Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

For many, chatbots are a synonym for artificial intelligence and service automation using voice and free text input. Oracle Digital Assistant is Oracle's next generation bot platform that enables developers to follow a modular approach in building composite chatbots for exposure on multiple conversational channels and messenger clients. In regards to voice support, Oracle Digital Assistant does not provide its own voice-to-text transformation but relies on 3rd party...

In Oracle Digital Assistant, custom component services are libraries that expose custom components for bot designer to integrate custom code logic and backend services in the bot dialog flow. Mastering custom components is an important, if not critical skill to have. Skill bots in Oracle Digital Assistant of version18.4.3 and later allow developers to deploy and configure custom component services in one of three options Mobile Hub – Oracle Mobile Hub was formerly known...

Oracle OpenWorld will take place September 16th-19th in San Francisco USA. We highly recommend to register for the Partner Advisory Councils, visit the Exchange (demo grounds) and sessions you should attend: · Oracle Integration · Oracle Cloud Platform for Oracle SaaS · Oracle Digital Assistant · Oracle Content and Experience For more Oracle OpenWorld information please visit the registration page here.   PaaS Partner Community For regular information on Oracle PaaS become a...

Dear PaaS Partner Community In my new role as a member of the product management team I support you as a partner to adopt OIC & ODA, implement successful customer projects, replicate the business and grow cloud utilization. Looking forward to welcome new community members around the world. Please welcome Bilal Ibdah who takes over the EMEA role. Oracle OpenWorld takes place September 16th-19th 2019 in San Francisco. Which are they key sessions to attend? The program guides...

Oracle Digital Assistant is a new name for Oracle Chatbot. Actually it is not only a new name - from now on chatbot functionality is extracted into separate cloud service - Oracle Digital Assistance (ODA) Cloud service. It runs separately now, not part of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. I think this is a strong move forward - this should make ODA service lighter, easier to use and more attractive to someone who is not Oracle Mobile Cloud service customer.I was playing around...

· APIs and Microservices at Work in the Real World: Luis Weir (Capgemini) and Wes Davies (Co-op Group) discuss microservices, API management, and the technical aspects of their work on the project that won one of this year's Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation awards. · Authorize Access to Oracle Fusion Cloud Application API’s with OAuth Tokens · Machine Learning : Getting the Data Into Shape · Less is More: Improving Performance by Reducing REST Calls · Performance of MFT Cloud...

When you build machine learning model, first start with the data — make sure input data is prepared well and it represents true state of what you want machine learning model to learn. Data preparation task takes time, but don’t hurry — quality data is a key for machine learning success. In this post I will go through essential steps required to bring data into right shape to feed it into machine learning algorithm. Sample dataset and Python notebook for this post can...

“Siri, set an alarm for 6 a.m.” “Alexa, play Bon Jovi.” Consumer digital assistants like these from Apple and Amazon have become commonplace in the home, but business users need to do tasks that are more complex than checking the time or playing music—a lot more complex, having to draw insight from a slew of enterprise applications. That’s why a new generation of chatbots is needed at work. The goal is zero user interface, meaning that people interact with a range of systems...

There are many different choices for a JVM for your Java application. Which would be the best to use? This depends on various factors. Performance being an important one. Solid performance research however is difficult. In this blog I’ll describe a setup I created to perform tests on different JVMs at the same time. I also looked at the effect of resource isolation (assigning specific CPUs and memory to the process). This effect was negligible. My test application consisted...