Oracle Application Express (APEX)

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Oracle Application Express (APEX)

What is Oracle APEX?

Database centric Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tool

No cost feature of the Oracle Database All Editions
100% Browser-Based and Declarative (Limited Coding)
Use SQL Workshop to create and manage DB objects
Use Application Builder to create Web 2.0 Applications
Leverage SQL skills to build reports, charts and data entry forms
Out of the box Excel import and export capabilities
No additional development tools needed to get started

Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)

Use Cases
Data-driven Applications

Online Reporting

Develop opportunistic and

departmental productivity
applications

Build SQL-based reporting applications

on existing database schemas

Spreadsheet Web-ification
Convert spreadsheets to Web applications
where they can be concurrently viewed and edited

Application Modernization
Leverage your existing SQL skills to
move applications to HTML / Web 2.0

Access Replacement
Consolidate outgrown Access
applications to the Oracle database with
an APEX Web front end

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Powerful User Driven Interactive Reports
Interactive Reports are very simple to
write SELECT * FROM
My_Favorite_Table but very powerful
reporting capability
End Users can manipulate the data by
selecting columns, sorting, filtering,
adding computations, highlights,
aggregates and more.
Then they can save the reports,
download them or subscribe to them.
Case in Point: Oracle Audit Vault used to have over 300 reports defined that they
replaced with approx. 30 Interactive Reports.
Much lower development and maintenance effort and much more capabilities for
the end users.
Now auditors can pick the columns that are important to them and arrange the
information as they need to for each specific audit rather than trying to find a
pre-defined report that is close to their requirements.
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Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)

Robust SQL based Charts, Maps, and Gantts

APEX includes a wide variety of Flash-preferred or HTML5 Charts to visually show

your data
When defined as Flash-preferred then if Flash is not available such as on an iPad,
then the chart will be rendered using HTML5.
Maps can show country or state aggregates
You can also define Project and Resource Gantt Charts
You simply define the chart type and corresponding SQL source
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Mobile Support

Declarative support for building mobile web applications

The Application Builder is enhanced to support the declarative building of mobile
applications. Among the numerous changes made are: Updated Create Application wizard
to support generation of applications for Desktop or Mobile; Updated Create Page and
Region wizards, to expose Components applicable to Mobile applications

APEX Applications support multiple user interfaces:

e.g. Desktop and Smartphone

Mobile pages use jQuery Mobile through

jQuery Mobile based themes and templates
By incorporating jQuery Mobile application wills render correctly on all mobile devices, old
and new. Applications will run on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile etc.
For older devices that dont fully support HTML5 equivalent components will be rendered
so that users can still maintain data.

HTML5 charts and new HTML5 item types

Updating charting engine allows defining HTML5 charts for mobile applications
Text fields can now have sub-types of Email, Phone and URL which will bring up
appropriate keyboards on HTML5 compliant devices
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Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Web Enable Your EBS Data

Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Utilize EBS Authentication & Authorization
Authentication
User Accounts

Authorization
Responsibilities
Menus
Functions

Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Dashboards & Analytics

Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Mobile EBS

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Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Modernize Existing Custom Forms

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Extending Oracle EBS R12 w/ APEX

Connect Through Web Services

Restful Web
Services
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OTN downloads by Calendar Year

Oracle Application Express is distributed on OTN and with all editions of the database including Oracle XE.
APEX is the number 3 most popular discussion forum on OTN, only behind Database and SQL
Over 25 books have been published in the last 3 years on APEX

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Architecture

Application Express installed in EBS Database

Java based APEX Listener provides web server

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Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)

Browser Based Application Development & Runtime

You do not need any client software simply a web browser and URL to
access development environment and to run applications

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Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX)

Pre-Built Administration & Analytics
Workspace Administrators can administer their workspace and use the various
reports to monitor activity
Manage Service allows them to request more space or access to another schema
Manage Users and Groups allows them to define developers and end-users

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Screen Shots from

APEX EBS Application

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APEX Online Invoice Solution

Security
Tab options controlled by EBS
Functions assigned to users menu

Dynamically filtered
parameters based on
logged in user

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APEX Online Invoice Solution

Feature Rich UI

Optional parameters
to filter on date

View on aging
for customer

Search within results

Drill down to
invoice line

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APEX Online Invoice Solution

Feature Rich UI
Drill down to
lines view

Breadcrumb to
Invoice view

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APEX Online Invoice Solution

Feature RICH UI
Utilize Standard APEX features:
Download, saved views, graphing,
conditional highlighting etc.

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APEX Online Invoice Solution

Export Capabilities

Customer can adjust data in their

view and export data to csv for
integration with their own systems

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