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.
"It provides attractive GUIs allowing professionally-styled applications without the need to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript."
"I like that Oracle Application Express (APEX) is powerful and attractive, allowing my organization to modernize forms within two months. I also found its PWA feature very powerful because you can produce substantial mobile applications."
"The database is super easy to use for creating tables."
"It has a well-designed architecture and is a simple 3rd party application."
"The solution is easy to handle. The tool has helped us develop many applications since it supports SQL and NoSQL languages. We are familiar with this language. Also, the solution’s interface design and database design are very easy. It is not so much complex. I have no experience working with other solutions."
"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."
"Intuitive with a user-friendly UI."
"Oracle Application Express is easy to use, people don't have to be developers to use it."
"We use this solution to track customer activities, opportunities and contact information."
"It is a great platform. It's definitely an improvement from the GCP application that we were using previously."
"The presentation is clear and easy to comprehend."
"I found the ease of use most valuable in the Salesforce Platform. I also found the platform pretty light."
"When compared to Siebel, the Salesforce Platform is easier to use."
"There is very good documentation available and Salesforce offers good communication with its clients. It's very user-friendly and has a system that is easy to learn."
"It is a platform that allows you to get applications quickly to the end user in a secure way."
"We haven't had any issues with stability so far."
"Source control could be stronger in Oracle Application Express (APEX). It needs some work."
"The solution does not include a default or custom template like other products."
"It would be beneficial to include WebSockets so that you can see real-time updates."
"The format is not recognized by Microsoft Word products."
"You also need an APEX specialist for deployment because not many people use it."
"There is a problem with security because the applications store passwords in the configuration files."
"The solution has some stability problems that need to be resolved."
"Oracle Application Express would be improved if you could use it on a mobile platform."
"The general reports could be made easier in the Salesforce Platform. Generating needs extensive training to know the exact structure of the design. Whenever you search for something you need to know what are the exact fields that you need to view. It's not an easy process to learn."
"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."
"The initial setup is rather complex."
"Simplification is something it needs. Every time you get the engineers involved, they make things a little too complicated. It might be more beneficial to simplify everything for quick and easy reference."
"They should provide access to data quality tips and tricks to make it better."
"The solution's UI is horrible."
"The reporting functionality is not very intuitive."
"I have found it takes an exceedingly long time to put opportunities or clients in the system. If I have an opportunity that I need to put in the system it could take approximately 10 minutes. This is a lot of time when you have multiple opportunities to put in. There are other tasks to do that are required by supervisors, such as forecasts. What I have done to save time is I did not input as much detail as I could have because I knew it was going to take me an hour to get five leads in."
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Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 52 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 9th in Rapid Application Development Software with 81 reviews. Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "Has easy-to-use interface design and database design". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Mendix, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, Microsoft Azure App Service and OutSystems, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Azure, Appian, ServiceNow and Amazon AWS. See our Oracle Application Express (APEX) vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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