Things we love about Oracle APEX

15Feb

Things we love about Oracle APEX

By: Marc Ruel On: February 15, 2022 In: APEX Basics, APEX Developer Solutions Comments: 1

February 15, 2022

There are so many things to love about Oracle APEX, as those of us who are lucky to work with it every day will tell you. So, Valentine’s Day seemed like the perfect occasion to celebrate our affection for this unique application development platform.

We asked our co-workers at Insum as well as our peers in the community what they love about Oracle APEX.

Here are some of their responses!

But before you read on, an ode to Oracle APEX…

Insum said..

“I love how I can focus on the business rules while APEX is in charge of display it beautifully/ I love how I can invest less time in basic features and focus on complex ones”

Doris Serruto

APEX Consultant, Insum

Things we love about Oracle APEX Richard Soule

“I love the ability for business users to role out their own applications with a single day of training.

I love the strength of the APEX community.

I love the incredible customer focus and responsiveness of the development team. Literally no other team at Oracle is as responsive to it’s community.”

Richard Soule

Director of Consulting Services, Insum.

“I love the way we can easily integrate JavaScript and CSS, use many plugins and libraries to create a friendly user interface.”

Angel Flores

APEX Consultant, Insum

“I♥️#orclapex because it allows a developer like me who knows lots of #PLSQL, a little #SQL, and little else to BUILD AND DELIVER WEBSITES!”

Steven Feuerstein

Senior Advisor, Insum

What I love about #orclapex, is its community. Great people, fun to work with, open, always there to help and learn. Can’t wait to meet in person at conferences again. I miss y’all #HappyValentinesDay

Francis Mignault

Parter/General Manager, Insum

I love that #orclapex made me look like a rock star to my kids on more than 1 occasion. An app to track your University fitness challenge with your peers? Here you go. An app to help you and your friends with your math drills? Voilà! 🔥💪

Michelle Skamene

VP Consulting, Insum

Things we love about Oracle APEX Plamen Mushkov

Number one for me (and the reason I liked it so much in the beginning): It is damn easy to create an application with basically no knowledge of any web technology, and little or no SQL knowledge.

On top of that, the second best thing – you can extend it a lot and apply as much custom code as you like – CSS, JavaScript, HTML, you name it.

Third best – no middle tier – directly from database to the web app.

Everything else is just a bonus to me, but yes – a great community, great development team within Oracle, rapid development of the product, implementing and supporting new technologies.

Also – FREE A fantastic reason to chose it. Not only the apex.oracle.com free workspace, but an Always Free OCI tier, including a compute, Autonomous DB (with APEX included) and a dedicated APEX service – also free with the standard limits. On-demand also possible with Oracle XE, Docker containers in place if needed and so on.

Plamen Mushkov

Senior APEX Consultant, Insum

And Twitter said…

https://twitter.com/martinbnielsen/status/1493141310311735297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22>February

What’s NOT to love about #orclAPEX?
APEX is the perfect partner to help you develop & mature.
A cheap date that allows you to reach your goals and asks for little but responds with more when you give more.
With a circle of friends that help you make it through the rough patches.
— david schleis (@dschleis) February 14, 2022

I love the fact that I can develop browser based apps without being an expert on CSS, HTML and Javascript.
— Juno (@sir_agnostic) February 11, 2022

You can make products very fast through it It is a rad tool..Give various solutions . Those interactive reports .Highlight color ,Those universal theme ,etc The users can easily use the product ,Filter ask any queries on data. Interactive Grid also a nice feature

— magazinecrm (@magmaxpro) February 15, 2022

I love that I'm able to build a fully functional DB centric web based application in a matter of hrs/days/wks instead of wks/months/yrs #orclapex
— Paul Morinaka (@simplyapex) February 11, 2022

https://twitter.com/fuzziebrain/status/1493321667581407233?s=20&t=6rCHm_gCzzLvFzvVL4Orrw

#LowCode is the best fit for you ever changing business needs!
— Ben Shumway (@BenJShumway) February 15, 2022

You are able to produce web reports and setup default filters and sort orders on the data. Users can customize their own reports from the master dataset and name them for future use.

— Ann Beals (@AnnieBeals) February 15, 2022

And what’s better than when a real-life customer chimes in!

Last week we went live with our R&L Billing System on #oraclapex+@apexofficeprint . No longer having to manually email 600+ invoices/month, means our staff can focus on more value add tasks and customers get their invoices quicker. #processautomation. @InsumSolutions @OracleAPEX

— gc2.0 (@giovanicani) February 11, 2022

All the above + RESTful Services ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️
— gc2.0 (@giovanicani) February 11, 2022

How about you? What do YOU love about Oracle APEX? Drop us a comment below.

1 Comment:

- Micael Simhas
- February 20, 2022
- Reply
I love Oracle Apex easy of integration with REST APIs. In 5 minutes and 3 lines of code you can have the response from a REST web service transformed into a table, to which you can apply SQL, just as you would on a database table. I am also a bit sad to see how this impressive feature is often overlooked, and doesn’t always make it to top 5.

Things we love about Oracle APEX