Overall Satisfaction with PowerApps
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.
- 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.
- Ease of use
- Integration with other technologies
- An abundance of examples, samples, and resources
- PRO: Increased number of business outcome solutions fielded
- PRO: Faster time to market, including faster revisions, enhancements, and bug-fixes
- CON: More siloed solutions and duplications
- CON: Unexpected Licensing Costs\Issues
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Power Apps go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Power Apps again?
Yes