Presented by Mia Urman, CEO of AuraPlayer - June 2015 AuraPlayer is a cutting edge technology company that provides unique solutions to integrate, modernize, extend, and mobilize Oracle Forms and EBS systems. AuraPlayer's patent pending technology "wraps" existing EBS and Oracle Forms systems as web services within hours without writing one line of code. The result is an open, agile, and accessible Forms business process. For more information on AuraPlayer and on Oracle Forms: Website:http://www.auraplayer.com/ Blog: http://oracleformsinfo.com/ Twitter: @AuraPlayer @MiaUrman Instagram @AuraPlayer

1. Using MAF to Modernize your Oracle Forms
Systems
Legacy to Mobile Strategy
Mia Urman
miaurman@auraplayer.com
@miaurman

2. Mia Urman
miaurman@auraplayer.com
› Oracle Development Geek for 15 years.
› 6 years at Oracle as a senior support analyst and local product manager of
Forms and ADF.
› CEO and Founder of AuraPlayer - Addressing Oracle Forms modernization
challenges encountered at blue chip customers
› Board member of ODTUG, Leader of the ilOUG Oracle Developer Group
and presenter of Oracle tools at international conferences OOW, Kscope,
UKOUG …

3. › What are you currently developing in?
› Are you interested in mobile?
› Have you begun to think about mobile strategy?
› Do you have devices in the company today? What type - Tablet or
smartphone?
› What OS iOS / Android or also Window CE / Blackberry?
› Do you have Mobile developers in house?
About You

4. Cisco: By 2020 almost 7 devices per person on earth !

6. But ….“We Don’t Need
Mobile For Our Systems …”

8. Your Employees Have Gone Mobile
Time For Your Enterprise to Catch Up!

9. Oracle Forms / EBS Challenge
› Huge worldwide customer base – ~90,000 Enterprises
› Mission critical back office systems
› Can’t access business processes from external
applications
› Oracle is slow to deliver EBS solutions
› Systems developed years ago, lack documentation
› Migration to a new technology challenging if at all
possible
› Redevelopment takes years and involves enormous
cost and risk
Customers are frozen need a way ….

10. Into the FUTURE!

11. Today’s Plan
Building a Legacy to Mobile Strategy
› Why Go Mobile?
› Things to Consider
The Tools
› Introducing Oracle Mobile Framework
› Understanding Architecture
The Challenge
› How we do it
Moving Forward

12. Building Your Mobile Strategy

13. What Mobile Challenge ?
“We can run our system using Remote Desktop…”

14. DO NOT run systems on the mobile
run your BUSINESS on the mobile

15. MOBILE First!

16. Understand your business from Users
“Tell Me More About That”
› Observe real end users doing real work: Can
we make them more productive?
› Watch surrounding and environmental
challenges: Can we improve employees user
experience.
› Are users missing data to do their jobs?
› Enhance data gathering: cameras, SMS,
social media, personal , location, voice

17. Analyze Mobile Requirements
› What OS: iOS / Android / Windows
› Device type, Screen size
› Device Features / Capabilities
› Offline / Connected
› Processing power
› BYOD?
› Types of Users – Occasional, Internal/external
› Type of Applications – Browser Based / Hybrid

18. Are you ready for mobile?
› Devices
› New development tools and environments
• Xcode / Android
› Development machines
› Mobile developers
› Mobile Infrastructure
• Security
• Service Bus
• Load

19. › No mouse, Function keys
› Using gestures
› Harder to type
› Smaller screen / Less screens
› Difficult to touch small elements
› Slower network – Disconnects
› Security
Consider Mobile Challenges

20. Mobile Application
Framework
Oracle Mobile
Suite
Oracle Mobile
Cloud Services
Oracle’s Mobility Products
Oracle Mobile
Security Suite
Service Bus /
SOA Suite

21. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

22. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserve

23. Business Services Development
› Code logic with Java
› Lightweight JVM
› Easy access to Remote - Web service
• SOAP
• REST XML, REST JSON
› Local Business Logic
• Java Classes
• SQLite DB - Portable, lightweight relational database

24. Do you still carry around
one of these?

25. Device Features Interaction
› Leverages Apache Cordova
› Drag and drop to use
• Email
• SMS
• Contacts
• GPS
• Camera
› Or access programmatically
Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserve

26. Data Caching Challenges
› Mobile devices can lose/turn off connectivity
› Offline access to data is a common requirement
› Increase in the complexity of your application
If you cache data locally you must consider
– When to cache the data
– How much data to cache
– When to synchronize updates
– Recording the order of updates
– How to deal with synchronization conflicts
– Security of the data if the device is lost
Security
A-Team Mobile
Persistence Accelerator

