great to Use, painful to Develop
March 24, 2022

great to Use, painful to Develop

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PowerApps

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.
  • Fetching data from Sharepoint.
  • Manipulating items in the Dataverse (MS's SQL thing).
  • Guided user interactions.
  • The editor takes Forever to load a full project for editing. for more complex projects, I have to open it first thing in the morning, go make a coffee, handle all of my new emails, take a coffee break, then come back and pray its ready to use
  • Formulas - I'm not sure why it seems to require the sacrifice of a live chicken to get PowerApps to accept a complex formula that is syntax-correct, but it seems to help!
  • Field reference. if you are mapping to data in a SharePoint list or dataverse, being able to grab the correct fields is akin to Sorcery.
  • Sharepoint list integration.
  • Dataverse integration.
  • Included in our Microsoft Contract.
  • PowerApps had a positive ROI and enabled us to move Fast when rolling out the project. it helped to restrict who could access/edit what and gave us a good audit trail.

Do you think Power Apps delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Power Apps's feature set?

Yes

Did Power Apps live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Power Apps go as expected?

No

Would you buy Power Apps again?

Yes

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.

Power Apps Feature Ratings

Visual Modeling
7
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
1
Platform Security
Not Rated
Platform User Management
9
Reusability
9
Platform Scalability
8