Consultant L1, Gujarat, India Consultant L1 at Mastek
Consultant
Top 10
Oct 4, 2024
There are some bugs in VBCS. For example, when building an editable table, there is not enough support provided. It is available, however, a lot of custom work is required.
Head of Digital Solutions at Wind Integrated Solutions
Real User
Top 5
Apr 8, 2024
There are very minor things, like the feature called "action chains," that could use a bit of enhancement. But the team is perfect; they're working on it. An action chain is a sequence of actions triggered by a button or an event. It executes code in order, from top to bottom. For example, it could call a code, call a REST service, and then insert data into a database. It needs enhancement because it can be a bit complex for fresh grads or new developers to understand. It would be better if it was made more readable. That's the main point. But if you have experience, you'll understand it easily. One more thing I want to add about Visual Builder: up until two years ago, it supported native mobile development. That's not available anymore. They replaced native mobile development with progressive web apps, and most customers are complaining about that. We need native mobile development back – the ability to put apps on stores like Google Play or the App Store. That feature is not available right now, and they deprecated it starting in 2024. It's very important. Otherwise, clients go with Flutter or other mobile development tools. It would be good for Oracle to regain that capability. We need the native mobile development feature back.
I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing. You have to be pretty smart about how you're using it. If you do a benchmark with operational costs, for big development departments, it's pretty good. However, it depends on how you're doing it. If you're using, if you develop an application such as like ERP applications or core backend applications, there's a lot of forms and more dependencies. If you're doing some, for example, extremely responsive applications for the web, it's not as good. it's better to use it for enterprise IT, enterprise for backend development, or middle and back-office development types of things such as Internal intranet and DMZ-level types of applications with heavy load and security. It's the only enterprise-level solution offered right now on the market, out of the big five, which can be used for advanced development capabilities. It's not for department-level applications. It's just for full-blown enterprise applications. There are some limitations in terms of building business objects, for example, business objects on VBS - basically, in the runtime environment. Right now I know how to access the data, and can use the REST API, and be able to communicate to the backend. However, if these business objects would be on-prem as well that would be ideal. It's not a limitation, it's just kind of good to have.
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There are some bugs in VBCS. For example, when building an editable table, there is not enough support provided. It is available, however, a lot of custom work is required.
The tool has minor bugs. It freezes, and we have to restart it. It occurs rarely.
There are very minor things, like the feature called "action chains," that could use a bit of enhancement. But the team is perfect; they're working on it. An action chain is a sequence of actions triggered by a button or an event. It executes code in order, from top to bottom. For example, it could call a code, call a REST service, and then insert data into a database. It needs enhancement because it can be a bit complex for fresh grads or new developers to understand. It would be better if it was made more readable. That's the main point. But if you have experience, you'll understand it easily. One more thing I want to add about Visual Builder: up until two years ago, it supported native mobile development. That's not available anymore. They replaced native mobile development with progressive web apps, and most customers are complaining about that. We need native mobile development back – the ability to put apps on stores like Google Play or the App Store. That feature is not available right now, and they deprecated it starting in 2024. It's very important. Otherwise, clients go with Flutter or other mobile development tools. It would be good for Oracle to regain that capability. We need the native mobile development feature back.
I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing. You have to be pretty smart about how you're using it. If you do a benchmark with operational costs, for big development departments, it's pretty good. However, it depends on how you're doing it. If you're using, if you develop an application such as like ERP applications or core backend applications, there's a lot of forms and more dependencies. If you're doing some, for example, extremely responsive applications for the web, it's not as good. it's better to use it for enterprise IT, enterprise for backend development, or middle and back-office development types of things such as Internal intranet and DMZ-level types of applications with heavy load and security. It's the only enterprise-level solution offered right now on the market, out of the big five, which can be used for advanced development capabilities. It's not for department-level applications. It's just for full-blown enterprise applications. There are some limitations in terms of building business objects, for example, business objects on VBS - basically, in the runtime environment. Right now I know how to access the data, and can use the REST API, and be able to communicate to the backend. However, if these business objects would be on-prem as well that would be ideal. It's not a limitation, it's just kind of good to have.