I want to use a Watson Assistant search skill to search an Oracle Database, I don't know if the search skill is limited to just these and whether I can use any of these for my search?
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As you might have seen, the IBM Watson Assistant search skill is based on reaching out to Watson Discovery on IBM Cloud. That cloud service only supports the data source listed in your question.
If you deploy Watson Assistant and Watson Discovery yourself, there are more options available, including Oracle access via JDBC.
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I am trying to implement IBM Watson chatbot into a mobile application, and would need logging of user responses to the chatbot. So far, I don't know of any docs or guides to log user responses to the chatbot or the chatbot's responses.
How would I log the user's messages to the bot?
Thanks in advance.
I would suggest that you start investigating the docs about the Watson Assistant API. They are part of the Watson Assistant documentation and describe how to integrate a bot (assistant + skill(s)) into an app.
Watson Assistant provides several ready integrations to link an assistant to platforms like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Zenhub and others. But for a custom application you would need to use the API. The Watson Developer Cloud org on GitHub hosts SDKs for many common programming languages, including code samples.
I am getting confused on these 3 terms. What I know OCI is infrastructure provided by Oracle, IAM is user and IDCS is Identity cloud service. But I dont understand differences and terms.
Is IAM user and normal user are same?
is OCI and IDCS are same?
What exactly IDCS is?
Let me try to answer your questions:
IAM or Identity Access Management is a tool designed to control who access to your cloud services. IAM user is an user who access to a service in your Cloud. What do you mean by normal user I cannot know.
OCI or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is a deep and broad platform of cloud services that enable you to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, fault-tolerant and high-performance environment.
Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution available in Oracle Cloud. It is designed to extend enterprise controls by automating PaaS and SaaS account provisioning and deprovisioning, simplifying the user experience for accessing cloud applications by providing seamless integration with enterprise identity stores and authentication services, and facilitating compliance activities by clearly reporting on cloud application usage.
Although it look like IDCS and IAM might look the same, they are designed to different purposes. IDCS is focused on SaaS or PaaS services by integrating itself with identity stores as Active Directory or LDAP inside organizations. IAM is designed to control Cloud resources providing access to each component, like a block storage or a computer instance.
Hope it clarifies a bit.
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First of all
OCI refer to Oracle Cloud infrastructure and it's cloud computing solutions same as MS azure or amazon AWS, but offered by Oracle and it's providing various services such as servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed by different data center around the world.
IAM refer to Identity and Access Management this is services allow you to control who can access to cloud resource and even control what type of access they have, and to which specific resource, there is different Components of IAM such as resource, user, group and more you can check Oracle documentation that provide also examples here
IDCS refer to Oracle Identity Cloud Service and it's consider as Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution, Oracle Identity Cloud Service provides identity management, single-sign-on (SSO) and identity governance for applications on-premise, in the cloud and mobile applications , Any user can access the application at any time, anywhere on a device in a secure manner. Oracle IDCS integrates directly with existing directories and identity management system, making it easier for users to access applications. Providing a platform that is robust and secure, allows users to access, develop and deploy their applications.
Check the documentation here
The benefits of implementing Oracle Identity Cloud Service are; Improved Business Responsiveness, Enhanced User Productivity and Experience, Hybrid Multi-Channel Access and finally Simplified IT and Reduced Cost.
In addition to the answers above, IDCS can play role of IDP for federated login to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console.
I am using Basic subscription of elastic and planning to deploy the same on customer tools with basic license. Should I become an OEM partner with elastic if I have to deploy or distribute elastic components with basic license?
Also what is the difference between the OpenSource and Basic subscriptions?
The Basic subscription is based on the elastic distro containing non open source features. So if you want to distribute features covered by the basic subscription you need to check the OEM partnership.
Hopefully, someone can straight up my PowerApps connectors understanding. Apparently, I have 3 connection options.
Common data service - this connection type only allows me to connect to CDS 1.0 databases, but I want to connect to an existing D365 v9 instance.
Common data service (experimental) - this connection type asked me for a D365 v9 instance ID, but everything is grey out after the step, i.e. it didn't show me any entity after connecting successfully.
