Extensibility in the cloud – power to the business user


AMIS | Oracle Applications User Experience Expo Implementing Extensibility – Handing Run-Time Power to the Business User at Design Killian Evers & Tim Dubois, Oracle Applications User Experience

March 18, 2014 Nieuwegein, NL

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Agenda

§  What does it mean? §  Who is it for? §  Why does it work? §  Demo


Extending and Customizing Make changes in the public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise

Tweak what you have out-of-the-box using composers

Build a custom app or a custom integration using UX designs and JDeveloper


Tailoring Simplified UI

§  Change the theme §  Change the logo, app name,

and watermark §  Manage announcements §  Page Composer §  Sandboxes

DEMO


Oracle’s Fusion Terminology

Configuration §  Setup step made by customers to alter the applications in a way that has been pre-defined by the base product.

Customization §  All changes to existing artifacts.

Extension §  All creations of new artifacts.

Personalization §  Changes made by self-service users at run-time that only affect that user.

§  Can be made to new or changed artifacts.

Localization §  Changes to provide specific functionality for a given country or region.

§  Localizations are made by product development or as third-party extensions.


Oracle’s Fusion Terminology

Extension

Configuration

Customization

Personalization

Localization

Tailoring


Oracle Tailoring Features

Provides an abstraction layer that shields users from the complexity of software development

§  Carefully designed to be easy to use for everyone

§  Changes are defined, not programmed

§  Leverages Metadata Services (MDS)

§  Changes are preserved through patches and upgrades

SaaS-enabled solution


Metadata Services (MDS)

Let’s explore how MDS: ü  Enables tailoring a single code base without

compromising the link between the original and changed version

ü  Stores your changes in order to support upgrades / patches

ü  Supports declarative, layered changes of all metadata ü  Offers lifecycle support for tailoring of Oracle Fusion

Applications

Oracle Code Base

Metadata Services (MDS)


•  Oracle.com/UsableApps

•  Blogs.oracle.com/VoX

•  Blogs.oracle.com/UsableApps

•  Twitter.com/@usableapps

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