Overview
What is Power Apps?
PowerApps is a low code / rapid application development product from Microsoft that allows users to quickly build apps.
Power-Apps for Quality Assurance.
Power Apps Helps You Become the Developer
PowerApps the power to thrive!
great to Use, painful to Develop
Digital process forms with PowerApps for a paperless office - But a lot programming skills still needed.
Microsoft Powerapps, wonderful tool to upscale your business
PowerApps, automating your most manual data intake processes.. saving you time and money!
Great!
Feel the power with PowerApps
PowerApps, Great system for the Novice Developer
PowerApps trendy but limited
Easy and quick app development platform with integration to Office 365 and Azure
Superb Platform to Deliver Quick Mobile Applications and Integrate Azure/Office 365
PowerApps is a Good Start but Needs to Get Better
Awards
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Popular Features
- Platform Security (18)9.494%
- Drag-and-drop Interfaces (18)9.191%
- Platform User Management (18)8.282%
- Reusability (18)4.343%
Pricing
Power Apps Premium
$20
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $20 per month per user
Product Demos
Getting Started with PowerApps || (EduX365.com)
Auto Populate User Manager Information using PowerApps
PowerApps Training App Template
PowerApps in Power BI Desktop short demo
PowerApps: Restaurant App Demo
Get Onboard PowerApps
Features
Low-Code Development
Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.
- 7.6Visual Modeling(17) Ratings
Visual modeling tooling allows business users to design processes visually.
- 9.1Drag-and-drop Interfaces(18) Ratings
Drag-and-drop interface for building applications
- 9.4Platform Security(18) Ratings
Security guardrails in place to help prevent malware, data breaches etc.
- 8.2Platform User Management(18) Ratings
Tools enabling admins to control user access and on-board and off-board users
- 4.3Reusability(18) Ratings
An internal repository where assets, modules, and even entire applications can be reused
- 8.2Platform Scalability(17) Ratings
Apps developed by low-code platform must be scalable and capable of supporting large numbers of users
Product Details
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Power Apps Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-14 of 14)PowerApps is a great platform - If it fits into your development model and unique business outcome needs
- Tight integration with other technologies such as Power Automate, Teams, and SharePoint - as well as many non-Microsoft technologies.
- Low-code\No-code that can produce enterprise-level solutions
- Vast number of sample and example Apps are available to kick-start a solution.
- 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.
PowerApps, being a low-code\no-code platform is not well suited for business processes that require many complex computations or large amounts of custom code - such as solutions that are better architected as Web Site or "full-blown" desktop solutions. There are solutions that are just not easy or quick to accomplish in a low-code\no-code platform. Enterprise Architects should know the difference, however business partners often try to create a solution and only when stuck because it becomes too complex do they engage a tech team for assistance - at which point there are sunk-costs involved and hinderences to re-platforming the solution.
Power Apps Helps You Become the Developer
- 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.
- I think more formats would be helpful.
- I think having more customizability with current formats.
PowerApps the power to thrive!
- Scheduling
- Organization
- Customization
- Intuitive
- User friendly
- Maximum upload size is low.
- Item restrictions.
Digital process forms with PowerApps for a paperless office - But a lot programming skills still needed.
- WYSIWYG Editor with easy Drag & Drop.
- JavaScript for additional functionality.
- Integration in SharePoint Online.
- Integration in Teams.
- More complicated to understand in comparison with Nintex Forms.
- Complicated to find errors.
- Using PowerApps for SharePoint Forms is a bit complicated by setting up the start and load scenario with a lot of JavaScript.
- Load values, change them by code, and save them back could be easier. Actually quite complicated to handle a lot of variables.
- Application development.
- Query building.
- Integration of apps.
- Front end and back end integration.
- Database management.
- Use of graphical user interface.
- More graphical representation.
- Instruction based application development.
PowerApps, automating your most manual data intake processes.. saving you time and money!
- Automate manual processes.
- Quick and easy setup.
- Can scale very quickly.
- Can be customized.
- Easy to learn and manage.
- UI can be a little confusing if not technically savvy.
- Licensing is complicated.
- More integrations to other platforms and processes.
Feel the power with PowerApps
- organization
- execution
- designing
- customization
- structure
- cannot think of anything more
PowerApps, Great system for the Novice Developer
- Low Code Solutions
- Flexible connections
- Built In Database(CDS)
- Exporting Data out of the CDS is very limited
- Save screen to PDF or Save data table to PDF
- Data imports could be easier
PowerApps trendy but limited
- Deploy to mobile.
- Create a great looking UI.
- Handles updates well.
- Programming model is unique and requires a total rethink for developers
- Limitations to leverage SQL Server. Delegation limitations with Sharepoint.
