We performed a comparison between Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable aspect is its Graphics Form Design."
"Oracle APEX allows our company to complete webpage projects easily in a fast turnaround time."
"It provides attractive GUIs allowing professionally-styled applications without the need to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript."
"One standout feature of Oracle APEX is its seamless integration with backend procedures, allowing for quick updates without changing the front-end interface."
"Oracle APEX improved our organization by making it possible for us to implement agile project development."
"It has a well-designed architecture and is a simple 3rd party application."
"It's fairly easy to make a user-friendly interface."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature was the visual drag and drop on the components."
"The tool is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"You don't need a dedicated IDE to develop. You can work from any browser, which is very convenient. And, with the cloud concept, your code is stored in the cloud, so you can modify it from anywhere, at any time."
"An area for improvement in Oracle Application Express (APEX) is the slow reporting because pulling the report for two months, one year, three years, etc., is very slow. It takes more than thirty minutes to download the report. There's also room for improvement in integrating Oracle Application Express (APEX) with other vendors, such as open-source solutions through API integration. I believe Oracle is working on this feature, or the issue could be because my organization is using an older version of Oracle Application Express (APEX). The Oracle database also has to be improved because it's still lacking in some packages, triggers, and indexes."
"The problem of sending emails arises when Oracle Application Express (APEX) is inside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure since it is a bit complicated or difficult to understand where to take care of the setup part to be able to just send out emails properly."
"Connections to the application pages are not handled well and at times more than one user can be accessing an application with the same ID."
"The collaboration and the workflow engine could use some improvement."
"Regarding features, the solution lacks the ability to integrate with different databases. Also, I feel that Oracle Application Express (APEX) is exclusively designed for other Oracle tools."
"Source control could be stronger in Oracle Application Express (APEX). It needs some work."
"We would like to see tighter integration with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
"Some of the application interfaces of Oracle Application Express are not very attractive and could be improved."
"There was an attempt to enable front-end development, it did what it intended to do, but the side effects were too bad."
"I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing."
"The tool has minor bugs."
"The feature called "action chains" could use a bit of enhancement."
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews while Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is ranked 18th in Rapid Application Development Software with 4 reviews. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2, while Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "An easy-to-use format that is flexible and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service writes "Offers low-code/no-code concept makes development much easier and faster and offers good community support as the development team actively answers questions on the community every day". Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Microsoft Azure App Service and OutSystems, whereas Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is most compared with Studio Creatio, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). See our Oracle Application Express (APEX) vs. Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service report.
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