We performed a comparison between Mendix and Microsoft PowerApps based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft PowerApps is the clear winner in this comparison. Microsoft PowerApps offers slightly better integrations with third-party applications and is considered to be more user-friendly. It also has better service and support. As Microsoft is a very popular ecosystem with many of our users, it is the simple choice for better seamless integration. Mendix is slightly less scalable and not as user-friendly, thereby making Microsoft PowerApps an easy choice.
"Mendix has made a great deal of effort to provide its developers a healthy, modern environment for developing. First of all, it adopts Agile methodology by creating a SCRUM-based app where you can handle your user stories. Next comes version control, which really allows multiple team members to collaborate quite easily. And last but not least, Mendix modeler, which is your IDE for developing Mendix apps."
"The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers."
"I find the fast development speed and low cost to be very valuable features of Mendix. It's a smart solution for busy developers when we need to apply new changes or fixes quickly. Mendix helps to save time and meet project deadlines faster."
"There is a free version of the solution you can use."
"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."
"What I found most valuable in Mendix is that it's very much suitable for mobile apps such as native Android or IOS supported mobile apps. The multiple features of the platform are very, very attractive and very popular. Mendix has technical features such as microflows and nanoflows. You can also access data models in the platform. These are the features that are very, very strong in Mendix. I got my hands dirty on other low-code platforms, but I have not seen such strong features in them compared to the microflows, nanoflows, and data model access that are in Mendix, including creating and integration. The platform has out-of-the-box adapters or out-of-the-box-connectors that you can integrate with different interface applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, etc."
"The most valuable features are the decorative style, model-driven development, and the fact that Mendix validates flows. Mendix is quick to develop because it's a low-code platform. It's very robust, flexible, open, and scalable. It's for a low-code customer. The tooling is also really good and it has mobile capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization."
"Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product."
"I can have a SharePoint list and connect with users through PowerApps to present the information."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Model-driven or Canvas application-making platforms. The power of the two gives us exactly what we are looking for."
"It is good for using for small apps and automation on Office stuff."
"The product has good usability, in terms of low-code applications."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is the compatibility with other Microsoft components."
"Time to market is most valuable because you can make apps pretty fast. It also has pretty good integration."
"We'd like to be able to write in C Sharp to develop code for Mendix."
"I would also like to see automatic adjustment to the Java Heap, whenever an application load becomes too much for the application. It could also use hot database replication."
"Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep."
"While the community is great, they need to work on making their direct technical support services better."
"Needs multiple database connections so an app can directly read/write data to/from multiple databases. This would enable easy splitting of big applications that have complex entity relationships."
"It needs to provide an overview of model versioning control for the sake of the review process; better SCRUM board; an overview of model changes from the repository through Sprintr (SCRUM board). Also, a choice between versioning control system would be nice."
"Mendix is slightly less scalable than I'd like."
"I struggle with solutions like Mendix in terms of creating enterprise solutions."
"When we talk of integrating with external applications, that's one area where, even today, I had to loop in my code developers. If this area can be streamlined so that my techno-functional consultants, who are on-site, can immediately start working on something without the assistance of developers, that would be ideal."
"It would be beneficial to have a feature that allows users to split the opportunity into separate logs for each product."
"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."
"It would be good if this solution supports standard BPN operations. We are thinking of switching to a BPM solution next year because it is not a BPM solution."
"Microsoft should combine both the web and the mobile environment with all of the layers of development into one package."
"It's sometimes hard to import groups of options. At this point, I need to enter those manually and it slows the process down."
"Microsoft PowerApps could improve the speed of Power Automate, it is not very fast."
"One of the major problems with it is what PowerApps calls the delegation warning. Regardless of what platform, data source, et cetera, that you're using, you can't retrieve more than 2000 records."
Mendix is ranked 5th in Rapid Application Development Software with 48 reviews while Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews. Mendix is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Mendix writes "Low-code, helpful support, and great native mobile capability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". Mendix is most compared with OutSystems, Appian, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow and Salesforce Platform, whereas Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Appian, OutSystems and Microsoft Azure App Service. See our Mendix vs. Microsoft Power Apps report.
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