Microsoft Power Apps Reviews

We use Microsoft PowerApps for internal business solutions that eliminate the need for Excel workbooks.

To keep track of which accounts our project managers were working on so that we could charge time back to those other lines of business.

The UI functionality is the most valuable aspect of this solution.

If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial.

I have been using Microsoft PowerApps since 2019.

Microsoft PowerApps is a stable solution.

The scalability of Microsoft PowerApps is limited.

We have a few thousand users in our organization. They are completely different. Most are individual contributor roles, but who uses what for what varies greatly.

It is being used extensively, and I'm sure there are plans to expand its use even further.

I would rate technical support a five out of five.

I also have experience with OutSystems.

I would rate OutSystems a five out of five, and I would highly recommend them.

The initial setup was straightforward. I would rate it a five out of five.

Deployment took about a month once it was at my level and I fully understood it.

My implementation strategy was to meet with various business owners to identify a solution for them, then build and deploy that solution for them.

I did not work with a third-party integrator, consultant, or reseller. I completed the deployment by myself.

I had some help from YouTube and Google.

I'm not familiar with the maintenance aspect. I know there is a reference center and a few others from our IT department. I would guess that there is a team of a  few hundred people to maintain this solution.

There has been a return on investments. I would rate the ROI a five out of five.

Whatever the cost of licensing is, it is in the millions.

I would rate the licensing costs a one out of five.

My recommendation is to first investigate OutSystems.

I would rate Microsoft PowerApps a seven out of ten.

We use the solution for collaboration modules within our company. For example, we use Power Apps to handle requests when investing in projects abroad and needing approval.

The solution integrates quickly with our organization's existing systems.

We're running a campaign to encourage users to utilize the Power Apps. This is particularly challenging as we incur licensing costs, and some individuals do not use the applications.

I have been using Microsoft Power Apps for three years.

There were no stability issues.

250 users are using this solution. We have some projects for next year that we will use to increase the usage of Power Apps.

When we need support, Microsoft helps us immediately.

Positive

Deployment is easy and takes three months to complete, depending on the project. When we start using their programming, they understand easily and faster.

The solution has increased productivity due to automation. We can automate and save 30% on costs. Power Apps allows us to allocate or invest time in other activities when the apps handle certain processes.

The product is cheaper.

The solution's maintenance is easy. It is easy to use, understand, and manage.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

We are a big global company that is involved in a large volume of setups involving Microsoft solutions like Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate for different environments across departments in organizations functioning at a global level. So we are involved in delivering services while focusing on the setup processes for different environments and departments. It helps the people at work since solutions like Power Apps and Power Automate function excellently.

I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills. So, no matter which department or what technical skills a person possesses, it has become very easy to build or automate certain processes. In my company, we chose Microsoft Power Apps since it helps us with small and medium tasks like making certain processes, generating reports, and so on.

Though I don't remember enough details about the solution to comment on it, I think the solution does need to add some technical features to it since I remember that we had faced some gaps while trying to automate certain processes. One area where the solution lacks is the limited size of the database it offers its users. So, some businesses planning to scale up may face certain restrictions while using the solution. Microsoft Power Apps also needs to provide its users with certain specific connectors within the solution. I won't be aggressive enough to complain more about the solution since, in our company, we have a lot of specific handmade tools, and so we don't explicitly expect Microsoft to create specific connectors for Power Apps.

I have experience with Microsoft Power Apps for three years. Also, I don't remember the solution's version since I used it six months ago.

The solution is generally stable, but some limitations, such as the embedded database usage limits, can impair its functionality.

Since my previous company had a specific license agreement with Microsoft, the solution was scalable. The solution allowed for adding new licenses to the company on demand through a step-by-step procedure. This task was carried out during the first stage of the solution's deployment process after we discovered the need for additional licenses.

So, around 65,000 employees were using the solution in the environment flawlessly. Also, my previous company had plans to increase the number of users. The company had decided that since the platform was an excellent one, it should predominantly be used for small and medium processes. Management was planning to scale it up and was waiting for Microsoft to provide a more powerful capacity solution at a time when the company had around 1,00,000 employees.

Technicians from Microsoft visited our company and helped us sort out certain issues, specifically strategic issues.

In our company, we were previously using Microsoft SharePoint Dev. We, later on, chose Microsoft Power Apps since it helps us automate small and medium processes.

The initial setup process for the solution is not complex. So, the company had made arrangements to help us manage the initial kickoff and deployment processes. Since it may not be a very easy process, it is more or less a mediocre one.

