In roughly seven months Stadsbeheer B.V. with a specially composed "task force" migrated a large forms application (with more than 300 unique forms) to Apex. This new application, SBA-CS currently is being implemented at their customers. SBA CS stands for SBA Collaboration Suite and is a system for municipalities, water boards, provinces, environmental services, etc. to support their processes for site-specific permits (incl. monitoring and enforcement). Collaboration Suite because it emphasizes the ability to collaborate with partners outside of the own organisation. Besides the technical migration, a lot of attention has been given to "user interface design" (UI) and the "user experience" (UX). Special templates have been developed for the application and also several interesting features such as a flexible to set up dashboard based on widgets, a separate search engine that operates on a Google-like way and lots of other features. Several interesting techniques are used throughout the application that enable the system to quickly render large amounts of complex data. Stadsbeheer used knowledge and experience from a number of smart4unity labels, for example smart4apex, smart4branding and smart4solutions. A taskforce was set up to guarantee a successful migration.

1. Forms to APEX
Customer case
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.”
Andre Gide

2. • Consultant since 2006 at TSS
PinkRoccade Local Government
• Product Owner since nov. 2016 at
Stadsbeheer BV
• Special interest business requirements
Bart Prinsen

3. Application for governments to
manage changes and enforce
regulations in the public area.
Stadsbeheer LEEF

4. • Rebuilt Forms application into APEX
• Transform Forms screens to smart and
simple APEX-pages
• Enhance UI & UX
• Keep core engine unchanged
Assignment to SMART4Solutions

5. • Oracle developer since 1998
• Started as classic developer, now
APEX
• Special interest in UI / UX
• Bootstrap theme / Skillbuilders
• Managing partner SMART4Solutions
Sergei Martens

6. • +/- 40 government organisations
• +/- 2500 active users
• +/- 250 forms (fmb)
• +/- 530 tables
• +/- 750 modules of PL/SQL code
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7. Less code
HTML5
Multi tenant
Easier to
maintain
Faster
Modern
Easier to useImprove
Migrate to ApexWithin seven months

8. Project approach
• Start with smallest and biggest challenges
• Distributed scrum, weekly office meeting
• Two weekly sprints
• Changing team members

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10. Technologyfocused
Functionality focused
Changing Team members

11. Lessons learned #1
• Good infrastructure & access to Forms
• Start with design patterns & templates
• Start with a stable toolset
• Start with biggest challenges
• Product owner availability

12. Lessons learned #2
• Build close to Apex when possible
• Logger
• Distributed when programming
• Centralized when finishing
• Multiple applications
• Change team members when needed

13. SBA CORE
Archtiecture database
OWSBA
OWMENV
SBA_UIAPEX
Oracle
Forms

14. User interface layer
Webservice interface layer (API) MULTI TENANT layer SBA CORE
Archtiecture database possible future
OWSBA
OWMENV
SBA_UIAPEX
SBA_VPD
SBA_RESTORDS

15. SBA CORE
APEX applications
SBA Master
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