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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A

    Power Apps

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/APowerApps is a low code / rapid application development product from Microsoft that allows users to quickly build apps.

    $20

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Power Apps Premium
    $20
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    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
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    84%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Oracle BPM Suite and Power Apps
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Power Apps
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Oracle BPM Suite and Power Apps
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Power Apps
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Oracle BPM Suite and Power Apps
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Power Apps
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Oracle BPM Suite and Power Apps
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Power Apps
    -
    Ratings
    Content management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Oracle BPM Suite and Power Apps
    Feature
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Power Apps
    7.8
    24 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Visual Modeling00 Ratings7.722 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings7.423 Ratings
    Platform Security00 Ratings8.523 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings7.923 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings7.423 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings7.622 Ratings
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    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.1
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle BPM SuitePower Apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Microsoft
    Power Apps is ideal for scenarios that are neither too complex nor too large. It is easy to begin development in Power Apps, as it is one of the best tools for low-code development. Power Apps can be implemented for complex scenarios as well, provided there is strong knowledge of the tool and ample time for planning. Our applications benefit from Power Apps' cross-platform support, making it easy to use on any device, including desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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    Microsoft
    • Power Apps has formats that are pre-built that don't require any coding which makes it easier to achieve your vision. This does become a challenge if your App needs don't fit into that format.
    • We deal with a ton of data so the fact that you can connect to any data source in addition to their pre-stablished data connections makes the process a breeze.
    • The online learning resources and tutorials are helpful as well for those who are tech savvy.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Microsoft
    • Sometimes the cost of solutions is greater than the benefit. Licensing is expensive relative to the scope of some business user-created personal or team-level solutions.
    • While there is a starter-kit for Governance, it is complicated to stand up and requires dedicated resources to provide on-going governance operations. Many organizations are not going to be able to dedicate resources to governance and this causes the sprawl, solution duplication, silos, unneeded and unplanned licensing expenses, and a general "wild wild west" environment.
    • There needs to be better direction and best practices given around Power Platform Environment utilization and optimization.
    • The accessibility to the platform and ease for business partners to independantly create solutions is both a benefit and a negative. When the business outcome needed is a good fit for PowerApps it is a quick win, but when not a good fit it becomes a frustration for the business partner attempting to make the platform do something it is not well-suited for. The business partner entangles tech teams in the effort which drains resources and provides a lack-luster solution. All of this to say, it would be beneficial to have some tools that business partners could leverage to determine\understand if the type of business outcome they need is well suited to PowerApps or not.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Microsoft
    PowerApps is a great solution and I have spent the last year familiarizing myself with the platform and building custom applications to complete a whole range of tasks such as asset management, custom invoice generation, and item restriction tracking. We as a company have barely begun to scratch the surface of what can be achieved with PowerApps.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    The community forums are extremely responsive to questions asked, there is a good body of online documentation and many community posts to draw from. Although the platform has changed, which means some of the posts are out of date and the solutions provided aren't relevant. Of relevance, I read over 400 articles plus documentation to get this first app built in SharePoint, move it to SQL and make it work exactly the way it should.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Microsoft
    1. PowerApps functionality comes with E1 over E3 License without adding extra costs 2. For Nintex you pay (at the beginning) for each workflow, so my intention would be, to do no workflows to prevent additional costs, but I want a platform with a fair price that allows me to create workflows without thinking about the price for each workflow and we use only some workflow and relative easy workflows and forms as a medium-sized company. 3. PowerApps provides a lot of functionality without needing to invest in premium features directly.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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    Microsoft
    • Automation of manual processes brings an ROI on labor costs.
    • Intake of data provides clean database design.
    • Connectivity to data-lake provides insights and trends into the data.
    • Able to scale operations with efficiencies provided by the app.
    • Can mature the process and workflows to do more.
    Incentivized
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