We performed a comparison between Appian and Microsoft Powerapps based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Microsoft Powerapps seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers find that Appian’s need for integration improvement makes Microsoft Powerapps the better choice.
"Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"What I found most valuable in Appian is that it lets you drill down on multiple things through the structure of the reporting and UI side. It's also low-code, yet it results in quick deliverables."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"It uses a lot of AI, which is helpful, especially during the setup process."
"The speed of the solution is valuable."
"It is easy to design automation processes."
"We like that this solution allows us to fully define our test environments, and link them using different code. This means we can do different tests, but with one basic structure, and then export the data and use it in other platforms."
"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,"
"For all no-code platforms that let you create a front end, you can click together something very quick."
"The solution is excellent at figuring how to build an application in three months. It makes it very quick and easy."
"It's very easy to build an app using this solution."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"The solution could improve by being more responsive when dealing with large quantities of data. Additionally, they can make the decision or rules engine better. It cannot handle too many rules or too many decisions at once."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"There should be more flexibility for the developers to choose the look and feel of the UI. They should have a better ability to design their widgets and customize them with different colors, shapes, and sizes. That is a limitation that could be improved upon."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"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."
"I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard."
"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."
"The stability of this solution could be better."
"PowerApps is still a bit new compared to a slightly more mature product such as OutSystems."
"Microsoft PowerApps is not intended for customizing what's generated in a major way."
"The scalability of the solution could improve."
"Microsoft PowerApps can improve the number of bugs that are present. When you are using the different applications it is not accurate."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 57 reviews while Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". Appian is most compared with OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow, Pega BPM and Mendix, whereas Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, OutSystems and Microsoft Azure App Service. See our Appian vs. Microsoft Power Apps report.
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