Oracle Applications Platform

• Accelerates the creation of Redwood application experiences which includes our library of Redwood UX assets, Visual Builder low-code tool, and services for business objects, conversation UX, recommendations, and more.
• Provides similar access to users to the Redwood and applications platform that Oracle uses - starting right now, built into Fusion - providing the ability to extend the Redwood apps Oracle has built and create entirely new ones seamlessly integrated with Fusion apps.
• Builds custom solutions that keep business data securely within Fusion and seamlessly integrate with Fusion identity, navigation, and look and feel. By integrating Redwood and the applications platform directly with Fusion, Fusion customers now have everything they need to start building Redwood application experiences today.

Building Redwood Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications has everything you need to optimize your business, make faster and better decisions, and outpace change. Few important things that you should consider when building the applications using Redwood design system.

UX building blocks

We have implemented the Redwood design and user experience in the Oracle JavaScript Extension toolkit (JET), which delivers the core UI functionality and components for developers. We take components and toolkit to build composites which are the user interface building blocks. These composites implement multiple pieces of functionality in single component and then roll them into the page templates. These page templates help implement common enterprise UI patterns for application development that accelerates the development of applications that encapsulates bunch of functionalities which otherwise have to be built individually.

Examples are:

• Handling responsiveness - Taking a page and resizing of pages.
• Handling dirty data and accessibility.

Conversational experiences

Intuitively converse with the users to perform tasks and retrieve information with the least amount of training and friction, either by text or voice on or through channels like SMS, Slack, Teams, and so on. Use natural language for mapping to business data and business logic and task that are in application to get your work done faster.

The Oracle Digital Assistant platform enables Applications teams to build sophisticated skills with support for Redwood Components. Conversational design helps in designing skills and in the care-and-feeding process for skills.

Learn more about designing and developing conversational assistants.

Search and intelligent recommendations

Enable users of your applications to quickly find information, application tasks, data, notifications, and unstructured information across your application. Your apps have tons of business data in the application, and you want to render it quickly for good user experience.

Oracle Search helps finds information across Fusion Applications and Oracle Content Management and offers:

• Type ahead
• Suggested filters
• Search history
• Bookmarkable search results
• Rich filter chips
• Support for telemetry and extensibility

Delight the user with productive and personalized user experience driven by AI, without the developers having to do additional work.

Throughout enterprise applications, users are selecting, entering, and searching for data, often by picking from lists. To make that productive as possible, Redwood app experiences use machine learning to predict and suggest the most likely choices - accelerating the user experience. Redwood components and services automatically emit appropriate data to the recommendation system as the user interacts with the application, enabling your data to be surfaced in recommendations.

Learn more about intelligent recommendations.

Low-code development

Oracle Visual Builder delivers a low-code Redwood application creation experience for Oracle developers, customers, and partners enabling:

• A highly productive developer experience that is the key to accelerating Redwood application development.
• Customers and partners to use the same tooling to extend Oracle applications and build new ones.

Visual Builder brings together the full power and productivity of all the components of the Redwood app platform to make creating beautiful Redwood experiences easier and faster.

Telemetry

The Oracle Applications Platform is instrumented to automatically emit compliant telemetry for each app across various layers of the platform to measure quality of experience and enable engineering teams to make data driven decisions. This provides the ability to for developers and administrators to observe and gain variety of insight scenarios, without developers having to do additional work to instrument their apps. This capability helps application developers learn about the usage of their apps and improve them over time.

Enabling application developers to operating in a constant loop of learning with data on what users are doing, allows making decisions to improve the experience, and then measuring the impact.

Accessibility

Redwood page templates and components are designed and built with accessibility as a top priority. Accessibility is designed, built, and tested for capabilities including:

• Keyboard navigation: Pages have defined, accessible tab order, and keyboard controls
• Images and Links: All non-decorative images have alt-text defined or an API is provided. Link text is defined.
• Contrast: Text, icons, and background are designed for accessible contrast ratios (3:1, 4.5:1 for text)
• Structure: Heading levels are defined appropriately within the template
• Reflow: Components and pages built for unidirectional scroll at 400% zoom
• JAWS/Voice over: The above accessibility attributes ensure AT tools can interact with the page; all components tested with JAWS and iOS voice over.

Data visualization

Redwood and the Oracle Applications Platform provide very rich data visualization capabilities to let you see data in new ways, discover hidden insights, and unlock possibilities.

The platform stores your data securely, to help you find the data you need with ease, and to use data to continuously improve the system. We believe there are new insights that your users and your enterprise can obtain when we use the Redwood platform to visualize that data in new and meaningful ways.

Data visualization has always been a strength of Oracle's offerings, and our next-generation visualizations in Redwood and the Oracle Applications Platform will enable developers to separate their application experiences offerings from the competition, by helping your users and your business discover hidden insights and new possibilities.

Business objects

Business objects are the central point where all application business data and business logic reside. Enterprise applications demand large complex data models that require high performance, flexibility, scalability and extensibility. The Oracle Application Platform business objects capability provides greater scalability and better performance for faster UI, a consistent REST API for transactional data and also for search and analytics. Developers, partners and customers can extend the data model by adding objects, attributes and logic and these changes will flow through the application user interface automatically via the Redwood templates and components.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Applications Platform

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a set of complementary cloud services that enable you to build and run a range of applications and services. OCI provides high-performance compute capabilities and storage capacity that is securely accessible from your network.

Since Oracle Applications run on OCI it gives you the following key benefits:

• Pre-built and extended application functionality
• Hybrid and multi-cloud interoperability
• Built-in security
• Automatic technology updates
• Advanced analytics
• Superior performance

Learn more about OCI and Oracle Applications

Source: https://redwood.oracle.com/