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| January 2020 Edition Oracle Developer Partner Community Newsletter |
| Dear Developer Partner Community |
Welcome to 2020 a new year with new opportunities. Thanks for all the support and joint business. The Oracle integration business is driven by the SaaS growth, to integrate CX, ERP and HCM within each other, third party and on-premises. Digital Assistant (chatbot) innovates SaaS solution like Service Cloud and Visual Builder extends them. You as an Oracle partner play a key role to continue our successful Cloud Platform journey in the next century!
Watch Amy Simpson Grange, Capgemini customers love the solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform. We want to promote also your customer success, submit your story via the customer reference program.
This month Lucas hosts a Meetup in Utrecht, Netherlands. The on-demand version of the webcast Discover the Oracle Blockchain Platform through the eyes of COZMO is available here. You want to attend a local Oracle Developer Meetup across the world? Visit our Meetup overview page here.
The first bootcamp to innovate SaaS with Oracle Digital Assistant is booked out. Don’t wait and register for our next trainings in Austin, Santa Clara, Utrecht, Reston and Riyadh. A great example of a join marketing campaign is the Fishbowl holiday Chatbot for Service Cloud. In case you are interested in joint marketing activities please prepare an ODA success story and a join service offering. We are very interested to promote your customer success, a great example is the University of Adelaide reference with our partner Rubicon Red, congratulations!
We are excited to launch the API Gateway a new cloud based offering complementary to the on-premises API gateway based on API Platform Cloud services. Thanks to Lucas for the nice API Gateway introduction and Rolando for the API gateway use case in combination with Oracle Functions. |
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| Oracle Digital Assistant for SaaS Partner Bootcamps in Austin, Santa Clara, Utrecht, Reston and Riyadh |
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| Oracle Product Management is pleased to invite Oracle SaaS Partners to attend the 2-day hands-on workshop on how to extend SaaS applications with Chatbots. Oracle Digital Assistant innovates HCM, CX and HCM solutions. This Invite-Only hands-on workshop will be delivered at No-Fee to Partners. It will consist of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs. |
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Chatbots have quickly become a critical platform for interacting with users, customers, and prospects. Organizations can now engage customers and employees in a proactive, personalized way, at scale across
web, mobile, and messaging platforms.
Locations:
• Austin US, February 4th & 5th 2020
• Santa Clara, US February 11th & 12th 2020
• Utrecht NL, March 4th & 5th 2020
• Reston, US March 10th & 11th 2020
• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 16th & 17th 2020 |
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| Extend SaaS with Visual Builder Cloud Service – PaaS Partner Community Webcast January 29th 2020 |
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Attend our January edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on January 29th 2020 at 16:30 CET.
Extend SaaS with Visual Builder Cloud Service.
Presenter: Angelo Santagata Architect A-Team
Schedule: Wednesday January 29th 2020 at 16:30 CET (Berlin time) |
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| Free Oracle trainings, take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand: |
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| PaaS Partner YouTube Update January 2020 |
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| The January video includes three topics: |
• Digital Assistant (chatbot) for SaaS
• Oracle Openworld Dubai, London, Singapore
• Visual Builder Cloud Service community webcast
For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest PaaS Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required). |
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| Watch Amy Simpson Grange, Capgemini customers love the solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform. |
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Capgemini is helping a retail client to schedule faster and easier job interviews with Oracle PaaS.
For more information please visit the solution catalog. Capgemini is one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. We are one of very few organisations worldwide to hold Oracle’s highest ‘Diamond Partner’ status, which recognises our broad specialist expertise and successful delivery record.
We want to promote your customer success! Have you implemented successful a solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform? Submit your success story via the customer reference program. |
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| Become a Certified Oracle Expert |
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| Transform Customer Service during the Holidays with a Digital Assistant for Oracle Service Cloud by Jason Lamon |
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How were your Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events? Could they have been better? Would better customer service in person, over the phone, and online lead to more sales, more differentiation, and ensured brand loyalty? Afterall, without consistent customer service experiences across channels, 44% of customers will take their business elsewhere.
Don’t let this happen to your organization. Watch this on-demand webinar and demo to see how digital assistants (chatbots) shorten wait times, reduce call center costs, and even drive sales opportunities for top retailers. In this webinar we demonstrate how digital assistants can:
• Provide quick answers to FAQs
• Track packages, view purchases, and cancel orders by linking to backend business systems |
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Pre-empting User Choices For A Better User Experience by David Callaghan
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Users fail because designs fail. Conversational design skills are an important asset for any bot developer, regardless of the development platform used. With chatbots you always build for two types of users:
1. new users that use a bot for the first time
2. expert users that did use the bot before
This article explains a solution that allows experienced users to skip a dialog in a bot-user interaction |
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| Integrating Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) with an Agent System by Tamer Qumhieh |
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| This project allows ODA (19.1.3 and above) to handover a user chat to a third party Agent Handover system other than Oracle Service Cloud. Project is shipped with mock agent server 'with no UI' that prints out user messages to console. Also a sample implementation to hand over chat to "Oracle Engagement Cloud (19A or above)". |
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| Switching Visual Builder to Use The Oracle ATP Database by Shay Shmeltzer |
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| Oracle Visual Builder comes with a built in database that is used to store data for your business obejcts (and your apps metada too). That DB, however, is limited to 5GB in size and also doesn't enable you to access the data in the objects using regular SQL. Luckily, you can point Visual Builder to use another Oracle cloud database including the new Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) database - which will give you more space and direct SQL access to the objects VB creates. |
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| Filtering Data in Visual Builder Lists and Tables – Revisited by Shay Shmeltzer |
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| One of the first blog entries I did about the then new Visual Builder in May 2018 was about filtering data in a collection / table, which was followed by another entry about using compound conditions for filtering. Since then Visual Builder evolved with new releases, and filtering today is even simpler thanks to a new visual query builder. So here is a quick update for those looking at how to search and filter tables or lists whether they are based on ServiceDataProviders or ArrayDataProviders. |
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Oracle JET Community Web Component Repository
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General repository for Oracle JET community members to share Web Components with each other.
