This is my eight book on Oracle Application Express (APEX) written for the latest version. Just like my previous books that exposed the technology to thousands around the globe, this book is also aimed at absolute beginners who wish to learn from self-paced professional guidance and need a solid foundation in Oracle APEX.
Oracle APEX is an amazing development platform in which you can build robust web applications. Not only it provides an environment where you can rapidly develop data-centric web applications, it also allows end-users to interact with their data via tools like interactive report, interactive grid, different types of charts, maps and more.
The most convincing way to explore a technology is to apply it to a real world problem. Without involving the audience too much into the boring bits, the book adopts an inspiring approach that helps beginners practically evaluate almost every feature of Oracle APEX. In this book, you’ll develop an application that demonstrates the use of those features to get hands-on exposure of Oracle APEX anatomy. The sticky inspirational approach adopted in this book not only exposes the technology, but also draws you in and keeps your interest up till the last exercise. The ultimate objective of this book is to introduce you to the art of building web applications by iteratively developing the sample database application (provided with Oracle APEX) from scratch. The application demonstrates how to display summary information, use reports and forms for viewing, updating, and adding information, include charts and maps to visualize information, and create dedicated mobile pages. This application has been chosen as an example because you can learn most of the techniques from it for your own future work. The primary purpose of this book is to teach you how to use Oracle APEX to realize your own development goals. Each chapter in this book explores a basic area of functionality and delivers the development techniques to achieve that functionality. By the time you reach the end of the examples in this book, you will have a clear understanding of Oracle APEX and will be able to extend the application in almost any direction.
The short list below presents some main topics of Oracle APEX covered in this book:
<ul>
<li>Rapid web application development for desktops, laptops, tablets, and latest smartphones</li>
<li>Create comprehensive applications declaratively without writing tons of code</li>
<li>Design application pages using Page Designer</li>
<li>Create applications with the help of wizards</li>
<li>Create custom application pages by adding components manually</li>
<li>Use same interface and code to develop applications for a wide array of devices</li>
<li>Present data using a variety of eye‐catching charts</li>
<li>Produce highly formatted PDF reports, including invoices, grouped reports, and pivot tables</li>
<li>Design and implement a comprehensive security module</li>
</ul>
If you are looking for a concise and concrete Oracle APEX book written for beginners, then I must say that this is the book that will return more than what you pay for it.
Special offer! For those who are new to SQL or those who want to strengthen their SQL knowledge, I’m providing my e-book "SQL – The Shortest Route For Beginners" with this book for FREE!

Create Rapid Web Application in Oracle Application Express 19: A platform to develop stunning, scalable data-centric web apps fast

Computers & Technology

Ahmed, Riaz

Web Development & Design

Independently published

Analyze the Past – Streamline the Present – Control the Future In today's fast paced technology-driven world, successful businesses depend heavily on driving intelligent decisions based on latest information. More informed decisions mean more revenue, less risk, decreased cost, and improved operational control. Up-to-date, secure, and highly visual information is an obligatory in the modern business world to make faster and smarter decisions. Oracle Business Intelligence helps top management and department heads to harness the advantage of change to create competitive advantages, achieve corporate objectives, and make better and quicker decisions. It delivers a comprehensive set of capabilities that span ad-hoc query and analysis, OLAP analysis, interactive dashboards, scorecards, reporting, proactive intelligence and alerts, mobile analytics, and more. This book is aimed at giving you insights into running your organization in a more intelligent fashion. It not only presents the BI concepts, but also guides you to implement Oracle Business Intelligence using real world scenarios. It covers: • Oracle Business Intelligence Introduction • BI Environment setup • Practical scenarios to answer business questions using Dashboard, Analysis, Tables, Pivot Table, Graphs and many more BI tools. • Delivering Contents using Agent and Alert features • Performance Management using KPI and Scorecard • Create professional reports in BI Publisher Oracle Business Intelligence increases speed-to-insight by enabling comparisons of historical, real time, and forward looking information. It thus provides the highest value and lowest TCO than any other BI solution available today.

Implement Oracle Business Intelligence

Computer Science

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Analyze the Past – Streamline the Present – Control the Future In today's fast paced technology-driven world, successful businesses depend heavily on driving intelligent decisions based on latest information. More informed decisions mean more revenue, less risk, decreased cost, and improved operational control. Up-to-date, secure, and highly visual information is an obligatory in the modern business world to make faster and smarter decisions. Oracle Business Intelligence helps top management and department heads to harness the advantage of change to create competitive advantages, achieve corporate objectives, and make better and quicker decisions. It delivers a comprehensive set of capabilities that span ad-hoc query and analysis, OLAP analysis, interactive dashboards, scorecards, reporting, proactive intelligence and alerts, mobile analytics, and more. This book is aimed at giving you insights into running your organization in a more intelligent fashion. It not only presents the BI concepts, but also guides you to implement Oracle Business Intelligence using real world scenarios. It covers: • Oracle Business Intelligence Introduction • BI Environment setup • Practical scenarios to answer business questions using Dashboard, Analysis, Tables, Pivot Table, Graphs and many more BI tools.  • Delivering Contents using Agent and Alert features • Performance Management using KPI and Scorecard • Create professional reports in BI Publisher Oracle Business Intelligence increases speed-to-insight by enabling comparisons of historical, real time, and forward looking information. It thus provides the highest value and lowest TCO than any other BI solution available today.

