Midwest Oracle Users Group Training Day 2017 Presentation by Jerry Ward, Managing Partner of Viscosity North America

1. Tame Your IT Backlog:
Low Code Microapps with APEX

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Taming your IT Backlog
Low Code Microapps with APEX
1. Introductions
2. Defining Monlithic Apps and Micro Apps
3. Demo: Scrumtime Microapp Variations on the Same Theme
4. About Application Express and Low Code
5. Use Cases for Microapps in your own Organization
6. Demo: Let’s build a Microapp
7. Book Drawing and Swag (BLATENT BRIBE TO STAY TO THE END)

3. Austin, Texas
Engineer & Developer
Twitter @oraclecoffee
Oracle Apex Nerd
discovered in 2004 HTML-DB
Co-author Oracle Cloud Solutions Guide
Co-founder Viscosity North America
Data Science Specialist JHU
Passion for the Red Grape
Private Pilot
About Me
Jerry Ward, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Viscosity

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About Viscosity
o A trusted advisor for Oracle customers
o We’re small and focused with depth and breadth of
experience
o Proven track record – clients always come back
o End-to-end solutions
o Certified Small and Minority Owned Business

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About Viscosity
We’ve written more than a dozen books on Data, Cloud, and ORACLE…

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About Viscosity
A Sampling of our Clients
Our clients range from Non-Profits, Small and Medium Businesses to the Fortune 50,
and from Commercial to the Local, State, and Federal Government

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About Viscosity
Oracle Application Express at our Core

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WE DESIGN AND DEVELOP EXPERIENCES THAT USERS LOVE
We begin with a deep understanding of the audience which provides the foundation for building an amazing user experience. We have award
winning creative designers to help build the right user experience and brand styling to create the perfect applications including e-commerce,
mobile, enterprise or commercial apps.
DEVOPS AND PROJECT METHODOLOGY
Rapid application development may sound like a contradiction in terms, but not with our process. We follow a light agile approach to managing
the day to day effort of delivering a quality system. We have pre-built methodologies to address standardization, labeling, and source code control.
These are addressed at all levels of the stack: javascript, database objects, plsql, and anything else that needs it. We will imprint these best
practices with your team so that you will benefit in this and on future projects.
APEX AT COMMERCIAL SCALE
At Viscosity, we make applications that don’t look like Apex apps: No other consulting provider has taken Oracle Apex to the scale we have. At one
client, we built a suite of applications for healthcare deployed as commercial, for fee, software as a service. These Apex apps are deployed to over
15,000 hospital locations with over 35,000 users and have generated more than $18M in revenue for our client, a massive ROI. Patient data at this
scale warrants the best security while still having great usability and accessibility.
Viscosity’s Approach
Sharing our Client’s Toughest Challenges

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Agenda
Database and Application Modernization
1. Introductions
2. Defining Monlithic Apps and Micro Apps
3. Demo: Scrumtime Microapp Variations on the Same Theme
4. About Application Express and Low Code
5. Use Cases for Microapps in your own Organization
6. Demo: Let’s build a Microapp
7. Our two favorite SUPERHEROS
8. Book Drawing and Swag (BLATENT BRIBE TO STAY TO THE END)

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The Monolith

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Monolithic Applications
Are giant self contained systems and independent from other applications
Inventory
Shipping Maintenance
Service
Finance
Benefits
ERP Systems
MS Dynamix
SAP
EBS
JDE
Peoplesoft
SOA
ESB

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Skateboard, Bike, Car
Metalab.co & Slack
Source: Metalab

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Microapp Characteristics
Not the same as Microservices
Quick to develop
Serve a single purpose
Easy to get up and running
But can work together
Often contained in the context
of something else
User oriented
Users tend to love them

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Microapp Characteristics
Lots of Skateboards

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A Microapp
https://www.seefoodtechnologies.com/nothotdog/ Source: HBO

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Microapps
Gaining traction as a “thing”

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Taming your IT Backlog
Low Code Microapps with APEX
1. Introductions
2. Defining Monlithic Apps and Micro Apps
3. Demo: Scrumtime Microapp Variations on the Same Theme
4. About Application Express and Low Code
5. Use Cases for Microapps in your own Organization
6. Demo: Let’s build a Microapp
7. Our two favorite SUPERHEROS
8. Book Drawing and Swag (BLATENT BRIBE TO STAY TO THE END)

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Taming your IT Backlog
Low Code Microapps with APEX
1. Introductions
2. Defining Monlithic Apps and Micro Apps
3. Demo: Scrumtime Microapp Variations on the Same Theme
4. About Application Express and Low Code
5. Use Cases for Microapps in your own Organization
6. Demo: Let’s build a Microapp
7. Our two favorite SUPERHEROS
8. Book Drawing and Swag (BLATENT BRIBE TO STAY TO THE END)

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How do we get there?
By moving faster and removing dead weight Source: Oracle

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FEASIBLE
DESIRABLEVIABLE
what people
will use
what supports
the business
what is
technically possible
not cost
justified
nobody
wants to
use it
impossible
to build or
maintain
SUCCESS
How do we get there?
By focusing on the user experience

