We performed a comparison between Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"One standout feature of Oracle APEX is its seamless integration with backend procedures, allowing for quick updates without changing the front-end interface."
"It has many ready modules that can be used and developed."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The product is fast."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can develop everything locally and deploy it for different kinds of operators in different locations, so we can do our job in one piece. The benefit of that is that others can use these applications. They connect to the internet to do these kinds of applications based on the permissions for those users."
"In our experience with Apex, we find that minimizing reliance on HTML and JavaScript is preferable, especially considering our background as seasoned programmers adept in PL/SQL. Incorporating HTML and JavaScript can pose challenges due to potential compatibility issues when updates are made to JavaScript. We also make use of JAPER report integration for generating reports, a practice integral to our reporting procedures."
"The most valuable features are security, stability, and ease of implementation."
"The tool is very easy to use."
"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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature was the visual drag and drop on the components."
"It has been reported that the technology is very hard to learn, and the service is expensive."
"It would be highly beneficial if APEX were an all-in-one platform capable of handling all aspects of application development."
"When exporting, we can't export dynamic reports, only static reports. For example, when we want to export charts or tables it is only exported as a static report so we can't drop down on these reports; however, we can see this information when we are on the dashboard itself."
"There is a bit of a learning curve involved when first using the solution."
"The solution does not support the Linux platform."
"Connecting with Oracle and the relation with Oracle at the database as a procedure needs improvement."
"Another issue I used to encounter was with the debugging functions. I believe this is an area where Oracle APEX could improve significantly in terms of displaying error messages or error pages. It is very difficult to detect bugs or which bugs you are having when it comes to errors or which errors you have."
"The product must provide more triggers."
"There was an attempt to enable front-end development, it did what it intended to do, but the side effects were too bad."
"The tool has minor bugs."
"The feature called "action chains" could use a bit of enhancement."
"I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing."
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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 "Has easy-to-use interface design and database design". 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).
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