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# Oracle Application Express Reviews
**Vendor:** Oracle  
**Category:** [Low-Code Development Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/low-code-development-platforms)  
**Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 85
## About Oracle Application Express
Oracle Application Express enables you to design, develop and deploy beautiful, responsive, database-driven applications using only your web browser




## Oracle Application Express Reviews
  ### 1. Very intitive , easy and fast way to create reports . Administration is also intuitive

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Fast way to create report foe bussines user. Administration is simple.
Transfering apl fromone enviroment to another is very simple.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Maybe,  community and support location with practic exapmles is still not wide.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Actualy I have application for interconnect billing through which busaines user do billing administration

  ### 2. Recommended

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Covering many businesses
Leading the erp market

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Marketing module is not that much good 
Certificate program is not clearly explained

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Can manage ur business by oracle solutions

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I did not utilize oae but I know it as a very competitive solutions in the erp.market for many businesses

  ### 3. my review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

incredbile application. it is very helpful during my working days

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

i have an old computer and sometimes my pc is slow. but i don't know

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

it very useful to use oracle application express. it changes your life

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

i save the world from the darkness

  ### 4. Oracle Apex in US DOL/ OSHA

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Great Oracle product to creat fast and flexible web applications, with great experience using Oracle Database integration.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Only for Reports Edition and creation Templates is easier to use third product as xls-FO editor.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Create New Intervention systems with high Oracle databse interaction.

  ### 5. Small and Medium web application development

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Simple development architecture to build small to medium enterprise applications

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

UI development needs knowledge on scripting languages..if Apex can comeup with easy approach that would be great.

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Ease of use and web application development.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Medium enterprise application that solved project resource reporting.

  ### 6. features lack and new features required

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

good for static side web development and small mobile app development.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

not have full tutorials for full Mobile App development and migrating data from mobile server to oracle middleware applications.
---- not able to create own payment gateway for receiving money

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

resolve attendance and teacher activities problems

  ### 7. Simplified things but complexed other

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Drag and drop to create user interface
Easy data management

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

It has multiple setbacks when coding, some unknown negatives like when using variables in select statements, the values are not always saved, which takes time to debug

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Hospital information system modules are build on Apex

  ### 8. I have developed  MIS, Central Bank Reporting tools with this RAD tools.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

#RAD Tool
#Low Code Development
#Easy Page Design
#World Class UI
#Immediate Results
#Powerful Components
#Responsive Design
#Beautiful Apps. Done.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

As an oracle propitiatory product it only runs in Oracle Database. I think Oracle should release this product for all kinds of database.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Rapid development  and  shortage code.

  ### 9. Great SW Dev Environment!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

It's a great web-based software development environment.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

As far as I know, There is nothing to tell about dislike.

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Users can directly choose Oracle Application Express for web-based development environment. No need to think about choosing the product.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It was a great development environment for software development.

  ### 10. Very Useful for your Oracle Database Development

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

You can save the your database tables and queries in files to share

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Bit bulky take time to open thats why i prefer cmd line to wright queries

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use this for my Sql Development not for corporate purpose

  ### 11. Very nice application

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Good for fast-paces development. Thumbs up!

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Need more options for user customization.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Can be compared to Salesforce.

  ### 12. Oracle Application Express: likelihood to recommend

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Ease of use and features. The fact that is cloud based is a big plus.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Nothing as such. The platform is amazing

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My applications were not used to be much scalable and secure and after using Oracle application express we found many progress.

  ### 13. Optimized and Intelligent

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Oracle APEX is Quick to Learn
Start Simple, Small and Manageable
APEX Can Quickly Take the Work To an Expert Level

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Nothing much. Please include lots of knowledge articles

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Include more KBs and Knowledge Articls

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

No problems and no complaints

  ### 14. The most helpful platform and the most efficient.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

UI part as well as the speed it provides to perform activities.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

More calculative actions would be helpful.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Working on Healthcare project and handling data is very easy.

  ### 15. Oracle application express is great tool to use

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

It pretty and great tool to work with .Creating reports and forms is pretty simple

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

It should have easy integration mappings like ICS

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We used it for different data visulization and data display

  ### 16. Good product

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

It is very handy and easy to use with several options.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

GUI can be more better and more shortcut should be there.

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Gif. Gdn b

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Data storage while integration with third party.

  ### 17. Great for enterprise and for departmental applications.  Fast to develop and deploy.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Affairs | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The development speed.  The fact that we can leverage the SQL and PL/SQL skills of our workforce.
Delivery of clean user interfaces with minimal CSS or JavaScript knowledge.  Scalability - we run some very large systems that scale to millions of page views.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Weak integration with Sharepoint and SAML2.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Custom application that are extremely specific to our organisation.  We estimate that development speed is two to three times faster than our previous environments (mostly Java).

  ### 18. Amazed by effectiveness and ease of use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

I really love that APEX is easy to use and caters for all skill levels. Even a novice or citizen developer can build apps. If you are a pro, you can get even more out of APEX.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

There is nothing really I don't like, as everything can be workarounded or extended with plugins.

