APEX Blog

In house vs outsource

So, you’ve decided to develop your own application. …but should you develop in-house, or outsource it? Maybe the answer could be ‘both’ You’ve been asked to commission a new..

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BI for small businesses: be clued-up or get slowed-down

Business Intelligence is vital for growing businesses.

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Your Business is Special: So why buy business software, designed for everyone else?

As a rule, the majority of businesses buy their business software ‘off-the-shelf’, but is the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach really the best strategy?

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The ‘Complete Contractor’

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How much does it really cost to build a business-class application on an oracle database?

Answer: Surprisingly little with Oracle Application Express (APEX)

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Re-evaluate your software for 2015

It’s New Year: Is it time to re-evaluate your business software? We’ve put together a handy guide to help you re-evaluate your business software for the coming year.

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Securing Vulnerability Exploits with Apex – Part 3

For my final security blog I will be looking at SQL injection and cross site scripting, both of which should always be considered when developing a web based application. Apex has..

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ORDS 3 – Installation

This article builds on the ORDS blogs I have been writing but moves forward a little to look at the ORDS version 3 early adopter and specifically getting it up and running.

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Securing Vulnerability Exploits with Apex – Part 2

Following on from my last blog, which focused on configuring access control within Apex, the focus of this blog is protecting the session state within an application. We will look..

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Replacing Discoverer with APEX and BIP – A Perfect Match

I have already looked at the fact that APEX is a perfect replacement for Discoverer in an earlier blog post and that inbuilt tools such as the powerful APEX interactive report..

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