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Oracle Application Express

Rapid Application Development Tool
 Proliferation of Departmental Databases
Inefficient, Ad-hoc Deployments

• Departments continuously create

decentralized 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

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 The APEX Consolidated Model
Decentralized Development, Centralized Management

• Consolidate departmental data and

the application development
service into Oracle Database 11g
with Application Express (APEX)
• Oracle Database 11g ensures that
APEX applications are secure,
reliable and scalable
• Departments maintain full control
over application development
• IT provides professional data
management
• End user experience is dramatically
improved

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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 2.0
applications that are fast and secure
• Leverages full Oracle database capabilities
and existing SQL & PL/SQL skills
• Fully supported, “no-cost” standard
component with all editions of the Oracle
Database

Easy - Rapid - Empowering

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 Oracle Application Express Momentum
• 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

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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

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 History 2010Application Express 4.0
Websheets, Dynamic Actions,
Plug-Ins, RESTful Web
2009 Application Express 3.2
Forms Conversion
2008 Application Express 3.1
Interactive Reports, BLOB
2007 Application Express 3.0
Flash Charts, PDF Printing,
Access Application Migration
2006 Application Express 2.2
Packaged Applications
2006 Application Express 2.1
Oracle XE
2005 HTML DB 2.0
SQL Workshop
2004 HTML DB 1.6
Themes
2004 HTML DB 1.5
First Release

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 Targets the Rapid Application
Development Community

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 Out of the Box Development Features
Reports Validations Translation
Services

Forms Processes / Conditional

Dynamic Actions Processing

Charts Computations Authentication

Calendar Branches Authorization

Templates Web Services Session State

Management

Navigation Email Services 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 Applications Oracle Forms

Develop opportunistic and departmental Modernization
productivity applications Leverage SQL & PL/SQL declarative
programming skills to move Forms
applications to HTML / Web 2.0

Online Reporting
Build SQL-based reporting
applications on existing
database schemas

Spreadsheet Web-ification Access Replacement

Consolidate outgrown Access applications
Convert spreadsheets to Web applications
to the Oracle database with an APEX Web
where they can be concurrently viewed and
front end
edited

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 Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
• Download latest Release • Hosted Environment
• Getting Started
• Documentation & Tutorials • 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 – Most
reliable, 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
methods
On-premises, managed,
hosted
• Scalable solutions –
Supporting up to
hundreds of thousands of
users
• Numerous use cases –
Enterprise suites, CRM,
Workflow, Monitoring,
EBS Add-ons
• Customized user
interfaces – Custom
CSS, Integrated with
Flash and AJAX,
Mash-ups

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 APEX Internet Applications
• Commercial Sites
• Company 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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