Because there were a lot of employees in my previous organization, it took around one year for the deployment process to be completed. Taking into consideration the environment, the initial settings, and the need to take care of security, the entire deployment process would take around one year.

The deployment process was carried out in three stages. If we consider the deployment's first stage, it is free for one year, though I can't recollect it entirely. However, I can say that it was related to Microsoft Azure since it was about security involving steps like how to create the security levels and which levels one can create. So, this process was carried out to create, considering our structure, resources, strategies in the company, security, and environment. The second stage involved the creation of real environments and splitting environments, divisions, and departments. The third stage involved communication and promotion. We then created the specific site devoted to the tools in Power Apps before creating a knowledge base consisting of general articles, specific articles, and the general question and answer section.

We sourced the solution's version for free projects from a company, and the company was really helpful.

Regarding deployment and maintenance, our company had technical resources, promotional resources, analytics, and so on. So, we had a big in-house team using all the available resources. So, around fifteen people in a team were looking at the implementation part of the solution. Also, our sales company had a team of ten members. In short, a significant number of resources were engaged in the solution's maintenance phases.

I had not participated in the evaluation process, and our management communicated with consultants and other resources to investigate solutions, after which they possibly chose Microsoft Power Apps.

I would recommend those considering the solution give it a try. Our organization had some initial doubts, but after comparing it with other platforms in the market, we found it to be highly advanced. Additionally, since we have received excellent support from the vendors, we are confident they will not leave us to face any issues with the solution alone. Many consulting companies are also available to provide further assistance. These factors have made Power Apps and Power Automate popular. Owing to the solution's ability to solve a company's small and medium automated processes, I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

We are using Microsoft Power Apps for data collection and processing for small intergroup business applications for our internal needs. 

Overall the solution is reliable.

The scalability of the solution could improve.

I have been using Microsoft Power Apps for approximately two years.

The stability of the solution has been good in our usage.

I rate the stability of Microsoft Power Apps a seven out of ten.

We have approximately 1,000 people using the solution. There are some applications that we will increase the usage of. However, this depends on the use case.

The scalability of the solution depends on the use case of the application being used.

We have a dedicated support team at Microsoft Power Apps for our needs.

I previously used IBM Lotus.

The initial setup of Microsoft Power Apps is straightforward. The implementation depends on the complexity of the application being deployed. It can range from one week to one month. I have not implemented an application that has taken longer than half a year.

We have a team that does the implementation of the solution, such as a delivery manager.

Our enterprise contract with Microsoft Power Apps includes the application feature platform in our subscription package, so we are not incurring any extra expenses. All of our other subscriptions are also part of our license agreement.

I would recommend this platform to others if they have a dedicated internal team with the appropriate experience.

I rate Microsoft Power Apps seven out of ten.

Power Apps is a tool to create forms and solutions for collecting information from the floor. We have 10 or 15 users at the moment, but we expect to add more.

Power Apps helps our company manage projects, like improvement projects, for example. We can track each project and have a single point from which we can see all the project details.

You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc.

We use GoCanvas to make forms. It's easier to make forms in GoCanvas, but Power Apps is cheaper because it is bundled with our Office 365 license. if I want to create a form in Power Apps, I need some knowledge, but GoCanvas is intuitive.

I've been using Power Apps for one or two years.

I rate Power Apps nine out of 10 for stability.

It should be easy to scale up Power Apps. I don't know because I was only working with one connection through SharePoint.

I taught myself to use Power Apps. When I needed a solution, I found a lot of examples on the web.

Setting up Power Apps is easy because it's a cloud solution. The deployment required one or two people and took one or two months. 

We deployed Power Apps in-house.

We get a return.

I rate Power Apps seven out of 10 for affordability.

I rate Power Apps eight out of 10. My advice to new users is to start a simple solution to get more user-friendly apps to the people.

The primary use case for this solution for us is building in-house applications rather than having to purchase them. We build fairly basic applications and we would rather use Power Apps to deploy them or create them in-house.

The way this solution helped us improve is by allowing us to collect data by combining it with phones and the tools Microsoft uses to send out surveys and also use it for a number of automation and requests. It creates forms with which people can make requests or respond to surveys and those are worked on the backend. The whole process is done using Power Apps.

The features I find the most valuable are the 365 and Microsoft applications integrations and the automation.

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 requires a lot of codes and understanding of the scripting language. Most of the time I end up going to forums to get them. I would like to see Microsoft come up with a knowledge base for Power Apps.

