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Oracle Application Express Summary

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Oracle APEX Roadmap

• APEX 3.1.2 • Introduced Interactive Reports• Basis for Audit Vault Reporting

• APEX 3.2

– Latest Production Release• Forms Conversion• Enhanced Security features

• APEX 4.0• Websheets• Oracle APEX Listener• Improved Tabular Forms• Dynamic Actions

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Latest APEX Features• Forms Conversion [3.2] – Enables the loading of Oracle Forms source into an Oracle Application Express project and generate an initial APEX application.

•Interactive Reports [3.1] – An innovative new technology that allows end users to customize reports. By putting more power in the hands of users it reduces development time and effort while simultaneously enhancing application functionality.

•Web Services Integration [3.1] – Ability to easily integrate with services through either built-in Web service support or through lower level PL/SQL UTL_HTTP package calls.

• Optional Runtime-Only Deployment [3.1] – Ability to install just a runtime APEX environment via SQL scripts for production environments, minimizing installed footprint and increasing security.

• PDF Printing [3.0] – Integrate with Report Server (Oracle BI Publisher, Apache FOP, or XSL-FO) to produce PDF, XLS, HTML outputs. Can define multiple report queries and load custom RTF or XSL-FO templates.

• Flash Charts [3.0] – Create professional charts using Adobe Flash

• MS Access Migration [3.0] – Use SQL Developer Migration Workshop to migrate the Access schema and data. Then migrate the Access Forms, Reports and Queries using APEX to generate a first-cut design

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Oracle Application Express

• Oracle 11g differentiator (Application Development framework)

• Large and Rapidly growing APEX community

• Dominating Oracle RAD development (Fast and easy)

• Capitalizes on SQL and PL/SQL knowledge and popularity

• Driving legacy conversion / consolidation

• Web 2.0 capabilities – Interactive Reports, Flash, AJAX

• Empowering technology – Scalable, Integrated and Secure

• Integration – EBS, CRM On-Demand, etc.

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• Only good for Excel / Access replacement

• Successfully used to meet a large variety of use cases from small to very large, from simple to very complex

• Simple architecture won’t scale

• Single tier architecture results in fewer network traversals and CPU cycles per page request

• Takes full advantage of Oracle Database capabilities and features as built 100% inside database

• Proven by countless customer success stories and sites like ARIA, AskTom, ThinkQuest

• APEX is not here to stay

• APEX 3.2 represents the 8th major release since 2004

• Integrated into Oracle 11gR1 Seed Database (Part of the core database as a standard feature)

• Oracle increasingly relies on APEX for internal applications to improve business processes

• It’s free so it can’t be …

• Oracle provides APEX, SQL Developer, etc. at no-cost to encourage development in Oracle Technologies and increase utilization of the Oracle Database

• Dedicated APEX Oracle Support team available as part of standard Oracle Database license

• Oracle will charge for APEX in the future

• Oracle has no plans to charge for APEX

• No precedent exists for Oracle charging for a database feature that is currently “no-cost”

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Next Steps

Information:

http://otn.oracle.com/apex

Hosted Development:

http://apex.oracle.com

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