spain. It’s a one week conference for cutting-edge software consultants, engineers and enterprise-level professionals. The #PaaSForum brings together partners who innovate SaaS and the world’s leading Oracle PaaS experts in the fields of integration, API management, process management, microservices &...

  One element to the success of your bot is the tone and voice your bots uses. Informal and “chatty” response may be a more engaging and better fit with your brand. In line with this approach, you would probably want to ensure your bot replies are not formulaic and predictable. In this article I demonstrate how you can easily randomize the responses from your bot. Randomizing the responses from your bot There are many different ways you can achieve this functionality but to keep...

Are you working on Oracle SaaS implementations and want to integrate and extend them using PaaS? Attend our 2 days hands-on training to understand how use Oracle PaaS service like Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise & Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service in combination with Oracle SaaS solutions like Oracle ERP Cloud & Oracle Engagement Cloud. This session goes through extending SaaS services with PaaS. The training is most suitable for developer and...

Chatbots are the fastest growing market in mobile application development and extends mobile opportunities to the conversational channel. Oracle Digital Assistant provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing and understanding, to automate engagements with conversational interfaces that respond instantly, improve...

In this post we do a deep dive into the fundamentals of markers and conditions. But first one step back, what are markers and conditions and what do they have to do with each other? For Dynamic Processes we recognize the following markers: Repeatable: controls whether a stage, activity or milestone is repeatable. Auto Complete: controls the completion of a stage instance. Manually Activated: controls the activation of a stage or activity instance. Required: controls whether a...

Chatbot support for multiple languages is a worldwide requirement. Almost every country has the need for supporting foreign languages, be it to support immigrants, refugees, tourists, or even employees crossing borders on a daily basis for their jobs. According to the Linguistic Society of America1, as of 2009, 6,909 distinct languages were classified, a number that since then has been grown. Although no bot needs to support all languages, you can tell that for developers...