Cloud Computing Using Oracle Application Express

Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing and Application Project 1 The book focuses on developing business applications for the cloud and provides step by step guidance in developing a financial accounting system to give you a taste of cloud computing with respect to building business applications in Oracle APEX. This chapter provides an overview of cloud computing and the application project.
Chapter 2: Application Navigation 9 First of all you will be guided through the creation of a navigation structure for the application including its menus, submenus, and a navigation bar. Using this structure, users can access different segments of the application according to their respective privileges, which is granted to them by the application administrator.
Chapter 3: Companies 13 The application is capable of maintaining accounts of multiple companies simultaneously. This setup allows you to create as many companies as you need. Each company is provided with a unique code that distinguishes its transactions from that of the others.
Chapter 4: Fiscal Year 15 Each company created in the application must have a fiscal year to keep records of its financial proceedings. You can create different fiscal years for different companies. However, this book follows a fiscal year which starts from 1st July and ends on 30th June.
Chapter 5: Voucher Types 25 You can create multiple voucher types to record financial transactions. This approach is handy to distinguish between transactions of various natures. For example, you can create two different voucher types to record payments made through cash and bank.




Chapter 6: Application Segments 29 You will create a robust security module for this application to control its access. The application consists of several segments that need protection from unauthorized access. In this chapter you will spot all those segments which will be utilized in the next chapter to handle the application security.
Chapter 7: User

Author Bio for the FM: Riaz Ahmed is an IT professional with more than 23 years experience. He started his career in early 90's as a programmer, and has been employed in a wide variety of information technology positions, including analyst programmer, system analyst, project manager, data architect, database designer and senior database administrator. Currently he is working as head of IT for a group of companies. His core areas of interest include web-based development technologies, business intelligence, and databases. Riaz possesses extensive experience in database design and development. Besides all versions of Oracle, he has worked intensively in almost all major RDBMS on the market today. During his career he designed and implemented numerous databases for a wide range of applications, including ERP.