Oracle APEX is exactly the right solution
Technical, financial and human resources should be optimally utilized within the Oracle Forms application modernization project – this was the main requirement of our customer. Once again, the limited solution scope and limited time and financial resources did not present our migration experts with an impossible task.
Based on all communicated requirements for the implementation of the modernization and after a multi-phase analysis, we were able to clearly identify Oracle APEX as the successor to the part of the application of the previous Oracle Forms environment that had not already been redeveloped with other technology. This was confirmed both by the joint assessment workshop, in which a proof of concept was developed, and by the in-depth migration analysis with presentation of the quantity structures and expected expenses.
Despite the change in technology, our customer would not incur any additional licensing costs with APEX and at the same time the future viability of the application would be ensured. Moreover, due to some technical similarities between Oracle Forms and APEX, especially the usability of PL/SQL, the development team of the University of Giessen would have an easy time maintaining and further developing the application. Only one question remained to be clarified: How should the migration proceed?