by Franco Soldera | 16 Jun 2018 | Business, Oracle APEX
The challenges I love APEX for really a lot of reasons, which are pretty easy to explain to other developers and make a great subject for loooong conversation and debates. But when it comes to explaining to managers why I believe that APEX can enrich their toolbox...
by Franco Soldera | 16 May 2018 | Business, Oracle APEX, Oracle ORDS, RPA
RPA definition I never realized that, whenever I collect data from 2 or more systems, mixing up SELECT statements with files and calls to web services and LDAP servers, and present all these data in a browser window through APEX, I am doing RPA (Robotic Process...
by Franco Soldera | 9 Apr 2018 | Business, GDPR, Oracle APEX
The challenge In my first article GDPR implementation challenges: RAD tools to the rescue! I showed how it is possible to quickly implement a control panel for the maintenance of sensitive content related to users and customers. But before you remove or export...
by Franco Soldera | 12 Mar 2018 | Business, GDPR, Oracle APEX
The challenges There is a lot of talk about GDPR rules and their implementation. And there is also a lot of work going on, but in most cases there is even more to be done. There are few key points in the GDPR directive that are crucial. In this article you can see...
by Franco Soldera | 12 Feb 2018 | Business, Oracle APEX
Whenever I read articles about microservices most of the times I hear people talking about “servers”, “protocols”, “devops” and so on. I never found an article that put the human factors at the center. The trigger of this short...
by Franco Soldera | 29 Jan 2018 | Business, Oracle APEX
Yesterday I was in the supermarket queue, waiting for my turn to pay. I noticed that a couple of people who payed before had left their receipt attached to the strip of previous receipts, which were accumulating on the floor, despite the trash bin just on the side of...
by Franco Soldera | 7 Nov 2017 | Business, Oracle APEX
This time I will explain why Excel-based business process are much more expensive than the Database-based ones (see part 1 of the article). Hidden chaos and waste of money I tried to capture in a picture the travel of data where an Excel spreadsheet is used to...
by Franco Soldera | 5 Jun 2017 | Business, Oracle APEX
Premise In my work consulting for large companies, I often ask for process or business rule data to work with, and a common answer I get is something like: “Ah yes, I send you an Excel where there are the codes/data for…”. When I hear this, many...
