Microsoft Power Apps Reviews

We use the solution to implement new Teams apps. Some customers want apps on every mobile phone in their company. This is implemented using Dynamics or SharePoint, with a list of plan data displayed on the mobile phones. Everyone enters the data and plans when holidays or machines, like magnetic resonance scanning machines, are to be used. Everyone enters this data and coordinates using that Blackboard application. It is for enterprise resource planning or HR planning.

Microsoft Power Apps is the building block for creating applications, similar to how children use different types of blocks to build structures. 

Power Apps is a part of the Microsoft Power Platform suite, enabling users to build custom applications using various components. It is more akin to SharePoint in creating web pages and applications. It allows integration with SharePoint, connected web services, data files, and more.

You need to be familiar with Microsoft Power Apps' infrastructure. If you understand Power Apps, it becomes easy to use; otherwise, it may seem challenging. SharePoint can be a complex product, but if you have someone guiding you or showing you how to use the apps with online checkpoints, then it becomes much easier.

To utilize Microsoft Power Apps effectively, it's essential to grasp its integration with SharePoint. I recommend considering a structured course instead of relying solely on YouTube videos, which can be time-consuming. Whether managing a Spanish restaurant, an Indian restaurant, or any other business, investing in formal training is crucial for efficiently getting your business up and running. This approach saves valuable time compared to piecing together information from scattered online sources like YouTube or random articles across the Microsoft ecosystem.

Microsoft Power Apps allows companies to efficiently manage and utilize measurement or scattered data in competitive environments. While existing solutions are available, understanding how to leverage these solutions effectively is crucial. Power Apps provides an intuitive interface to seamlessly implement measurement data from an open environment such as a bakery or similar establishments.

Microsoft provides excellent technical support. They are known for their competence and respond within a few business days.

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The solution usually takes half an hour to start. However, getting the simple apps running might take days, and some alerts take one or two days. The most difficult part is accessing the data needed within your ERP or HR system.

The license costs around 20$ per user per month. While it is an expensive piece of software, users are willing to pay for it.

SharePoint has been used since its inception in 2001, leveraging web service proxies and the initial framework where any web service could provide authenticated and authorized access. Custom connectors are required to access data. The connected infrastructure does not significantly affect the authentication and authorization requirements. This flexibility allows seamless integration with infrastructures like Google, SharePoint, SAP, and others.

It allows you to integrate ideas like viewing the inventory of used machines or any other inventory-based business scenario. These apps can be accessed on your mobile phone or laptop and displayed within Teams, making them interactive. It serves as a versatile platform for various business logic needs. Additionally, you can build and program apps without Teams using a standard browser, though many customers prefer using it alongside Teams.

It is a development environment that simplifies application creation, though, like any programming, it is susceptible to errors. When integrating systems such as banks, credit card companies, or health insurance providers, ensure proper authentication, authorization, and accurate data transmission. Understanding the origins and significance of your data is essential, often requiring collaboration across departments to align on business data definitions—a resource-intensive process. Developing sensitive applications in such environments can be challenging, especially regarding data protection compliance.

I recommend Microsoft Power Apps to small businesses, such as Spanish restaurants. If you have a small medical practice, like a dental office, you might experience regular service issues, especially in Germany. However, despite these issues, if you need to store data and to interact with it using mobile phones, I recommend Microsoft Power Apps.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine 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.

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.

With Power Apps, we create some of the collaboration forms for our employees to use during the pandemic. We can record our employees' status health daily, and start a database of the information. After that, we can track using Power BI if there are any symptoms or if the risk is low, high, or medium. We use it basically for self-declaration forms.

The solution offers good integration on the Microsoft Power platform. You can use and develop apps, local apps using Microsoft Power Apps. It helps automate processes. We can do the monitoring and tracking of the Power BI app in Microsoft. 

It's very easy to set up.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is good.

The flexibility of the user interface could be better. Currently, they are using the Microsoft OMS, Management System. It would be ideal if we could customize the layout of the user interface.

I've used this solution for one to three years. 

The solution is very stable. We haven't dealt with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It is reliable. 

You can easily scale the solution as needed. 

We have 500 people that use the solution. We use it quite regularly. We do not, however, plan to expand usage at this time. 

Technical support has been good. They're also very supportive. When we have any problem or issue, we can reach out to them and they will reply.

The initial setup is not complex or difficult. It's easy to set up. It's very straightforward. 

It took us about four to five months to set everything up. The apps vary in how long it takes to develop and release them.

We develop everything in-house. We handled the setup in-house as well. We didn't need any outside assistance. 