D365 data source - this one works but I was told MS has stopped working on this connector. Also, I will have to update the connection after deployment to a different environment manually.
What is the best practice if I want to use a CDS connector? Or I will be stuck with the old D365 connector for now?
Thanks.
==11/1/2018 update==
I have a better understanding of my situation now. Every Dynamics 365 CE instance should have a PowerApp environment automatically, but one of my D365CE instances doesn't. I am suspecting it is because the D365CE instance is still version 8.2.
My question above is because I created an empty PowerApp environment and tried to connect it to the D365CE instance (v8.2). I will give you guys another update after I upgrade the instance to v9.
==11/30/2018 update==
Confirmed. By upgrading a D365CE instance from v8.2 to v9.0, the Power Platform generates an environment automatically and linked it to the D365CE/CDS.
Here's a breakdown of the three connectors you're looking at :
Common Data Service - this connector actually supports both versions of CDS, but it will be dependent based on the environment that you're in. So if you're in an environment that has a CDS1.0 database, it will connect by default to that environment. If you have a CDS2.0 database, it will connect by default to that environment.
Experimental Connector - this is similar to the previous connector, but it includes experimental features in development by our team, and isn't recommended for production use. Generally you should only be using this connector if there is a specific feature we announce in the experimental connector you wish you use.
Dynamics 365 Connector - this is similar to the base CDS connector, however it can only connect to CDS2.0 environments. It also has the ability to connect across environments. So you can be in Env1, but connect to a database in Env2. The normal CDS connector will only connect to the database within the environment you are building your app in.
Which one should you use? The Common Data Service connector is going to be your best option, it's where the most improvements are being released at the moment, and is designed to work best with PowerApps and Flow.
To connect to your Dynamics 365 environment, you'll want to make sure you start from web.powerapps.com and select that environment from the drop down in the top right, if you can't find your Dynamics 365 V9 environment - make sure you have system customizer permissions - if you do and you still can't see it, it may be an issue on our end. You can send me a message with your Dynamics org URL and we can check it for you.
Once you can select it from the environment drop down, you can then create a new app and use the Common Data Service connector, and it will connect directly to your Dynamics 365 data.
Hope this helps,
Clay.
I don't have much experience with CDS 1.0 in the Power Platform. I can share some insights on my experience with Microsoft Flow / Logic Apps, CDS 2.0, and Data Integration. So I hopes this helps add another perspective to this question too.
What is your goal in using Common Data Service? Just to pull Dynamics 365 CE data into it?
This recent Product Team Blog could be useful here if so.
Some initial feedback, if the main goal is to connect to a Dynamics 365 CE instance, consider using the Dynamics 365 Connector through Microsoft Flow. You can create a small Flow at https://flow.microsoft.com/ with a 2 step process like mine below. An event takes place in Dynamics, like creating an account. The event and it's data is captured and in used in a response process, like sending an email alert. In this case the alert is sent to the signed in users email.
From a developer standpoint you can also use the Xrm SDK and Web API to collect data and do some data processing as well in C# or JavaScript respectively too. This is more involved, but provides a greater amount of control around the data you're working with. There's a great intro to
Lastly you can spin up a PowerApp to surface your data as well with some pre build templates https://create.powerapps.com/.
Start with your Data and create a Dynamics 365 app in a phone layout.
Choose your organization and table.
After the app creates, hit play to run it.
Search for an account
It turned out the problem is not with the connectors but with PowerApp environments. By upgrading a D365CE instance from v8.2 to v9.0, the Power Platform generates an environment automatically and linked it to the D365CE/CDS. So, it should just work for all v9+ instances.
We currently use Microsoft Dynamics CRM v4 on-premises. Our data warehouse guys use a direct database link to get access to the data. Is this same functionality possible if you go with the CRM 2013 Online / Cloud option?
If, like I suspect that it's not, what API's are available (if any) to achieve this (or some other method)?
I've searched a lot for this but found nothing.
Dynamics CRM Online doesn't provide direct access to the SQL database.
For interaction with the data is necessary to use the CRM Web Services, REST and SOAP endpoints.