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Low Code
How do we get there?
Low Barrier to Entry
• Easy to Learn
• Not Overly Complex
• Rapid Application development
• Simple to Deploy
High Productivity
• Drag and Drop
• Feature Functions
• Consistency
• High Fidelity
• Concentrate on business requirements and not low-level coding
• Automate and improve poor business practices
• Greatly reduce costs of supporting the code

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Low Code Tools
Source: Forrester, Oracle

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Application Development Productivity Plot
Source: Oracle

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Who Can Build Microapps?
Fun for the whole family…
Business Users
• Easy to Learn
• Not Overly Complex
• Interactive Reports / Grids
• Personalize my Apps
Developers
• Rapid Application
development
• Extensibible
• Code as much or as
little as you want
DBA’s
• In the database
• Efficient on the DB
• Easy to build monitoring
• Automate routine tasks
Analysts
• Fantastic Charting
• Oracle JET Chars
• 12.2 Analytic Views

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Source: Oracle

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#3. Highly Extensible: from No Code to Full Control
Source:Oracle

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Taming your IT Backlog
Low Code Microapps with APEX
1. Introductions
2. Defining Monlithic Apps and Micro Apps
3. Demo: Scrumtime Microapp Variations on the Same Theme
4. About Application Express and Low Code
5. Use Cases for Microapps in your own Organization
6. Demo: Let’s build a Microapp
7. Book Drawing and Swag (BLATENT BRIBE TO STAY TO THE END)

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Tank Manager provides a simple and familiar self
service web interface to personnel that is much
easier than the Process Manufacturing forms.
(the screenshot is from Apex 4, EBS Theme)
A separate Jquery mobile interface was created
allowing mobile data collection. Plant operators
need only access to a web browser. They record
tank contents and other measurements as simple
readings without the need to perform conversion
calculations.
For customers utilizing Tank Management
Systems, Tank Farms, remote level sensors, and
data loggers, Tank Manager consolidates readings,
performs calculations and interfaces values.
My First htmldb App
Tank Manager for Oracle Process Manufacturing

36. Microapps with Apex for DBA’s
Source:Oracle

37. Apex for DBA’s
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Session Monitoring

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Source:Oracle
Storage Monitoring

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User and Quota Monitoring

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Performance Monitoring

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Source:Oracle
Stats Monitoring

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Source:Oracle
Microapps for your Oracle Forms
Oracle Apex Migration Project

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Source:Oracle

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Oracle Forms Migration
Helpful tools built in

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Oracle Forms Migration
Helpful tools built in

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Microapps for your ERP Systems
Better reporting and faster extensions
• Banner
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• Peoplesoft
• JDA for Retail
• IFS for Manufacturing and Distribution
• Micros for Restaurants
• Fidelio for Hotels

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Microapps for Peoplesoft Reporting
Better reporting and faster extensions
• Oracle removed Crystal Reports
• SQR reports complex and slow
• Pushing towards BI Publisher
• Pushing towards Cloud by 2022
• Apex as Reporting Solution
• Apex as bolt-on Extension
• Free

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Microapps for E-Business Suite
Better reporting and faster extensions
• Oracle desupported Discoverer
• Pushing towards BI Publisher
• ADF/Java Extensions are expensive
• Apex to replace Disco
• Apex Development is 5 times faster

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Microapps Extending JD Edwards
Better reporting and faster extensions
• Customers Upgrading
• From World to EnterpriseOne
• Few reports in E1
• Reports require programming
• Apex interactive reporting

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Microapps for Campus Mobility
Admissions, Class Schedules, Mobile Wayfinding

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One of the Oracle Apex healthcare
apps allows the 2,200 Hospital
Networks (35,000 individual hospitals)
to benchmark contracts for services
purchased.
Services contracts across 250
categories (from elevator maintenance
to document shredding) are scanned
and quickly reviewed to pick out the
price drivers.
The solution uses percentile and
predictive analytical models.
Microapps for Healthcare
Improving Costs, Re-imbersements, and Clinical Quality of Care

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HIGH RESOLUTION PROTOTYPING
Each step of the user experience design
methodology comes together here, in the
final resolution mockup. This mockup is
tested with actual users, revised, then we
proceed to build.
During build the components are wired up
to Apex and quickly deployed for testing.
The build process is described in the next
section.
Microapps for Construction & Engineering
Lookahead Planning for Construction Sites

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Working with the a Federal Non-
profit. Viscosity has re-architected
their successful app in Apex.
The focus was on user experience and
design, modernization, and statistical
cohort identification.
In this “classroom dashboard”
administrators can quickly identify
low performing classes and students
so they can make corrective action
(prescriptive analytics).
Microapps for Education
Improving Student Success

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Building Microapps is Really, Really Fast with APEX
And some new tools that make it even faster…
Especially with QuickSQL and Blueprint

55. Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide
Real-Life Cloud Solutions
Available on Kindle or Paperback
The Oracle Cloud Pocket Solutions Guide will evolve
with Oracle Cloud with new features and
changes will be reflected immediately in the Kindle version
Charles Kim’s Hands-On Lab tours North America
through tech days and conferences held by
Viscosity, Oracle, and Oracle User Groups throughout the U.S.
Text 12c to #444999 to win
Or email hello@viscosityna.com
TO WIN THIS BOOK
Just TEXT 12C TO #444999

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