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Just do it !

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We've built a Framework, a set of 160+ plugins, on top of APEX. With those plugins we can extend APEX to build even better apps, which our customers do worldwide.

  ### 19. Interesting alternative application-development path

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The design seems relatively well organized once logged in

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

It wasn't clear how to create an Oracle Cloud account. I mistakenly signed up for a regular Oracle account first, because the UI pointed me to that.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Trying to see if it can be easier to some things with Oracle Application Express (vs. other solutions).

  ### 20. Creation of Dashboard and show statistics

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2019

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

ease of use of database design tools such as views and user interfaces

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Integration of tools for generation of end user reports, for example Jasper

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Allows the use of a functional and productive version but limited by storage and processor, so you can use the tool to value and experiment with it

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Show statistics and dashboard for decision making

  ### 21. I liked App Express bt thought it was a bit difficult to use.

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Carl N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The best thing about ti was that a non developer could use it to build a report. Or something else that was useful. Developers might not be as interested but non developers i see use for them.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

This is related to my last answer. I felt it was a bit difficult to use. I thought it would be good for non developers but also hard to understand how to use for non dedevlopers.


**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Business users need custom reports and i think App Express is good for this.

  ### 22. Application Express helps to satisfy a business need

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

APEX is very easy for our developer team to use and to learn. We are able to accomplish the given tasks in a fairly short amount of time.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Our only complaint would be that we fell quite far behind on updating this application but there were never any flags. Upon upgrading our DB we ended up needing an additional 2 weeks of time to upgrade APEX.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have created a custom process/form for tracking our internal stock ownership and valuation. By creating this application we have saved many hours for our admin staff.

  ### 23. Quick and dirty UI atop your db

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

I like the pre built applications that come with apex.  They show you how to use pl/sql and rest by way of example.  You can also implement apex with other oracle proucts sincee u can use rest easily.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Although its pretty robust, there are limitations,  Aoex is not a full platform ike SOA and doesnt have any bpmn bpel ccmponents.  If your DB  is already running this eveyrthig is fine, if not its difficuilt to integrate with a different db

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

It comes with the DB so why not

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

quickly writing a UI

  ### 24. Simple tool to develop web pages instantly

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The flexible environment to develop web based application. I developed one for my company which was used by all employees. 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Problem with reporting. Could have a been better

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Developed employee directory which was used company wide and had at least a million hit a month

  ### 25. Jan Emerald - Oracle Application Express Experience

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abdul A. | Chief Executive, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2017

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

good forms development, Lack reporting. 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

No validations on interactive grid entry

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

develop some testing forms and reports and check for the feature you require. especially the reporting features are not very good and you will have to apply third party tools for reporting, import report data into excel is also an issue. Must done a good homework before shifting to this. But one good thing is the product is not very difficult to understand and if you have some programming experience you can handle things.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

One Project is Trading and Distribution System, other is Online-Screening Services. Best is it is stable durable. Worst is we are bound to strictly follow the structure, we cannot any how put columns and items as per our requirements.

  ### 26. Decent program

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Katy A. G. | Human Resources Manager, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Oracle is pretty user-friendly and self-explanatory.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

It sometimes crashes on us and takes a while to come back up.

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Give it a shot. You may be surprised.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is our main HRIS system.

  ### 27. Interactive Grid

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

There are many people adding features to this software.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Can be difficult to learn and I encounter bugs occasionally.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am working on a 2d interactive grid with a variable number of horizontal lines that can be manipulated at any point.

  ### 28. APEX, Best “alternative”

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bo A. | Oracle DBA, Plastics, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Performance and very easy to deploy apex application 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Not very user/developer/DBA friendly interface 

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Rewrite “generally slower” oracle report with APEX application. Time reduced on queries are very significant.

  ### 29. I develop light APEX applications for  the Academic departments at a private university. 

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kara R. | Business Data Analyst III - Analytics and Decision Support, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

APEX is very customizable from a functionality standpoint. It can handle almost every logical issue with the help of a custom package and functions/procedures. I also really like that we can build in custom reports that are delivered when we deploy. 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

I've found that APEX can be a bit glitchy when I'm trying to customize the layout within templates. Simple things like centering reports without taking a lot of time to write custom css, turn out to be a bit frustrating. Also, practical documentation is really hard to come by. Many people who do my job have no formal appdev training, and trust on trial and error as we go. 

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

I know that not everyone is like me and lots of folks have a better grasp on how to jump into projects using APEX, but I've been using it as a necessity for a year and solving problems by bouncing around forums is a harsh way to learn how to use the software. Better, user friendly, actual use cases not just technical details and capabilities would be very helpful. 

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I'm currently using APEX to solve some normalization issues for the my Universities Library. They go through annual reporting for accreditation purposes -- logged data is variable, often incomplete, and typically lacking key information. Connecting their data entry to our warehouse allows them to validate on the go, and will significantly minimize their reporting woes at the end of the year.

