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.
"I like how we can actively develop and customize APEX because it's on the same database."
"I like the way that it automatically goes into the spreadsheets and the users can deal with it."
"Quick development and the connection with the database are the most valuable and useful features. It is also very stable, scalable, and easy to set up. Its support is also good."
"Oracle Application Express is easy to use, people don't have to be developers to use it."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to build very fast data-driven UIs."
"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."
"Oracle APEX allows our company to complete webpage projects easily in a fast turnaround time."
"A fully integrated solution that provides a seamless experience."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"he solution has improved over the years and the inputting of opportunity information is done a lot better and the GUI is good. The ability to customize dashboards and other elements was useful, we were able to move things around, for example, the forecasts. Most of the cells and input places were set, but we can customize the view and what we were looking at, such as on a daily, or weekly basis."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the unit coordination between sales and marketing when it comes to lead management."
"It's very flexible and offers tremendous features for customers."
"The most valuable features of the Salesforce Platform are the ability to manage customers' data, many report filtering options, and consolidation."
"The solution provides a preferred method of backing up data."
"The Salesforce Platform's most valuable features are everything in one place, perfect reporting, highly customizable, and easy to receive information you need."
"I don't like the URL syntax."
"It has been reported that the technology is very hard to learn, and the service is expensive."
"Oracle Application Express would be improved if you could use it on a mobile platform."
"Oracle should implement vertical and horizontal data segmentation in APEX's security framework, so Dev teams don't need to do any heavy lifting in the APEX screens. This is a common issue in enterprise apps. It would be nice to seamlessly integrate Git repositories into the development process since the current solution can result in overlapping work or an eventual overwrite. The provided example apps are great, but they could benefit from some added documentation in the "explanation screens"."
"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."
"I would like to see easier integration into active directory authentication. Also, maybe integration of JavaScript frameworks would resolve some issues."
"It would be beneficial to include WebSockets so that you can see real-time updates."
"Some of the application interfaces of Oracle Application Express are not very attractive and could be improved."
"The integration of Salesforce with other solutions could be improved."
"Its documentation and price should be better."
"Instead of creating our own template, if we had some nice templates that we could pick up - if there were some Microsoft Word templates or Microsoft Excel templates in a repository in Salesforce, that would be great."
"Better flexibility in editing emails created from templates would be great, and being able to add hyperlinks in emails for scheduling meetings would allow us to automate more."
"The reporting for Salesforce could be approved. It is a manual process and it would be useful to have a guide or videos on how to generate reports or any other cool things that you could do with the platform."
"When we're documenting information such as notes, and so forth, if we were to go back to the same case all notes go missing."
"In Salesforce, every customer is unique and it's not possible to bundle them together effectively if they are from the same company or move companies, et cetera."
"Salesforce is a pretty cumbersome product. It's a product that you need to spend quite a bit of time customizing to your unique business model. Unless you have somebody in house that knows it really well, you're better off spending money with a consultant to get what you need."
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 7th in Rapid Application Development Software with 19 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 4th in Rapid Application Development Software with 51 reviews. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "We can develop everything locally with it but it doesn't talk with other databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Makes it easy to keep up with everything, close pending deals, and keep things organized". Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, Microsoft Azure App Service, OutSystems and Mendix, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Apps, ServiceNow, Appian and Amazon AWS. See our Oracle Application Express (APEX) vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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