Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

· Oracle’s Formula for Cloud Success On Oracle’s second-quarter earnings call, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison emphasized that two strategic initiatives would determine Oracle’s success: the cloud-based Oracle Autonomous Database, which provides “the largest technology lead we have ever enjoyed over our database competitors since we entered the database market almost four decades ago,” and its two cloud-based enterprise resource planning suites. What else did...

Finally got a new cloud instance for the Oracle Digital Assistant Cloud Service, coming with the new version 18.4 and, by the looks of it, much has changed... From bots to skills and digital assistants In the landing page it is immediately visible the term 'bots' is no longer used. This is also in line with the idea of digital assistants, being multi purpose instead of a single use-case chatbot. The term bot from the previous version is renamed to 'skill' and new development...

In this learning path, you will create a Node.js application to integrate Oracle IoT Cloud Service and Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. Take the course here. Five Ways Blockchain Is Changing Higher EdFor one, blockchain’s ability to manage, share, and protect digital content makes it ideal for helping researchers and educators create intellectual property, share it, and still control the way it’s used. Professors, for instance, could be rewarded based on the actual use, and...

After installing MultiChain on Oracle Compute Cloud, and playing around with HyperLedger on the Oracle Blockchain Cloud service, I now ran into a case where Ethereum was used. This blog post describes how I installed a Ethereum node on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Prerequisites An account on Oracle Cloud with Administrator rights You have generated an ssh key-pair You are logged in to your cloud account Create Compartment Create a compartment with the name Ethereum to separate...

The webhook channels of Oracle Digital Assistant allows integrations with multiple environments, i recently blogged about how you could use your chatbot with telegram messenger. This also inspired me to research the possibilities to have my chatbot available with Google Assistant so it would be possible to talk to my chatbot using my google home mini. Working with Actions on Google Above shows my setup for combining my chatbot with the google assistant. it uses a webhooks...

In business, decisions are everywhere. Should this loan application or document change be approved? Should emergency vehicles be dispatched to this incident? How many bonus shopping points is this shopping cart worth? · Have you ever left your house and wished you were better prepared for the weather? In this learning path, you'll build a decision model that makes the decision for you. You'll create a simple process application that asks you to input the current temperature and...

My personal definition for chatbots is that they are front-end intelligent systems that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand what a user wants and to gather all information required to complete a task. For this, the bot needs to engage in a dialog with the user, for which Oracle Intelligent Bots uses built-in components to render bot responses and to request user input. Where there is a front-end intelligent system, there must also be a back-end...

When implementing a Dynamic Process, there currently are three options to implement a case activity: Human Task, Service (or Integration), and Process. At least up to version 18.4.5.0.0 there is limitation when defining the interface in case of a Process Activity making that you cannot use a Business Type which is based on an XSD element, which on its turn in based on a complexType. The below describes the problem you will run into, and a suggestion of how to work-around...

For Weblogic administrators and application devolopers, it may be desirable to view the JVM metrics from a managed server in OEM (CloudControl) and Java Mission Control. It is also possible to use the flight recorder with stored measurement data so that it can be analyzed at a later time. Issue: With a standard installation of Weblogic, the jvm metrics can not be retrieved or limited within Oem. Java mission control can not always connect using JMX. The following error message...