Forms to APEXCustomer case

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Andre Gide

• Consultant since 2006 at TSS

PinkRoccade Local Government

• Product Owner since nov. 2016 at

Stadsbeheer BV

• Special interest business requirements

Bart Prinsen

Application for governments to

manage changes and enforce

regulations in the public area.

Stadsbeheer LEEF

• Rebuilt Forms application into APEX

• Transform Forms screens to smart and

simple APEX-pages

• Enhance UI & UX

• Keep core engine unchanged

Assignment to SMART4Solutions

• Oracle developer since 1998

• Started as classic developer, now

APEX

• Special interest in UI / UX

• Bootstrap theme / Skillbuilders

• Managing partner SMART4Solutions

Sergei Martens

• +/- 40 government organisations

• +/- 2500 active users

• +/- 250 forms (fmb)

• +/- 530 tables

• +/- 750 modules of PL/SQL code

Statistics

Less code

HTML5

Multi tenant

Easier tomaintain

Faster

Modern

Easier to useImprove

Migrate to ApexWithin seven months

Project approach

• Start with smallest and biggest challenges

• Distributed scrum, weekly office meeting

• Two weekly sprints

• Changing team members

Sprint velocity

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Changing Team members

Lessons learned #1

• Good infrastructure & access to Forms

• Start with design patterns & templates

• Start with a stable toolset

• Start with biggest challenges

• Product owner availability

Lessons learned #2

• Build close to Apex when possible

• Logger

• Distributed when programming

• Centralized when finishing

• Multiple applications

• Change team members when needed

SBA CORE

Archtiecture database

OWSBA

OWMENV

SBA_UIAPEXOracle

Forms

User interface layer

Webservice interface layer (API) MULTI TENANT layer SBA CORE

Archtiecture database possible future

OWSBA

OWMENV

SBA_UIAPEX

SBA_VPD

SBA_RESTORDS

SBA CORE

APEX applications

SBA Master

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