We have not yet seen any ROI.

I cannot speak to the exact pricing of the product. We are, however, heavily affiliated with Microsoft.

We're users and Microsoft partners. We use a lot of Microsoft products.

It's my understanding that we are using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd recommend the solution. Everyone would be able to use it as it is not overly technical. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

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.

We use Microsoft PowerApps for the typical use cases including website creation and a work portal, covering all the operations involving the manufacturing side of my customers.

There are three app-building interfaces available in PowerApps. Canvas is model-driven. Power Pages, which was Power Portal, which has more low-code, no-code capabilities and makes web design easy for the everyday user to create a website. Lastly, Power BI reports, or Microsoft DataWorks, which we have integrated with our data provide us the option to work collaboratively.

Most of the people in our organization using this solution are business people. They are not experts in technology and are not familiar with how to use the application. They use Excel and other documents to collaborate. Moving Excel to the application helps them access different data sources. It allows us to provide all the information in one single place. Everyone can view the data based on their role or access level.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the ease of use to create an application. For example, if you use the Canvas app, there is a feature that you can upload an image, and it will easily identify it and convert it into the application.

The solution is convenient for using Power Effects so we can write customized business logic.

Microsoft PowerApps is not responsive in nature. For us to make an application responsive, it requires some effort. We need to work with CSS, HTML5, or JavaScript.

I would also like to see improvements made to the integration with other data sources, including Azure Databricks or Spark. When we connect from DataWorks, CDS, SharePoint, or OneDrive where the actual Excel file is kept, it is easy. However, if we connect with other data sources, we need to do a no-data filter, particularly when there are in-built integrations available. 

Out-of-the-box connectors, like dataflow, would help to load the data from those data sources into CDS.

For future releases, Microsoft PowerApps should add more templates that help bring more experiences to the websites.

I work as an IT analyst. I have been using Microsoft PowerApps for two years.

In our organization, PowerApps is used by program managers, IT engineers, IT analysts, assistant consultants, and delivery partners.

The initial setup of Microsoft PowerApps is straightforward. 

For deployment, we use the ALM CoE kit, and GitHub through the pipeline. It is done through the team, creating a Dev environment for each pre-Dev and production environment. When we have completed testing and validation, we proceed with staging and then production.

We have not implemented using an automatic deployment through Azure Pipeline as there are a lot of bugs. We are still doing the implementation manually.

Deployment is done by our customers' teams. They are handling the pipeline activities.

The ROI is always positive. Our customers who use this solution can quickly create and circulate through a group. For example, for an innovative idea, you can create an idea zone, QC, or something similar. You can create a form and circulate it via email through PowerApps.

PowerApps has been adopted by all major partners and Microsoft is widely used. We use Microsoft Teams to collaborate. You need to have licenses. E1 plus Intune or E1 plus licenses is enough for everyone to use PowerApps as it's free, even if you are using data sources like SharePoint.

If you want to deploy something with RPA or Power Virtual Agents, you will need to think about the licensing model and the capabilities of the AI builder. AI can deploy the AML model, so you can use the capabilities, meaning you need the licensing.

For an organization looking to implement Microsoft PowerApps, they should consider the timeframe required and the experience they would like. 

Responsiveness is a concern with PowerApps. If you want to build an application for your desktop, tablet, or mobile, the application needs to be responsive on all screens. PowerApps is not responsive to these requirements. If responsiveness is not a concern, then I recommend this solution.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We have built a couple of apps ourselves, but mainly, we are building the apps for our customers.

The best aspect of Microsoft Power Apps is its time-to-market efficiency. Unlike traditional programming, it doesn't involve lengthy coding processes, allowing for rapid deployment. You can input your requirements and get started without writing millions of lines of code.

The product is expensive. It costs around 20 euros per month.

There is no stability concern from clients. It could be faster, but it's stable. When it is on your infrastructure, it takes more time to work than the public cloud.

Microsoft support is not solving your problem. They're closing the ticket and telling you to open a new ticket. When you're writing back, they're not answering. When you are calling, they don't hear you. Microsoft support is the cheapest support.

The initial setup is easy because you don't need to write a million lines of code.

Microsoft Power Apps runs only on the cloud. There is no on-premise possibility to run it. You can run a connector connecting your on-prem infrastructure and the cloud. We are developing on Azure Active Directory. We're also using it because our clients also use Azure. We have big and small Azure clients. Everything is in the cloud.

If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription. You already have access to Power Apps. You can utilize pre-built apps and even create your own without needing additional data apps.

The solution is fast to adapt.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.