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Overview

What is Power Apps?

PowerApps is a low code / rapid application development product from Microsoft that allows users to quickly build apps.

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Recent Reviews

Great!

10 out of 10
March 23, 2022
Incentivized
I use PowerApps to complete many projects. It helps to solve problems when things can be automatically calculated and shared. The scope of …
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Popular Features

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  • Platform Security (18)
    9.3
    93%
  • Drag-and-drop Interfaces (18)
    9.0
    90%
  • Platform User Management (18)
    8.2
    82%
  • Reusability (18)
    4.7
    47%
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Pricing

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Power Apps Premium

$20

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://powerapps.microsoft.com/en…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $20 per month per user
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Product Demos

Getting Started with PowerApps || (EduX365.com)

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Auto Populate User Manager Information using PowerApps

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PowerApps Training App Template

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PowerApps in Power BI Desktop short demo

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PowerApps: Restaurant App Demo

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Get Onboard PowerApps

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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.

7.9
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Power Apps?

Power Apps is an app development environment that provides tools for building custom applications at scale using simple drag-and-drop capabilities and features designed to expedite the app building process for developers at any stage of their development journey.

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Power Apps Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

PowerApps is a low code / rapid application development product from Microsoft that allows users to quickly build apps.

Power Apps starts at $20.

Airtable, Zoho Creator, and Mendix are common alternatives for Power Apps.

Reviewers rate Platform Security highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Power Apps are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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November 08, 2020

PowerApps, Great system for the Novice Developer

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Phillip Templeton
IT Support Analyst
Guy Brown (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have used PowerApps to create custom cloud-based solutions for on-prem systems. This has allowed us to go fully virtual and provide a wealth of information and systems to our customer service representatives to drive a world-class customer experience. We have built a custom invoicing system which allows the customer service representative to generate invoices upon request for our customers.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerApps is well suited to environments where an organization wants to allow their employees the flexibility to create solutions to make their lives easier while still maintaining good dlp policies. PowerApps is very secure and you can give access to all organization or limit it just the users that you wish to use that application.
Power Apps Feature Ratings
Low-Code Development (6)
100%
10.0
Visual Modeling
100%
10.0
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
100%
10.0
Platform Security
100%
10.0
Platform User Management
100%
10.0
Reusability
100%
10.0
Platform Scalability
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • Create custom applications to drive customer experience
  • The agent experience has improved
  • Costs of use compared to some on-prem solutions has drastically went down
Alternatives Considered
PowerApps and Power Automate go together in the Power platform. They are made to work together to create a vast collection of connectors and out of the box pieces that come together to make a whole application. If you are unable to complete a task from within PowerApps, Power Automate is the best choice to look for that task.
Usability
10
PowerApps is a great solution and I have spent the last year familiarizing myself with the platform and building custom applications to complete a whole range of tasks such as asset management, custom invoice generation, and item restriction tracking. We as a company have barely begun to scratch the surface of what can be achieved with PowerApps.
Support Rating
10
There are many options for receiving support for PowerApps. You can reach out to Microsoft and get support from their great team. You can also browse the multitude of forum posts that they have available on the community boards. The community boards are very active and there are many people who will try their best to understand your question and help you to get to a satisfactory resolution.
Other Software Used
Microsoft Power Automate (formerly microsoft flow), Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), NICE inContact CXone, TeamViewer, Windows Server, Pulseway, Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer), VMware ESXi
October 28, 2019

See the power of PowerApps

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have several departments that use specific line-of-business applications build on model-driven PowerApps, including Sales and Purchasing, our Create Lab, our Quality Control Lab, and our Regulatory department. Our business could not function without these applications as data and requests would get completely lost in email. Using PowerApps allows us more visibility into the process and offers more business process automation.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's so good as powerful line-of-business applications, I can't recommend it enough. The ability to tap into the Common Data Service and use this information along with custom entities, forms, and views, makes model-driven PowerApps incredibly useful and powerful. It's also very friendly for those who have implement business processes and logic but don't have experience with an actual coding language. There is so much flexibility with PowerApps.

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.
Power Apps Feature Ratings
Low-Code Development (6)
80%
8.0
Visual Modeling
60%
6.0
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
80%
8.0
Platform Security
100%
10.0
Platform User Management
90%
9.0
Reusability
70%
7.0
Platform Scalability
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Incredible ROI, especially with the new licensing of just using one PowerApp. Update your navigation to include multiple apps and release this to several users who only need one or two of these. For model-driven PowerApps, this is a huge win.
  • If you break up your PowerApps or if users are using several, you will have to be more careful about your licensing. But overall, there is so much value and power, I would encourage spreading out the ability to create and build PowerApps to more and more users to get full value out of the tool.
  • Again, learning PowerApps isn't for the faint of heart. You will likely have to invest some time figuring out several things, but I promise, the effort is worth it.
Alternatives Considered
I'm not sure if you can say D365 CRM is an alternative to PowerApps, because basically all the customization of using D365 CRM, or what used to be called XRM, is now called a model-driven PowerApp. Likewise, SharePoint has become intimately connected to canvas PowerApps. Both are just simple ways to start creating a PowerApp, and it doesn't take too much work to quickly get up to speed creating useful PowerApps for your company.
Support Rating
8
There are several incredible community members posting videos and blogs about getting started with PowerApps and getting into a deep dive technically. PowerApps has a great community and a lot of supporters for it. I'm not sure what the "official" Microsoft support is like, but the community is really great.
Other Software Used
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Flow, TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe), OneDrive, MS SharePoint, OneNote, Trello, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Teams
Products Replaced
Yes
In a way, with the changes Microsoft has been making to licensing, model-driven PowerApps has replaced D365 CRM and canvas PowerApps can replace custom development or highly customized SharePoint applications. The reason to replace these is development time. Instead of developers working on this via code full-time, we can spread the work out to others who are less technical but still understand a lot about the business and can put that business knowledge to technical use.
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
It's really a combination of Price, Features, and Usability. Without it being cost-effective, we wouldn't have been able to proceed. Without it have several features, it wouldn't have been as useful. And without it have exquisite usability, we wouldn't have gotten very far creating new applications and getting users to use them.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I suppose we may have expanded our selection options beyond just Microsoft products. But truthfully, we are a Microsoft shop. There is so much value with using all the cloud capabilities that Microsoft offers, it's hard to expand and look elsewhere. The integration, the single sign-on, and the flexibility within the O365 and D365 tools and capabilities makes it hard to look at competitors.
Easy Tasks
  • Connecting to pre-existing, business-critical data, like accounts, contacts, products, orders, invoices, etc.
  • Designing an elegant, line-of-business application is relatively straightforward.
  • Very powerful, no-code option, even if there is a bit of a time investment required.
Difficult Tasks
  • As mentioned previously, there is a time investment required to get a deep understanding.
  • While it is no-code, it is beneficial to have someone who can think logically and has a good sense of the business process and user experience.
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
Yes
It's solid. You have a PowerApps app on your phone and from there, you can open any PowerApp you have access to in your organization. It's pretty straightforward, even if there is a sense of redundancy having to open first the PowerApp phone app and then the actual, developed application itself.
Usability
8
There is still complexity in creating PowerApps, but you can't underestimate the power of the PowerApp, so naturally creating one could get complex. But the usage of the app should be straightforward, even if it relies heavily on the UX from the application designer. Overall, very user-friendly, does not require code, and relatively painlessly taps into business-critical information without requiring any data copying.
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