Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise Reviews

The most valuable feature of the product is the fact that I can write once, in my preferred coding language (Java) and deploy to multiple platforms. In the beginning the supported platforms were iOS and Android, but recently Oracle was able to add the Windows platform as well.

Our Java developers can now build mobile apps for all platforms at once. For us, instead of having to hire iOS, Android and Windows developers, we can use our own pool of Java developers.

The first one is re-use. There are some concepts of re-use in MAF however, there could be more, and at a more granular level. Currently one can only re-use complete features, whereas it would be nice to also be able to re-use individual 'taskflows'. Furthermore, better support for UI templating would be a very welcome enhancement. What I'mr referring to here is to have UI templates available that enable us to implement Oracle's ALTA UI patterns easier, and not only ALTA UI look and feel.

I have been working with Oracle MAF since the very beginning, and even before that with its predecessors. If I recall correctly, my first encounter with Oracle Mobile development frameworks was back in 2010. The Oracle MAF framework was released in Q1 2014, and before that I was able to work with the beta of Oracle MAF.

There have been issues with stability in the past, but in the recent releases this has improved.

For us, being a partner with close contact to Oracle Product Management, there has never been issue with service and support. Also, the Oracle forums are very valuable whenever I need detailed technical information.

Initial setup is neither complex nor straightforward, and the initial setup is described in detail in the developer guide. However, this involves many steps. You have to prepare the development machine for multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows) and this takes time. Also, acquiring the appropriate certificates can be times consuming. However, this has nothing to do with the MAF product itself, and one would have this with all mobile development tools.

We did several implementations as an Oracle Partner at our customers. So in this case we are a vendor team. If I look at individual customers I would advise them to start with a dedicated in-house team with support of a vendor or preferred Oracle Partner. This helps the in-house team to get started.

There has always been a debate on the pricing of the product. People tend to finding it expensive. There are some ways to work with Oracle on that, and one other option is to combine Oracle MAF with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS). An Oracle MCS license gets you unlimited MAF applications. This is worth considering for every customer.

If you are using other tools from the Oracle stack, and are considering the implementation of mobile solutions, you should definitely consider using Oracle MAF. MAF development is similar to the development of other Oracle Middleware tools/frameworks, thus enabling your existing developer pool to work on the mobile solutions. I would also advice to at least look at Oracle MCS. Oracle MCS can actually help you to open up your enterprise to the mobile landscape, without directly exposing it to the big bad mobile world.

Our organization mainly deals with enterprise mobility and develops enterprise mobile applications for our customers, using Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise.

Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise helps us to deliver the application much more quickly, as it comes with built-in platform APIs for storage, push notifications, analytics, etc. Our customers can also get the details about API performance and reports on custom events, in a graphical format.

Valuable features include:

• Built-in platform APIs for configuring push notifications.
• APIs to generate custom analytics events.
• Connectors that can be used to connect to various enterprise backends and third-party systems. 

Now they have rolled out Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise which also helps us to develop chatbots. We have implemented Facebook Channel enabled Chatbots using AMCe that allows to interact with Oracle EBS modules like HRMS. Here user can interact with chatbots to get the details about approved leaves, available leaves & also have the provision to apply leave.

For one of our major clients, we wrote custom APIs in Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud to convert SOAP APIs to REST APIs. We were also able to integrate SSO functionality in their mobile application using Virtual Zero Footprint SSO. Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud has a built in token exchange endpoint that allows to generate SSO tokens using third party JWT 
or SAML tokens. We have also implemented Browser Based SSO in some of our client mobile applications.

One of the key areas in which MCS needs improvement is documentation. New features, like Zero Footprint SSO, need better documentation with detailed integration steps.

The hybrid framework and drag/drop features are the most valuable. With these features, it can eliminate some specific skills for specific platforms. For UI components, it's amazing enough to make it user-friendly.

With the drag/drop, task flow, easy installation and others features, Oracle MAF can help the organization to make the mobile solution easy and quick.

Performance and size of the applications produced can be improved.

I only joined the development of Oracle MAF around a month ago, but I have researched mobile application frameworks for around three months.

There were no issues with the scalability.

I cannot rate technical support; but when finding a problem and searching in the community, the response was not great.

The initial setup is easy. Oracle provides documentation and a tutorial that also can be found on Youtube.

It would be better to make the pricing and licensing more suitable (cheaper) for small businesses.

