upgrade, migrate or evolve - determine the direction for your

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Martin DisterheftPresident PITSS America LLC

Upgrade, Migrate or Evolve - determine the direction for your Oracle Forms and Reports Applications

PITSS America LLC

UPNYOUG – March 19th 2010


PITSS Company Profile

Founded in 1999

Leading software supplier for managing Oracle Forms and Reports applications. The innovative PITSS.CON software provides functionality for Oracle Forms and Reports applications to

PITSS GmbH Stuttgart, Germany (World Headquarters)PITSS America LLC Troy, MI (United States Headquarters)

Oracle Status

Solid Background, Solid Solutions.

AnalyzeUpgradeMigrate

ReengineerMaintain


“…The combination of older code, lack of documentation, applications size and complexity all contribute to very high barriers to migrate for many Oracle Forms deployments…” Mark Driver – Gartner - 2007


The worldwide leader in sports entertainment featuring the

broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50

business entities.

Real-world ROI: Migration to 10g

Scope

Timelines (in days — estimated and actual)

5 days

Internal

Manual Migration*

PITSS.con Migration

Began UserAcceptance Testing After

Migration to .NET failed

5Yearssaved

Over 1700 FormsMigration Forms 6i to 10g

5.2 man years

* Based on Oracle recommended upgrade duration of 0.75 man days per Form

LEADING SPORTS

NETWORK


Agenda

Upgrade, Migrate or Evolve - determine the direction for your Oracle Forms and Reports Applications Risk

De-Supported / Future of Oracle Forms and ReportsOracle Support of Forms and ReportsOracle’s recommended approach for Forms/Report applicationsVulnerabilities / Risks

Upgrade/Migration OptionsManual vs. AutomatedMigration from Forms to ADF/APEX/Java …

Real World ROI with PITSS.CON


De-Supported / Future of Oracle Forms and Reports


“Oracle is already committing development resources that will take Forms and Reports

through to, at least, 2017. There are no plans to desupport Oracle Forms and Reports after 2017.”

Source: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/toolssod.pdf (July 2009)

Future of Oracle Forms and Reports

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/toolssod.pdf


Oracle Forms and Reports 11gActually called Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1

Released on July 1, 2009

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/index.html

Future of Oracle Forms and Reports


Oracle Support of Forms and Reports

Forms 6i

iDS/iAS (9.0.2)

Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4)

11gR1

Extended Support

Developer Suite 10g Rel 2


Oracle Forms Support Timelines

Oracle’s Fusion Middleware Support Timelines

Source : http://www.oracle.com/support/library/brochure/lifetime-support-middleware.pdf (Dec 2009)

2017 and beyond


How to get back or stay on a supported platform ?

Today’s Challenges /Questions

“…Should I consider to move away from Oracle Technology?...”

Application Project Manager

“… Can I re-use some of the implemented code-artifacts ?…”

“… I understand ADF is Oracle’s future direction in Fusion Software development –should I start migrating now …”

“…Should I stay with Forms/Reports… ?”

“…Can I implement all the existing Forms functionality with APEX ?… ”

…


2.3, 3.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i, 9i

PITSS.CON Software Focus

UnsupportedOracle Forms/ReportsDeployment

10g/11g

SupportedOracle Forms/ReportsDeployment / Web Deployment

Upgrade

Future Architecture (ADF,.)Evolve

Maintain

1

2

3

•Automatedmigration

•Application Re-Engineering

•Maintenance & Development•Application Analysis

Recommended Approach for Forms Applications*1. Move from Client Server to Web2. Upgrade to latest Version3. Interoperate with Java/J2EE or

develop new modules in JDeveloper

*Source: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/toolssod.pdf (July 2009)

PITSS.con FunctionalityPITSS.CON Functionality

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/toolssod.pdf


Oracles recommendation to Evolve your Applicationphased Transition

Reduced Risk of Transition failure

Choose your own transfer schedule adjusted to your specific situation (available skills, priorities of ongoing change-requests)

Preparation/Training of Development Team

Evaluate/Setup New infrastructure Architecture

Early End-User involvement in partial Proof of Concepts(No “Big Bang” transition of complete application.)

