Thursday, September 14, 2017

The Insurance of Oracle APEX - Can Your Low Code Framework Do This?

Oracle Application Express (APEX) runs wherever the Oracle Database runs.  I've said these words to thousands of customers and partners for the last 15 years.  So why should you care?  Simple.  Peace of mind.

Last evening, Amazon Web Services tweeted the following announcement:

"Use Amazon RDS for Oracle with Oracle APEX versions 5.0.4 & 5.1.2 to build applications within your web browser."


Now, one might think I'm daft for even mentioning AWS on my blog, but I think this presents an opportunity to emphasize two very important points about Oracle APEX:

  1. While I believe that Oracle Cloud is superior for running your Oracle APEX applications, if for some reason you need to not run it on the Oracle Cloud at some later date, you have that choice.
  2. Oracle APEX is not exclusively a cloud-only solution.  You can run it in the Oracle Cloud (my preference), you can run it on AWS, you can use a number of other hosting providers, you can run it with other infrastructure providers, but you can also choose to run it on-premises.  And you can change your mind among these options whenever you wish.  This is very powerful.

Oracle Application Express is a part of every Oracle Database Cloud Service from Oracle, including:

There are other cloud services coming from Oracle later this year which will also include and feature Oracle APEX.

If you think that the Oracle Database is only good for storing data (i.e., a "bit bucket"), you'd be wrong.  If you're unfamiliar with Oracle APEX, please check out this Simple Guide to Oracle APEX.  From bespoke applications in the Oracle Cloud & on-premises to Oracle ERP Cloud PaaS Extensions using Oracle APEX, our customers and partners are really killing it with the Oracle Database and Oracle APEX.


P.S.  Kudos to Amazon for referencing it as Oracle APEX and not Oracle Apex!
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2 comments:

  1. Jon DSeptember 14, 2017 5:58 PM

    Couldn’t agree more. See our recent blog for some of our use cases for using APEX to extend ERP Cloud. http://www.jmjcloud.com/blog/erp-cloud-paas-extensions-using-apex

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  2. UnknownSeptember 27, 2017 8:44 PM

    The cloud enables businesses agility and nimbleness. Building apps on low code accelerates that nimbleness and agility. Application Express is the key enabler to that goal. So awesome that AWS sees the value in APEX so that they added it to their RDS offering!!!!

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