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Oracle APEX

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What is Oracle APEX?

Oracle APEX (or Oracle Application Express) is an online low-code application builder that allows users to develop a database-drive application, customize the application's UI, and then give their users access to the application via URL. Oracle APEX includes a suite…

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Awesome APEX

10 out of 10
October 23, 2019
Incentivized
APEX is being used by our Financial department as well as HR supporting a variety of applications. It is a wonderful tool supporting a …
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Popular Features

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  • Reusability (22)
    9.6
    96%
  • Platform User Management (22)
    9.4
    94%
  • Platform Security (22)
    9.2
    92%
  • Drag-and-drop Interfaces (22)
    8.0
    80%

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Pricing

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Oracle APEX Application Development

$0.32

Cloud
OCPU per hour

Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing - Exadata Storage

$118.40

Cloud
Terabyte storage capacity per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://apex.oracle.com/en/learn/gettin…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Application Express Demo

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EBS-APEX - Demo EBS Extensions Using APEX Applications

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Introduction to Oracle Application Express (APEX) Tutorial

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Oracle Application Express

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Pharmacy Online demo built in Oracle Application Express from http://dbswh.com

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Features

Low-Code Development

Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.

9.2
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Oracle APEX?

Oracle APEX (or Oracle Application Express) is an online low-code application builder that allows users to develop a database-drive application, customize the application's UI, and then give their users access to the application via URL. Oracle APEX includes a suite of pre-built productivity applications and examples, such as a Survey Builder, Bug Tracking, P-Track project management, etc

Oracle APEX Competitors

Oracle APEX Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle APEX (or Oracle Application Express) is an online low-code application builder that allows users to develop a database-drive application, customize the application's UI, and then give their users access to the application via URL. Oracle APEX includes a suite of pre-built productivity applications and examples, such as a Survey Builder, Bug Tracking, P-Track project management, etc

PostgreSQL are common alternatives for Oracle APEX.

Reviewers rate Visual Modeling and Reusability highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Oracle APEX are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My Organization used Oracle Application Express for many custom applications, few are open on Internet. These applications cover areas like ERP security, ERP related complex reports, Dashboards, Manufacturing related, etc. Our apps are integrated with ERP, Cloud based CRMs, many licensing applications, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Currently we use Oracle Application Express in only one department, but looking at how easy and fast is to add more small apps solving different tasks I believe it will be broadly adopted by a large audience very shortly.
I want to share my experience in one app we did. We are maintaining a relatively large data warehouse, design in star schema. This was used as a source for few BI tools and standard reports presenting some parts of Data Warehouse, but there was always a need for people with no SQL knowledge to get look in some part of data warehouse not presented in existing reports and tools to explore new possibilities or just to verify data. So we need some kind of simple presentation layer that quickly and easily can expose the data model and provide access to end user where they can review data in form of tables or charts. APEX look like is the perfect environment for that.
Missing bit in APEX is built in functionality to define data model but that was easily solved by simple web forms where power user can define relations between fact and dimensions and store that metadata to enable dynamically SQL generation later by end users. The end users can generate dataset automatically using simple graphical interface, without the need to know SQL. Data presentation is power by a dynamically populated APEX interactive data grid. It appears that the solution was adopted by users well and we enriched it quite easily with adding functionality to organize access to app by user, roles and different permissions enabling user to share report definitions between them. This is app working internally but I created an instance of it in OCI where you can see how it works presenting a sample oracle star schema model.
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At first, Oracle Application Express was used by only one department. However, after realizing the benefit, gradually it has been adopted by the whole organization. It addresses 90% of business cases, mostly on the operation and accounting side, such as building small ERP, workflow framework, tracking assets and licenses, issue tracking system, and also can be used to analyze and monitor various data, such as activity log and sales dashboard.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express is being used by IT engineers. They build reports and small applications for our users in other departments, especially the marketing and financial departments.
Lisandro Fernigrini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Right now I created a small app to track pending/ongoing tasks using APEX on the newly available Oracle Cloud Free Tier. I decided to create it to simplify how I manage and execute my daily tasks in order to be able to both track advance and manage dependencies between tasks. I use Trello to keep boards with simple tasks but managing dependencies was something not simple to achieve, so I decided to try a solution that solved my problems while starting to use APEX.
October 23, 2019

