We performed a comparison between Appian and Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"Appian has many valuable features, the first being the ease of development—rapid development. Second, the process of learning the product and tool is faster when compared to its peers in the market. It's closer to low-code, and while it's still not very easy, it's more low-code than other products in the industry. Appian has a good user interface, a seamless model user interface, which comes without additional coding. It can also integrate with multiple systems."
"It provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"What I found most valuable in Appian is that it lets you drill down on multiple things through the structure of the reporting and UI side. It's also low-code, yet it results in quick deliverables."
"The tool is very flexible."
"The most valuable feature was the visual drag and drop on the components."
"You don't need a dedicated IDE to develop. You can work from any browser, which is very convenient. And, with the cloud concept, your code is stored in the cloud, so you can modify it from anywhere, at any time."
"The tool is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"VBS is another tool that allows users to create enterprise applications without needing to store their projects in traditional databases like SQL."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"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."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"The initial setup of Oracle VBCS can be challenging for those unfamiliar with DBS."
"There was an attempt to enable front-end development, it did what it intended to do, but the side effects were too bad."
"I would improve the license structure as, for some companies, it may seem a little bit expensive, depending on what they're doing."
"The tool has minor bugs."
"The feature called "action chains" could use a bit of enhancement."
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Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is ranked 19th in Rapid Application Development Software with 5 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service writes "Offers low-code/no-code concept makes development much easier and faster and offers good community support as the development team actively answers questions on the community every day". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Studio Creatio, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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