Five Ideas: Applications Express
How APEX helps you build innovation apps, plus what users can expect next.
September 2009
“Application Express helped me to rapidly design, develop and deploy a fully functional micro-blogging application [called OraTweet]. Back in May 2008, I joined Twitter and realized the potential it could have in the enterprise field. At that time there was no real enterprise offerings so I decided to use Application Express to build a free distributable package. I have been using Application Express since 2004. I first learned of it when I attended a free class provided by the Utah Oracle Users Group (UTOUG). At the time I was a software developer building applications with c|net and realized how much time I could save by using Application Express instead.”—Noel Portugal, Oracle Senior Technical Analyst for CRM On Demand Operations
“The premise of the competition, announced in June 2009, was to seek the 'best' application (as determined by a panel of judges) of Oracle Application Express to a business problem. The guidelines were quite detailed. Eric [ Brandenburg]'s app, IT Access, is designed to track the assignment of physical IT assets and/or application access to employees — with one of the main goals being to decommission those assignments when an employee leaves the company.”—OTN's Justin Kestelyn on the Oracle Apex Developer Competition
“The hallmark feature for Applications Express 4.0 is this idea called a Websheet... It's kind of like a spreadsheet in that it's designed for anyone who can operate a spreadsheet...but it's really designed, not to solve every problem that a spreadsheet solves, but to solve the problem of maintaining spreadsheet data across multiple users.”—Mike Hichwa, vice president of Software Development, Oracle
“I already knew what an Oracle database could do, but more importantly I knew it came equipped with APEX, and given the task at hand, and the limited skills that my team had, I knew the only way I was going to be able to pull this off was to utilize APEX.”—Ramon Padilla, assistant vice chancellor of information resource management for the Board of Governors for the State University System of Florida
“We went through a series of dry runs and stress testing to ensure that the Oracle Application Express environment could handle the load that we anticipated on election night. We stressed the bandwidth at 275MB all the way up to 500MB and couldn't bring the Oracle Application Express site down or degrade the performance to an unacceptable level. It worked really well for us.”—Robert Mangan, chief information officer, Ohio secretary of state’s office
