AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today is
making its popular APEX low-code development platform available as
a managed cloud service that developers can use to build
data-driven enterprise applications quickly and easily. Oracle APEX
Application Development expands on two decades of APEX
functionality already used by 500,000 developers as an easy-to-use,
browser-based service for creating modern Web and mobile apps.
While the original APEX platform was only available as part of the
Oracle Database, APEX Application Development is available as a
standalone service and works with a variety of applications.
Starting at $360 per month, the APEX
service supports unlimited applications across 500+ users and
elastically scales as additional capacity is needed. A recent study
from Pique Solutions showed that developers could build
enterprise applications 38x faster with the Oracle APEX
service without having to learn complex, full-stack
technologies.
Developers interested in easy, declarative development instead
of complex traditional coding can start building low-code
applications for free using the new APEX Application Development
service, which is included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
Applications built and deployed using the APEX Application
Development service benefit from high security, scalability,
availability and performance provided by Oracle Autonomous
Database, allowing developers to focus on solving business problems
and not the underlying technology.
"Oracle continues to support developer communities and the new
APEX service is the latest example, enabling citizen developers,
business analysts, and professional developers to rapidly create
and deploy beautiful, responsive, data-driven applications with
minimal effort," said Andrew
Mendelsohn, executive vice president, database server
technologies, Oracle. "APEX is powerful enough to build the vast
majority of business applications. Building data-driven
applications with traditional coding should now be the exception
rather than the rule."
The APEX service is also pre-configured with Oracle REST Data
Services (ORDS) and SQL Developer Web. Developers can utilize ORDS
to create custom REST APIs against their application data and SQL
Developer Web to compose SQL queries and graphically model data. If
the business requires traditional coding against the database
beyond what can be done in APEX, then with one click developers can
upgrade the service to a full Oracle Autonomous Transaction
Processing database with Oracle APEX that supports the full Oracle
Database client APIs, SQL*Net, and Autonomous Data Guard.
The Oracle APEX architecture provides extremely tight
integration with the database, enabling a 10x reduction in round
trips between the application and the database, resulting in much
faster response times for end-users of data-driven applications.
Additionally, APEX allows application developers to fully exploit
the power and simplicity of SQL.
Pricing
The APEX Application Development service
includes everything needed to build and run low-code applications,
with no extra fees per user, per developer, per application, or for
data ingress and egress, making it easy for developers to build and
deploy applications at scale. The APEX service is fully managed, so
customers do not need to manage the application platform, database
or infrastructure. Starting at $360
per month for 1 OCPU and 1TB of data, which can easily support more
than 500 active users using multiple applications, the APEX service
can elastically scale to support larger workloads when needed.
Oracle APEX: Delighting Customers and Partners for Nearly Two
Decades
"Whether you know it or not, Oracle APEX has been around for the
best part of two decades, and has evolved to be an
industry-leading, low-code, data-driven application development
framework with over 500,000 community developers," said
Mark Peters, senior analyst and
practice director, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "No other
development platform better exploits the unique capabilities of the
Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata in OCI. Best of luck
finding another low-code cloud platform that provides its level of
scale, cost effectiveness, proven-ruggedness, and
ease-of-deployment."
"In late 2019 we started leveraging Oracle Autonomous Database
with APEX on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deliver a
mission-critical solution within our Logistics Division," said
Giovani Cani, vice president, IT
delivery, Wilson Transportation & Leasing Group. "The APEX
low-code platform has enabled the delivery team to quickly go from
prototype to a final product and rollout within five months. The
result was a secure, elegant, and responsive web-based solution
deployed in four distribution centers being used by more than 250
active users around the clock managing a fleet of 600 assets."
"Without a doubt, Oracle APEX on Autonomous Database is the gold
standard for low-code development platforms. For almost 20 years,
we have built our entire business on APEX," said Michelle Skamene, vice president, Insum
Solutions. "It has given us a huge competitive advantage, allowing
us to deliver beautiful, scalable, feature-rich solutions for our
clients in a fraction of the time compared to any other technology
we've seen. We're delighted to see this new offering from Oracle,
which offers a simple and more affordable entry point into the
world of APEX on Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud."
"We have used Oracle APEX since its very inception, and in that
time we have found it to be the most flexible, powerful, scalable
and cost effective solution available to us. We have based an
entire solution development strategy on an APEX platform, and can
deliver low-code solutions to a higher quality, lower cost and
quicker timescales than the equivalent tools from other providers,"
said Dermot Murray, vice president
ideation, Inoapps. "The continuous delivery of new capabilities,
combined with the power of the underlying Oracle Cloud database,
allows us to deliver a huge range of business use cases both
internally and to our customers."
Additional Resources
- Watch Oracle Live with Andy
Mendelsohn
- Learn more about APEX Application Development
- Get an in-depth look the latest database innovations
- Try Oracle APEX Application Development
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