The short name for the solutions is called PaaS for SaaS. It's one of those names that roles off the tongue, but is not as east to type. Really what it is about is giving people access to the development tools on a cloud platform, so that they can actually extend their applications and have that extension hosted in the cloud the same way that the applications that they've started with are.

Oracle MAF allows deployment of a mobile app to both Android and iOS. It's one code base for both platforms.

The most valuable feature in my experience is that you can develop it just one time for several OS's. This is a native option for MAF, the programming language used by Mobile Cloud Service. You just need to develop or program the app one time and choose the OS on which it's going to run. For example, our CRM application can be executed both in Android and iOS.

It's also available both on- and off-line.

• The AMPA (A-Team Mobile Persistence Accelerator) with offline functionality and SQLite cache
• Possibility to deploy to three different platforms
• Easy to consume REST web services
• A lot of nice visualisation components with animations etc.
• If you know the Oracle stack with ADF, it is easy to learn MAF
• A lot of cloud service integrations

Oracle MCS is more than just a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) solution. It is a complete eco-system for implementing mobile applications, covering typical standard features, like Notification Management, Offline Data Synchronization or Location-based Services.

In addition, MCS provides capabilities for creating Mobile applications using Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF). In addition, you can use Oracle Mobile Accelerator (MAX), which is a no-code development platform to create, test, and publish sophisticated cross-platform mobile apps.

Through connectors, MCS can easily be connected to backend services (REST, SOAP, ICS). These connectors make the usage of backend services in Custom APIs much easier since in the connector configuration, things like security can simply be declared without the need for writing any code for such things in your custom APIs.

Custom APIs in MCS are Node.js implementations where things like data transformations and contract tailorings, e.g., only return 10 out of 100 attributes of a business object, can be done to create new mobile-optimized Single-purpose APIs a.k.a., Backend For Frontends.

For speeding up the development of native (iOS, Android, Windows) or hybrid mobile apps (Cordova-based apps, JavaScript apps), MCS provides corresponding SDKs. This makes apps development easier and more efficient.

• Java as a programming language
• Drag n Drop/Declarative binding of the UI components with back end services
• Out of the box support for Data Visualization components
• With latest version, full read and write offline sync support
• Follows Oracle Alta UI theme for UI skinning
• Able to deploy and reuse each module as a Feature Archive (FAR) file
• Support for enterprise grade security features
• It's easy to use product with a little compromise on app performance and size

Since it's a hybrid application framework, we can maintain one code base for different platforms. Also, we can leverage our Java and JavaScript skills.

• Hybrid framework eliminates the need for specific skills for specific platforms.
• Suitable and perfect transition for ADF/Java Developers.
• Complete suite of rich UI components that fits our needs.

The most valuable feature of the product is the fact that I can write once, in my preferred coding language (Java) and deploy to multiple platforms. In the beginning the supported platforms were iOS and Android, but recently Oracle was able to add the Windows platform as well.

Valuable features include:

• Built-in platform APIs for configuring push notifications.
• APIs to generate custom analytics events.
• Connectors that can be used to connect to various enterprise backends and third-party systems. 

Now they have rolled out Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud Enterprise which also helps us to develop chatbots. We have implemented Facebook Channel enabled Chatbots using AMCe that allows to interact with Oracle EBS modules like HRMS. Here user can interact with chatbots to get the details about approved leaves, available leaves & also have the provision to apply leave.

For one of our major clients, we wrote custom APIs in Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud to convert SOAP APIs to REST APIs. We were also able to integrate SSO functionality in their mobile application using Virtual Zero Footprint SSO. Oracle Autonomous Mobile Cloud has a built in token exchange endpoint that allows to generate SSO tokens using third party JWT 
or SAML tokens. We have also implemented Browser Based SSO in some of our client mobile applications.

The hybrid framework and drag/drop features are the most valuable. With these features, it can eliminate some specific skills for specific platforms. For UI components, it's amazing enough to make it user-friendly.

• Deployment to multiple platforms with single codebase
• Oracle support access.

• Quick cross-platform business mobile app development.
• Built-in authentication support, on or offline.
• Rich set of corporate-class UX components.
• Taskflows - derived from Oracle ADF - are a unique and powerful dev feature for building and navigating through business apps.
• Embeds a powerful mobile persistence framework for SQL database.
• Embarks a JVM onboard the mobile platform.

Very easy to use and start building apps for people with an Oracle ADF background.

Since Oracle MAF consumes REST WebServices, it was pretty fast to build, deploy and consume our existing Oracle ADF applications based on ADF-BC into our native mobile app based on the hybrid model.

There are two primary features:

• Task Flows 
• Easy to link with web service.

The high availability features are important, like it's a pretty dependable and reliable partner.

It can be deployed on multiple platforms, and it can communicate with banks, web services, and data controls.