We performed a comparison between Oracle Application Express (APEX) and SalesForce Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: SalesForce Platform comes out on top in this comparison because it is very easy to use, the intuitive dashboard makes it easy to monitor progress, customizes easily, and provides great reporting. The solution is very flexible and offers robust cloud options.
"The most valuable features are security, stability, and ease of implementation."
"I like that Oracle Application Express (APEX) is powerful and attractive, allowing my organization to modernize forms within two months. I also found its PWA feature very powerful because you can produce substantial mobile applications."
"A user interface is relatively simple to create."
"Efficient software delivery and a solution that works quickly."
"I particularly enjoy the web builder capabilities, especially the Page Designer. It offers so many elements or components to choose from, which is a major plus for me."
"The valuable features are charts, reports, and search engines."
"The autonomous database is valuable and provides the main structure for code development."
"You don't have to know a lot of PL because it's built on PL/SQL. You don't need developers. You only need to design a good application that resolves a problem, or many problems, for companies and you're ready to go."
"The solution can scale."
"They are already beginning to implement generative AI."
"We used it for providing a 360 view of the customers from within Salesforce. So, a lot of data got presented there, for which we used Einstein Analytics. The Einstein Analytics dashboards were really great."
"Salesforce is the best one out there."
"The reporting capabilities are pretty user-friendly."
"It is an easy product to use and does great things for our company. It keeps track of all of our sales activity."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Checking out or extracting a report is just a click away."
"Occasionally when trying to un a page, I would be faced with an error number; however, not much information would be provided on the error itself outside of the programming language. It would be nice if more information could be provided."
"The solution’s pricing is high if you use it on the OCA platform. It’s also a little bit costly. However, if we use it on an on-premises Oracle database, the pricing is cheaper."
"During the upcoming versions, we can modify the current configuration."
"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."
"It should have the functionality to develop mobile applications. It would also be good if they can improve development in videos and other formats."
"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."
"It can only be deployed on Oracle Database."
"When it switched to lightning, it threw me for a loop. When they changed the look and feel, I had a hard time finding things and doing what I used to do."
"I think the interface should be enhanced and more user-friendly."
"Salesforce is incredibly slow. It was difficult to run live sales calls and leveraging Salesforce at the same time."
"Salesforce Platform could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Azure. For development, we use Microsoft Azure and there was proper integration between the two solutions. We had issues with the customer and they were logged into the Salesforce Platform. We did not have any good way of integrating those issues into the R&D. The R&D mainly uses Microsoft Azure."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
"An improved UX may be helpful in the solution's next release."
"Technical support could be a bit faster."
"I want more analytics in the platform and the addition of AI-based models, for example, predictive feedback. The Salesforce Platform needs to be more intelligent and intuitive to make it a great solution."
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 9th in Rapid Application Development Software with 81 reviews. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. 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 Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Mendix, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, Microsoft Azure App Service and OutSystems, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Azure, Appian, ServiceNow and Amazon AWS. See our Oracle Application Express (APEX) vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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