In our last blog about 5 Ways Handshake Helps Extend Oracle E-Business Suite, we discussed the business reasons why Handshake for Oracle E-Business Suite helps Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) organizations succeed with their favorite ERP!
In this blog, I want to explain why using this solution, instead of developing your own EBS-APEX integration, makes sense for any organization serious about saving money and making users more efficient.
Insum started its own Oracle E-Business Suite-APEX Integration years ago
Time flies, as everybody knows. More than 8 years ago, Insum started to help EBS organizations by developing APEX applications that integrated with EBS. Back then, Insum followed the guidance of Rod West from a white paper that became a well-known document for the EBS-APEX community. Over the years, we improved our method and developed our own integration while keeping in the spirit of our initial goal, helping EBS organizations integrate APEX with EBS. This integration solution is what we call Handshake for EBS.
Everyone now recognizes how efficient and mature APEX is in the context of EBS. APEX allows your organization to quickly develop applications that fill gaps in your functional processes and make your users more efficient. There are a lot of different moving parts within this integration. It is the combination of many elements to consider, technical and functional, within the setup of your EBS and the installation of APEX.
So you’re an Oracle APEX developer. Could you develop your own EBS-APEX integration? You probably could if you dedicate as much time as we have to tests and research. If you are interested in doing it yourself, countless online articles show technical instructions to redirect from EBS to APEX So, you may be asking yourself, “Is a tool like Handshake for EBS necessary? What are the various elements to consider in such an integration?”
Be Aware of the Challenges
There are a few challenges to consider when doing this in-house. Here are a few elements Handshake for EBS covers for you:
Your first Oracle E-Business Suite-APEX Instance in 10 minutes!
Once Handshake for Oracle E-Business Suite is installed, you can develop your first EBS-APEX instance in 10 minutes! It will even look like an OAF page…. Moreover, your APEX development will play nicely with your existing development lifecycle structure. And when you move to Fusion Cloud Application, APEX and Handshake will still be there!
In summary:
- Handshake for Oracle E-Business Suite covers both a secure redirect from EBS by using a one-time password token (OTP) and APEX session creation based on a valid EBS user session.
- EBS function exclusion from responsibility can be applied just like in standard EBS.
- MOAC data access is recognized and displays only the data you need to see.
- Regardless of your EBS and APEX release, Handshake will be the bridge between your applications.
- Your EBS development backlog will no longer be an excuse to not develop custom applications and get away from Excel spreadsheets 🙂
- Before building redirections from EBS to APEX, you owe it to yourself to look into Handshake for Oracle E-Business Suite. I can assure you it will be worth your while!
Success Stories
Improving the Retail Experience with James Avery Artisan
James Avery Artisan Jeweler needed a POS application to efficiently connect their retail associates to its back-end EBS system for Buy Online, Pickup in store orders. Using APEX, Insum created an application that simplified the transaction and helped staff stay out front with their customers.
Helping a Manufacturer Modernize with APEX
How Insum helped an architectural product manufacturer modernize by migrating their “satellite applications” and selected Oracle Forms apps to Oracle APEX.
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Insum’s Handshake for EBS is the solution to quickly and efficiently extend Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle APEX. With Handshake, you can expect faster time-to-market, lower costs, seamless integration, improved efficiency, and greater visibility. The best part is that Handshake is release agnostic and requires no additional configuration.
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) covers most of the business processes an organization requires, but there are gaps in its capabilities. For example, EBS data-entry screens can be daunting. It takes a fair amount of training for new users to master their sequence of execution. An enterprise hiring part-time employees or […]
