Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The University of Adelaide has piloted a chatbot to handle the tsunami of enquiries that come at the end of the academic year from prospective students regarding ATAR bonus points. The Oracle, cloud-based bot – implemented by Rubicon Red – was trialled late last year and led to significant reduction in telephone calls to the university’s six-person admissions team. A student’s ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank) is a score between zero and 99.95 that tells you where you...

Introduction Oracle Integration Cloud Service (OIC) has now bundled several formally independent PAAS services into a single cloud service. One of these bundled services is Visual Builder (formerly VBCS). The 18.2.5 release of Visual Builder in OIC is more user friendly than prior releases. For example, in 18.2.5, users are not forced to write Javascript code to create a custom data type, and data mapping can be done with drag and drop. This release of Visual Builder also...

If you’ve been reading this blog lately, you know we are in the early innings of artificial intelligence (AI). It’s good to see Oracle at bat, and having an early lead leveraging AI and machine learning (ML) within an enterprise environment. Following up on the ground breaking release of Oracle Autonomous Database in March and then the first set of Autonomous Cloud Platform Services  that included Analytics Cloud, Integration Cloud and Visual Builder (May 7th), it’s exciting...

In my last blog post Migrating your Oracle BPM assets into Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS), I have described and demonstrated how to migrate modeling assets (essentially BPMN models) by leveraging the conversion framework that you can find at my repository at GitHub. As stated on the blog post above, the major use case was to demonstrate how customers using Oracle BPM Composer for modeling purposes *ONLY* could streamline their migration process from Oracle BPM into PCS....

The FlexDeploy WebLogic plugin provides operations to automate the management of domain configurations. These operations are driven by using property files from Source Control System such as Git or SVN. This process makes it easy to manage WebLogic configurations. The WebLogic plugin has a new operation to read all Data Sources from WebLogic Domain and write them into property files. This helps to reduce the manual efforts required for extracting data sources from domain and...

In our previous blog we showed the out of the box functionality of Dashboard & Reporting. Next to the default dashboards, you can also create your own custom dashboards. However, before we can create dashboards on this, we need to set up some indicators within our application. In the composer we have to go to the tab Indicators. There are three types of indicators that you can create here: A Dimension represents the grouping on the X axis, A Measure will be the value of the Y...

  GraalVM: a game changer for Java and Serverless? TL;DR;   Java Functions compiled into a native executable using GraalVM reduces cold start times and memory footprint by order of magnitude compared to running on JVM. Native Java Functions performs equal to or better than Go functions in terms of execution time and memory used. Native Java Functions executable runs from scratch base image, thus have a similar size compared to Go executable images.   Source code is available at https:...

  In this article I introduce the concept of the Microprocesses Architecture which addresses some important limitations of traditional monolith Case Management applications.This article has been updated on 2018-05-21 to correct a link to a previous blog article.In the Oracle Integration Cloud a Case Management application consists of at least one Dynamic Process that on its turn consists of Case Activities. A Case Activity is implemented by a (structured) Process, or a Human...

In this article, I’ll explain how I implemented version based traffic routing between Fn Functions using Istio service mesh. I’ll start by explaining the basics of Istio routing and the way Fn gets deployed and runs on Kubernetes. In the end, I’ll explain how I was able to leverage Istio service mesh and its routing rules to route traffic between two different Fn functions. Be aware that the explanations that follow are very basic and simple — my intent was not to explain the...