Organizations Ease Web Application Development With Oracle(R) Application Express 3.1
Posted on March 18, 2008
Filed Under Silicon Valley News
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –
Organizations of all sizes across every industry and region are using
Oracle(R) Application Express to rapidly develop data driven Web
applications. Using only a Web browser and limited programming experience,
developers can build and deploy professional applications that are both
fast and secure. Oracle Application Express is integrated with all editions
of Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Database 10g.
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), PINNACLE, and VISTA
Technology Services are among the organizations taking advantage of Oracle
Application Express to rapidly prototype and develop Web applications
utilizing data from their Oracle Databases.
Penn State Tracks PC Inventory with Oracle Application Express
One institution with extensive experience with Oracle Application
Express is Penn State. Founded in 1855, Penn State is a multi-campus public
research university that improves the lives of the people of Pennsylvania,
the nation, and the world through integrated, high-quality programs in
teaching, research, and service. Penn State’s Information Technology
Services relies on Oracle Application Express for rapid application
development and prototyping. The IT team uses an inventory tracking system
developed with Oracle Application Express to keep track of over 2,000
computers along with all of the components attached to each particular
workstation.
“With Oracle Application Express Release 3.1, I look forward to adding
interactive region reports for my end-users,” said Justin Patterson,
Programmer Analyst, Information Technology Services, Penn State. “The
end-users are thrilled that the latest release of Oracle Application
Express includes features they’ve requested but that we had yet to add to
the application ourselves. With Oracle Application Express, the development
cycle is reduced by allowing developers to focus on writing queries or
back-end logic rather than worrying about how to develop a slick interface,
authorization logic, or updateable regions — all of which Oracle
addresses.”
PINNACLE Builds Communications Application Suite with Oracle
Application Express
PINNACLE, a division of PAETEC (http://www.paetec.com), offers a suite
of Enterprise Communications Management tools designed to streamline an
enterprise’s operations, ensuring visibility, accountability, productivity,
and compatibility. PINNACLE (http://www.pinnsoft.com) relies on Oracle
Application Express to build its suite of applications.
“Oracle Application Express Release 3.1 substantiates our business
decision to move to a thick database Web architecture based on Oracle,”
said Larry Foster, vice president and General Manager for the PINNACLE
Communication Management Suite. “The new interactive reporting features in
this latest release will allow our customers to conduct powerful
spreadsheet-caliber analytics directly from their Web browser — which will
revolutionize our TEM (Telecommunications Expense Management) application.”
VISTA Technology Services Rapidly Refreshes Key Property Planning
Application
VISTA Technology Services, based in Herndon, Va., provides high-end
consulting services and systems development for the U.S. Department of
Defense related to real property lifecycle management. VISTA recently
re-architected the U.S. Army’s real property planning system supporting
thousands of users worldwide. After evaluating several different
technologies, VISTA selected Oracle Application Express based on
capabilities consisting of solid user interface code, complete support for
all of Oracle’s performance capabilities, security, scalability, and hooks
into maintainable table-driven business logic. The application is a
critical component of the Army’s mission in managing its buildings,
utilities and land resources and is used daily to support planning,
budgetary and spending decisions involving a real property portfolio of
over 150,000 buildings with a replacement value of $263 billion.
“VISTA re-engineered the application in record time,” said Bharat
Pappu, VISTA’s Lead Solutions Architect. “A team of developers with no
previous experience in Oracle Application Express is developing a complete
solution in a matter of months. What the Army thought would take years and
millions of dollars is being delivered by VISTA in a much shorter amount of
time and at far greater value. We are particularly impressed with the speed
with which an interface could be assembled with Oracle Application Express,
its integration of AJAX, dynamic HTML and third-party tools, and its rapid
response ability to support functional design changes. And because the
solution is based on Oracle, the initial capability was immediately
accepted by the government’s information assurance team for deployment.”
Latest Release Delivers New Reporting, Testing and Layout, Features
Oracle today also announced the general availability of Oracle
Application Express Release 3.1. New capabilities and enhancements
available in Oracle Application Express Release 3.1 include:
— Interactive Reporting Region — innovative technology enables end users
to customize reports resulting in reduced development time and effort
while enhancing application functionality;
— Declarative BLOB Support — enables files to be declaratively uploaded
in forms and downloaded or displayed using reports. BLOB (binary large
object) display and download can also be authored using PL/SQL; and,
— Improved Printing Support — Report Queries now support multiple
reports in a single document and allow the combination of reports and
charts based on multiple queries. The output format can be set
dynamically at runtime and documents can either be downloaded to the
client or shown within the browser window.
The latest release of Oracle Application Express also supports simple
and easy-to-use pre-built applications available for download from the
Oracle Technology Network (OTN). These free, fully functional Oracle
Application Express applications can be easily customized, deployed and
shared within an organization allowing developers to jumpstart simple Web
application development efforts. These applications are available at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/pack
age d_apps/packaged_apps.html .
“We approach each release of Oracle Application Express with an eye on
how we can further help our customers to get the most out of data in their
Oracle Databases,” said Mike Hichwa, vice president of Software
Development, Oracle. “This release features innovative dynamic reporting
that brings industry leading end user capabilities to applications
developed with Oracle Application Express.”
Pricing and Availability
Oracle Application Express Release 3.1 is generally available and is
downloadable from the OTN at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/down
loa d.html .
The tool is integrated with all editions of Oracle Database 11g, Oracle
Database 10g and Oracle9i Database Release 2 at no additional cost. For
more information on Oracle Application Express, go to:
http://otn.oracle.com/apex .
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