Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  The widgets most commonly used when creating chatbot user interfaces are input text fields and value lists. The Common Response component in Oracle Digital Assistant lets you create text and value list user interfaces directly from entity definitions. What not many bot designers know is that the dialog flow code for building such interfaces can be created generically, so it can be re-used in various dialog flow states. This article explains how to configure entities and the...

  Let's assume you built a chatbot using Oracle Digital Assistant and you've exposed it on various messengers and Alexa too. A next step then could be to connect your chatbot to Google Home. I did research this topic quite a lot but couldn't find anything complete describing how to do this using Google Actions on Google API version 2. So, what has started as a research, eventually has become an opportunity for me to write a comprehensive guide to integrate Oracle Digital...

  The Oracle Bots Node.js SDK  includes a command line utility that you can install globally on your local computer and that lets you easily create new custom component and custom component projects. The custom components created by the Oracle Bots Node.js SDK contain a "hello world" content that contains examples fo the two main function calls: metadata() and invoke(). In addition, the invoke() function implementation shows example code for how to access input parameters...

Dear Developer Partner Community, Congratulations to everybody who achieved the Oracle Cloud Platform Digital Assistant 2019 Associate (1Z0-1071) certification! To become an certified expert we offer you hands-on Oracle Integration and Digital Assistant bootcamps across the globe including Dallas, Redwood Shores, Sao Paulo, Riyadh, Utrecht, Reston, Riyadj, Delhi, Mumbai and Webtraining. Watch Dhwani Shah (part 2), how Evosys transforms Real Estate solutions based on the...

In this blog I do a quick refresh of the third (and last) batch of 13 Jarvis Pizzeria blog posts (note: the different headers in this blog contain a link to the actual blog). 27. Jarvis Pizzeria in Case Management Style The core of this post concerns the release of Oracle Integration Cloud, the bundling of Process Cloud Service (PCS), Integration Cloud Service (ICS) and Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS). and the addition of Dynamic Processes to PCS. Recently Rick Kelder, my...

Attend our March edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on March 25th 2020 at 16:30 CET. Integration to applications is dramatically simplified by the use of application adapters that eliminate the complexity associated with web services and other connectivity methods. Simplify your integration to connect with virtually any application, service, or data store. Oracle offers a library of these adapters to provide you with a standardized way to rapidly connect the...

  One of the key factors of a successful digital assistant is to make it easy for the user to make the right choices and stay on the “happy path”.  Consider the example of booking a flight.  If you know the user nearly always travels to the same two or three airports then wouldn’t it make sense to present those common choices up front. The user can simply select the correct option rather than typing in the airport name.  Of course, you still want to give the flexibility that...

In this blog I do a quick refresh of the second 13 Jarvis Pizzeria blog posts (note: the different headers in this blog contain a link to the actual blog). 14. Using an imported XSD in PCS In this post we make an attempt to use an imported XSD containing a complex type in a web form. It is possible to ‘use’ the type, but things are not working very well (as described in the blog). In the current version (19.3.2) this works even less good. It is no longer possible to save the...

  A digital assistant is an intelligent chatbot that can answer questions and proactively engage users in an individual, contextual manner. Oracle Digital Assistant can help your small-to-medium business (SMB) operate more efficiently. Businesses can automate key processes and offer important productivity tools to their teams. According to a January 2019 press release from Gartner, the firm predicts that 70% of organizations will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools to...