Niels has been working since 2003 for Hyand Solutions GmbH, a midsize vendor-independent IT-consultancy company based in Germany. Before that, he was working as a consultant for Oracle in the Netherlands for two years. Niels has been using and actively promoting Oracle Application Express (APEX) since its initial release. Together with his team of APEX experts, he is responsible for customer projects based on this product. Niels shares his knowledge through the website apex.hyand.com and by speaking at various conferences. Niels is also the inventor of Flows for APEX, an open-source extension for APEX with which you can model and run BPMN2-compliant business processes.