Oracle Forms to ADF Mobile – Live Demo Beta Program – Sign up now!

I’ve kept pretty busy since coming back from Collaborate 2013 last month, working on new solutions for my company OraPlayer and getting ready for Kscope 2013.

One of these new solutions is a LIVE DEMO of our Oracle Forms to ADF Mobile solution. We have developed a small Android app that customers can download onto their own mobile devices to see the power of our solution first hand. We have done a “Pumped up” version of the Oracle Forms Summit store training application, where the ADF Mobile front end (including graphs and maps) runs Oracle Forms sitting on an Amazon Cloud, via OraPlayer. If all goes well we may be able to offer hands-ons to developers interested in getting their feet wet with ADF Mobile for Forms during Kscope 2013.

We are looking for a few good men / women to do a bit of beta testing for us. If you’re interested in ADF Mobile or Forms modernization solutions, we’d be happy if you could help by participating in our Beta testing program!

Here’s how to become a beta tester:
• You must have an Android device
• Then click here to fill out the Contact Form.
• Include one or two sentences on why you’d like to do the beta test (for example: I’m a Forms developer, I’m looking for a Mobile Solution, I am a techy geek who loves playing with new technologies).

We’ll get back to any relevant applicants, and we will send you the link so you can give it a try and send us your feedback before our general release. We will be sending a small token of our appreciation to all participants, so if you like FREE GIFTS apply now.

Please feel free to spread the word!

HELP: What do I do with my Oracle Forms Applications Today? Modernize, Migrate or Go Mobile?

As most of you know by now, since October Grant Ronald (Oracle Forms and JDeveloper Senior Principal Product Manager) and I have been campaigning to bring Forms customers out of hiding and to try and help them modernize their systems.

I personally made it my mission to make sure Oracle Forms developers will no longer be the forgotten people.

We already had two VERY successful Forms modernization days in Israel and UK with hopefully Germany, Netherlands, Montreal and NY to follow this year. I am also hoping to see Forms sessions in Oracle World and ODTUG Kscope conference (I’ll try my best but I can’t promise ).

I’d like to welcome our friends at ODTUG to the campaign. They are sponsoring a webinar to address all the questions that Forms developers have been asking on blogs and in our linkedin group discussions.

On March 29 our webinar has one goal in mind -> To give ALL  Oracle Forms developers the essential information they need to make  informed decisions on what to do with their Forms investment. Checkout Grants blog for more information.

Grant and I will tell it LIKE IT IS, with real world examples, practical tips and a killer forms to mobile demo.
Don’t miss out on the FREE webinar, register NOW!

I’d love to hear from you – what would you like to learn about during the webinar? I’m open to questions, suggestions and feedback.
Get your questions in early and Grant and I will try to address them in the webinar!

Well the webinar was a great success!

Thanks Grant and Lauren and all the ODTUG gang for inviting me to do it.

You can download the slides here: Help What do I do with my forms system today?

You can also get a recording of the Webinar if you are a ODTUG member here if you have any trouble send me an email to info @ oraplayer.com

Oracle Forms is Alive and Kicking! Oracle Forms Modernization Day

This past Tuesday, I had the privilege of running the Oracle Forms user group conference. It all started when Grant Ronald (Oracle Forms and JDeveloper product manager) and I got to talking at Open World 2011. We were saying how Oracle Forms developers are a huge community but  the forgotten people. Every Oracle conference of recent years has been filled with sessions on ADF, SOA, APEX, BPEL and all other 3 letter curse words (OOPS  I mean buzz words). But for the past few years Forms has dropped off the “session titles” map.

Well we decided then and there to make a conference specifically geared to the Oracle Forms developers community. With the help of Eyal Shani, CTO of Oracle Israel and Ami Aharonovitch, head of the Israel Oracle User Group (our heroes), we set out to prove that the Forms development community is a force to be reckoned with.

And rest assured, there were plenty of nay sayers:  “No one still develops in forms”,  “You won’t get more than 50 people” – Sound familiar? Well, this Tuesday, I got to say those three precious words: “TOLD YOU SO! ” With nearly 200  developers who attended, the event was a rousing success.

