Real-life solutions

2. About me
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Manager of APEX Department at Pretius
Team leader of certified APEX developers
and Database programmers
Over 7 years of APEX development
Over 30 APEX projects delivered
Active community member

3. Pretius - Facts and figures
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9 years in the market
20 corporate customers
60+ specialists
200 projects delivered
50k users every day
Millions of transactions daily
We are an Oracle Gold Partner
APEX dedicated department

4. Agenda
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Typical APEX solutions
Real-life applications
Excel migration > Sales Commission
Reporting > KPI Dashboard
Summary

5. Typical applications
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Data-driven applications
Developing web applications to view
and edit database data.
Reporting
applications
Building web application for
reporting database data.
Access Replacement
Migrating Access to Oracle DB with
APEX based GUI.
Excel Webification
Converting spreadsheets to web application.
Oracle Forms
Modernization
Migrating Forms application to the
web.

6. SALES COMMISSION
Excel migration project
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7. Commission settlement
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How did it work?
Problems
 Processing time
 Rules and changes management
 Security (data auditability and consistency)
 Errors and complaints
Source data Calculations
Payments
Acceptance Accounting
Distributed
results

8. APEX solution
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Source data Calculations
Payments
Acceptance Accounting
Distributed
results
Database Oracle APEX Other Apps

9. Sales Commission
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 Application to configure rules, calculation and
presentation of commissions;
 Developed for 6 years product with:
 Data synchronization with different sources
(ODS/ETL module included),
 Commission rules configuration
(GUI based and scripting language),
 Commission settlement,
 Reports generation,
 Communication with accounting applications;
 100% Oracle:
 Oracle DB 11g/12c,
 Oracle Application Express 4.x/5.x;
 Used by Polish leading companies in telecommunications,
media, financial and energy sector;
 Winner of the IT Future Award 2015
in Industry Dedicated IT Solutions category.

10. Large volumes of data
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Interactive reports
 Dynamic filters
 Custom computation
 Custom reports
Tabular forms
 Multirow edition
 Edit/Copy/Duplicate
options
 APEX_ITEM lib

11. Excel habits
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Copy-paste feature
 Users work with Excel and our App
 Easy to implement:
Javascript/jQuery
Keyboard shortcuts
 Tabular form manipulation
 Hotkeys for standard actions
 Easy to implement:
Javascript
jQuery libs
APEX plugin

12. XLSX/PDF generation
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Reasons
APEX report download
Settlement summary and settlement details for Dealers
Many Excel tabs
Excel functions included
Invoices generation
Solutions
Built-in download options (CSV, ORDS & PDF)
PL/SQL Libraries (e.g. Alexandria PL/SQL Library)
Print server (e.g. Jasper, BI Publisher)

13. Naming consistency
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Problem?
 P1_CUSTOMER_NAME > Customer name
 P2_CUSTOMER_NAME > Customer
 P3_CUSTOMER_NAME > Name
Attribute dictionary
[APEX > APPLICATION > UTILITIES]
 Consistency of Column names
 Consistency of Item labels
 Consistency of date/numer format

14. Monitor activity
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Page view analysis
[APEX > ADMINISTRATION > MONITOR ACTIVITY]
Page performance
Page utilization
Comfort

15. KPI DASHBOARD
Reporting project
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16. KPI calculation
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How did it work?
Problems
 Many different sources
 Many different reports
 Hard to configure, calculate and manage
 Results and reports in Excel files
File data
KPI report 1
DB data
KPI report 2
Server logs
KPI report 3
Apps data
KPI report 3
SLA report 1 SLA report 2
Sources

17. APEX solution
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Features
 Source data and calculated data aggregation
 One reporting application
 Easy to configure and maintain
 No Excel files required
File data DB data Server logs Apps data
Sources
Oracle DB
APEX App

18. KPI Dashboard
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Application to calculate and present KPI values;
Developed for 4 years product with:
 Data synchronization with different sources
(ODS/ETL module included),
 Calculation rules configuration
(GUI based and scripting language),
 Schedule, alarms and SLA configuration,
 Beautiful web design (available on mobile devices),
 Report generation;
100% Oracle:
 Oracle DB 11g,
 Oracle Application Express 4.x/5.x;
Used by Polish leading companies in telecommunications
and financial sector.

19. Mockup design
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Mockup design and Agile development
APEX is a great Mockup Tool
Users can see their application before it goes live

20. APEX Charts
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Problem
 Pretty charts
 No additional charting libraries
Solution
 AnyChart documentation
http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-guide/index.html
 Custom XML files for AnyChart
<threshold>
<series>
<styles>
<condition>
<state>

21. THANK YOU!
Przemysław Staniszewski
pstaniszewski@pretius.com
@pstaniszewski
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