Oracle APEX vs. Pega Platform vs. Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle APEX
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Oracle APEX (or Oracle Application Express) is an online low-code application builder that allows users to develop a database-drive application, customize the application's UI, and then give their users access to the application via URL. Oracle APEX includes a suite of pre-built productivity applications and examples, such as a Survey Builder, Bug Tracking, P-Track project management, etc
$0.32
OCPU per hour
Pega Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Pega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.
$0.45
one-time fee per case**
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
The Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.
$25
Per User Per Month
Pricing
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Editions & Modules
Oracle APEX Application Development
$0.32
OCPU per hour
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing - Exadata Storage
$118.40
Terabyte storage capacity per month
Low-code Factory Edition
$0.45
one-time fee per case**
Standard Edition
$0.80
one-time fee per case**
Enterprise Edition
Custom Quote
Starter
$25.00
Per User Per Month
Plus
$100.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Free Trial
YesYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Considered Multiple Products
Oracle APEX

No answer on this topic

Pega Platform
Chose Pega Platform
I think Pega has the edge on business process management features. I would also recommend Pega for financial industry players, especially in the B2C environment and banks/teams working with smaller businesses. Obviously, Salesforce has a massive ecosystem with a number of …
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience

No answer on this topic

Features
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
8.4
27 Ratings
0% below category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
-
Ratings
Visual Modeling7.626 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.427 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Security8.727 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management8.326 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability8.927 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability8.827 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
5.3
63 Ratings
38% below category average
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
-
Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.0
66 Ratings
4% below category average
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
-
Ratings
Process designer00 Ratings8.965 Ratings00 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.965 Ratings00 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings7.251 Ratings00 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings8.756 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
9.0
50 Ratings
7% above category average
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
-
Ratings
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
4.4
9 Ratings
59% below category average
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
-
Ratings
Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Oracle APEX
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
7.2
30 Ratings
8% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(40 ratings)
6.0
(73 ratings)
8.8
(36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(3 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
8.1
(15 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle APEXPega PlatformSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
If you need to develop an application very quickly, without unnecessary lengthy specifications or business requirements, something you need right away, while utilizing all the capabilities of the Oracle database, APEX is the right choice. Thanks to the many components you use from the vast Oracle APEX library, working with this tool is exceptionally pleasant, fast, and effective.
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Pegasystems
Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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Salesforce
If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Easy upgrade path from Forms, allowing reuse of code and a low learning curve for Forms developers.
  • Very quick to develop in. Ideal for prototyping or iterative development which is how we usually work.
  • Comes with cross browser and mobile compatibility out of the box.
  • Easy to incorporate other web technologies.
  • Development environment runs straight from a browser. This has proved to be a life saver when issues crop up on a weekend.
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Pegasystems
  • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
  • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
  • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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Salesforce
  • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
  • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
  • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
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Cons
Oracle
  • Can't think of any - the Application Express development team does a fantastic job adopting and supporting emerging trends with each new release.
  • Requires Oracle RDBMS; i.e., is not portable to other RDBMS platforms. On the surface this may seem like a con but it is as it should be - Oracle database is best RDBMS available and tight integration with Oracle RDBMS promotes creation of reliable performant apps.
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Pegasystems
  • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
  • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
  • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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Salesforce
  • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
  • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
  • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
I felt very comfortable using Oracle Application Express from the start. I designed my data model and quickly developed the basic CRUD pages for master tables. Then I designed the main functionality and was able to test and deploy it in a couple of days work. I will probably share the app with other members of the team and continue adding some features in the short term.
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Pegasystems
Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Usability
Oracle
Oracle APEX is an ultra flexible, low code platform having a great easy of use, superior customization capabilities, scalable and provides a very good application and data security. It also has lot of AI capabilities as well as modern features such as GeoLocation maps, Automation capabilities, Workflow approval features and Mobile application capabilities using PWA like features.
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Pegasystems
Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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Salesforce
It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
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Support Rating
Oracle
Very active and knowledgeable community support includes quick and helpful responses from the Oracle employees on the product development team. I've never had to raise an official support request - everything is dealt with via forums and user groups - or via direct emails. The supposrt commuinty is one of the great things about Apex.
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Pegasystems
It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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Salesforce
I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
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Online Training
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Pegasystems
The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Oracle
Using it on the cloud is really simple, the entire process of configuring and provisioning an Oracle Database takes only a few minutes (less than 10) and then Oracle APEX is already deployed on the database, so you just have to start using it. I would strongly recommend using APEX on Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
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Pegasystems
Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Oracle
Oracle APEX has delivered a strong positive ROI by significantly reducing development time, lowering costs, and improving operational efficiency through automation and real-time reporting. While there are some limitations around frontend flexibility and DevOps, the overall business value—especially in data-driven enterprise applications—has been substantial.
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Pegasystems
We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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Salesforce
We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • In the mid-size organization, we had a BI tool that had a significant license cost involved. With Oracle back-end we were able to switch to APEX and move all reporting at literally zero cost.
  • For Oracle PL/SQL users the learning curve is very quick and easy, there are ready templates that you can start with and eventually create complex reports.
  • You can track authorization and authentication on data editing and usage. High performance as it is native oracle sql codes.
  • Centralized data capturing, makes your datawarehouse writable for lookup tables or reference tables.
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Pegasystems
  • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
  • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
  • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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Salesforce
  • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
  • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
  • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
  • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
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