With the recent announcement of Oracle APEX 24.1 featuring Mike Hichwa, SVP of Software Development (the creator of the Oracle APEX low-code platform) and Andy Mendelsohn, EVP, Oracle Database Server Technologies, APEX makes it easier for developers to integrate AI into new or existing applications, allowing them to build enterprise-ready applications, and give users a better and richer experience.

New APEX capabilities and highlights include:

  • Generative AI-powered natural language “Create App Assistant” that enables a developer to “tell” APEX what kind of app they want to build
  • APEX AI Assistant, a natural language to SQL capability, that helps developers create, refine, and debug SQL code
  • Application Working Copy: A new enhancement that allows multiple developers to collaborate on the same app, and easily view the differences between their changes and the main production app
  • The ability to embed out-of-the-box conversational AI dialogs (i.e. chat widgets) into applications
  • The ability to leverage Oracle Database 23ai’s native AI Vector Search to easily add similarity search functionality into APEX apps, as well as leverage JSON Relational Duality Views to get the benefits of both the JSON and relational data models on the same data
  • Deep integration with Oracle Database including all of the capabilities for high availability, advanced security, application performance, and data sovereighty options, and the ability to run apps on-premises or in the cloud with no configuration changes

Learn more about the Oracle APEX 24.1 announcement:

Read the Oracle APEX 24.1 announcement press release

Read the technical blog

Watch the Oracle APEX Announcement

 

What Industry Experts Are Saying

The latest release of Oracle APEX has received positive comments from leading analysts including:

Futurum Group
“There’s low code and there’s low code done right. With the latest introduction of APEX 24.1, Oracle has deftly demonstrated how GenAI can enable developers to create hardened, mission-critical applications with ease. Coming off a series of consecutive innovations and strategic announcements—such as Oracle Database 23ai and Oracle Database@Google Cloud—APEX 24.1 continues to demonstrate Oracle’s open and collaborative approach to clouds and application development.”
—Ron Westfall, Research Director, The Futurum Group

 

Constellation Research
“Enterprise acceleration depends to a large part on developer velocity. Oracle just took a giant step in helping organizations achieve both with the availability of APEX 24.1. This new release not only brings AI to APEX improving developer velocity with natural language to SQL statements conversions, an out-of-the-box interface to easily add conversational AI dialogs to apps for richer user experiences, but also improves teamwork with workflow and working copy enhancements. When you add all of the capabilities in Oracle Database 23ai that APEX can take advantage of, this is indeed a rich vein for developers to mine.”
—Holger Mueller, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

 

Omdia
“The addition of AI to Oracle APEX is welcome news for developers at any level of expertise. With APEX AI Assistant, developers can now declare their intent using natural language and let APEX automatically generate the SQL needed to create applications. Basically, users can state ‘what’ they want the app to do, not ‘how’ to do it. In addition, APEX also brings this declarative style of development to the problem of debugging, helping to improve code or offering suggestions. This is all very well thought out and can be a transformative experience for developers.”
—Bradley Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI & Data Analytics, Omdia

 

theCUBE Research
“Oracle APEX 24.1 fundamentally revolutionizes low-code application development. APEX has always been a fantastic low code development platform enabling application development 20 times faster with 100 times less code. But now Oracle has taken it to extraordinary new heights with comprehensive GenAI LLM integration empowering even a novice developer to build world-class applications without writing a single line of SQL code.”
—Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, theCUBE Research

 

NAND Research
“The Oracle Database 23ai and Oracle APEX 24.1 form a powerful force for developers. Now they can combine the APEX AI Assistant natural language prompts and AI Vector Search to develop apps that join SQL data and vectorized data to deliver better, more contextually relevant answers. Of course, APEX developers also can leverage many other Oracle Database 23ai features including Graph, Spatial, and JSON Relational Duality Views to develop applications that provide rich user experiences. This is something only Oracle can deliver.”
—Steve McDowell, Chief Analyst, NAND Research

 

Enterprise Strategy Group
“Every chief data officer and data professional is being inundated by their organizations with hundreds of use cases to build departmental GenAI solutions. Plus, they need more tools to simplify taking their data and turning it into GenAI apps. Clearly, APEX 24.1 can help these organizations immediately and is an important part of the journey to accelerate time-to-value.”
—Stephen Catanzano, Senior Analyst, Data Platforms, Enterprise Strategy Group

 

WinterCorp

“With over 850,000 users worldwide and more than 21 million applications created, Oracle APEX has become a core foundational engine for low-code development. Building on this proven foundation, Oracle is bringing GenAI to the world of APEX. Developers can now be more productive as they use natural language prompts in building apps that are simpler to maintain, and easier for end-users to adopt. And, developers automatically get high levels of performance, availability, scalability, and security through the integration of APEX with Oracle Database.”

—Richard Winter, CEO, WinterCorp

 

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About Oracle APEX

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