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This week I was in Rovinj at the HROUG 2026 conference, where I delivered two sessions. On 15 October I presented AI meets Oracle Analytics: How are we doing and the next question?, and on 16 October No Slides, Just Streams: From live data streams to real-time analytics and chat on Oracle AI Data Platform.
In this post I summarise what each session was about. Both slide decks are available for download at the end.
On 13 October 2026 I presented at the MakeIT conference in Ljubljana. The session was called No slides, just agents (in Slovenian: Sestavimo agenta AI z Oracle Private Agent Factory), and the title was meant literally: a few slides to set the scene, then live agents built and run in Oracle Private Agent Factory (OPAF).
In this post I summarise what I showed: what OPAF is, where to get it, and five demos, from the pre-built Knowledge Agent through Select AI RAG and six Select AI Agent scenarios to the OAS MCP server. The slides are available for download at the end.
In the previous post an OPAF agent queried Oracle Analytics Server through my MCP server. MCP is an open protocol, so the same server works with any MCP client, without changing a line of code on oas001.
In this post I connect Claude Desktop on my Mac to the OAS MCP server through an SSH tunnel and ask it the same questions as the OPAF agent. Then I go further: charts, a follow-up drill-down, and a short comparison of the two clients.
In the previous post I built the OAS MCP server and opened port 8000 for the OPAF subnet. Now OPAF becomes the MCP client.
In this post I change two OPAF proxy settings, register the server with a Bearer token and build a Custom Flow with an MCP server node and an Agent node. Then I test the agent with business questions and check in the service log which Logical SQL it sent to OAS. I close with what I would change before using the server with a customer's OAS.