Every Team Has One
Finance chases approvals through three inboxes. Operations runs on a spreadsheet everyone’s afraid to touch. Sales prices the same quote by hand, then someone rekeys it into the accounts. Everyone knows these should be proper systems, but the alternative has always looked too expensive. Then a tool gets retired, a licence renewal arrives or an upgrade breaks something, and the question can’t wait any more.
What’s Changed
For years the choice was live with the workaround, or fund an enterprise build that rarely stacked up. Oracle APEX on Autonomous Database removes that trade-off – and you don’t need to run Oracle today to use it. It runs in Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Enterprise Grade
Applications run on Oracle Database, the engine banks and governments rely on. Security is enforced in the database, data is encrypted by default, and users sign in through your existing single sign-on. The database patches, tunes, backs up and scales itself.
Without the Enterprise Price
No per-user or per-app licence fees, so the cost doesn’t climb as more people use it. You pay for the compute and storage you use. With modern AI-assisted tools, projects that once took a team months can now go live in weeks, with a small senior team.
And You Can Talk to It
Applications built this way can also answer questions asked in natural language, from live data. It comes with the guardrails you’d expect from Oracle: the AI only reaches the data that user is allowed to see, you choose where the model runs, and every question is logged against the person who asked it. See Bringing AI to your Oracle database.
Problems that never justified a big project now fit a fixed-price one.
What That Makes Worth Doing
Finance
- Approvals that need a licence for every approver move into an APEX app alongside NetSuite, Fusion, EBS, Workday or Salesforce, with a record of who approved what. It’s priced as a fixed project, not per user.
- The report pack rebuilt every month becomes a live dashboard.
Operations & Logistics
- Jobs, bookings or stock tracked on whiteboards and shared sheets become one live view of what’s where and what’s due – on a desk, or on a phone in the warehouse.
- Orders and stock rekeyed from one system into another update themselves, with one screen showing what moved and what didn’t.
Sales & Customer Service
- Quotes priced by hand, then rekeyed into the accounts, become one app that prices the deal, issues the invoice and posts it to your accounting system.
- Customers ringing to ask what they’ve bought, or waiting on files and extracts, get a portal where each one sees exactly what they pay for – and can ask it questions in their own words.
IT & Data
- The spreadsheet, Access database, Forms screen or Discoverer report a whole team depends on becomes a modern application with proper security, audit and backup.
- EBS customisations that turn every patch into a project move into APEX pages beside EBS on the same data, so the core stays clean.
Where to Start
It starts small. After an initial conversation and a brief, we run a fixed-price discovery of one to two weeks. You get a solution design and a plan, with a firm price and a delivery date for the build. Once it’s live, we can run the platform for you.
Who We Are
Burgess Systems Consulting has spent more than two decades helping organisations modernise their business systems. We’re an Oracle Partner based in Sydney, Australia, serving customers globally.
Ready to get started?
We’re on your side, doing what it takes to get the job done right – from the first consultation to your daily operations.