We chose two solutions to for creating mobile applications, Oracle MAF and React Native. Due to the issue in performance, Oracle MAF was used as a second solution with React Native as the main one.

This product is not recommended for a small business. Oracle MAF is suitable for a large company that has an integrated system with other Oracle products. Please take into consideration the performance, price, and size of the application of this product. You need to check if it fits with your business needs.

• Deployment to multiple platforms with single codebase
• Oracle support access.

Enabled easier transition into multiple mobile platforms.

There is a lot of room for improvement. MAF has enabled ADF developers to work with mobile devices, but the way the framework works might be confusing to a newcomer. There is not a lot of third party literature on the framework.

I've been using it for 12 months.

We had no issues deploying it.

There are some stability issues with the framework, some bugs can cause the mobile application to crash, and there are other visual bugs as well.

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

I would rate them 7/10. You can get a lot of help from the official forum.

I used iOS Cocoa Framework. I chose to move to MAF because I work with Oracle in general, and MAF looked like a great framework to work with.

It's pretty straightforward. We just needed to ensure we had JAVA SDK and JDeveloper installed, then we could download MAF.

We developed it in-house.

The product is not yet available on the market so I do not know how much it is going to cost.

Some screenshots of a mobile app I worked on...

• Quick cross-platform business mobile app development.
• Built-in authentication support, on or offline.
• Rich set of corporate-class UX components.
• Taskflows - derived from Oracle ADF - are a unique and powerful dev feature for building and navigating through business apps.
• Embeds a powerful mobile persistence framework for SQL database.
• Embarks a JVM onboard the mobile platform.

The MAF mobile extensions we have built for an ERP in the construction industry have brought huge added-value to users in the field. MAF was especially advantageous to enable both iOS and Android support, facilitate authentication/integration issues, simplify having an advanced offline support, and speed up all corporate-class developments, be them initial or improvements.

2 years

We did it in-house.

As of today, there are basically two options for owning MAF licenses. Either as a free license accompanying Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) licenses, or as an unlimited-usage license for a single MAF application. U.

We chose MAF for several reasons - 

• Cross-platform 
• with powerful mobile persistence framework
• Taskflows usage for powerful navigation handling
• Alta UI
• Allowed us to capitalize on our Oracle ADF expertise

MAF is easy to learn

Very easy to use and start building apps for people with an Oracle ADF background.

We've been using it to build our first mobile app POC for the company.

We've been using it for six months for POCs on a couple of products.

At the time we got it, the product was not very mature, but in the newer versions the framework has become much more mature/stable.

10/10 - Oracle support is one of the best in my opinion.

Oracle Mobile Application Framework was the first solution of this type we tried.

Pretty easy if you have an Oracle ADF development background and you are familiar with tools like JDeveloper.

We deployed it in-house.

The licensing was very confusing at the time we began evaluating the product, and I'm not sure if Oracle has changed it.

We didn't look at other options prior to commencing our POC.

The product looks very promising specially if you already have an many Oracle production in-house like Oracle SOA.

Since Oracle MAF consumes REST WebServices, it was pretty fast to build, deploy and consume our existing Oracle ADF applications based on ADF-BC into our native mobile app based on the hybrid model.

We developed our native device app using Oracle MAF for our customers and partners so that they can make a note of their applications' status on the fly and submit any queries with reference to their competency applications. The whole business process was driven through our Oracle MAF application.

As Oracle MAF is a heavy product, it doesn’t allow much space to convince customers to go with the product suite. Also, the plug-ins and out of the box features need to be added into the library to offer an easy to use PPR. Also, enabling push notifications would certainly increase its popularity.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

The amount of memory it takes has a significant impact when comparing development tools.

It's been able to scale for our customer's needs.

We set it up for one of our customers.

We worked as a vendor to deliver the native device application for existing Oracle ADF investments of the customer.

It lacks a number of out of the box features. Additionally, debugging and diagnosing is a bit tricky and not much time has been spent by Oracle on improving the UI.

There are two primary features:

• Task Flows 
• Easy to link with web service.

The Task Flow feature provides us with structure and navigation between AMX pages, both bounded and unbounded.

They need to enhance it to allow older smartphones to work smoothly without hanging.

We have had deployment issues with older smartphones. Otherwise, we have not had deployment issues.

There was some slowness on old devices, and it is hard to learn if you do not know ADF technology.

We have had no issues scaling it.