Power Apps Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used the Power Apps tool mainly for two processes: one for employee performance tracking and the other for NACH form creation and management for a project POC. In both cases, this tool was perfect because our organization uses Microsoft Teams and Outlook for main communication. As a result, the integration, tracking, and everything else were easy for us. Moreover, it can integrate with Power Automate, and a single click in Power Apps can trigger an entire Power Automate process, which attracts me even more.

Likelihood to Recommend

It well suits for some kind of internal process tracking, automation and other works. We can simply integrate, automate, analyze and display. Its low-code solution and rapid development option suits well for internal purpose even a beginner can create app with Power Apps. In out organization we used it for employeeperformance tracking and it currently works well.

I don't recommend it for ui that requires highly attractive design and more complex ui controls. And other is applications using high data transaction and advanced data processing.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Power Apps are used to develop low-code web apps, publish them, and deploy them quickly across the organization. It supports integrating all the standard Microsoft applications like SharePoint list, etc., using various built-in connectors. As most of the data is stored in SharePoint, it is extremely easy to link it with power apps while creating an application. Most features can be easily added to the development canvas with drag and drop, and anybody with basic programming knowledge can develop an end-to-end application.

Likelihood to Recommend

Power apps are highly recommended for developing basic web applications as the learning curve is shorter. All resources to build a web app are available online, and the cost of development is almost 0 as the license comes bundled with Microsoft 365. unless the paid connectors are used, a web app can be easily developed with a very low budget.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We take advantage of the low-code features to enable business partners and junior developers' participation in the creation of enterprise-level business solutions. PowerApps is mostly used in relation to content in SharePoint Online Lists and Dataverse tables -- providing quick multi-screen apps for data entry, display, and manipulation. Since PowerApps is the out-of-the-box way to enhance SharePoint forms, it is an easy step to go further and add business logic. We extend the effectiveness of the solutions by integrationg with Power Automate to provide complete user-interactive logic and "back-end" business process automation.

Likelihood to Recommend

PowerApps is well suited for "quick-wins" and fast prototypes of business solutions. It also is beneficial for situations where business partners and developers work together - it allows the business folks to provide a "quick-and-dirty" prototype which is then fleshed-out by developers that are trained experts on the platform. The interactive and easy to understand representation of the solution allows business partners to "see" the solution and add, remove, or correct aspects of it themselves. It provides a common view and understanding of the actual solution across business units and tech teams.

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm currently utilizing Power-Apps to fix our quality assurance issues. I've created multiple QA forms out of Power-Apps that help our department capture important information about errors in our cases and capture data from multiple sources (individuals) and sort that information by the manager, case type, error type, etc. I have also used it for other issues such as a reference tool to prevent multiple emails and case requests for situations that do not need a case.

Likelihood to Recommend

Power-Apps can be used for virtually any type of situation. I've seen it used for an office reservation tool, especially during COVID, where that has been extremely useful. I currently use it a lot for various quality assurance forms for various teams who need different things to review for each team that calculates scores, as well as sends the information I need from various sources to SharePoint for analysis later. People can use it for mobile apps or canvas apps - I prefer canvas apps, but you can really create pretty much whatever you want and there are so many different tools and items to use for each app (scanner, signature insert, etc.). So really the sky is the limit.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We create alot of our own programs in house and we have recently sought the need to build apps for what we do. The Power Apps program is very user friendly for us to start the app building process. Our IT Team is able to utilize it to build apps for our employees to make certain job tasks more efficient and effective. We always need help with getting different program platforms to communicate with one another. We also need data that we have stored to be accessible to our employees as they move freight every day. Building an app for that has helped immensely.

Likelihood to Recommend

When building a data pulling app from one of our current programs we ran into trouble with the current program having the ability to communicate to an app without losing restrictions on the program. It did require communicating that out with the program provider. There are times where you will have to figure out solutions to make the app work that our outside of the Microsoft program.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started using PowerApps when the pandemic hit. We used it regularly for answering COVID-19 screening questions and to book a particular lab area to ensure that we were socially distancing and not crowding in the same lab space.

Likelihood to Recommend

Based on my experience, PowerApps is highly suited for organizing, scheduling, and planning. Highly useful to keep records and create events. We really benefited from using the PowerApps when we were undergoing a phased opening of our labs during the pandemic. We were to operate on limited capacity, and scheduling our workday through PowerApps helped ensure smooth functioning in the interest of everyone's safety and health and avoid chaos.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

PowerApps was primarily used to create basic user Interfaces and to guide workflows so that less technically savvy employees were not having to manually interact with sharepoint lists.

Likelihood to Recommend

Powerapps is the lesser of 2 evils. It lets to restrict what people can see and how they can interact with it, but it has the potential to be a bit of a dragon when trying to implement it in more-complex workflows.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use PowerApps for Forms in Workflows, for Apps and SharePoint Forms. Business problems: Our focus is a paperless office. So we need a tool for digital forms like Microsoft Power Apps. In former times we used Nintex Forms but the prices of the Nintex Cloud were not attractive for us anymore, because Microsoft implemented a good workflow and forms solution with PowerAutomate and PoweApps. We try to exchange old paper-based processes with new modern digital processes without paper by using PowerApps.

Likelihood to Recommend

PowerApps is good, but not perfect. There is a lot of room to improve. Nevertheless, you can get a lot of functionality out of the box and you have the possibility to program with JavaScript additional functionality. I wish the usability would be improved. Nintex is much more user-friendly and easier to understand but may be more limited. In my opinion, PowerApps is a mighty platform and well-integrated in the Office365 suite.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are able to build business apps with PowerApps on Azure SQL. We are able to develop budget-friendly applications for various domains of our organization. The coding part is relatively easier when we have the structure in place. We are using it to do inventory management and support which has reduced the burden on us and we are able to have proper stock and do purchases accordingly. The scope of the use of PowerApps is quite huge in small businesses as well as large organizations as it provides a standardized structure that can be customized according to the needs of the organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

PowerApps is well suited in organizations with less complex structures. It is easy to use when the organization has a centralized decision-making system and decisions are readily taken. It may create issues among multiple decision-makers as they may have disagreements on certain issues which may cause a backlash among themselves on issues pertaining to just-in-time inventory management or throughput time of the process to be completed. Organizations can overcome these issues with the centralization of decision-making power to making power.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize the PowerApps platform to run a built-in-house application for inventory control. The tool is built on the M365 cloud platform to connect seamlessly to our databases as well as to be available across all of our facilities without the need for heavy infrastructure support. The business's workflows and Standard Operating Procedures are always changing, with PowerApps we can control the nuances and change management in-house vs waiting for an external firm to make the necessary changes on their development roadmap. PowerApps has solved the problem of waiting on vendors, leaning out infrastructure requirements, and bringing in efficiencies for inventory control through with PowerApps automation vs paper and pen model. The tool requires little support and little change, it has really been a game-changer for a start-up company in growth mode.

Likelihood to Recommend

PowerApps is best suited to automate any workflow or standard operating procedure that requires paperwork and data intake. Specifically, this app can build an automated process to do anything you do manually with data. It allows you to connect other platforms together for seamless transfer of data, as well as making mundane processes easy with GUI.