Overall Satisfaction with PowerApps
Our organization has access to PowerApps through the Microsoft Office 365 suite of products. I stumbled upon it a little over a year ago and have used it to create a time calculator for in-house projects as well as a budget calculator for our products. Others have created more elaborate apps that connect to Microsoft Common Data Service(CDS) which takes the Power in PowerApps to a whole new level.
- 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.
- My budget calculator enabled our sales team to provide a high-level quote in minutes compared to hours or even days if we had to draw it out.
- My time tracker was used by a department to estimate the time taken on projects and therefore they could quote the billable hours up front.
- There has been nothing but positive impacts from my use of PowerApps.
I have not found another product Like PowerApps that is available to me.