The use of analytics to assist in decision making is not new, however, the combination of AI/ML, the variety and volume of data, and the availability of augmented analytics software to weave all this together means we’re at a turning point in how we make decisions. To highlight the current…

An event can be a user action and software development makes heavy use of event driven programming. Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Actions functionality allows the creation of a number of ‘actions’ whereby a user can navigate to different analytics content, passing values as filters, navigate to URLs or call REST…

Oracle Application Express, or APEX, is a low-code development environment that makes it easy to create your own applications. At the recent Oracle Cloud World event (‘22), APEX was used to rapidly create applications to help with the global pandemic and was highlighted in one of…

Over the last few years we’ve seen the increasing use of OAuth 2.0 access tokens with Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). From my own experience, there is a learning curve associated with obtaining and using access tokens and I hope this blog will be useful to anyone starting to use this…

Introduction Embedding analytics into portals, websites, and applications can greatly increase productivity, delivering faster time-to-insight as the information required to make decisions can be put where it’s needed. With such a variety of use cases, iFrames can be a powerful tool to ‘sandbox’ the embedded analytics from an embedding host…

(And that’s a good thing) A guest post from my colleague Jacques. The latest updates of Oracle Analytics for Android, Oracle Analytics for iOS, and Oracle Analytics Day by Day mobile applications (now available on the app stores) no longer require a special configuration step, also known as the Magic URL on your Oracle Analytics…

Introduction At the 2022 Gartner Analytics conference in London I began learning about the Oracle Vision AI service. This service caught my imagination with its possibilities, and it’s easy to try it out from the Oracle cloud console (navigate to the Vision AI service) by either uploading an image or referencing…

Introduction Using OAuth Tokens to authenticate embedded analytics content can provide flexibility to your application architecture. I have written blogs on this topic, with part 1 describing how to obtain the token and part 2 describing how to use this mechanism programmatically using the Oracle OCI Functions and API Gateway services. …