Oracle/Miracle Spring APEX Day a part of Nordic APEX Tour
(The agenda may be subjected to change)
In person event only!
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8.30-9.00 Coffee
9.00-9.15 Welcome
Heli Helskyaho
9.15-10.00 APEX Product Management Update
Simon Hunt
Receive an update from the APEX Product Management (PM) team. This presentation provides an overview of the PM team, their capabilities, and how to engage with them. We will also share key insights into the enterprise Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP) marketplace, explore APEX's position within that market, and outline our plans for its future development. This includes our strategic vision, key tactics, and more.
Topics to be covered:
- Who is the PM team, what do they do, and where are they located?
- What is Low-Code, and what is its value proposition?
- Where does APEX fit within the Low-Code market?
- What is the analysts’ perspective on APEX?
- Who is using APEX, and how are they using it?
- Which vertical markets, regions, and industries favour Low-Code solutions?
- What is Oracle’s vision for APEX?
- What are the focus areas and strategic roadmaps for APEX?
10.05-10.50 Utilizing AI Vector Search of Oracle Database 23ai using Oracle APEX + Demo
Salim Hlayel
In this session, we will discuss Vector Models and the impact of embedding such models inside your Oracle Database 23ai. We will also see a demo of how easy it is to utilize such a feature inside your Oracle APEX application.
10.50-11.00 Short Break
11.00-11.45 Getting Started with GenDev in APEX
Monica Godoy Millan
Oracle APEX 24.2 unlocks new capabilities for Generative Development (GenDev), including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data sources, creating custom data models with natural language in SQL Workshop, a new dynamic action to generate text with AI and more. All of these capabilities make it easy to build intelligent applications that respond with precision and relevance. In this session, you will learn all the basic concepts and steps you need to follow to make the most of GenDev and APEX.
11.45-12.30 Lunch
12.30-13.15 APEX automated testing made easy
Lino Schildenfeld
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. How hard can it be to get automated UI testing going?
Join me for this session where we will discuss how difficult it is to incorporate some of the popular automation tools like Cypress.io and Ghost Inspector into your everyday development life-cycles. We will compare features of these few tools, and how hard it is to install, run and use them with APEX.
We will also cross match them with Selenium, LCT and Playwright.
13.20-14.10 Use APEX, AI Vector Search and LLMs locally
Pekka Kanerva, Jari Laine
If you have strict privacy requirements you don't want to send your data to external embedding models. For textual data, this requirement can be solved by using the embedding model in ONNX format loaded to your Oracle23ai database. In this presentation we will show how to use an image embedding model stored locally in your own server to embed your image dataset and load the images and vectors to Oracle23ai database. Then we will show how to call locally running python service from APEX to embed the search image, and do AI Vector Search in the database to find similar images.
We will also show how to run LLMs locally in docker container.
14.10-14.45 Coffee
14.45-15.30 APEX migrations and APEX upgrades
Lino Schildenfeld
Do you face the same challenges:
- Why is it hard catching up with the latest versions of APEX?
- What does that entitle from the perspective of your legacy apps?
- How soon should you upgrade and how often?
There are just some commonly asked questions people raise during panel discussions that we will try to address in this session. What makes it so hard for teams to be on top of these. You will hear people say, yes we upgraded our APEX instances but what does it really means!? As much as we all know the process, there is lots to learn about how to make it easier and more manageable. On the other side, one of the most common reasons why we get hired is to guide teams through the process of migrations. We will talk about ever so popular Forms to APEX migration but we will touch on non Oracle tech to APEX migration too. It will be all about what lessons we learned during our projects and sharing the most important tips with you.
15.30-16.15 Extending E-Business Suite using Oracle APEX + Demo
Salim Hlayel
Enterprise Resource Planning systems are great for operating and managing your business. But in some cases, the business requirements can't be met easily by configuring your ERP. In this session, we specifically discuss the method to extend your Oracle E-Business Suite ERP using the most popular enterprise Low Code platform, Oracle APEX.
16.15-16.30 Wrap up
Heli Helskyaho