Benefits of the phased “Way Forward”


De-Supported?

What does it mean to you


De-Support

"If you are using unsupported versions of Oracle Forms (earlier than 10.1.2 for non E-Business Suite users) you are no longer benefiting from Oracle's regular patches, including security related patches. It is possible that

your application could therefore be unnecessarily vulnerable to attacks as a result. Another

consideration is that many corporate policies as well as statutory requirements mandate that software used in a

production environment must be eligible for security related patching."

Jan Carlin, Former Principal Product Manager, Oracle Forms – May 2009


Risks since de-support of 9i (since Mid 2008)

2 Critical Patch Updates

26 Vulnerabilities

Access Complexity

22 Low

2 Medium

2 High (1 is Remote Exploitable on the Core RDBMS)

De-Support

“IT organizations assume considerable risk with unsupported deployments of Oracle Forms solutions, and risks grows as technology ages.”Mark Driver – Gartner - 2007


What Does Unsupported Software Mean?

De-Support


De-Support

How much longer will your application continue to run?

Application Software

Operating Software

Hardware

Is a “Change-Freeze” a realistic option?

http://www.fractalpress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/jenga_negativeskew.jpg


Will Oracle Forms and Reports 6i or 9i work withOracle DB 10g or 11g?

Probably

Maybe

No

The important question:How much longer will your application continue to run?

De-Support


Oracle recommends that customers upgrade their Oracle products to the supported versions

Oracle Forms and Reports 6i and 9i are not supported

6i is not certified to run on Oracle DB 10g or 11g

9i is not certified to run on Oracle DB 11g

Every upgrade and patch presents another risk/possibility to your application not working at all

De-Support


De-Support

Questions you should ask yourself:

What is the impact to the business if the applications running in the unsupported environment become unavailable?

How long can you tolerate outages?

Are you upgrading other components in your system that might impact the unsupported environment?

What is the probability that these changes may introduce anew problem?

Government regulations might require your industry to stay current in your business enabling software. e.g. could a failure in your unsupported environment lead to a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA ?


Upgrade/Migration!

What does it take


Migration

Effort to Migrate ManuallyMigrating from 6i to 10g takes .75 to 1.5 man days per object

FMB, MMB, OLB, PLL, RDF

Code changes are at every level throughout the objects

Hundreds of commands are affected

Forms v3.0 de-supported commands are invalid in 10g

If Migrating from earlier versions (2.3, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0) to 10gMouse Navigation?

Character Mode?

v2 PL/SQL?


Migration with PITSS.CON

The Automated Way

MOVIE see www.pitssamerica.com

Or contact

[email protected]

http://www.pitssamerica.com/


PITSS.CON Module

Technology Base

Dynamic Multi-Language

Source Control

Maintenance / Development

Graphical Visual Design

Application Analysis

Application Engineering for SOA

ADF-Assistant

Automatic upgrading / migration

PITSS.CON Lifecycle Management for Oracle Forms


PITSS.CON the complete Metadata Repository

Aplication Objects / Code Artifacts

Oracle Forms 4GL

UI

Process

Business Logic

Menu (*.mmb)

Libraries (*.pll / *.olb)

Oracle Reports

Database

DB-Objects

Business Logic (Proc. , Funct. Trigger)

Source Code

SQL / PL/SQL Program

Batch-Jobs

Embedded Code Pro*C, Pro*…..


How many attendees have considered to evolve their

Forms Application to ADF,APEX,… ?(away from Oracle Forms ?)


