Software studio · Oracle APEX specialism

Oracle APEX, done properly.

Custom development, training and consultancy for organisations running Oracle APEX (opens in new tab), backed by more than 20 years of hands-on experience.

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What we do

Three ways we can help.

Engage on one, two or all three.

01 · Training

Training

Cohort workshops and one-to-one mentoring. APEX fundamentals through advanced architecture, tailored to where your team is today, not a stock curriculum someone shipped in 2019.

Cohort workshops
1-on-1 mentoring
Bespoke in-house

02 · Custom Dev

Custom Development

End-to-end APEX builds delivered by one practitioner. Greenfield projects, rescue work on stalled ones, and bolt-on features for existing applications. Your project never gets handed off.

Greenfield builds
Rescue engagements
Integrations & APIs

03 · Consultancy

Consultancy

Security reviews, performance tuning, upgrade planning, troubleshooting, second opinions. The work you call in when your team needs an external set of expert eyes.

Security audits
Performance tuning
APEX upgrades

The studio

Built on expertise.

ETCH Labs is run by John Scott. After 20+ years working with Oracle APEX as a consultant, author and conference speaker, I started ETCH Labs to take on engagements where deep practitioner experience shapes the outcome.

The studio is small by design. You work directly with the person doing the work, on a small number of engagements at a time, and on top of the same skills that built and ship get-etch.app (opens in new tab).

Recognition

Oracle ACE Director, 2006–2019
APEX Developer of the Year (Oracle Magazine)
Author of "Pro Oracle Application Express" (2008) and "Expert Oracle Application Express" (2011)
Top Speaker at ODTUG KSCOPE (2010, 2014, 2016) and UKOUG (2010)

John Scott Founder, ETCH Labs

Selected work

We ship our own products too.

We built ETCH from 20+ years of APEX practice. APEX plugins generate DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, Markdown and PDF documents directly from any data in your APEX applications. Native clients for Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and a REST API cover everything else.

In production

ETCH

APEX plugin

Template

Output

01 · Configure the APEX plugin

get-etch.app

Get in touch

Tell us your problem.

A short note about your project, your timeline, and what good would look like. We reply within a business day.

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