Guy DeFlorio, CTO of Mutual Materials, discussed their company's journey to improve their user experience (UX) by modernizing their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) system. Some of the challenges they faced included a dated UX, the need for remote access, and a desire to mobilize EBS. Their goals for modernizing were to make the system easier to use, mobilize processes, and integrate other systems. Options they are considering include upgrading Oracle applications, using products like Oracle APEX and Visual Builder, or a third-party solution. So far the process is going well, and Guy advised others to assess their needs, understand their current systems, and conduct proofs of concept before defining

1. How Mutual Materials Achieved a
New Look and Feel
Mia Urman
Oracle ACE Director and CEO, AuraPlayer
Guy DeFlorio
CIO/CTO, Mutual Materials

2. Agenda
1. The UX revolution
2. What’s in the Oracle development toolbox
3. Meet Guy from Mutual Materials – hear about their
journey to an improved UX
4. Other companies’ success stories of use case
implementations
5. Getting started
6. Q&A

3. The New Normal

4. Business Drivers For the UX Revolution
COVID has set stage for new IT realities
• Remote workers
• Need for mobility
• Need simple systems to make basic decisions, save time, make better decisions
Agility
• Need to keep up-to-date with rapidly changing UX digital landscape
• Modernize with redevelopment - conserve resources, quick time-to-market
Hybrid Applications – Virtual Dashboard
• Need to connect and integrate a myriad of systems, including legacy, on-premise, cloud and
external
Millenials enter the workforce
• Need for easier to operate systems - chat/dashboards
• Business users will need to take more active role

5. Oracle Forms: The Original
Development Tool For Oracle
Character Mode
Client Server
Web based – Java front-end
SQL*Forms

6. Today Is About Engaging
User Experiences

7. What's new in the IT world in 2022?
• Hyper-automation - increasing productivity, efficiency and agility by automating as many processes as
possible. Decreases error, and helps to upskill workers
• Digital assistants - helps with ease and efficiency, by answering questions and performing simple tasks
• Machine learning- identifies patterns, eliminates need for human involvement
• Virtual reality (VR) / Augmented reality (AR) - often used for maintenance application /training
and simulation
• Decision intelligence- using analytics and AI to help makes decisions faster and smarter

8. Oracle APEX Oracle VBCS
Open Source Oracle Automation
The Oracle
Toolbox
for 2022-23
Oracle Chat Oracle Command Center

9. What is APEX?
Database-centric web application development framework
Develop desktop and
mobile web apps
Visualize and
maintain
database data
Leverage SQL Skills
and database
capabilities

10. • Build and host web and mobile applications in a faster and
simpler way with zero install and visual development
experience
• The Visual Development Environment for Oracle JET.
Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service

11. • Build and host web and mobile applications in a faster and
simpler way with zero install and visual development
experience
• The Visual Development Environment for Oracle JET.
Key principles for Visual Builder
Cloud Based
SaaS Integrated
Nothing to install, configure or maintain. Runs in
the browser. Apps accessible from any device.
Easy access to SaaS data and processes via REST
catalog. Enrich SaaS with engaging custom UI.
Extensible More complex behavior can be implemented in
standard JavaScript and HTML. Creates Oracle JET
code.
Easy to Use Drag and drop visual development with live WYSIWYG
designer and multiple Quickstarts (wizards)
Visual Builder Cloud Service

12. Meet Guy Deflorio,
CIO / CTO at Mutual Materials

13. Please tell us a bit about Mutual
• Size of the Company
• Main business
• Number of Employees
• Number of Locations

14. What were some of the EBS digitization and
UX challenges that your company was facing
that led you to begin your modernization
journey?

15. What did you hope (or, are you hoping) to
accomplish by mobilizing EBS?

16. What options are you considering
right now for your modernization
process?
What were the pros and cons of
each?

17. How is it going so far?
What are your closing thoughts/ advice to
others looking to modernize EBS?

18. Jubilee Life - Insurance

19. Manual Process Before :
1. Employee gives notice that they want to leave
2. Company paperwork is filled out
3. Sent via snail mail to the main branch for processing
and approvals- a 24-hour process
4. Manual termination of that employee’s access to
company applications

20. Process after:
1. Employee gives notice via SharePoint
2. Managers gets notice via email and approve the termination online
3. Automated bots terminate employee access and account in various
company systems

21. Shaina – Jubilee Life’s Digital DBA

22. What Shaina Did 6 Months…

23. Worthington Industries-
Steel and Manufacturing

24. The Challenge:
Workers were spending 75 hours a month on manual data
entry for Item Creation.
Worthington Industries

25. The Solution:
By digitizing their Item Creation process, Worthington now saves 75
manual hours of data entry per month.
Hours of manual data entry and
synchronization each month.
Full ROI from their RPA
strategy
Stability and accuracy of their
automated Oracle application

26. Getting Started
● Assess Your Requirements
–What systems are ripe for digitization?
–What platforms do we need to integrate with ?
● Understand Your Existing System
–Where does the business logic sit today?
–Do we have documentation?
● Understand your development resources
–Do you have Java, PRSQL, JavaScript developers?
● Conduct POC with Top Choices
● Define Timeline and Budget
● Decide on RPA Implementation Method
–Integrate, Migrate, 3rd party solution
● Define Security and Arch and Get Started

27. Questions?