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What’s New in Oracle IoT Asset Monitoring by: Harish Gaur

At Oracle IoT Cloud, we pride ourselves on delivering product innovations at a fast pace. In fact, we release new capabilities monthly.  Here’s what’s been developed in Oracle IoT Asset Monitoring Cloud over the past 3 months (Q4 of Oracle FY18). We’ve added features across three key innovation vectors.

1. Digital Thread
IoT Apps enable frictionless hand-off of data across different stages of the supply chain — beginning with design & production and including transportation and field use.

We have also integrated IoT Apps with Oracle Engagement Cloud. Why is this important? Engagement Cloud provides a seamless service management interface that allows organizations to capture and track service requests, collaborate between sales and service, and follow-up with customers efficiently.  Customers electronically monitor connected assets for potential faults and issues and automatically create a service request in Engagement Cloud for proactive follow up by customer service teams. A dispatched agent is then able to review diagnostic data from the device directly from the service request page. This integration is two way, so when the service request is closed, the IoT Asset Monitoring Cloud will know about it immediately.

Integrations with Service Cloud, Maintenance Cloud, Application Builder Cloud Service have been released in the past.

2. Digital Twin
Digital Twinning can provide exceptional value to enterprises. By acting as proxy to the physical (& capital-intensive) equipment, digital twins offer complete insight into equipment performance.

• Customers can now choose what sensor data they wish to visualize from a connected asset. The attributes that are chosen, from the ones available in the device model, are made available for the assets in Oracle IoT Asset Monitoring Cloud. Sensor data could either be coming from a connected physical asset or from its digital twin
• Oracle IoT Asset Monitoring Cloud Service now integrates with third-party map provider HERE maps. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle AI Platform is Open Source and is supported by various data science and machine learning libraries that are a part of the Python ecosystem by Leon Smiers

Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) will now feature artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This platform provides fast and easy access to machine learning and data science capabilities from the cloud. As Oracle is embracing Open Source in this AI Cloud it brings together the power of the scientific and data science community and the strength of Oracle with all its integration capabilities.

This blog post is the first of a series in which we will look into different aspects of this upcoming Oracle AI Cloud. Although Oracle never provides promise dates, delivery will likely either be linked to a major event, or come as a surprise. Either way, we can already deduce quite a bit about the new offering from the short description on the Oracle PaaS Cloud website.

Open Source

The basis for the Oracle AI Platform is Open Source, supported by various data science and machine learning libraries that are part of the Python ecosystem. Oracle benefits here from all the work that is already done by the scientific and data science communities, as many of the libraries with complex functionality are already available. Oracle included the most prominent of these AI and machine learning capabilities into three areas:

• Libraries and Tool, containing the Python libraries that are crucial for complex operations on large data sets
• Deep learning Frameworks, with Tensorflow / Keras originating from Google supporting neural networks for deep analysis of data
• Elastic AI and machine learning Infrastructure underpins the platform with a rich set of high performance components

Oracle rightly chose to reuse what is already available in the market with regards to AI and machine learning and combine that with its own strong integration capabilities. This platform delivers the capabilities to extend and improve existing cloud and on-premises applications based on data and usage figures. Three use cases demonstrate these capabilities: Read the complete article here.

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Some Tips for Working with Visual Builder UI Components in Oracle Integration Cloud by Siming Mu

Introduction

Oracle Integration Cloud Service (OIC) has now bundled several formally independent PAAS services into a single cloud service. One of these bundled services is Visual Builder (formerly VBCS). The 18.2.5 release of Visual Builder in OIC is more user friendly than prior releases. For example, in 18.2.5, users are not forced to write Javascript code to create a custom data type, and data mapping can be done with drag and drop. This release of Visual Builder also includes enhancements for Process application integration. While creating some test cases to demonstrate Process integration in Visual Builder, I encountered a few issues in working with some UI components. I would like to use this post to share some tips and work-arounds for these issues that might be helpful to other OIC developers working with Visual Builder.

Action Chain can be defined at application, flow and page level

Action chains can be defined at all three levels – application, flow, and page.  The chains defined at parent level can be used by the chains at sibling or child levels. The following pictures show action chains created at application, flow and page level respectively.

The following picture shows a page action chain that uses a Call Action Chain action to call a chain defined at flow level (parent) and application level (root level).

Leveraging this feature, we can define chains once at a higher level and share them with all child flows and pages. In this example, we created three common action chains at the application level. They perform navigation functions to previous page, to another flow, and to another page in a flow. These functions are frequently used in all parts of a web application.

Navigation to another flow

One way in Visual Builder to navigate to another page is by using a Navigate action in action chains. Once added to a chain, the Navigate action allows you to select a target to navigate to (see the picture below). Read the complete article here.

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