Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Dear PaaS Partner Community, Registration for the emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019 is open. This year’s conference takes place from April 8th to 10th in Mallorca Spain. It’s a one week conference for cutting-edge software consultants, engineers and enterprise-level professionals. The #PaaSForum brings together partners who innovate SaaS and the world’s leading Oracle PaaS experts in the fields of integration, API management, process management, microservices &...

  One element to the success of your bot is the tone and voice your bots uses. Informal and “chatty” response may be a more engaging and better fit with your brand. In line with this approach, you would probably want to ensure your bot replies are not formulaic and predictable. In this article I demonstrate how you can easily randomize the responses from your bot. Randomizing the responses from your bot There are many different ways you can achieve this functionality but to keep...

Are you working on Oracle SaaS implementations and want to integrate and extend them using PaaS? Attend our 2 days hands-on training to understand how use Oracle PaaS service like Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise & Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service in combination with Oracle SaaS solutions like Oracle ERP Cloud & Oracle Engagement Cloud. This session goes through extending SaaS services with PaaS. The training is most suitable for developer and...

Chatbots are the fastest growing market in mobile application development and extends mobile opportunities to the conversational channel. Oracle Digital Assistant provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing and understanding, to automate engagements with conversational interfaces that respond instantly, improve...

In this post we do a deep dive into the fundamentals of markers and conditions. But first one step back, what are markers and conditions and what do they have to do with each other? For Dynamic Processes we recognize the following markers: Repeatable: controls whether a stage, activity or milestone is repeatable. Auto Complete: controls the completion of a stage instance. Manually Activated: controls the activation of a stage or activity instance. Required: controls whether a...

Chatbot support for multiple languages is a worldwide requirement. Almost every country has the need for supporting foreign languages, be it to support immigrants, refugees, tourists, or even employees crossing borders on a daily basis for their jobs. According to the Linguistic Society of America1, as of 2009, 6,909 distinct languages were classified, a number that since then has been grown. Although no bot needs to support all languages, you can tell that for developers...

Attend our January edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on January 25th 2019. Oracle Functions and Cloud Native Limited Availability We announced Oracle Functions + Cloud Native Limited Availability Program at KubeCon North America 2018 on Dec 11, 2018. Join this session, presented by Oracle Functions Product Management, to get the latest information about the program and Oracle Functions service. Visit https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-nativeto learn more and to...

  In a previous blog I discussed a work-around for not having a Script activity in Oracle Integration Cloud's Process Builder. In this blog I will discuss another work-around which is actually not a work-around, but the real thing: the Data Mapper! As you can read in a previous blog about the matter, not having the equivalent of the Script activity of the on-premise BPM Suite, was an omission that we often had to find a work-around for. The one I used was the Business Rule...

In an earlier TechExchange sample from November 2017 titled "Strategy for Handling Unresolved Intent Resolutions So Users Remain Unstuck" we demonstrated a technique to display a list of intents that got resolved with more than 0% confidence in cases where intent resolution did not succeed passing the confidence threshold set on the System.Intent component. With the current version of Oracle Intelligent Bots there exists another option to handle the very same use case. In...