Bring Your Legacy Applications to the Mobile World. Mia Urman, AuraPlayer

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1 Bring Your Legacy Applications to the Mobile World Mia Urman, AuraPlayer

2 Mia Urman 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 About You What is your current Oracle Forms / Oracle EBS Version? Are you interested in mobility? Have you begun to think about mobile strategy? Do you have devices in the company today? What type - Tablet or smartphone? What OS will they need to support - ios / Android or also Window CE / Blackberry? Do you have Mobile developers in house?

4 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

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6 6 Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. GLOBAL MOBILE 3G SUBSCRIBERS

7 Enterprise Mobility TWO THIRDS OF THE WORKFORCE WILL OWN A SMARTPHONE BY 2016, AND 40% OF THE WORKFORCE WILL BE MOBILE SOURCE: GARTNER 2013

8 Building Your Mobile Strategy

9 Do you have a Mobile Strategy?

10 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

11 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

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

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

14 Legacy to Mobile Strategy

15 Mobile Strategy We don t need mobile for that system

16 Mobile Strategy We ll just use our existing web application

17 Mobile Strategy We can run our system using Remote Desktop

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19 MOBILIZE instead!

20 MOBILIZE instead!

21 Oracle s Mobility Products Mobile Application Framework Oracle Mobile Suite Oracle Mobile Security Suite Service Bus / SOA Suite Oracle Mobile Cloud Services

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

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

24 Wizard Based Mobile Development Deploy to ios or Android

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

26 Basic Components ListView Forms Charts Gauge T-Maps Carousel GeoMap

27 Components

28 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

29 Do you still carry around one of these?

30 Device Features Interaction Leverages Apache Cordova Drag and drop to use SMS Contacts GPS Camera Or access programmatically Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved

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

32 Security Data Caching Challenges Mobile devices can lose/turn off connectivity Offline access to data is a common requirement But it will increase 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

33 How Do We Do It?

34 How We Do It: Step 1 Define Business Process and Data Understanding the business process we want to translate to the small screen. Selecting what input and output data we to run the business process. Identifying expected results What output data and messages do we want to receive from the Forms system Decide Navigation of user through the app

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

36 Creating a PLSQL Service Jdeveloper Create ADF DataControls for Webservice URL REST/SOAP Tutorial

37 Create an Oracle Forms Service Layer

38 Introducing AuraPlayer Unlock Oracle Forms Systems as Services Same System Many UI / Devices

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

40 Creating an Oracle Forms Service Automatically Generate Webservices using the Service Manager Create ADF DataControls for Webservice URL REST/SOAP

41 How We Do It: Step 3 Create Mobile UI - Jdeveloper Create AMX pages and design new mobile UI

42 How We Do It: Step 4 Define TaskFlow with Validations Define the navigation flow between the pages Add validations that should occur upon success or failure of events

43 Let s See it in Action Demo time!

44 Oracle Forms to Mobile: The Process Define the Business Process Expose the system as a Webservice Create the UI and Navigation Run Your Mobile App! ADF Mobile on ipad Demo

45 Moving Forward

46 Implementing a Mobile Strategy Key Themes Security Protect Enterprise Information Mobile Strategy MAINFRAME Reaching Mobile Devices. Multiplatform Integration Access Enterprise Information Copyright 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

47 Moving Forward Start today! Considerations For Modernization Projects Asses 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

48 My Blogs Tips and Tricks Common Bugs How to documents Presentations

49 More Information Mia Urman - Mobile on OTN Oracle Mobile Blog Oracle Forms Community Facebook.com/Jdeveloper AuraPlayer or