Oracle Forms Modernization – The Future of Oracle Forms is …. Forms !

This was a great week!

For the past 5 years, almost on a daily basis, I have had to explain to my Oracle Forms customers that Oracle Forms is not really dead just “Mature” and Oracle intends to keep it around for a long time. All the while quietly praying that Oracle doesn’t make a liar out of me in 2 years. Although the official message from Oracle was forms is not dead the word on the street seemed to be that Oracle Forms Modernization was a code word for migration to java. Even as new versions of Forms were released I heard more about the options for migrating Oracle Forms to APEX, ADF or Java.
Although the future of Oracle Forms seemed uncertain at best, for years I have been helping my clients secure their huge investments in Oracle Forms by stretching their legacy forms applications to the limit.

Movin’ on up at Oracle World 2011

Check whose in the society pages of Israels People and computer magazine!

Thanks Peli. I wonder if Moshe Horev even remembers me from when I worked at Oracle Israel 6 years ago..

http://www.pc.co.il/?p=71086

See a picture of me with Moshe at the bottom of the page

אורפלייר באנשים ומחשבים!

כתבה על אורפלייר במגאזין המחשבים אנשים ומשחשבים. תהנו!

ממריאים לענן: לחשוף את התוכן של הקופסה השחורה

במסעם אל ענני המיחשוב והמכשירים הניידים צריכים משתמשי אורקל פורמס להתגבר על מחסום “הקופסה השחורה” של הלוגיקה העסקית”

פיתרון אורסואה של חברת אורפלייר מאפשר לחשוף את הלוגיקה העסקית בקלות רבה – אפילו על ידי אנשים שאינם טכניים – מבלי לפתוח את הקופסה השחורה”

(אנשים ומחשבים, ‏23 באוקטובר 2011)

ilOUG and Oracle Developers Day Jan 24, 2012 – Don’t Miss It !

I am very excited to invite you all to a incredible event. As we all know its been a while since Oracle Israel has addressed the Oracle development community. Every year we all look at Oracle Week and other conference and feel left out of the party since no sessions address Oracle Forms developer. I vowed to change this last year when I took over the Israeli User Group forum for Oracle Forms and Reports. And this year Eyal Shani CTO of Oracle Israel and Grant Ronald product manager of Oracle development tools have come together to help me bring power back to the Oracle development community. Oracle Israel has taken it upon themselves as a mission this year to help all customers upgrade to Oracle Forms 10-11g. And they are already putting money where there promises are. They are sponsoring this one of a kind event at the Herods Hotel in Tel-Aviv on Jan 24, 2012 and brining in the world expert on Oracle Forms to talk to us and share future visions for the Oracle developer community.

We are on the map :)

For 6 years now I have been consulting to Oracle developer how to get the most “bang for their buck” and maximize their investment in Oracle Forms technologies. It started simply with changing forms  look and feel and redesigns then I moved to incorporating java objects until finally I ended up with a pretty advanced set of tools to help Oracle Forms developers.

That’s when I decided to create a new startup called     to provide advanced solutions to help Oracle Forms / ERP customers deal with today’s IT opportunities and challenges.

ממריאים לענן: Oracle World 2011

“מי לא ניסה לשדרג את אורקל פורמס  לג’אווה או עולם הSOA שירים את ידו…
מבין מי שניסה לשדרג – מי שהצליח שיקום!אף אחד לא קם. בינתיים.”

הציטוט הזה נאמר ע”י גרנט רונלד, מנהל מוצר אורקל פורמס בהרצאה שנשא בשבוע אורקל שהתקיים החודש בסן פרנסיסקו. כולנו רוצים לעשות מודרניזציה של אורקל ורוצים לשלב את המערכת הוותיקה והאמינה הזאת עם מערכות  קלוואד אס.או.איי ג’אווה ואחרות באירגון, אבל לא מצליחים. מערכת אורקל פורמס היא “קופסה שחורה” שפועלת נהדר, אבל התממשקות עם המערכת דורשת חשיפה של התוכן של הקופסה השחורה וזה כבר תהליך יקר, מתיש ורצוף קשיים שסיכויי ההצלחה שלו מועטים.