We performed a comparison between Microsoft PowerApps and OutSystems based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users of both solutions seem to be satisfied with their ease of deployment, features, and overall technical support. However, users seem to favor Microsoft PowerApps slightly because it is more affordable.
"It is easy to design automation processes."
"It's a very workable solution because it's an automated way of making applications. You have a template, you have the application know-how,"
"I like how fast I can develop an application and put it in production with PowerApps. I think the integration is also excellent. The platforms is growing, so they are constantly adding more connectors on all these things."
"It is stable and reliable."
"It is very easy for us to implement. We have a Microsoft ecosystem, and this solution has many components for integration."
"There's a lot of online knowledge on the solution, to the point where new users can basically teach themselves how to use the solution."
"It is easy to use."
"When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly."
"OutSystems' low-cost approach has positively impacted our productivity, because we were able to develop faster with OutSystems, enabling us to implement many changes during our sprint."
"We used almost all of the features, themes, styling guide, and approach components. They are useful in our applications."
"One thing I like about OutSystems is that there's no lock-in. You can keep running your applications because it's on .NET and hosted centrally. That's one of the advantages I see there in terms of not having an IT strategy that has a dependency on a particular platform."
"We've used features like batch processing timers, components, and integrations with other systems like SAP, which have accelerated our development process.In terms of productivity, we've seen a 30 percent reduction in screen design time and an additional 10 percent improvement when implementing client requirements. OutSystems' integration capabilities have significantly enhanced our app's functionality, making it quicker and easier to connect with other systems."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems is the drag and drop and toolchains in the small AI developing environment. Additionally, the documentation is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is Agile development. I love that you save a lot of time on development and can focus on logic and business requirements."
"Speed of delivery: We were able to reduce development time by 30%."
"It is much easier to develop applications with the product’s IDE."
"I’d need more time with it. As of now, I can’t think of an area for improvement."
"The area where this product can be improved is the documentation. When we get stuck it's with the documentation when we are not able to find the codes we need."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities in the future."
"We would like to see some improvement in the cost of the solution when an organization has a more complex network structure. The advanced connectors are very expensive, which discourages our customers from implementing it."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"Microsoft could streamline monitoring and management. In addition, it should be easier to put the solution in different environments. For example, you should be able to move from a dev environment to a production environment seamlessly."
"Technical support could be faster, and more accurate."
"Microsoft PowerApps is not responsive in nature."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
"The initial setup is a little difficult."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"We had some lagging issues under high data loads, and the solution needed to be customized to improve this."
"I think OutSystems needs to improve in many areas. First, sometimes Service Studio becomes really slow and even hangs for long periods. Also, if I have not published my module in some time, and some kind of Service Studio exception occurs, I lose my work."
"It's difficult to do the component version control. I would like them to add more studying materials."
"The PDD framework can't be used for the behavioral-driven development way of working."
"It is hard to find the logic in OutSystems. From an improvement perspective, I want to be able to properly use logic in OutSystems."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Low-Code Development Platforms with 77 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 3rd in Low-Code Development Platforms with 46 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while OutSystems is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OutSystems writes "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and Salesforce Platform, whereas OutSystems is most compared with Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Pega BPM. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. OutSystems report.
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