Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Use case here - Customer wants a process creator to be notified when a process has completed. In this case, an email containing a link to the process history in Workspace. The link should bring me here. The link has the following format - (thanks to my esteemed colleagues Eduardo and Sudhakar for this) I try this out with the my instance id. Read the complete article here. PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in the PaaS (Integration &...

In this article I am demonstrating how to integrate Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) in Oracle Analytics Cloud Service (OAC). Over time, Oracle Digital Assistant product management has encountered many requests for embedding Digital Assistant in OAC for various reasons like •    assisting with questions about the organization terminology. •    meanings of a specific report values, “does the report about x exists in the OAC”, “what stands behind the calculation of value X”, etc. Rea...

This blog will help you in deciding when to use DMN and and when to use VBCS business rules. Instead of long post with lot of content, this post uses approach of decision tree. Very specific decision point, and how should you decide  between two options. Read the complete article here. PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a member in the PaaS (Integration & Process) Partner Community please register here. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Wiki Technorati...

Introduction: Do you know how SMTP servers detect spoofs or detect the forging of the visible sender? Do you know how SMTP servers detect sender is legitimate? This blog is an answer to the above questions. With the migration of customers from OIC Generation 1 to Generation 2, we have changed the underlying stack that sends email from Cloud Notification Service (CNS) to OCI Email Service. With this, the SPF and DKIM configuration previously done will not be valid anymore and...

Introduction Over the past couple of years, I have been involved in more and more projects and proofs-of-concept moving assets from Oracle SOA Suite to Oracle Integration Cloud. Now it is important to note that these are quite different products and serve different needs.  SOA Suite is a very extensive tool which allows you to create apps, user interfaces, integrations and much more.  Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is more focused on just integration.  However, many...

This article explains how composite bag entity items that are based on complex entities like DATE, NUMBER or CURRENCY can have their values set using a custom component. The use case for this is e.g. to set a DATE item to a current date or set an item to a derived value. A sample skill and sample code can be downloaded. About entities Oracle Digital Assistant skills use entities in natural language processing to extract information from user messages based on patterns or values...

Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are a common feature of most businesses and institutions.  However in recent times the demand to get up-to-date official information from government departments (such as Health, Welfare or Education) or your place of work (homeworking policy, remote IT access etc.) have become a critical factor for many. Digital Assistants allow these official FAQs to be quickly surfaced through all manner of channels (text, voice, social), and done so in way...

Displaying a tip of the day was a very popular feature in client-server applications and on the web. The goal of such tips was to provide easily digestible information that could be fun or help you better understand a program or technology. For some time now I am observing that chatbot developers implement web application functions such as font formatting, dropdown menus, etc. in their web messenger (Oracle Web SDK). So I thought that a tip-of-the-day feature would be cool...

What is it? A technical accelerator package that allows one to send Alert Notifications from your integrations, based on a variety of parameters: channels - EMAIL, Pager, JIRA, Custom integrations - different channels/recipents for different integrations etc. Errors/Failure Messages -  different channels/recipients based on the error message thrown etc. Ergo, this technical accelerator is designed to be called from one or more of your integrations. What's in it? The Accelerator...