We performed a comparison between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions are very comparable. Microsoft PowerApps has slightly better ratings regarding the service and support.
"Of all of the solutions I evaluated, it was the easiest to use and deploy."
"It offers integration with several Microsoft products, including SharePoint and Outlook, in my opinion, is a huge plus."
"The flows are good because they can be used in a variety of situations."
"The product has good usability, in terms of low-code applications."
"The initial setup is not complicated."
"The most valuable feature is the time-to-market because you can make apps pretty fast."
"Overall the solution is reliable."
"It’s a stable product."
"It is very modular in approach. It is very light, and it can be used on various devices. It could be used on an Android phone or a laptop, which makes it good for the sales team on the road."
"The solution scales extremely well."
"We like that the technology is very agile and flexible in the sense that there's a large partner ecosystem within Salesforce Platform. This enables us to choose from many different partners with different advantages, and all of it can be done in a plug-and-play kind of way."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is a platform that allows you to get applications quickly to the end user in a secure way."
"The queue management of the solution is its most valuable aspect."
"The entire solution is very customizable and you are able to add many functionalities."
"I like it because of the fact that it lets me know what I'm working on and what I've recently worked on. It also helps me and allows me to do tracking. If I want to go out and find out how many times I've touched customers, I can find that information out. It tracks such information, and we use it. If we send any type of promotions out, it tracks who gets those promotions and how they've responded to those promotions."
"The stability of this solution could be better."
"The flexibility of the user interface could be better."
"I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard."
"Customization is somewhat complicated."
"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."
"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."
"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."
"Salesforce Platform has a cumbersome interface when creating reports, dashboards, and those types of things. They could be a little bit more simple. The administration has to be an aficionado to do any sort of administration and maintenance, for example, setting up the way you want to modify the lead tracks or functions. These systems tend to be quite cumbersome."
"This platform is indeed on the expensive side."
"Although the platform is already set up for you, there's a lot of customization that needs to be done, especially for any new component we start using. For whatever solution we wanted, we had to think for ourselves and design it all on our own. And, unfortunately, there were some components that were not really mature in the beginning, like Tableau for example."
"Salesforce needs to be re-platformed, or re-architected, making it lighter."
"The cost of data storage is an issue once the company grows."
"Salesforce Platform could improve by having better integration with Microsoft Azure. For development, we use Microsoft Azure and there was proper integration between the two solutions. We had issues with the customer and they were logged into the Salesforce Platform. We did not have any good way of integrating those issues into the R&D. The R&D mainly uses Microsoft Azure."
"There is always room for improvement. It can be hard to learn, but when you have somebody who is experienced in this, it is like anything else. It is like Excel, you'll never know everything about Excel, but there's somebody who would possibly know. I'm sure I don't know all of the ins and outs of Salesforce."
"I would like to have integration with Google."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews while Salesforce Platform is ranked 9th in Rapid Application Development Software with 81 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Salesforce Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Platform writes "Reliable with good reporting and custom dashboards". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and Pega BPM, whereas Salesforce Platform is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Microsoft Azure, Appian, ServiceNow and Amazon AWS. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. Salesforce Platform report.
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