We learned from James Ward’s blog today that Oracle includes now Flex into their Business Intelligence tools (BI Publisher) , SVG being abandoned. The news coming from Oracle OpenWorld.

bi_pub.jpg

Flex grows in powerness for last two years , and become a must-have especially to create Rich UI and display sexy dashboards (thanks to the Chart library). Check this demo to see how effects have been enhanced (Cube effect is supported)

James Ward already has published 4 articles about this :

James (Flex evangelist at Adobe) has copresented a session at Oracle OpenWorld about RIA (Flex) and Siebel. He made a POC “Contact Radar”, that allows sales people to easily see how long it has been since they were in contact with their customers and potential customers. The full article is here.

We learn too that Oracle Enterprise Manager Team introduced their new Flex based UI to display database query reporting (here)

ent_man.jpg

Even the Metalink has been rebuilt (here)… now there is a Flex UI for the support knowledge database.

metalink.jpg

And a last article proves that Oracle definitively believes in the future of Rich Internet Application made with Adobe Flex.

Here the press release about Oracle & Adobe collaboration.

And James has already created hist first Flex portlets (for Oracle Portal)…. he provides these portlets at the following URL : http://www.jamesward.org:8888/flexportlets/providers/flex_portlets.

An Adobe article helped James to build his sample.

Thanks James for these news and the POC, and …WOW (effect)!!! Big thanks to Oracle for this great work.

Sources : here, here, here and here