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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google App Engine

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle App Engine is Google Cloud's platform-as-a-service offering. It features pay-per-use pricing and support for a broad array of programming languages.

    $0.05

    Per Hour Per Instance

    ServiceNow App Engine

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AServiceNow App Engine aims to bring creator workflow apps to production quickly for mission-critical tasks. Design with best-practice guidance and templates within a holistic low-code dev experience.N/A
    Pricing
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $0.05
    Per Hour Per Instance
    Max Price
    $0.30
    Per Hour Per Instance
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    ServiceNow
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Google App Engine and ServiceNow App Engine
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    9.5
    32 Ratings
    20% above category average
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Google App Engine and ServiceNow App Engine
    Feature
    Google App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    ServiceNow App Engine
    8.1
    12 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings7.312 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings8.412 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings8.312 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Zoho Creator
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    AppSheet
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Oracle APEX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google App EngineServiceNow App Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    App Engine is such a good resource for our team both internally and externally. You have complete control over your app, how it runs, when it runs, and more while Google handles the back-end, scaling, orchestration, and so on. If you are serving a tool, system, or web page, it's perfect. If you are serving something back-end, like an automation or ETL workflow, you should be a little considerate or careful with how you are structuring that job. For instance, the Standard environment in Google App Engine will present you with a resource limit for your server calls. If your operations are known to take longer than, say, 10 minutes or so, you may be better off moving to the Flexible environment (which may be a little more expensive but certainly a little more powerful and a little less limited) or even moving that workflow to something like Google Compute Engine or another managed service.
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    ServiceNow
    I suggest that people in ServiceNow start by building apps in App Engine through learning plans on the ServiceNow Developer site. It is a very guided process, and it is fun to do. Newcomers in ServiceNow can learn a lot about configuring tables, fields, behavior of fields, roles, Flows, UX, and many more. App Engine tends to make development work simpler and faster to ship. However, it can be a difficult concept for people new to ServiceNow to understand scoped applications. So there should be a brief on the App Engine homepage that mentions what can be built and includes a link to learn more about scoped apps.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Quick to develop, quick to deploy. You can be up and running on Google App Engine in no time.
    • Flexible. We use Java for some services and Node.js for others.
    • Great security features. We have been consistently impressed with the security and authentication features of Google App Engine.
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    ServiceNow
    • App Engine can be used by non-developers to create Applications on the go, without coding.
    • App Engine has all the important aspects of the application available for adding or editing within a single record. Hence, it is easier to modify.
    • App Engine has a delegated development option which can be granted to specific developers or groups to manage a specific area for Scoped App Development without giving admin rights.
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    Cons
    Google
    • There is a slight learning curve to getting used to code on Google App Engine.
    • Google Cloud Datastore is Google's NoSQL database in the cloud that your applications can use. NoSQL databases, by design, cannot give handle complex queries on the data. This means that sometimes you need to think carefully about your data structures - so that you can get the results you need in your code.
    • Setting up billing is a little annoying. It does not seem to save billing information to your account so you can re-use the same information across different Cloud projects. Each project requires you to re-enter all your billing information (if required)
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    ServiceNow
    • The scoped app prefix should be shorter to allow appropriate application naming if it exceeds the character limit. Either the scoped app name limit shall be increased, or the limit on scoped app prefixes shall be increased to allow better naming for scoped apps.
    • It's challenging to make citizen development work at scale. Businesses want experienced pro code developers rather than citizen developers to work on this feature.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    App Engine is a solid choice for deployments to Google Cloud Platform that do not want to move entirely to a Kubernetes-based container architecture using a different Google product. For rapid prototyping of new applications and fairly straightforward web application deployments, we'll continue to leverage the capabilities that App Engine affords us.
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    ServiceNow
    There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
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    Usability
    Google
    I had to revisit the UI after a year of just setting up and forgetting. The UI got some improvements but the amount of navigation we have to go through to setup a new app has increased but also got easier to setup. Gemini now is integrated and make getting answers faster
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    ServiceNow
    Overall, very much usable for anything that happens in organisation. Able to track and discover each asset in the underlying infrastructure of the organisation and manage them. It is easy to understand the impact if any asset fails and hence risk mitigation becomes easier. It is a simple tool but with everything an organisation requires to go live with maximum customer impact and satisfaction
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ServiceNow
    Almost 100% available on time
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Good amount of documentation available for Google App Engine and in general there is large developer community around Google App Engine and other products it interacts with. Lastly, Google support is great in general. No issues so far with them.
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    ServiceNow
    They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ServiceNow
    App engine can be used just to process the minimal amount of the data which is being received from the user. We are service now catalogue items or any other data technology.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    We were on another much smaller cloud provider and decided to make the switch for several reasons - stability, breadth of services, and security. In reviewing options, GCP provided the best mixtures of meeting our needs while also balancing the overall cost of the service as compared to the other major players in Azure and AWS.
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    ServiceNow
    There were no options from the other products because ServiceNow App Engine is a large product with many different modules, growing each year, which allows you to recreate your business processes in a very short time, making the migration to ServiceNow very easy.
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ServiceNow
    It is scalable but not reliable
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Effective employee adoption through ease of use.
    • Effective integration to other java based frameworks.
    • Time to market is very quick. Build, test, deploy and use.
    • The GAE Whitelist for java is an important resource to know what works and what does not. So use it. It would also be nice for Google to expand on items that are allowed on GAE platform.
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    ServiceNow
    • We have managed to close the un applied cash item from 56% to 89% in a given five working days period by using ServiceNow App Engine
    • By automating and entire money laundering process, we have managed to provide the background check data as quickly as within a day, which was actually taking weeks Same reports when we were doing the things manually.
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