  ### 30. APEX

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dustin W. | Business Data Analyst III- Academics Team Lead, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Apex is a great way to turn paper processes into a digital solution. It can connect to the SIS and other connections easily and once you have experience can turn out small to mid sized applications quickly.  Product allows for a great variety and gives our developers a lot of different options when developing an application.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

There can be a steep learning curve to the program. It can take my developers 2-3 development until they have a grasp on what the software can do and how to use it effectively. 

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are converting a lot of old SharePoint process to Apex applications.  We are also developing new applications using this software. Most of the applications are being used to transitioned an old process to something more efficient and to a place were data can be queried. 

  ### 31. Excellent choice for rapid application prototyping and enterprise development 

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abhinav R. | Manager, Business Intelligence, Research and Analytics, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

 - Rapid deployment
 - Rapid application development, out of the box
 - Out of the box session and security management
 - Comes free with Oracle (fully supported by Oracle too)
 - Amazing plugin functionality and support
 - Flexible templates and designs
 - Very robust and every version comes with great upgrades and features
 - Surprisingly fast for the number of db queries

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

 - It is unlike any other development IDE out there, so takes a while to get used to (steep learning curve)
 - some developers might prefer more control on the environment - all is possible - but developers have strict preferences
 - it is running PL/SQL, and doesn't quite follow the MVC framework - though it is based on how you as a developer builds up the code

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have used APEX from building a web application for a startup using Oracle XE to enterprise level applications managing hundreds of thousands of records.
 - It is a great way to standardize application development
 - Hassle free security and session management
 - Integrated easily with CAS SSO (had to write my own bridge/gateway in PLSQL)
 - Easy prototyping when building applications
 - Easy to debug and flexibility in error logging
 - Easy to handle AJAX calls
 - Templates are a breeze to develop and manage and comes with numerous standard amazing templates

  ### 32. Somewhat intuitive, but difficult to find support.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steve M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The page designer view was pretty easy to learn, with a window giving a rough idea of how your page would look when run. 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Most of the error messages that would get thrown had little to no explanation, just an error code. It often took me a long time to find a solution to the error searching through Oracle forums.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Using an application to allow our employees to interact with our database that is secure.

  ### 33. Application development for delivery made easy

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

With APEX, I'm able to easily spin up a user-facing application that allows them to view/update/add information and interact with our data warehouse systems without requiring them to know how to code. 

Allows me to build web apps for user interaction without having to worry about the user authentication side of the house. 

The REST functionality allows me to communicate with outside services and include their data with the information presented to the user.

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

The steep learning curve is my greatest issue with this software. 

Some of the things it attempts to accomplish may be better done in other software. 

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

Be willing to put in the time to learn this application and you can produce awesome results.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

By using a template in Apex, we're able to create a standard look and feel for our applications throughout the organization. 

We can create reports and applications that are built for specific use cases in a centralized application preventing us from support other languages or systems. 

  ### 34. My Oracle review

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brennan B. | Business Analyst, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

The user interface. The interface is aesthetically appealing. It is extremely customizable with very little parameters

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

The amount of time it takes to develop. It can be extremely time consuming setting up the most basic applications.

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are creating forms for users to use on a daily basis.  The app is more secure than other applications previously used

  ### 35. The best of APEX

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2016

**What do you like best about Oracle Application Express?**

Oracle Application Express or Oracle Apex or formerly called HTML DB is the same, various names to define the same product, been around 2002 and part of oracle database installations since 2004.

With Oracle database benefits on back end, try build the web generation, the origins are replace MS access. The developers not need adicional information or learn tons of documentation or other degree to start build with Oracle Apex. We find APEX to be a great tool for rapid development and maintenance of efficient, responsive and scalable applications.

The security, Oracle apex have numerous features out-of-the-box, easily can authenticate over LDAP, Oracle Single-signon, Oracle Database credentials, or HTTP Header variable. 

The best think of apex is "Built in Apex to Deploy Apex", and is true, developers not need anything more

The cost is the best, capitalize database investment, amazing solution at very low price or even free with oracle XE database. 

**What do you dislike about Oracle Application Express?**

Installation complexity is the worst. The conversion rate is very high when new developers join. 
The web networks standards not meet in APEX. 

**Recommendations to others considering Oracle Application Express:**

The learning curve is very easy and short. 

**What problems is Oracle Application Express solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Develop rich web apps very quickly 


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## Oracle Application Express Features
**Functionality**
- Ease of Use
- File Management
- Multi-Language Support
- Customization
- Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality
- Help Guides
- Patching & Updates

**Application Design**
- UI Code Extending
- Programming Code Extending
- Customized Branding
- Application Templates
- Workflows

**Data Control**
- Data Migration
- Data Synchronization
- Data Security

**Publishing**
- Application Deployment
- Platform Compatability
- Lifecycle Management

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- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance

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  - [Mendix](https://www.g2.com/products/mendix/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (317 reviews)
  - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,823 reviews)

