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Oracle APEX demo shows generative-AI Q&A interface, RAG integration and auto‑generated school application letters
Summary
At the sixth HACC pre-event workshop, Oracle product managers demonstrated how Oracle APEX can be combined with generative AI (OCI, OpenAI, Cohere) to build a data‑grounded Q&A chatbot, map-based faceted search for New York City high schools and an AI-generated application-letter workflow.
Tom Ollane, chair of the HACC pre‑event workshops, opened the session and introduced Oracle presenters who demonstrated a live build of a generative‑AI Q&A interface inside Oracle APEX.
The demonstration, led by Ashwin Rao and Santosh Kumar, both product managers for Oracle APEX, walked through configuring generative‑AI services, using retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) to ground answers in application data and adding an AI‑powered text generator to produce school application letters. "Oracle APEX is Oracle's strategic low code application development platform," Rao said, adding that it is "available at no additional cost with Oracle Database." He summarized generative development as "using generative AI to accelerate application development." Jason Daigley, Oracle's Oahu resource, offered follow‑up support: "If you have any follow‑up questions or anything after today's workshop, don't hesitate to reach out."
Why it matters: The demo showed how low‑code tooling plus generative AI can produce interactive, data‑aware user…
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