Oracle Forms Joins the Cloud Revolution 4 ways to Extend ......Founders & Management Mia Urman CEO - World renowned Oracle Forms modernization Expert. Oracle ACE Director, Oracle alumn,

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Oracle Forms Joins the Cloud Revolution4 ways to Extend Forms to Cloud

Mia Urman, AuraPlayer

Founders & Management

Mia Urman CEO - World renowned Oracle Forms modernization Expert. Oracle ACE Director, Oracle alumn, over 19 years exp. With Oracle Forms, mobility, Webservice / integration projects.

Yossi Nakash CTO - R&D expert for over 18 years. Focus on enterprise development for scalability and performance

Gwen Edwards Corporate Development – Executive with over 20 yrs Fortune 500 P&L experience

Introducing AuraPlayer

• Patented Solution

• Winner of several industry awards

• Member of Oracle Customer Advisory Board for Mobile

• Only Certified Plug-in For Oracle Forms to Oracle Mobile Cloud

Among Our Customers

Awards

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• What is your current Oracle Forms / Oracle EBS Version ?

• Do you have any cloud applications?

• Have you begun to think about future Cloud strategy?

• Are you interested in mobility , Webservices or both?

• Do you have Java / HTML / APEX developers in house?

• Have you begun to think about migration

About You

Oracle Forms is an Institution

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Character Mode

Client Server

Web based – Java front-end

SQL*Forms

Typical Forms Wish List

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1. Improve the UI to provide a modernised user experience

2. Quick wins to achieve Integration

3. Run on mobile devices – Tablets

4. Run on Cloud / Manage images

5. Integrate processes using unified views of data between existing forms and other apps

6. Easily move to the cloud

• Short term - modernization without breaking the bank

Options for Forms in the Cloud

Available Now

• Lift and Shift with OCI

• Run new mobile / Web interfaces – Oracle VBCS

• Create ChatBots on Forms Backends – Oracle Digital Assistant

• DevOps your Forms Environment – Developer Cloud Service

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Oracle OCI

Lift and Shift your on-Premise Oracle Forms applications to cloud servers – Maybe your DB servers as well

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Cloud Examples for Forms

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Forms OCI DBaaS

Forms on OCI DB

Desktop

Desktop

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service

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.

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Visual Builder Cloud ServiceKey principles for Visual Builder

Cloud Based

SaaS Integrated

Nothing to install, configure or maintain. Runs in thebrowser. Apps accessible from any device.

Easy access to SaaS data and processes via RESTcatalog. Enrich SaaS with engaging custom UI.

Extensible More complex behavior can be implemented instandard JavaScript and HTML. Creates Oracle JET code.

Easy to Use Drag and drop visual development with live WYSIWYGdesigner and multiple Quickstarts (wizards)

Productivity Through Visualization

• Visual Page Layout

• Visual Page Flow Diagram

• Visual Action Definition

• Visual REST Connection

• Visual Business Object Creation

• Visual Business Objects Logic

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Build User Experience

Basic Components

Data View

Visualizations

Drag and Drop to a New Application

How to Deliver Enterprise Systems to Mobile Channels Without Costly and Risky Redevelopment Projects?

The Challenge: Agility

What users want vs what they currently have

The Art of the Possible?

Oracle Forms ApplicationsModern Mobile 1st Apps

“What if you could mobilize any Oracle Forms business process, without changing or adding a single line of code?”

Introducing AuraPlayer

Unlock the business logic trapped within your Oracle Forms / Oracle E-Business Suite systems without redevelopment cost & risk

Same System - Many User Interfaces / Devices

How Oracle Forms works today

Solution Architecture

Oracle Database

Oracle Forms Server

(running on WebLogic)

Oracle Forms UI

Data to/from UI

How to mobilize Oracle Forms

Solution Architecture

Oracle Database

Oracle Forms Server

(running on WebLogic)

Oracle Forms UI

Web service to mimicthe appropriate fields

from the Forms UI

Run new VBCS app

Solution Architecture

Oracle Database

Oracle Forms Server

(running on WebLogic)

Oracle Forms UI

New mobile or web app

Data to/from UIREST Api

VBCS

B2B online Store with VBCS and AuraPlayer

Nesher Cement

Oracle11g DB

Desktop

DMZ

Internal Network

Firewall

Oracle EBS

Challenge:

Link Oracle EBS Order Management (Forms) to a newcutting edge web and mobile interface at minimal costand risk

The App:

An old B2B external sales website manually integratedwith Oracle EBS order system involving taking 2 days

Solution:

• Oracle VBCS for rapid development of modern weband / or mobile device app

• Aura Player to integrate the new app with EBS SalesOrders (the Forms app) via new bespoke RESTinterfaces

• Prototype built in a matter of days. Orders placed onnew site now created in EBS immediately.

