We performed a comparison between Knack and Oracle Application Express (APEX) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"Intuitive with a user-friendly UI."
"The product is easy to use."
"By using Express, we are able to load the data and integrate it into our data map."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle APEX is its comprehensive set of features for creating user-friendly and visually appealing applications."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Application Express (APEX) are the ease and speed of development. Instead of engaging a large team of middleware, front-end, and database engineers, we can have professional look at the front end and have the user interface up and running in a matter of days. However, if you want to go far and implement very custom features, it doesn't require a lot of knowledge of front-end development, such as HTML, JavaScript, or other aspects."
"This is a good application for quickly creating public applications."
"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."
"I like how we can actively develop and customize APEX because it's on the same database."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
"One area for improvement in Oracle APEX is its workflow orchestration capabilities."
"Oracle is more of a database-oriented solution and is not very flexible in app development."
"Fixing bugs is difficult because of how the HTML code is generated. It is not always broadly compatible with browsers."
"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."
"I would like to see easier integration into active directory authentication. Also, maybe integration of JavaScript frameworks would resolve some issues."
"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."
"We would like to see tighter integration with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
"The solution has some stability problems that need to be resolved."
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Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews. Knack is rated 9.0, while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "Has easy-to-use interface design and database design". Knack is most compared with Caspio, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform and AppSheet, whereas Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service and Microsoft Azure App Service.
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