The ideal tool for quickly creating web applications on an Oracle database.
July 29, 2019
The ideal tool for quickly creating web applications on an Oracle database.
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Application Express
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.
- Easy upgrade path from Forms, allowing reuse of code and a low learning curve for Forms developers.
- Very quick to develop in. Ideal for prototyping or iterative development which is how we usually work.
- Comes with cross browser and mobile compatibility out of the box.
- Easy to incorporate other web technologies.
- Development environment runs straight from a browser. This has proved to be a life saver when issues crop up on a weekend.
- No built in printing solution for reports.
- While being low code for many tasks, some web development skill is helpful for anything complex. I frequently need to use Javascript/CSS/HTML.
- It has increased our development output over Forms greatly. For instance, when starting at my current company, I was able to replace our aging ASP Intranet site within 4 months when our IT manager had budgeted over a year for the task.
- We've been able to standardize under one technology, incorporating previously unsupportable disparate systems under one roof.
- It's free with an Oracle Database so the only investment was our time, something we now have more of thanks to Application Express.