• Solution to be expanded to other use cases

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Visual Builder Cloud

Service

RESTconnector

Manual entry into EBS

Automated entry into EBS from modernized VBCS web site

NYC MTA

Dept of Revenue Collection Application

Oracle Digital Assistant Cloud

Provides the platform and tools to easily build AI-powered assistants that connect to your backend applications. A digital assistant uses artificial intelligence for natural language processing.

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A chatbot (also chatterbot, chatterbox) is a computer program which attempts tomaintain a conversation with a person

What is a Chatbot?

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- Wikipedia

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Chatbots v/s Digital Assistant

Digital Assistant and Chatbots are synonymous to some customers

Chatbots

• A computer program designed to

simulate conversation with human

users

• Uses AI for understanding

conversations

• User initiated

• Single purpose

• E.g. Airline Bot, Event Bot

Digital Assistant

• A Digital assistant recommends or

completes tasks beyond simple

conversations

• Uses AI for predictions and

recommendations

• Bot initiated

• Multi purpose (bots = skills)

• E.g. Employee self service

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When Will People Use Digital Assistants

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Why Conversational Interfaces?

• Language interfaces remove significant friction

• Just write or speak, no learning

• Direct access to value trapped in distant services and millions of app

Discover,download,install,launch

5M apps

Pay mybill

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Enhance user experiences with conversational interactions

Oracle Intelligent Bots / Oracle Digital Assistant

• Pre-Integrated Delivery Across Channels

– APIs for integration with Instant Apps and channels, dialog builder, human-handoff framework

• Enterprise Ready

– Pre-built back end integration framework, connectors, security, scale, continuous bot analytics

• Embedded AI for Conversational Dialog

– Unified contextual state engine and AI platform, Speech & image recognition, intent detection, multilingual NLP

DATA & INSIGHTSEvent collector

COGNITIVE SERVICESLanguage understanding & Intent Detection

MACHINE LEARNINGBuild, Deploy and test ML models

DIALOG & CONTEXTDeclarative flow model & Context from Device, Time, Calendar, Photograph, Web

KNOWLEDGE SERVICESEntity modeling, Represent domain knowledge as semantic graph

ChatBot on Daily Scheduling

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The Solution Creating ChatBots with Oracle EBS/Forms

Enterprise grade ChatBot in the Cloud

Rapid wizard-based development Open standards, RESTful interfaces

Expose existing Forms Applications as Web Services without writing one line of code

No redevelopment or migration of the Oracle Forms SystemBuilt-in back end integration

framework, connectors,

security, scale

Instant Apps and channels, dialog builder, human-handoff framework

• Customer wanted to use a digital assistant so that 40,000 non-technical employees of all backgrounds and demographics could get answers to their requests in seconds from any device, in any location, instead of waiting on hold or coming into the office.

• Without touching one line of code in the existing system, AuraPlayertransformed the Oracle Forms application to a REST services

• Mobile application and digital assistant can provide HR services in the field without the need to return to the office

Customer Story: Chatbot / Mobile HR System

EBS Sales BOT in #Slack

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EBS Sales BOT https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfbrs3brly1fkhc/EBS_SALES_BOT.mp4?dl=0

DEMO

Digital Assistant Cloud Service

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Oracle Developer Cloud Service

Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DevCS) is a cloud-based software development Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure.

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https://cloud.oracle.com/developer_service

• Code/CI Management

– Version Management – Git

– Build Automation

• Ant, Maven, Gradle, npm, Grunt, Bower, Gulp, SQLcl, Shell

– Test Automation

• Selenium, JUnit, Findbugs, Sonar, others

– Deployment & Provisioning Automation

• Docker, K8S, Terraform, PSM, OCICLI

– Continuous Integration Engine with Pipelines

• Team/Agile Management

– Issues Tracking

– Agile Process Management

– Peer Code Review

– Wiki

– Activity stream

Oracle Developer Cloud Service – What’s Inside

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What is FADS ?

• The Forms Application Deployment Services (FADS) simplifies the

process of packaging applications, deploying, configuring, and storing

archived copies of the applications.

• In order to deliver and deploy a Forms application, associated modules

are copied to a runtime server where they are generated into Forms

executable files (fmx, mmx, plx).

• FADS allows administrators or developers to package applications,

deploy, configure, and store archived copies of the applications with

the click of a button.

Moving Forward Considerations For Modernization Projects

• Assess Your Requirements

• What systems do we need to modernize? UI requirements?

• What platforms do we need to deploy to?

• Understand Your Existing System

• Where does the business logic sit today?

• Do you want to gain Cloud ROI?

• Do we have documentation? Developer resources?

• Define Timeline and Budget

• Decide on Implementation Method

• Integrate, Migrate, 3rd party solution

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More InformationMia Urman

[email protected]

www.AuraPlayer.com

[email protected]

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