We performed a comparison between Oracle Application Express (APEX) and ServiceNow Now Platform 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."This is a good application for quickly creating public applications."
"This product will speed up development time with helpful production aids."
"Oracle APEX's reporting features are simple yet powerful. The ability to quickly create CRUD screens has simplified many RAD discovery processes, while the APEX environment allows the product owners and dev teams to quickly understand the complex solutions and employ usage statistics to identify areas requiring improvement. The option to add external JavaScript tools in screen development enables the development of complicated mobile or web usage scenarios in rare cases where the APEX UX is not enough."
"The valuable features are charts, reports, and search engines."
"By using Express, we are able to load the data and integrate it into our data map."
"You can customize the solution to create a console where only business users can access and download files if they want to extract the data."
"It's fairly easy to make a user-friendly interface."
"What I like best about Oracle Application Express (APEX) is that it doesn't require hard coding for reporting and building applications. It's a GUI-based application builder that even end-users with little development and language knowledge can develop applications on Oracle Application Express (APEX). The software is also very user-friendly, which I find valuable."
"It is an absolutely scalable solution."
"ServiceNow offers a lot of features when it comes to IT service management and IT operations management. What interested me in ServiceNow was that a lot of service management."
"ITOM Discovery is a great feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution is fast enough for our workflow automations and has integration capability. It aligns with many use cases in our organization and for others we have planned."
"It is a scalable and a stable platform."
"The simplicity is great."
"The solution is very comprehensive."
"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."
"It has a bit of a strict framework, you have to make all the time adjustments in their JavaScript. Another downside is that it's only available for Oracle databases."
"The format is not recognized by Microsoft Word products."
"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."
"Being able to only design with HTML and CSS can be limiting as to what can be accomplished."
"The solution does not support the Linux platform."
"Some of the application interfaces of Oracle Application Express are not very attractive and could be improved."
"Maybe there are other technologies that offer what APEX cannot."
"ServiceNow Now Platform's automation process needs improvement."
"The Robotic Process Automation features are not mature enough. ServiceNow could work toward that because we can leverage RP only from this platform."
"We would like to see AI used to automate some of the functionality in this solution."
"From an improvement perspective, the product's complicated initial setup phase can be made a bit easier."
"There's always room for improvement, but I think the biggest challenge with ServiceNow is the licensing model. It's not very clear and changes frequently."
"ServiceNow Now Platform's technical support needs to improve."
"There are a few areas of concern when it comes to the product's support team where improvements are required."
"ServiceNow is not open source, so there is a license you must pay. As for how much it costs, what I have observed is that it often depends on your subscriptions. Suppose that you go with some subscriptions such as IDSM or any type of package like it, then the license cost will be impacted accordingly. Similarly, the cost is also adjusted based on your headcount of how many users will be using it."
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews while ServiceNow Now Platform is ranked 11th in Rapid Application Development Software with 36 reviews. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2, while ServiceNow Now Platform is rated 8.6. 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 ServiceNow Now Platform writes "A highly scalable product that covers multiple areas, like ITSM, ITOM, and ITIL". Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Microsoft Azure App Service and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, whereas ServiceNow Now Platform is most compared with ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Apps, OpenText AppWorks , Appian and Mendix. See our Oracle Application Express (APEX) vs. ServiceNow Now Platform report.
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