27. How Do We Do It ?

28. › Understand the business process to translate to the small screen.
› Select input and output data we need to run the business process.
› Determine expected results
What output data and messages do we want to receive
from the Forms system
› Decide Navigation the of user through the app
› Create system flowchart / Wire-framing
How We Do It: Step 1
Define Business Process and Data

29. Expose business processes as services
›Use pre-built APIs supplied by
providers to build connected systems
›Create your own Services using
development tools
How We Do It: Step 2
Create the Service Layer

30. DB Service: Jdeveloper
Tutorial
• Create ADF DataControls for Webservice URL – REST/SOAP

31. Oracle Forms / EBS Service Layer

32. Introducing AuraPlayer
Unlock Oracle Forms Systems as WebServices
Expose existing systems as Webservices
without writing one line of code!
Same System Many UI / Devices

33. How We Do It
Step 1 – Define Process & Enable
AuraPlayer Toolbar
– Record Forms business process
– Gather input / output parameters
Step 2 – Automatically Generate WebService
AuraPlayer ServiceManager
– Manage and Edit Webservices
– Deploy scenarios
Step 3 – Develop UI and Consume Services
AuraPlayer Visualizer
– Create default HTML pages using AuraPlayer wizard
– Or Develop UI in ANY Technology on ANY platform

34. Oracle
11g DB
DMZ
External Network
FireWall
Internal Network
Desktop
Solution Architecture
One System – For both Desktop and Any UI

35. How We Do It: Step 3
Define TaskFlow with Validations
• Define the navigation flow between the pages
• Add validations that should occur upon success or failure of events

36. How We Do It: Step 3 – Option 1
Jdeveloper – Build Mobile Project

37. Create AMX pages and design new mobile UI
How We Do It: Step 3
Create Mobile UI

38. Let’s See it in Action
Demo time!

39. – Retail: Scanner device apps enter items into orders on the warehouse floor.
– Sales: Salesman can look up customer statuses and payments due in an app before
making a sales call.
– Order Entry: Salesman can have a mobile inventory catalogue of items on a tablet to
ease the order process and have customers approve and sign on the spot.
– Insurance: Agents use a rate quote app to provide quotes for life insurance policies and
have end-customers sign on the spot. A customer app can be used to report accidents
on-location along with photos.
– Work Order Management: An employee app can be used to close work orders, get a list
of jobs to complete, and enter follow-up actions.
– HR: An HR app can be used by employees to check commissions due or view expected
salary pay stubs.
– Approvals: A Managerial app to approve purchase requisitions or other requests

40. › Assess Your Requirements
• What platforms do we need to deploy to? UI requirements?
› Understand Your Existing System
• Where does the business logic sit today?
› Define Timeline and Budget
› Choose development tools and environment
› Conduct Proof of Concept of Proposed Solution
› Decide on final Implementation Method
› Contact miaurman@auraplayer.com for FREE consultation!
Moving Forward – Start today!
Considerations For Modernization Projects

41. More Information
Mia Urman
miaurman@auraplayer.com
@miaurman
www.AuraPlayer.com
info@auraplayer.com
@auraplayerMobile on OTN
Oracle Mobile Blog
Oracle Forms Community Blog
Facebook.com/Jdeveloper @Jdeveloper

42. Mobilization Oracle Forms Using
ADF Mobile
 Surgery Scheduling System - Mobilization of Oracle Forms surgical
scheduling system using ADF Mobile and AuraPlayer.
 Scheduling application serves over 1000 surgeons for over 500
procedures and about 2,000,000 surgeries a year.
 Increased efficiency and maximized information
availability for surgeons and medical
center customers.
Oracle Customer Story
Matrix is a leading information technology company in Israel, employing over 6,500
IT Professionals with sales revenues of over 2 billion NIS.

43.  System: Item / Order management on warehouse floor using scanner devices
and inserting new orders in the backoffice order management system.
 Customer Need: Oracle Forms 11g was unable to run on the Windows CE
scanner device AuraPlayer was used to create HTML pages from Forms
 Technologies: 3 WLS production servers and 3 WLS test servers, Forms 11g,
HTML on Windows CE
 Benefit to Customer: Can manage orders on the warehouse floor and enabled
customer to upgrade to Weblogic
 Status: July 2016 Beta
Customer Success Story
Mobilized Item / Inventory Management
on Windows CE device scanners