We performed a comparison between Microsoft Powerapps and Oracle Application Express (APEX) based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft PowerApps finished ahead in this comparison. Microsoft PowerApps offers slightly better integrations with 3rd party applications and is considered to be more user-friendly. As Microsoft is a very popular ecosystem with many of our users, it is the simple choice for better seamless integration. Oracle’s APEX limitations outside of the Oracle universe presented too many challenges for our users.
"The solution is easy to use and map."
"The flows are good because they can be used in a variety of situations."
"Power Automate has been the most valuable feature."
"I like the galleries, which are really powerful."
"The cloud aspect has been great. We don't have to do a lot of research in order to begin integrations. It's so easy to integrate with other solutions."
"Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product."
"I would say that the most valuable features are the user interface, navigation, and business routes."
"It’s a stable product."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can develop everything locally and deploy it for different kinds of operators in different locations, so we can do our job in one piece. The benefit of that is that others can use these applications. They connect to the internet to do these kinds of applications based on the permissions for those users."
"Oracle APEX allows our company to complete webpage projects easily in a fast turnaround time."
"The most valuable features are security, stability, and ease of implementation."
"This product will speed up development time with helpful production aids."
"You don't have to know a lot of PL because it's built on PL/SQL. You don't need developers. You only need to design a good application that resolves a problem, or many problems, for companies and you're ready to go."
"I particularly enjoy the web builder capabilities, especially the Page Designer. It offers so many elements or components to choose from, which is a major plus for me."
"It has many ready modules that can be used and developed."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The price could be lower."
"It would be good if this solution supports standard BPN operations. We are thinking of switching to a BPM solution next year because it is not a BPM solution."
"The availability of templates needs to be improved. I understand that the ecosystem around it is still developing, but we need more templates. I would like the entire ecosystem around it to improve. I would recommend adding AI components. Even though we can always connect to Azure for AI components, they should slowly start looking at adding some AI components to PowerApps so that out-of-the-box learning can be applied to process flows. Salesforce has the Einstein layer that works along with license platforms. PowerApps should also have something similar."
"It's easy to use."
"In some cases, PowerApps would have some limitations in terms of the data, the number of transactions, and so on, but for a normal solution, it would be enough."
"It's sometimes hard to import groups of options. At this point, I need to enter those manually and it slows the process down."
"Can be improved to cater to complex developments."
"As far as dealing with SharePoint, it'll allow you to ha manage up to 2000 rows, however, performance-wise, they're recommending that you just keep it at the default of 500 rows."
"One area for improvement in Oracle APEX is its workflow orchestration capabilities."
"It has a bit of a strict framework, you have to make all the time adjustments in their JavaScript. Another downside is that it's only available for Oracle databases."
"Reporting needs to be accessed via third party tools."
"The migration process is difficult in Oracle Application Express."
"Connections to the application pages are not handled well and at times more than one user can be accessing an application with the same ID."
"Oracle is more of a database-oriented solution and is not very flexible in app development."
"The collaboration and the workflow engine could use some improvement."
"The solution's layout could be improved for report generation to allow more configuration."
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Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 78 reviews while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is ranked 2nd in Rapid Application Development Software with 53 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Oracle Application Express (APEX) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Application Express (APEX) writes "An easy-to-use format that is flexible and scalable". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian, Microsoft Azure App Service and Salesforce Platform, whereas Oracle Application Express (APEX) is most compared with Salesforce Platform, Mendix, Microsoft Azure App Service, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service and OutSystems. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. Oracle Application Express (APEX) report.
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