We performed a comparison between Appian and Oracle Application Express (APEX) 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."We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"Efficient software delivery and a solution that works quickly."
"The product is easy to use."
"The database is super easy to use for creating tables."
"A user interface is relatively simple to create."
"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."
"One standout feature of Oracle APEX is its seamless integration with backend procedures, allowing for quick updates without changing the front-end interface."
"It's stable and reliable for the most part."
"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 also not easy to learn. Training tutorials could be improved."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"The solution could improve by being more responsive when dealing with large quantities of data. Additionally, they can make the decision or rules engine better. It cannot handle too many rules or too many decisions at once."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"It would be beneficial to include WebSockets so that you can see real-time updates."
"One area for improvement in Oracle APEX is its workflow orchestration capabilities."
"Being able to only design with HTML and CSS can be limiting as to what can be accomplished."
"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."
"I've experienced some difficulties when using Oracle Application Express (APEX), particularly when I'm designing forms. For example, when I design a form, I add buttons and controls, but I'm unable to visualize how it'll look unless I run it. You want to design and do things your way, but if you don't have much experience, then you'll find that designing in Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a little complicated. This won't be a problem with anyone more experienced, though. If I wanted to create my design, for example, a different table format or some background images, it becomes a problem, and this is an area for improvement in Oracle Application Express (APEX). Designing should be easier, even for less experienced users. An additional feature I'd like to see in Oracle Application Express (APEX) is more plugins, particularly a repository that contains a lot of plugins, so you can go to that repository and download whichever you like and use it or add it to your project. Right now, I create my plugins, so it would be helpful if Oracle Application Express (APEX) has a repository of plugins people can use, download from anywhere in the world, and integrate into projects."
"We would like to see tighter integration with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
"During the upcoming versions, we can modify the current configuration."
"Better connection and integration with non-Oracle databases is needed."
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Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "An easy-to-use format that is flexible and scalable". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and ARIS BPA, whereas Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Microsoft Azure App Service and Zoho Creator. See our Appian vs. Oracle Application Express (APEX) report.
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