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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kintone

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AKintone is a customizable digital workplace platform that lets the user manage data, tasks, and communication in one central place. Over 30,000 customers use Kintone’s no-code platform with more than 1.5 million database and workflow applications custom built for their businesses. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom database applications. Whether it’s sales leads, customer quotes, or inventory management, it can be organized in Kintone and viewed from the…

    $24

    per month per user

    Oracle APEX

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AOracle 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

    Pricing
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Editions & Modules
    Professional Subscription
    $24
    per month per user
    Oracle APEX Application Development
    $0.32
    OCPU per hour
    Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing - Exadata Storage
    $118.40
    Terabyte storage capacity per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll subscriptions have a minimum requirement of 5 users.—
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    Community Pulse
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Considered Both Products
    Kintone
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    38 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Kintone and Oracle APEX
    Feature
    Kintone
    9.4
    43 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Oracle APEX
    7.9
    23 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Platform Security9.534 Ratings8.723 Ratings
    Platform User Management9.640 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Reusability9.538 Ratings9.223 Ratings
    Platform Scalability9.640 Ratings7.523 Ratings
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings6.823 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    8.9
    (40 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.6
    (42 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
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    2.0
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    User Testimonials
    KintoneOracle APEX
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kintone
    Kintone is great if you want a software that will help you in managing your data, and keep track of which tasks are assigned to whom. It also helps to streamline communication and information in one central place. However, it is not for you if you are looking for something complex that has to manage a lot of data.
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    Oracle
    Based on our organization's experience, Oracle APEX is a versatile and powerful tool, but its suitability depends on specific business needs, technical requirements, and the nature of the application being developed. Scenarios where Oracle APEX fits well: Business Process Automation/Workflows Reporting and Dashboards for Data Analytics AI based systems such as Select AI Chatbots for data insights based on LLMs Native-like Mobile Applications using PWA feature of APEX Scenarios where Oracle APEX may be less appropriate: Very Complex and highly interactive applications Use cases based on a non-oracle Database
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    Pros
    Kintone
    • Flexibility. You can build apps (without coding) to serve a wide range of processes and projects.
    • Ease of use. The interface is intuitive.
    • Training. There are resources readily available to train new users. Even starting from scratch, I felt like I was up to speed in just a few hours.
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    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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    Cons
    Kintone
    • I feel that Kintone is not well enough known yet. This means that other apps/APIs are not necessarily easy to connect with Kintone. Yes, you can use Zapier though for interfacing with other apps.
    • It would be great if it could give more customized options to change the look and format of certain things. You can make price quote apps, for example, but have to rely on 3rd party apps or programming skills to customize the look and fields.
    • If you make a table as an input field, it cannot connect to other internal Kintone apps for lookups and such.
    • I think there is more potential to make more customized data graphs.
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kintone
    I still think that there's a room for Kintone's future, and high expectations for them in additional features and innovative tools and supports. Truly hope that they will support email features, and standardized supports for various plug-ins with the 3rd party software and apps. In the meantime, we will have to consider our ways of doing our work in all aspects
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    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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    Usability
    Kintone
    Kintone is agile app and most of the time we can easily come up with new apps. However, there should be more feature-based drag and drop and or a visual-based usability, as we all want to minimize the number of clicks and dropdown menu selections as much as possible. Thanks.
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    Oracle
    its easy to use as a developer and applications designed using apex are easy and intuitive to use as an end user. Even non-coders can build good applications, the more code you can write the more you can enhance the application but you can get up and running quickly with almost no technical know how.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kintone
    Never had an issue with this.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Kintone
    No issues.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kintone
    I have had very specific questions about different aspects of the software, and I have always been able to get a hold of someone who could help. If my sales rep didn’t know the answer, he would get me in touch with someone who did know the answer. The whole team is very ready to help. It definitely feels like they view my success as their success, which is so important with this type of software.
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    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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    Implementation Rating
    Kintone
    Everyone has their own tastes of things and way they want to work. Asking them to adapt to the changes with the new tools or apps is always difficult. We would want to start with a very small but best example within the organization, which in our case was that the employees will not be bothered by the bosses by being asked to find the documents, status of the progresses, or major things/requests/projects.
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    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Kintone
    Kintone is the easiest product to create from and the cost is the lowest I believe. In addition, reconfigurability and extendability are great. If you look for a low code tool, you can try Kintone. But as same as another low code tool, don't expect too much.
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    Oracle
    If you are expert in SQL and PLSQL and use Oracle Database, then the best choice is Oracle Application Express. The functionality is already complete and very easy to use, so it's useless to find another tool if you are using Oracle. You don't use Oracle APEX only if: (1) you are using other database than Oracle, and (2) your application load is unpredictable.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Kintone
    Should be multiple pricing packages.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Kintone
    I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
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    Oracle
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    Professional Services
    Kintone
    Needed improvement at the time.
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    Oracle
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    Return on Investment
    Kintone
    • It has helped us reduce the amount of people we need to track our inventory. We’ve saved time and money using less people.
    • We are able to see our data much better now and have a spot that we can all look at the database on the go.
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    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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    ScreenShots

    Kintone Screenshots

    Screenshot of a view of apps from the portalScreenshot of 4 ways to build an appScreenshot of mobile accessScreenshot of the drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of business app views