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Oracle Application Express

Rapid Application Development Tool


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Proliferation of Departmental DatabasesInefficient, Ad-hoc Deployments

Departments continuously createdecentralized databases, such as MS

Access, to solve tactical issues

Need solutions NOW that they control

Often contain business critical data

Security, sharing, data accuracy, and

high availability are problematic

Costs are driven up as hundreds of

these systems are created

Departments work against IT,not with IT

2009 Oracle Corporation Proprietary


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The APEX Consolidated ModelDecentralized Development, Centralized Management

Consolidate departmental data andthe application developmentservice into Oracle Database 11gwith Application Express (APEX)

Oracle Database 11g ensures that

APEX applications are secure,reliable and scalable

Departments maintain full controlover application development

IT provides professional data

management End user experience is dramaticallyimproved



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Oracle Application Express (APEX)Database-centric Web application development tool

Unique Rapid Application Development(RAD) tool for the Oracle Database

Browser based for Development, Deployment& Runtime

Declaratively build professional Web 2.0applications that are fast and secure

Leverages full Oracle database capabilitiesand existing SQL & PL/SQL skills

Fully supported, no-cost standardcomponent with all editions of the OracleDatabase

Easy - Rapid - Empowering



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2010 Oracle Corporation

Developer community - 80k+ downloads / year

apex.oracle.com 4m page views / week Active Discussion Forum 4.6 m views, #3 on OTN

100 Consulting companies, 60 BLOGs, 10 Hosting Partners

User Groups: 30 @OOW-09, 50 @ODTUG, APEXposed

User interface for Oracle Store and Oracle Audit Vault

Oracle Application Express Momentum


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Oracle Application Express Books


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Community Focus

Strong & Supportive Community

Popular OTN Discussion Forum

Consulting Companies

Blogs, SIGs

Commercial Applications

Internet Applications



2006 Application Express 2.2

Packaged Applications

History


Oracle XE

2005 HTML DB 2.0

SQL Workshop

2004 HTML DB 1.6

Themes

2004 HTML DB 1.5

First Release


Flash Charts, PDF Printing,

Access Application Migration


Interactive Reports, BLOB


Forms Conversion

2010Application Express 4.0

Websheets, Dynamic Actions,

Plug-Ins, RESTful Web



Targets the Rapid Application

Development Community



Out of the Box Development Features

Reports

Forms

Charts

Calendar

Templates

Navigation

Validations

Processes /

Dynamic Actions

Computations

Branches

Web Services

Email Services

Translation

Services

Conditional

Processing

Authentication

Authorization

Session State

Management

Logging &

Monitoring


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Interactive Reports

Out of the box declarative Web 2.0 reporting

Dramatically enhances end-user capabilities


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SQL Developer and Application Express

Browse your Application Express

Applications Export and Import Applications

Drop Applications

Deploy Applications

Modify Applications

Export Pages Tune your Queries

Included Application Express

Reports

Custom Exception Reports

Requires SQL Developer 1.2.1 +

and Application Express 3.0.1 +


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Oracle Application Express Use Cases

Data-driven ApplicationsDevelop opportunistic and departmental

productivity applications

Online ReportingBuild SQL-based reporting

applications on existing

database schemas

Access ReplacementConsolidate outgrown Access applications

to the Oracle database with an APEX Web

front end

Spreadsheet Web-ificationConvert spreadsheets to Web applications

where they can be concurrently viewed and

edited

Oracle Forms

ModernizationLeverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative

programming skills to move Forms

applications to HTML / Web 2.0



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Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

Download latest Release

Getting Started

Documentation & Tutorials

Hosted Environment

Oracle By Examples

Community & Partners


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APEX within Oracle

Oracle Store

Multi-lingual, multi-currency, Web services

and Apps integration

ARIA People Mostreliable, heavily used

application in Oracle

Project Management Software Projects,

Customer Wikis,

Consulting Summaries

Internet Sites AskTom, ThinkQuest,

apex.oracle.com


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APEX Commercial Applications

Various delivery

methodsOn-premises, managed,

hosted

Scalable solutions Supporting up to

hundreds of thousands of

usersNumerous use cases Enterprise suites, CRM,

Workflow, Monitoring,

EBS Add-ons

Customized userinterfaces Custom

CSS, Integrated with

Flash and AJAX,

Mash-ups


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APEX Internet Applications Commercial SitesCompany Web Sites

User Groups /Associations ODTUG,IOUG, etc.

Government / Non-Profit

UDOT, ProMED Mail


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APEX Hosting Companies

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