Microsoft Power Apps Reviews

We are currently piloting the solution, we are checking it with our workflow.

We were impressed with the functionality of the solution.

The pricing structure needs to be improved, the current information is confusing.

I have been using the solution for a few months.

The install is not a problem at all, it did not take very much time.

We did the deployment and we have a few employees for maintenance. 

The pricing is too expensive and the licensing system is complicated. There are many pages of instruction on how to do the calculations for the price.

We are considering other products at this time because of the cost.

We have just started using the product, it is unclear if we will continue to use it after taking into account the unclear pricing structure.

I rate Microsoft PowerApps a seven out of ten.

We are into software consulting. We have been developing various solutions and leveraging PowerApps to do it.

What I like about it is that it is coming from Microsoft. It is very easy for us, our techno-functional consultants to spin an application in days, not in months. 

This is easily integrated with native systems including the Microsoft stack. If we have to integrate with other products such as SharePoint, we can leverage any services using Azure or the same platform.

In terms of scalability, it can scale quite well. It's so scalable with forthcoming technologies. We can develop something in PowerApps, and that can easily be scaled to a bot. We can quickly make a bot there and make it work in conjunction with applications.

We had it integrated earlier with voice channels. You can manage an omnichannel kind of scenario between Voice, Teams, WhatsApp, social integration platforms like Twitter, Facebook, et cetera. 

The RPA is very closely integrated onto the same platform and BI as well. It's great.

The initial setup is very easy.

The product is very stable. 

I have found the technical support to be helpful.

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.

I've used the solution for four and a half or five years. 

The stability has been great. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

It's so scalable. We can scale to all the latest technologies and we can integrate with the social platforms. We can integrate with the document management system (SharePoint). We can integrate with the Active Directory exchange server. It's limitless.

It is so much more scalable once you have everything available over in the Dataverse so that you can write triggers and automate a lot of the BPM. Once you have everything with you, you can spin any dashboards, reports, schedules, and then those can go through mail alerts. You can schedule alerts through WhatsApp messages. You can schedule it through voice IVRs. You name a thing, or you can schedule it. You build it over here and then schedule it over there. 

My experience with technical support has been very, very hood. They've been very supportive. The only thing is that you have to have the right support plan. If you have one, they adhere to the SLA quite well.

The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's pretty simple and straightforward. 

I have done the initial setup multiple times for the various installations. I can handle it on my own and do not need outside assistance. 

The pricing is a subjective thing. Whenever we are positioning PowerApps to an enterprise that is already into Dynamics 365 ER PCRMs, it is very easy to position it as they have already made initial investments there. It is just simply that the number of users that are based on the number of applications and it can be scaled. For them, I've never faced any issues. For example, for a hospital with it, we were already reaching out to, say, 40 units. When they wanted to scale to their smaller units, the 70 of them, it was a cakewalk. Then we had a plan to extend it to their pharmacies, say, 50 of them. That, again, was a cakewalk as they were already on that platform.

However, when I go and reach out to a smaller business SMB segment, the challenge over there is that we are faced with competition - with other software which has been built on PHP. If we host it on-prem, of course, then that discussion of cloud versus on-prem and those fundamental discussions creep in and then there is the minimum unit price per license, meaning per user or per app. When you look at it that way, an SMB will see it as expensive compared with open-source options.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. If the external integration process was easier, I would give it a perfect ten. 

We did a POF with Microsoft PowerApps and we used it for simple automation tasks.

The solution has not helped our organization. Since we moved away from Microsoft PowerApps from the bugs and I'm not sure if it's improved. When I look at the developer community, it's still buggy, there are some issues. It's not consistent when you are working with applications. If I work with the same application, it gives me a different choice every time. It doesn't give you the same choice of how to interact with the application.

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.

Microsoft PowerApps can improve the number of bugs that are present. When you are using the different applications it is not accurate.

In the next release of Microsoft PowerApps, they should add IDP and a control room.

I have been using Microsoft PowerApps for two months.

Microsoft PowerApps is not stable.

Microsoft PowerApps is not scalable. When compared to the other solutions that we've worked with, it's scalable. Everyone can build their own automation and there isn't a single repository where you can share or make sure that you're using the same automation. Everyone builds their own version of the same automation it's inefficient and at the same time, it is not scalable because if one thing breaks, you have to go update every process that you've automated.

In terms of support, there isn't much support compared to UiPath, Blue Prism, or Automate Anywhere. There is not a lot of documentation, training, or community support. People are starting to use Microsoft PowerApps, but by the time it catches up, it'll be a while.

I rate the support of Microsoft PowerApps a three out of five.

We had six people for the maintenance of the processes used in Microsoft PowerApps.

I have evaluated many other solutions.

My advice to others wanting to implement Microsoft PowerApps, they should do research on the connectors that are available compared to the competition. This will speed up the time to their end goal because Microsoft doesn't have many. The general support documentation that is available on using the tool, compare them with the other solutions to make a decision on what solution to use. They don't have many resources yet that are qualified in Microsoft PowerApps or Microsoft Power Automate.

I rate Microsoft PowerApps a four out of five.

Microsoft PowerApps needs a lot of fixes and improvements, and the competition is way far ahead compared to Microsoft at the moment.

The usability, in terms of low-code applications, is a feature we have found most valuable. We just do development and then distribution.

Improvements to the capturing of geographic locations and integration with maps would raise my score of the product from seven point five to its maximum of ten.

We have been using Microsoft PowerApps for around two years.

So far, the product has shown stability.

The product is scalable.

I am making use of the product in my own company.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

Our primary use case of this solution is for when we're integrating something and need to extract some data. We use PowerApps to extract the data and create our own module inside PowerApps and create our own app. We extract data and integrate it with PowerApps.

It's very easy to build an app using this solution. It's easier than with other tools. 

I think installation and integration could be improved. It's tricky compared to other tools. 

I've been using this solution for a month or so.

We are a small company and only have four or five people using this solution. 

When it comes to installation, we need to install a gateway and integrate between two tools, for example, PowerApps and Power Virtual Agents, Deployment is a little complicated. The data is available in Google but it's a little difficult.

Licensing is on a monthly basis. 

We tried a lot of other products before choosing PowerApps and we found Microsoft to be easier to use. 

I would recommend this solution. Microsoft is a large company and the product has good features. We plan to migrate all our tools to Microsoft in the future. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

We use Microsoft PowerApps to get insight into the business. We use it for BI.

The initial setup should be improved. It could be easier.

Technical support could be faster, and more accurate.

I have been working with Microsoft PowerApps for the last year. My experience is limited but I do use it from time to time.

Most of the time, Microsoft PowerApps is stable.

I have no issues with the scalability of Microsoft PowerApps. For our purposes, it is quite scalable.

At this time, I don't have any issues with technical support. It can however take some time if you launch a service request, but most of the time, it is resolved within the expected time.

We also work with Microsoft 365.

The initial setup is moderately complex.

Microsoft PowerApps is expensive, but there are many features included.

They think about how they will set it up before beginning to ensure they select suitable use cases.

I would rate Microsoft PowerApps a seven out of ten.