Easy URL to get here: bit.ly/give-me-my-jet-web-components
Components
• date-range-selection
• my-dropdown-with-chart |
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| Using Web Worker for Long Tasks in Oracle JET by Andrej Baranovskij |
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| JavaScript app runs in a single thread. This means if there is a long-running resource-intensive operation — the thread will be blocked and the page will stay frozen until operation completes. Obviously, this is not user-friendly and such behavior should be avoided. We can use Web Workers, through Web Workers we could run long-running operations in separate threads, without blocking the main thread. |
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| JDeveloper 12.2.1.4: af:chooseDate by Timo Hahn |
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The new JDeveloper 12.2.1.4 has added an enhancement an a new feature to the af:chooseDate component. We are looking at both in this article.
Enhancement
The enhancement is that you can now set a default date which is shown as the selected date when the field you show the af:chooseDate for is empty. In the older JDeveloper versions, the selected date was always the current date. The image below shows the situation of how the af:chooseDate component looks like: |
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ADF Performance Monitor – Major New Version 9.0 (Part 1)
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I’m very excited to announce that we have a major new version of the ADF Performance Monitor – version 9.0 !
We have added many valuable new features; new metrics that can detect and help explain poor performance, disruptions, hiccups, and help troubleshooting ADF applications. |
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| SPA with JDeveloper and WebLogic by Anirban Mukherjee |
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| This article steps out the key requirements of deploying a single-page-application on WebLogic server. Essentially, there are just three important gotchas in this process, which I will lay out in detail. The SPA, in this use-case, is an Angular 8 application. I have put the source code as part of the JDev application. |
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| Application Development Section |
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Oracle Application Development Day
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| We’ve heard you! Your time is important so in order to offer you the best experience we are replacing our on-site workshops with exclusive online content. Plus, we have a ton of other workshops and webcasts for you to explore on topics like Autonomous Database and Cloud Native Development. Instead of coming in person, use the links below to get direct access to the information that you need at your convenience. |
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MicroProfile 3.2 and Helidon MP 1.4 — new Maven bundles by Tim Quinn
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The recent 1.4 release of Project Helidon includes support for the new MicroProfile 3.2 release.
The major change in the new MicroProfile release is MicroProfile Metrics 2.2 (which is basically the same as 2.1 but with one incompatible change reverted).
TL;DR — existing Helidon MP apps work with Helidon 1.4 |
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Compiling Native Projects via the GraalVM LLVM Toolchain by Josef Eisl
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GraalVM is a high-performance polyglot runtime supporting a variety of different languages, including JavaScript, Ruby, R, Python, and JVM languages such as Java, Scala or Kotlin.
There is one member of the GraalVM language family that is a bit special. While all the aforementioned languages are managed, so the language runtime manages all memory requirements, the LLVM runtime executes LLVM bitcode, which is unmanaged. That means there is no garbage collector that frees the memory automatically. Instead, users get their hands on raw pointers and need to maintain them manually. Also, arrays are not bounds-checked. The programmer is responsible for checking sizes. |
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The Cloud Native Approach to Extending your SaaS Applications by Angelo Santagata
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Introduction
As businesses adopt more SaaS, the ability to extend to meet changing business requirements becomes more important. Before cloud-native, IT teams were faced with the realities of either selecting a set of vendors offered integration solutions, providing simplistic use cases, or setting up rather large stacks of infrastructures to support their more complex use-cases. |
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Creating Your First API Gateway In The Oracle Cloud by Todd Sharp
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| Microservices and serverless are more popular than ever with teams around the globe adopting these patterns and architectures at an extremely high rate. However, the first thing that many teams find out when working with microservices and serverless at scale is that you soon end up with a pretty complex series of endpoints that need to be managed for your front end and mobile APIs. |
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API Gateway and Oracle Functions by Rolando Carrasco
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway is a brand new component within the Developers Services in OCI.
We know that Oracle already had the Oracle API Platform Cloud Services which includes an API Gateway (Weblogic based); personally I’ve used it and deploy it for a couple of customers and is fine, it does the job. And if you are familiar with weblogic, then it was pretty straight forward to understand the architecture and deploy it. |
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| Top tweets Developer Partner Community – January 2020 |
| Send us your tweets @wlscommunity #DeveloperCommunity and follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/wlscommunity |
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| Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups |
We launched three new local Meetup locations in Cairo, Frankfurt and Porto! Want to learn more about developing Enterprise-grade Cloud Native applications on the Oracle Cloud Platform, covering topics like Microservices Architecture, developing in Node, Python and PHP, using Low Code development tools to build Mobile apps, and much more?
Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups if you want to follow Oracle’s solutions in this area, or participate in the events and hands-on labs we organize: |
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| PaaS free trial accounts MCS and JCS & ACC |
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| My private Corner – great start in 2020 |
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| Welcome to 2020 a new year with new opportunities. Thanks for all the support and joint business. The Oracle integration business is driven by the SaaS growth, to integrate CX, ERP and HCM within each other, third party and on-premises. Digital Assistant (chatbot) innovates SaaS solution like Service Cloud and Visual Builder extends them. Thanks to You as an Oracle partner play a key role to continue our successful Cloud Platform journey in the next century! |
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| Invite your colleagues to join the Developer Partner Community |
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