In the next release, I would like to see more integrations because there are some that are not available and we end up having to get adjacent script to work on to work with that.

I have been using this solution for two years now.

My impression is that it is very stable. I would rate it a 10, on a scale of one to 10, with one being not stable at and 10 being very stable.

We rarely scale when it comes to Power Apps. Once you deploy the application, that's it. So if you need to scale something more robust you probably have to deploy a new one.

Currently, there are over 500 users of Power Apps in our company.

We plan on expanding because it saves us a lot of cost in terms of the application that we currently use this for.

I am not even aware if there is any technical support for Power Apps because most times we have to go through online communities and forums to get what we want. I think the support for Power Apps should be something Microsoft could look into.

The initial setup was straightforward because they have a quite number of templates that you can pick from. The deployment does not take long as it comes with the Office 365. If you have Office 365, you have the Power App enabled in your directory.

The ROI is visible considering the number of applications we have been able to use it to build.

The Power Apps comes included with the Office 365. When you purchase a business standard license, the Power Apps comes included.

Power Automate is like process automation.

Any task which you do on a recurring basis or a daily basis, you can simply automate. For example, if you have a use case where every day when you go home you need to book a cab. What I can do is I can automate that task through Power Apps at a scheduled time every day. If I'm leaving at about four o'clock in the evening, by 3:30 I can run that Power task and book a cab every day.

With Microsoft, the main benefit that we get is it's easy for a layman to understand it. That's the advantage of it, it's user-friendly. 

The way it integrates with the other applications is very good. The experience is seamless; there are no hurdles. Connectors are easily available, which can help you connect with some third-party apps if required. 

The initial setup is easy.

It is stable and reliable. 

We can scale it. 

They probably need to improve intelligent document processing. In terms of reading the documents, whether it's a Word document, an Excel, a PDF, an HTML, or a webpage. Identifying the key things with its own intelligence is something that Power Automate and Power Apps need to improve.

I've used the solution for close to a year now.

It is quite stable.  It gives you that assurance since it is from Microsoft. The stability, the reliability is definitely there.

It is scalable. We have a lot of ground for it to scale it up, and add more and more apps or users can be added as per our business requirements.

It's being used widely by many people, in fact. However, it's hard to pinpoint the exact number of people who benefit from it. Anyone can quickly learn how to use it as well. 

I'm aware of UiPath and Automation Anywhere which take a longer time to implement. 

It's very easy to set up. You should have all the licenses available. It's quick and easy to implement, and you can get your hands on it immediately. It doesn't take too much time to get up and running. In contrast, its contemporaries like UiPath and Automation Anywhere are not so quick and easy to implement.

The cost depends on which bundle you get from Microsoft. For example, if you go with the standard Office 365 with the other packages around it, it's good enough. However, if you go for anything specific, you'll have to think about it and customize your requirements. If you go for 365, your cost would be less. If you go for Dynamics 365 with Azure, then it's a complete package that will be expensive.

We are Microsoft partners. 

My advice for those people in tersted int eh product would be to try it if they are looking at implementing something very quickly with minimum cost and minimal training. If these are their objectives, then Microsoft Power Platform is a very viable solution.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We had a new requirement from a business in the clinical domain and the business wanted to identify risk at a study or site level. We created an application using PowerApps, which works well as we usually interact with the SQL Server on Azure.

I did some POC for another application. We’re expecting we'll get it in a new project in the near future. It is a really good tool. We can run programming knowledge, we can learn the PowerApps and we can interact with applications.

It is user-friendly. Anyone can easily learn and work on this tool.

The solution is easy to implement.

It’s a stable product.

Not much coding is required.

I don’t have much hands-on experience with PowerApps. I’d need more time with it. As of now, I can’t think of an area for improvement.

We did a POC with the solution. We’ve used it for the last 12 months.

It’s very stable. It’s reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn’t crash or freeze.

I cannot speak to how scalable it would be. However, it may work best with a lesser amount of data.

We might have about 100 people on the solution.

I don’t have any experience using any other tool.

It’s straightforward to set up the solution. It’s not overly difficult or complex.

We did the integration ourselves. We didn’t need the help of any consultants or integrators.

I don’t have any details in relation to the pricing or licensing.

The tool was suggested to us, and we decided to try it. We did not evaluate other options.

I’m not sure of the exact version number. However, we are using the latest version.

I’d recommend the solution to others.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. There may be other tools that are easier to work with. However, I’m not sure. In general, it works well, and we have been happy with it.