From Forms to ADF , APEX, Java EE,…

Forms Application ADF ApplicationAPEX ApplicationJava Application

Benefits Non proprietary Migration of more than just UI objectsAnalysis / Preparation (e.g. removal of Unused Objects )Re‐engineering of Software Architecture for the complete Application


Evolve your Application - Preparation is the Key

Analyze your Current Application(Dependencies, complexity of Business-Logic) – prepare for phased approach

Clean-Up / Identify and remove unused Objects/Code Artifacts

Optimize code-re-use (e.g. extract Logic to the DB)

Identify Interaction between UI, Process and Business logic(Relevant to meet new software architecture standards)

…

How good is your Application documented or how good is your insight

Evolve Forms/Reports Applications


Forms to ADF Process in PITSS.CON

Web services

Forms Application

UI

process

logic

ADF ApplicationApplication Analysis

Unused Objects Analysis

Business Logic to DB

ADF

Re‐creation

Fine‐tuning

Application Impact

Unused Objects Analysis

BL Assistant

DAL Assistant

Web Services Wizard

PL/SQL2Java

ADF Assistant


PITSS.CON ADF-Migration Process

Quality Assurance

Documentation

Iterative Process

Forms Application Repository Metadata ADF Application

Analysis Dead Code Redundancy BL 2 DB ADF Gen Fine Tuning


PITSS.CON Accelerates Forms Projects

PITSS.CON automates and accelerates any Oracle Forms Projects

PITSS.CON functionalityReduces Project duration Free up Project BudgetEnsures a higher Quality compared to traditional (manual) approaches

Definition Planning Implementation ProductionPreparation

Traditional

WithPITSS.CON

t


Return on Investment

Customer Examples


specialist provider of information systems focused

on complex areas of healthcare.

Real-world ROI: Migration to 10g

Scope

Timelines (in days — estimated and actual)

PITSS.CON Migration

1Year

Saved

1000 FormsMigration from 6i to 10g

* Based on Mediware’s Internal estimates

“PITSS protects investments in Oracle Forms/Reports applications”

*Manual Migration

“In our case, the PITSS technology saved us significant time and money for our migration from Oracle Forms 6i to 10g. The whole conversion took only about three days versus the eight months we had estimated to do a manual migration. If you’re an Oracle shop, PITSS is definitely the way to go.” – Shri Potdar, Director of Technology, Mediware Information Systems

*Manual Migration Cost $2,000,000.00

1 Man Year

PITSS.CON Migration Cost $80,000.00

3 Days


The worldwide leader in sports entertainment featuring the

broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50

business entities.

Real-world ROI: Maintenance and Development

Scope

Timelines

1 Month, under $50K

Internal

PITSS.con

6 Months, $250K

80% Savings

Change Channel field from Number(5) to Number(6,1)3 Applications, over 1700 Forms

* Based on Oracle recommended upgrade duration of 0.75 man days per Form

LEADING SPORTS

NETWORK


PITSS.CON Proposed Next Steps

Proposed next steps:

Customer specific PITSS.con Live Webinar30 Minute sales-based webinar45-60 Minute technical webinar

Risk-Analysis / Proof of Concept Workshop Free PITSS Application Risk-Analysis done off-site with all Form and Report Objects Free On-Site workshop performed with your own application to Analyze the Application and create a POC prototype.

On-Line Technical Webinars http://www.pitssamerica.com/pitss_webinars.htm

http://www.pitssamerica.com/pitss_webinars.htm


PITSS POC workshop proposal

PITSS Proof of Concept Workshop (3-5 days)Analysis of Application to assess upgrade/migration complexityPlanning for required changes / Decision on solution proposalsImplementation of automated upgrade/migration changes

Analysis Planning Implementation Test / ProductionPreparation

PITSS POC Workshop

PITSS provides this 3-5 day on-site workshop at no charge if application can be analyzed on PITSS hardware.Compiled Objects will be provided for testing/evaluation – changed Source-Objects will be provided only after License-purchase

Decision on License Purchase


Q & A / Wrap-up

PITSS Contact Information:Americas:

Website: www.pitssamerica.comEmail: [email protected]: +1 248.740.0935

EMEA, Asia/PacificWebsite: www.pitss.comEmail: [email protected]: +49.8171.216210

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