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APEX-ED Review
December 15, 2017

APEX-ED Review

Richard John (Oracle Development) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Application Express

We use Oracle as our main development tool within the Oracle development team; we now have applications which extend almost every module of EBS that we have licensed, including Purchasing, HR, Payroll and many others.

APEX has allowed the Oracle development team to keep pace with the application development team and we now have the opportunity to create projects we wouldn't have in the past.
  • Allows for rapid application development - within days you can create applications that are business ready and have an intuitive UI.
  • Bridges the gap between database development and web development. Due to its declarative nature database developers with no web development experience can create enticing and visual front-ends. It allows you to dip your toes in the water of web development and slowly pick up the concepts.
  • Automated testing capabilities - it would be good if APEX could have some testing capabilities so that it could further speed up the development cycle.
  • More of a selection of declarative JET Charts and the JavaScript actions that can be done against them.
  • APEX is a no-cost option to the Oracle Database of any return is all extra - it has sped our development cycles up significantly meaning we spend less time in the development stages and get more done.
  • It has allowed us to create better software through standardisation - use of themes and templates controlled from a centralised point, not only keep all application with the corporate feel but saves time also.
  • It has brought the Application development team and the database development team closer - we now collaborate more closely and have cross-over skill-sets which compliment APEX Development.
Oracle APEX is very well suited if you want to bring old forms applications into the modern web landscape - they allow database developers with little to no skill in web development to create applications that can be easily distributed through E-Business responsibilities.

APEX also allows you to reduce silo working through the development of Access and Spread-sheet based data collection - with APEX you can easily re-design these applications and distribute across the internet making them global. Out of the box this can be done in a secure and logical manner.