AI Assistant

Asking questions in natural language and receiving coherent, contextual answers is no longer seen as futuristic; it is becoming habitual and increasingly embedded across applications, from search and analytics to customer support and productivity tools. This shift is fundamentally reshaping how people engage with data and technology, setting the stage for more intuitive, accessible, and pervasive conversational experiences. In the past, I wrote about the Oracle Analytics AI Assistant with a fair amount of skepticism. In this article, I take a closer look at how it has evolved since then and how these advancements have reshaped my initial judgment. ...

Oracle recently announced the general availability of the AI Assistant for Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), generating significant interest within the community. The AI Assistant is an AI-powered tool that helps users build and refine visualizations for your workbooks using natural language prompts. In this article, I will dive deep into this new feature to determine whether the excitement is justified or just hype. Enabling the AI Assistant Oracle Analytics AI Assistant is being rolled out in phases, and at the moment of writing, it is available to customers using OAC instances with 10+ OCPUs. According to Oracle, this OCPU requirement will be progressively lowered over the next several months, and the AI Assistant will eventually be available to all OAC customers at no additional cost. ...