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Exploring Oracle Analytics AI Assistant: Integrating a 3rd-Party LLM

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It’s Finally Here! AI Assistant has been available in Oracle Analytics for a few months now, but until recently, I hadn’t been able to test or use it. Why? Because Oracle only enabled its built-in LLM in select regions and on instances with at least 10 OCPUs. Is that a reasonable limitation? Probably. But for those of us who aren’t spending thousands of Universal Credits on our OAC instances every month, it’s also pretty frustrating. A powerful temptating feature—so close, yet still out of reach. With the March 2025 release, this is finally changing! Oracle has enhanced the Oracle Analytics AI Assistant by adding the option to use third-party LLMs. And of course, I immediately put it to the test. What is Oracle Analytics AI Assistant Oracle Analytics AI Assistant is a built-in AI-powered feature in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) that helps users interact with their data more intuitively using natural language . It leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist with data explora...
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Retrieving Substitution Variables from Oracle EPM Planning into OAC using REST API

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Since a few releases ago, Oracle has introduced native connectors that connect Oracle Analytics to Oracle EPM Application. That way, planning data from Oracle EPM Cloud can be retrieved into Oracle Analytics for reporting and analysis. However, this was just a first step in to EPM/Essbase world. There are several others required as well, for example: Support for EPM Cloud/Essbase data sources in Semantic Modeler: this hasn't been provided yet, however we can expect it in January 2025 release of Oracle Analytics Cloud. Substitution Variables can not be imported directly with the data. But there is an option to use REST API to get all of these variables. Selection Steps is a functionality known from "classic" Oracle Analytics (Dashboards and Answers) where users can select specific member of the hierarchy and display only its descendants based on hierarchy or similar relationship (ie. leaves of hierarchy). This post is about retrieving Substitution Variables using R...
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My Presentation @ UKOUG 2024

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In the beginning of December, I attended UKOUG Annual Conference DISCOVER 2024 in Birmingham. I was presenting there and I am said (or perhaps not) to share this information, but this was my last time I was presenting under Version 1 / Qubix umbrella. Our paths are finally splitting at the end of this year and I will share more in my future posts. Back to my presentation in Birmingham.   Depending on the existing / future architecture OCI users have various option to choose from. The question is which ML approach is the most suitable for a specific user? And among these, some could be quite interesting. For example, which solution could be the best fit if customer still prefers to stay on-premise or what if data is fluent. So, what options have we got in OCI? In my presentation titled  3 Case Studies: Machine Learning in OCI , I am trying to answer some of the questions mentioned about and I am discussing development and deployment options that we have in Oracle Clou...
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Using Oracle 23ai Vector Store and Select AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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In my two previous blog posts Talking to Oracle Database in plain English and Talking to Oracle Database, this time in plain Slovenian I have been playing with Select AI in Oracle 23ai database. In these two blog posts I tested how Oracle 23ai feature called Select AI provides SQL access to generative AI using Large Language Models to generate SQL query which is then executed in database. In this blog post I am testing an option to use Select AI for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Select AI with RAG augments natural language prompt by retrieving data (documents) from vector store (stored in Oracle 23ai ). With this additional content, hallucinations can be reduced and much more accurate answers could be retrieved. Setting it up Select AI is using Oracle 23ai AI Vector Search for similarity search using vector embeddings. To set the environment for Select AI with RAG two main tasks needs to be performed: set up vector store in Object Storage and create vector...
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