- This is a window for data, not suited to data manipulation in the app
For context, this is a low code platform, I am a developer, not a citizen developer, and I have found the PowerApp platform is not suited to customizations. I have only developed one application but I've spent a substantial amount of time perfecting it. There is a limited event model to tap into. The programming model for variables is backwards to standard programming, which requires a constant mental rewrite. Datacards are both useful and restrictive.
Data access for SQL Server is limited. Stored Procedures can only be accessed with Flow and in fact Flow is the best way to interact with it, which somewhat moves it out of the citizen developer zone. Joins can be done with Lookups but that will fire a separate query for each record in a list. Customizing the Item property resulted in quite unexpected queries being sent to SQL Server. Sharepoint is fast but searching with criteria is poor. For instance, you can't query using a date or a yes/no field.
SQL per-user pricing is expensive, which requires the use of per-Flow pricing to mitigate the cost but that increases complexity.
Superb Platform to Deliver Quick Mobile Applications and Integrate Azure/Office 365
- Easily deploy applications company-wide.
- Integration with MS Azure and the integration of features.
- To have a better integration with MS Visual Studio.
- Connectors and data sources could be more friendly and have better performance.
See the power of PowerApps
- Quick development with no code for specific line-of-business applications.
- Allows greater control over business process automation through workflows and better-formalized connection to crucial business data, such as Accounts, Salespeople, etc.
- Building an elegant user experience is very user-friendly and doesn't take a ton of time to put together.
- Forms and views into the data all come "pre-packaged" for the quick implementation of model-driven PowerApps.
- Canvas-driven PowerApps may take a little time to understand. They are incredibly powerful, but as such, there is more to learn, test, and understand.
- PowerApps offer a lot of flexibility, so they don't always get completed extremely quickly. That being said, they offer a lot of power without any code.
- Building navigation and launching the app could use a little improvement as well.
- Licensing, as with many Microsoft Products, is continually changing and requires assistance in most cases.
But again, you may have to invest some time figuring out the functionality. Even though there isn't a specific code involved doesn't mean that the work will be simple and quick. You can do a lot with PowerApps, but it might take some time and effort to get a broad understanding of all that it is capable of.
PowerApps is helping us think about mobile user experiences that weren't available to us until Office 365 forced our hand
- Because PowerApps is tied to the Office365 environment, it does a very good job at talking to source information in SharePoint. For those considering PowerApps, there is something to be said for the seamless handshakes that Microsoft authors between their own tools.
- If you are wanting to parse down the fields requested (again, in relation to SharePoint) and get away from messing with content types or default forms behind the curtain in SharePoint, PowerApps is a good buffer to selecting exactly what you want to capture and nothing that you don't (that isn't required).
- While still in its early deployment, PowerApps does have good flexibility because of the coding opportunities in the tool. Coding can be a barrier of entry, but it balances code and common sense entry pretty well.
- PowerApps works pretty well on a Mac. Of course, everything Microsoft functions better in Microsoft products (IE, Windows, Edge), but the online authoring tool for PowerApps is just fine for Mac.
- PowerApps has a great coding option, but there are some pieces of the tool that the requirement to understand code is a barrier to fun if the user doesn't code.
- MUCH time can be spent looking for solutions on this young platform and the body of forum/help/lessons learned is not as robust as it will be in a few years.
- Like many early-stage Microsoft products, PowerApps is a relatively blank slate that will be improved by the feedback of their users and ongoing feature development. Right now it seems that the product lacks a critical mass of use-case driven templates (there are some, but I haven't yet found one that didn't require more work to customize it to my need that it would take to build my own tool).
Your Go-To For Form Creation
- Easy to create new apps.
- Integration with cloud data sources (Azure, Sharepoint).
- GUI for creators is excellent.
- Mobile and Desktop apps are created simultaneously.
- Customizing interface for phones and tablets.
- You are limited in layout, either phone or tablet, no desktop support.
- The "Code Editor" could use some work. Giving you a bigger canvas so to speak.
- It can be buggy if you make changes to data sources and flows outside of PowerApps. I have had one or two controls "break" because I made changes outside of PowerApps.
PowerApps empowers the citizen developer
- Easy to learn
- If you have a working knowledge of Excel formulas you can get significant benefit out of PowerApps
- Empowers the citizen developer
- Reduces the time to market for solutions you would normally have to rely on IT/IS for
- The tutorials provided are too brief and too high level. You need to dig into the forums and the help topics on the Microsoft PowerApps website.
- Without IT/IS blessing the citizen developer may not have the ability to save a final output.
- Unable to print to a printer or PDF. You need to take a screenshot of what you have done.
- I would love being able to right click a function and have a tooltip/explanation of what that function actually does. Not just how to write it but what the outcome should be.