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Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Agenda  Short presentation of ITassist  Why Apex?  Experience with APEX so far!  Why we built a framework tool on top of APEX?  Building real applications with APEX  Online Demo  Questions and Answers

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Presentation of ITassist  Norwegian IT Company founded in April 2008  Founders with 20 years average Oracle experience  Development using Oracle Application Express (Apex)  Support and management of Oracle eBusiness Suite

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Why Apex?  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

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Why Apex? 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: APEXposed User interface for Oracle Store and Oracle Audit Vault

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Experience with APEX so far?  Customers and developers simply loves it…  Fast prototyping  Fast development  Easy to maintain  Easy to install  Do not need strong programming skills  Nice user interface  Lots of possibilities to make user interactions  Excellent result

Home of Application Express Solutions Easier Portal Suite framework (EPS) Why we built a framework tool on top of APEX? Easier Portal Suite Content Manager File Manager Project Manager Company Manager APEX PDA compitable Oracle RDBMS Easier Solutions APEX Framework Oracle Application Express APEX Easier Portal Suite Conten t Manag er File Manag er Project Manag er Compan y Manager Other PDA compitabl e

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Why we built a framework tool on top of APEX?

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications Easier Portal Suite Framework

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications ”Developing a APEX framework”  SSO between APEX applicaitons  Standard User Interface for all applications (UI theme)  Autentication  Administration module for all applications  WIKI help system  SAAS (software as service) features  License administration  Starter Applicaiton  Development guide

Home of Application Express Solutions Single Sign On between APEX applicaitons  JQUERY ”BIGMENU” style  Single Sign On between applications  Licencekey controlling menu items showing up  Breaking application into smaller maintable modules ”NOT one BIG APEX application”  Menubar items dynamicly generated from APEX repository meta-data local

Home of Application Express Solutions ”BIGMENU” Menu System Integrating APEX applications

Home of Application Express Solutions Making ADMIN module for administration KEY features:  Global settings for business modules  User & Role administration  License setup wwww.apex-home.com local

Home of Application Express Solutions Making WIKI help extending APEX help  Extending APEX builtin helpsystem with global WIKI helpsystem  Test it on

Home of Application Express Solutions ICON makes applications look better!

Home of Application Express Solutions What kind of applicaitons can bee built with APEX ?  First of all database centered web applicaitons. But could APEX be used to build CMS system like others built with languages like Java, PHP,.Net?

Home of Application Express Solutions Extending APEX with 3-level architechture Apex Builder 1 APEX application 2 Dynamic Content 3

Home of Application Express Solutions APEX Content Management System Database Metadata APEX View application Metadata APEX Content Manager application

Home of Application Express Solutions Building Professional APEX publishing system  APEX VIEW application, That’s all local

Home of Application Express Solutions Styling UI Look & Feel important  APEX CMS system has 2 levels of themes  APEX CMS websites themes  Standard APEX themes local

Home of Application Express Solutions APEX + Javacript Libraries + Icon’s + CSS styling APEX Content Manager application Drag & Drop Page layout local

Home of Application Express Solutions APEX + THEME layout important Setup using «breadcrumbs template» local

Home of Application Express Solutions Integrating CMS and APEX (2 ways) to do this Running APEX inside CMS Running CMS inside APEX application local

Home of Application Express Solutions APEX page running inside generated web portal (one way)

Home of Application Express Solutions Running CMS website inside APEX applicaiton (second way)

Home of Application Express Solutions Mixing APEX pages and Javascript/AJAX, ”File Manager” as example File Widgets Javascript/AJAX in CMS system APEX page in CMS system local

Home of Application Express Solutions Many features can be implmented, any good idea? We implement it!

Home of Application Express Solutions  Utviklings kompetanse:  England >10 års erfaring med utvikling, >4 års erfaring med APEX utvikling  Finland >10 års erfaring med utvikling, >4 års erfaring med APEX utvikling

Home of Application Express Solutions Key point building business applications  Questions and Answers