Implement Oracle Business Intelligence - Colored Version

Business Technology

During my programming career, I developed many desktop applications all with the help of a single tool. With the advent of World Wide Web, I also dared to get my feet wet. But, to develop my first web application I had to put on many hats like HTML, CSS, Client and Server-side scripting languages and databases; scattered under individual titles. Just like my previous books, this one too shares my experience with the world and teaches the above mentioned technologies under one umbrella. This book is neither a comprehensive guide nor it can be treated as a manual on any of these comprehensive topics, but, it surely lays a solid foundation that helps building both static and dynamic websites. With uncountable sites and freely available material, I wrote this book due to the following reasons: • Assemble all scattered pieces in one place. This volume contains HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. Sequential instructions are provided to download and install all the required software and components to setup a complete development environment on your own pc. • Focus on inspiring practical aspect of these web technologies. • Last, but the most significant one - take the audience gradually right from creating an HTML file with a text editor, through learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL all the way to creating a professional website. It covers: • Definitions and exercises of various HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, PHP & MySQL components. • The last part is the essence of this book where you will create a website for ABC Global Consulting - a fictitious company. In this part, you will apply almost all the techniques you went through in the book. The website project is divided into two parts: static and dynamic. In the static part, you’ll create web pages that remain unchanged and deliver static content whenever they are accessed. In contrast, the dynamic part will teach you how to create pages that access fresh content from a database. This part comprises an E-Commerce module that allows visitors to purchase products online, a Newsletter subscription module to subscribe to company’s newsletters, and Contact Form module which will be provided to interact with site visitors. The E-commerce application development is divided into two major parts: Admin and Member interfaces. In the Admin part you will undergo five tasks: Admin Login module, Manage Categories, Manage Products, Manager Orders, and Manage Admin Accounts. The Member part comprises eight tasks: Member Login module, Register New Member, Reset Password, My Account, Featured Products Catalog, Individual Product Details, Shopping Cart, and Checkout (confirm order). After accomplishing all the above tasks, you’ll be guided on how to deploy the project on a hosted server. From web introduction to hands-on examples and from website designing to its deployment, this book surely is a complete resource for those who know little or nothing about professional web development.

The Web Book - Build Static and Dynamic Websites: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Static and Dynamic Websites

Develop cloud-based applications rapidly using the Oracle Application Express (APEX) platform. You will learn to develop a comprehensive functional business application which can be deployed in your organization.   Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express will teach you how to develop a complete general ledger accounting system which will be accessible through a variety of devices, including desktops, laptops, and the latest smartphones.What You Will Learn:Use new Oracle APEX 5.0 techniquesDevelop a complete general ledger accounting system named The Cloud Accountant Create cloud-based business apps accessible anywhere and anytimeEnhance your APEX development skillsWho This Book Is For:Web developers who possess some working knowledge of Oracle Application Express, and developers who have been using Oracle Forms and now wish to use their existing SQL and PL/SQL expertise.

Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express

Apress

Get the domain knowledge you need to develop real-world business apps for and in the cloud. You’ll see how Oracle APEX has made the life of web developers much easier and how it helps you create web-based data-centric applications easily and instantly without writing screeds of code.
In Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express, you will develop a complete general ledger accounting system named the Cloud Accountant which will be accessible through a variety of devices including desktops, laptops, and the latest smartphones. 
This new edition also incorporates the new application page creation process, which differs from the previous version. You’ll cover other new areas, such as the updated UI elements and properties, and the interactive grid. Besides the development of a full application that you can deploy in your organization, the book teaches many new techniques to further enhance your APEX development skills.
What You Will Learn
<ul>
<li>Discover new development techniques for APEX developers 
</li>
<li>Develop cloud-based ERP applications 
</li>
<li>Build a cloud-based application on Oracle APEX 
</li>
<li>Integrate the free JasperReports server and report designing tool with Oracle APEX 
</li>
</ul>
Who This Book Is For
Web developers who possess some working knowledge of Oracle Application Express, and developers who have been using Oracle Forms and now wish to use their existing SQL and PL/SQL expertise.

Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express: Develop Internet-Facing Business Applications Accessible Anywhere and Anytime

The success of the first edition of this book motivated me to write the second one. The first edition was written with the objective to put a big picture of Oracle Application Express in front of the audience, and revolved around the sample application to demonstrate the practical aspect of the technology. The previous edition emphasized on the HOW area and didn’t deeply elaborate the WHY part. After getting valuable feedback from the respected audience, I spent ample time to revise my work with some more useful stuff. This book is written keeping in view those suggestions. Focusing on the current Oracle Application Express version (4.2), it contains the following new enhancements to show how to develop web applications with the help of this unique declarative rapid application development (RAD) tool.•Mobile web application development•Utilization of new themes and grid layouts in desktop and mobile web applications•A new chapter to elaborate different areas of the technology •Hands-on, step-by-step instructions with thorough explanations•Improved user-friendly book layoutYou’ll create two flavors of a web application in this book: desktop and mobile. The desktop version teaches you many techniques that will aid you in your own development tasks. Once you complete the application, and fully understand the provided instructions, you’ll be able to develop Internet facing applications as well as the conventional departmental applications with professional look in web interface. The mobile version, on the other hand, is really cool and fun. The chapter devoted to this platform shows how to create the same desktop application for mobile devices. To save development efforts and time, you’ll be guided to use existing tested application pages from the desktop version for the mobile platform. This work is produced with the intention to help those who are willing to learn how desktop and mobile web applications are developed, in minimal time frame. It is assumed that the users of this book have basic knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, and have exposure to Oracle database objects. From APEX introduction to application development, and from dual version development to its deployment, this book is the ultimate practical guide for you to enhance your skills in an area which is the need of the hour.

Create Rapid Web Applications Using Oracle Application Express - Second Edition: Develop Desktop and Mobile Web Applications

To develop a web application you have to put on many hats like HTML, CSS, Client and Server-side scripting languages and databases, usually scattered under individual titles. With uncountable sites and freely available material, I wrote this book due to the following reasons: - Assemble all scattered pieces in one place. This volume contains HTML/5, CSS/3, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. Sequential instructions are provided to download and install all the required software and components to setup a complete development environment on your own pc. - Focus on inspiring practical aspect of these web technologies. - Last, but the most significant one, take the audience gradually right from creating an HTML file with a text editor, through learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL all the way to creating a professional web project, covering static and dynamic areas. From web introduction to hands-on examples and from web application development to its deployment, this book surely is a complete resource for those who know little or nothing about the world of web development.

Web Development in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML & CSS: Step-by-Step Web Project

Oracle Application Express has taken another big leap towards becoming a true next generation RAD tool. It has entered into its fifth version to build robust web applications. One of the most significant feature in this release is a new page designer that helps developers create and edit page elements within a single page design view, which enormously maximizes developer productivity. Without involving the audience too much into the boring bits, this full colored edition adopts an inspiring approach that helps beginners practically evaluate almost every feature of Oracle Application Express, including all features new to version 5.The most convincing way to explore a technology is to apply it to a real world problem. In this book, you’ll develop a sales application that demonstrates almost every feature to practically expose the anatomy of Oracle Application Express 5. The short list below presents some main topics of Oracle APEX covered in this book: 
<ul>
<li>Rapid web application development for desktops, laptops, tablets, and latest smartphones</li>
<li>Create comprehensive applications declaratively without writing tons of code</li> <li>Design application pages using new Page Designer</li> <li>Create applications with the help of wizards</li>
<li>Create custom application pages by adding components manually</li>
<li>Use same interface and code to develop applications for a wide array of devices</li>
<li>Present data using a variety of eye-catching charts</li>
<li>Produce highly formatted PDF reports, including invoices, grouped reports, and pivot tables</li>
<li>Design and implement a comprehensive security module</li>
</ul>If you are looking for a concise and concrete book on Oracle Application Express 5, then I must say that this is the book that will return more than what you have paid for it. The sticky inspirational approach adopted in this book not only exposes the technology, but also draws you in and keeps your interest up till the last exercise.

Oracle Application Express 5 For Beginners (B/W Edition): Develop Web Apps for Desktop and Latest Mobile Devices

If someone had asked me to write this book two decades ago, I would have simply refused the suggestion - not because I couldn't do so, but because of the mountain of code necessary to create the application along with its menus, forms, reports, and so on. Thanks to the appearance of GUIs and RAD. The load of overburdened developers has not only reduced, but has also enabled application development to be easily demonstrated in book form. Oracle Application Express is a unique development platform that helps you develop cloud-based applications rapidly. In the previous three editions of my book (that focused on beginners), I practically demonstrated almost every significant feature of Oracle APEX; this book is an attempt to take my readers to the next level with some more useful stuff.  You might be one of those readers who is already familiar with Oracle APEX having some experience in developing simple applications but who lacks the required knowledge that is needed to develop a comprehensive system. In this book you will bridge this gap by developing a complete general ledger accounting system named The Cloud Accountant which will be accessible through a variety of devices including desktops, laptops, and the latest smartphones. Besides the development of a functional application (which you can deploy in your organization or even in other organizations to earn some handsome bucks), the book demonstrates many new techniques to further enhance your APEX development skills. This book is also ideal for those who have been developing applications in Oracle Forms, and now wish to get their feet wet in the world of web development using their existing expertise. If you know what Oracle Application Express is, and are also comfortable with SQL and PL/SQL, then grab this book to learn something that is not available anywhere else. If you are a novice, then you are encouraged to read my book Oracle Application Express 5 For Beginners (ISBN-13: 978-1-512-00330-7).

Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express: Rapidly develop internet facing business applications accessible anywhere and anytime

Databases & Big Data

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