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This is summary blog post with references to posts published under AI Data Platform theme: Just Streams: Real-Time Data Pipelines on OCI Setting Up the AI Data Platform Environment

Setting Up the AI Data Platform Environment This post backs up a step from the rest of the AI Data Platform series . Before any bronze/silver/gold Spark job can run, or a stream producer can hand data off to something downstream, the AI Data Platform (AIDP) environment itself has to exist: a Workbench, a workspace, a catalog, compute, and a place to keep secrets. This post walks through building all of that from nothing on a brand-new OCI tenancy, using the same TfL bus-arrivals demo's naming (catalog tfl , schemas bronze / silver / gold ) as the throughline. The shape of an AI Data Platform environment Inside Oracle AIDP. AIDP's console groups objects into a hierarchy that's worth having straight before clicking anything: a Workbench instance (the top-level resource, e.g. aidp001 ) sits on an Autonomous AI Lakehouse — which isn't a separate product, just a regular Autonomous Database provisioned with workload type Lakehouse. Ins...

OPAF Chat and Oracle Analytics Cloud via MCP From Standalone Assistant to Analytics-Aware Agent I've covered this ground before, in two earlier post series: Unlocking Oracle Analytics Cloud with AI: MCP for Oracle Analytics . This is where I introduced the MCP Server for Oracle Analytics Cloud , and how it lets general-purpose AI assistants like Claude query governed OAC data through a standard, secure protocol. Oracle Analytics Meet AI series , which expands on that theme and focuses more on the tools available from within OAC itself. This time I want to close the loop on something I left open: what happens when the AI assistant isn't a desktop client like Claude Desktop, but a private, self-hosted agent platform running entirely inside your own environment? That's the space Oracle AI Database Private Agent Factory (OPAF) occupies. It's Oracle's private agent platform, deployed and backed by your own database, on-pr...