AI Data Platform Series: OAC MCP Server and Streaming Data

This is the eighth post in the AI Data Platform series. Over the last two posts, the gold layer grew three live pieces: an arrivals board for every bus stop in London, a stations reference table, and estimated positions for every bus on line 25, all queryable from Oracle Analytics Cloud. Until now, every question I asked that data was either SQL in a notebook or a workbook in OAC. This time I connected Claude to OAC through Oracle Analytics' MCP server and simply asked, in plain language, what was going on.

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AI Data Platform Series: Just Streams: Real-Time Data Pipelines on OCI

Together with Sandi Holub, I presented "Just Streams: Real-Time Data Pipelines in OCI – With a Live Demo Twist" at the Make IT 2026 conference in Portorož (28 May 2026). Sandi and I actually first presented this same session at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham back in December 2025, but it's only now that I've found the time to write more about it.

We deliberately kept the slide deck short and let a live demo carry most of the session. This post is the written recap of that story, and also the opening post in a series where I'll break the solution down layer by layer.

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Oracle Analytics meets AI: Working with AI Agents

This post explores how AI Assistant and AI Agents in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) bring conversational analytics directly into the analytics experience. It shows how the AI Assistant supports natural-language exploration and visualization creation inside workbooks, while AI Agents extend this with dedicated instructions, business context, and knowledge documents. Together, they provide a path from quick conversational analysis to reusable, governed, domain-specific analytical assistants.

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Oracle Analytics meets AI: Talk to Your Data with Ask BI

This post introduces Ask BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud’s conversational interface for exploring data using natural language. It shows how users can ask business questions, refine their analysis through follow-up prompts, and receive answers and visualizations based on governed OAC data. Ask BI makes analytics more accessible by allowing users to focus on the questions they want answered rather than on how to build the analysis.

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Facing a new paradigm in business analytics

Introduction A new paradigm is reshaping business analytics. Instead of the traditional build a dashboard, then...

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Talking to Oracle Analytics

Being able to talk to computers using natural language, especially with the recent advancements in general AI models like ChatGPT, has becom...

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