Awesome APEX

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
APEX is being used by our Financial department as well as HR supporting a variety of applications. It is a wonderful tool supporting a variety of interfaces.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
First of all, it's very easy to use and within hours I can have an application made. I like that the interface is useable and easy to navigate. I also liked that there is a lot of configuration possibilities. I found a lot of plugins available for it, so it makes our development much easier.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express serves as a prime web and mobile application builder for our organisation. It is used internally to serve apps that we use on a daily basis and also build apps for clients. It has provided much needed security and a fast way to build apps by just focusing on the data, taking and presentation of that data to the client while still being fully integrated on the oracle platform with easy access to database and services.
Christian Remy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express is used across the whole organization. We have a lot of simple report applications we use it for (A translation app, an administration app, and a lot more).
Glenn Roberts III | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
LeeSar began using Oracle Application Express version 3.x in 2011 initially primarily for reporting, dashboarding, graphing in support of data warehouse/conversion processes toward migrating to more modern Oracle based systems supporting core operations. Since multiple applications have been created from small ancillary gap oriented to ones used across the whole organization supporting day-to-day mission critical business operations.
Igor Filko | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Oracle APEX in production in over 10 applications across the whole organization. It has been implemented to serve various functions, from the web portal to the ticketing system. Calendar, business white and yellow pages, web portal, asset management, IT HelpDesk and ServiceDesk (ITIL) ticketing system, car reservations application, halls and rooms reservations application and more.
Boyd Timmerman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle APEX is used throughout the company on different levels. Within the company, APEX is used as a back-office management system, like registration of hours and billing. But also as a communication tool: the company news is spread through an APEX application. APEX is also used as one of the main tools to develop applications for our customers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our business has been using Oracle Forms for around 15 years for our in-house systems covering manufacturing, stock, transport, and sales activity. Oracle Application Express provides us with a low code and free means to modernize these systems, speeding up development in the process while reusing much of the existing code. It has also been used to replace legacy ASP sites and we are using ORDS as a means to provide REST services to an iPhone app used by our consultants.
Bernhard Fischer-Wasels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

tennisapp.bfw-design.de (Oracle APEX 4.2/5.2/18.2)

BIB-Lueneburg APP (Oracle APEX-Mobile)

BIB-Lüneburg - Fairground Booking system (Oracle APEX)

ESFA - Clubmember Administration and Bookkeeping (Oracle APEX 5.2/18.2)

Facility Management with Financial Acconting (Oracle APEX 18.2)

KIS - Kundeninformationssystem (CRM + ERP + Controlling + HR) für Gutachterbüro - 200+ Mitarbeiter (Oracle APEX 5.2/18.2)

Module: Enter Order (ERP), Sales (CRM), Controlling, Management/Reports, Training Planing, Complaint Management,
Vacation/Absence Administration with approval process and calendar visualisation
73 Tables, 309 pages, Accounting: hostet (cloud) application
In production sind August 2017 - daily entering of about 900-1000 orders by 200 employees, daily settlement.
Printing (PDF) based on Jasper-Reports.

Construction Company: Working hours collection/monitoring with Tablet/Smartphone inkcl. Interface to DATEV und external Salary calculation provider (Oracle APEX 18.2)

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express is the best solution for most customers I was working with over the last couple of years. If you need to create fast and intuitive applications for creating, editing or manipulating data in your Oracle Database - APEX is your tool to go with! Inside our consulting company, we're using APEX for vacation requests, travel requests and some service applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work for a renowned University and here, we build applications to attend to our clients that work in our department and our needs. Usually clients submit the desired project describing their needs on an Oracle Apex page, and after that we start to work on them. Even working in a small team, we build complex apps and make a difference.
Roel Hartman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express (APEX) is used by my organization to solve business problems for other organizations. APEX enables us to create data-centric web applications using a low-code development tool. Developed applications are fast, responsive, scalable and secure.
The business problems are totally diverse, ranging from HR, CRM, ERP, mobile apps and portals.
APEX is mostly used in an environment where an Oracle database is already present -- that could be for developing in-house applications, or hosting Oracle's own ERP systems like Oracle E-Business Suite or any other Fusion product. APEX is the tool of choice if you want to build extensions or customizations to these standard applications.
And APEX is by design "cloud ready" -- it always has been and will always be.
February 11, 2019

Oracle Express

Jesse Boring | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used across the whole company. It is used for authentication and security purposes. It makes sure that we are all verified in each system that we access. It allows our developers to focus on the task at hand thanks to the suite of sample and productivity applications.
Mathieu Meeuwissen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our company we use APEX as the frontend application for our custom ERP system. In the old days we used Oracle Forms/Designer as our application. Nowadays we are migrating the Forms to APEX step by step, because we want to modernize the applications.
Katy A. Gray, M.S., PHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses it for an employee tracking and data analysis system. HR has main access to all employees, with other managers having limited access to just their direct reports. We also use it for compensation analysis and reporting. I also use it to ensure that those employees who are listed as active and are not paid are either put in a leave status or terminated.
Ryan Payne | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle Application Express can be used to serve many areas of the business and provide additional functionality for many applications. It is also robust enough to act as a standalone application platform. I have personally implemented it as a standalone inmate information management system. Employee survey and enrollment forms, accounting transaction entry and vendor information portal.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Oracle Application Express for the improvements of our Business.The tool is being used in several departments to access different systems. The use of Oracle APEX has replaced use of paper-based and spreadsheet-based checking of data on a day to day basis.
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