We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps, Oracle Application Express (APEX), and ServiceNow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and others in Rapid Application Development Software."Microsoft PowerApps's most valuable features we found are that it's very similar to the other Microsoft products, you can do the basic automation quite quickly. The interface is similar to the other Microsoft products which makes it easy to navigate around because we are used to Microsoft products."
"Overall, the tool is very democratic. It's easy for anyone to use. You don't have to be a professional or well-versed in technology."
"The model that allows you to establish flow automation is getting a lot of traction from the customer side. It offers a lot of flexibility."
"It's a very workable solution because it's an automated way of making applications. You have a template, you have the application know-how,"
"The solution works great and is stable."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"For all no-code platforms that let you create a front end, you can click together something very quick."
"I like how fast I can develop an application and put it in production with PowerApps. I think the integration is also excellent. The platforms is growing, so they are constantly adding more connectors on all these things."
"One standout feature of Oracle APEX is its seamless integration with backend procedures, allowing for quick updates without changing the front-end interface."
"Oracle APEX allows our company to complete webpage projects easily in a fast turnaround time."
"The autonomous database is valuable and provides the main structure for code development."
"What I like best about Oracle Application Express (APEX) is that it doesn't require hard coding for reporting and building applications. It's a GUI-based application builder that even end-users with little development and language knowledge can develop applications on Oracle Application Express (APEX). The software is also very user-friendly, which I find valuable."
"It provides attractive GUIs allowing professionally-styled applications without the need to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript."
"This is a good application for quickly creating public applications."
"Oracle APEX's reporting features are simple yet powerful. The ability to quickly create CRUD screens has simplified many RAD discovery processes, while the APEX environment allows the product owners and dev teams to quickly understand the complex solutions and employ usage statistics to identify areas requiring improvement. The option to add external JavaScript tools in screen development enables the development of complicated mobile or web usage scenarios in rare cases where the APEX UX is not enough."
"I like the way that it automatically goes into the spreadsheets and the users can deal with it."
"It's great for keeping everyone informed in the company - not just IT. Everyone becomes aware of change requests and incidents so the entire company is on the same page."
"In the Service Portal, the widget concept - and the way we have developed our widget - is pretty simple. We can leverage a lot on top of it."
"It facilitates the monitoring of major incidents and provides insights into the effort expended to resolve each incident."
"One feature of ServiceNow that is important is the workflow engine. From my perspective [as a consultant] the power to be able to structure processes, represent workforce management for organizations, and the visibility provided by the reporting are additional top features."
"Some of the valuable features I have found the solution to have are it can serve many different types of businesses, it has strong platform capabilities, provides application development, built-in predictive intelligence, and performance analytics reports."
"It enables us to meet SLAs, track issues across the environment, and report those issues."
"It's great to do statuses or to review tasks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the ease of use and the sensor for ticketing systems."
"Microsoft PowerApps can improve the number of bugs that are present. When you are using the different applications it is not accurate."
"The notion people have is that no code equals no knowledge, and that's simply not true. Even though you don't have to write codes, you still have to know what you're doing."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see custom APIs, better integration with other solutions, and more connectors available."
"There is room for improvement in error handling and debugging."
"Technical support could be faster, and more accurate."
"When we talk of integrating with external applications, that's one area where, even today, I had to loop in my code developers. If this area can be streamlined so that my techno-functional consultants, who are on-site, can immediately start working on something without the assistance of developers, that would be ideal."
"The area where this product can be improved is the documentation. When we get stuck it's with the documentation when we are not able to find the codes we need."
"The solution must provide more integration with third-party applications."
"Maybe there are other technologies that offer what APEX cannot."
"When exporting, we can't export dynamic reports, only static reports. For example, when we want to export charts or tables it is only exported as a static report so we can't drop down on these reports; however, we can see this information when we are on the dashboard itself."
"Better connection and integration with non-Oracle databases is needed."
"During the upcoming versions, we can modify the current configuration."
"I would like to see easier integration into active directory authentication. Also, maybe integration of JavaScript frameworks would resolve some issues."
"There is a bit of a learning curve involved when first using the solution."
"Visual Builder and APEX should meld in one product."
"The problem of sending emails arises when Oracle Application Express (APEX) is inside Oracle Cloud Infrastructure since it is a bit complicated or difficult to understand where to take care of the setup part to be able to just send out emails properly."
"The contract module is quite rudimentary and doesn't support contract line items."
"System deployment and automation capabilities could be within the platform, similar to competitors."
"Most people are discussing UIs, but I'm a developer. I would say 80-90% of the people would appreciate that, that's easy for them, but from a developer perspective, it's hard for me, because for me it's clunky"
"Once a change request has been created once it's been approved and been submitted, there is no way to go in on that particular change request and submit an additional task."
"It's not user-friendly by default, but it can be customized to be customer-friendly."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"The pricing of the solution could be better. It's a bit high."
"The ability to embed help information onto the screens."
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