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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Superblocks

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ASuperblocks is an IDE for internal tooling – a programmable set of building blocks for developers to create mission-critical internal operational software. The Superblocks Application Builder to assemble flexible components and connect to databases and APIs. Users can create REST, GraphQL, and gPRC endpoints call them programmatically from code or 3rd party web-hooks while Superblocks handles infrastructure.

    $41

    per month per creator

    Pricing
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $41
    per month per creator
    Pro
    $70
    per month per creator
    Enterprise
    $141
    per month per creator
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Considered Both Products
    ServiceNow
    No answer on this topic
    Superblocks
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of ServiceNow App Engine and Superblocks
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    8.1
    12 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Superblocks
    -
    Ratings
    Visual Modeling7.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Security8.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform User Management8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reusability8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Scalability8.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of ServiceNow App Engine and Superblocks
    Feature
    ServiceNow App Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Superblocks
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.92 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.82 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.92 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    AppSheet
    Score8.2 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle APEX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ServiceNow App EngineSuperblocks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    Superblocks is great for building internal tools for your company. We have our finances running on Superblocks, our client services running on it, as well as a lot of internal tooling for our product. You can build full-apps using their API builder, Workflow builder, Scheduled Jobs, and UI builder. All without having to handle your own infrastructure. It's meant to be one extra abstraction layer on top of other developer infrastructure tools like AWS, Vercel, etc.
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    Pros
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    • Easy to use User Interface builder for building internal apps
    • Scheduled Jobs and Workflow builder in multiple languages
    • API builder for support your User Interface for your internal apps
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    • More flexibility on UI component designs
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ServiceNow
    There are limited use cases where we are just using the service now app engine as of now
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    ServiceNow
    Almost 100% available on time
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ServiceNow
    They tried their best to resolve our queries every time we contacted them about any technical support
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
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    Scalability
    ServiceNow
    It is scalable but not reliable
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Superblocks
    • We've saved thousands of developer hours that would have otherwise spent on maintaining infrastructure
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