We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps and Pega BPM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Pega BPM comes out on top in this comparison. It has impressive automotion features, is stable, and scales easily. In contrast, some Power Apps users encounter a sluggish performance when working with heavy volumes of data.
"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."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"I have found the technical support to be helpful."
"Overall the solution is reliable."
"The most valuable feature is automized processes."
"If you want something that you can use for cellphones, multiple tablets, and things like that, you can use PowerApps for the front end. It gathers all the information, and the information goes somewhere else."
"Power Automate has been the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that PowerApps can be used by most business users. It is not only for programmers."
"The most valuable features of the solution are case management, routing, and low-code environment."
"This solution is useful for business process management if you have any banking solutions or need to manage a process."
"The solution's case management is its most valuable aspect."
"The case management is great."
"It is quite configurable, which is the most exciting feature. We can easily configure it as per our needs."
"The user interface and the ease of developing the workflow for an application are valuable features."
"The solution offers excellent workflows."
"It cuts down the time taken for coding. Earlier it used take for us four hours to do a particular code. Now this can be done in less than 30 minutes. That's the kind of productivity gains you can get."
"The solution is evolving very fast and every month new features are introduced. Sometimes it's difficult to catch up with all the evolution that's happening. I had to focus on Power BI for a while and left PowerApps at the side for a couple of months and when I came back, it had changed its interface and moved components around."
"There is room for improvement with the amount of code required to implement the expense classification app."
"There is room for improvement in error handling and debugging."
"The documentation isn't great. It's only 75% of what you need to know. If you go beyond that and run into issues, it's really not going to help you."
"The portal and canvas apps need to be improved and brought up to speed."
"Microsoft should combine both the web and the mobile environment with all of the layers of development into one package."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities in the future."
"The availability of templates needs to be improved. I understand that the ecosystem around it is still developing, but we need more templates. I would like the entire ecosystem around it to improve. I would recommend adding AI components. Even though we can always connect to Azure for AI components, they should slowly start looking at adding some AI components to PowerApps so that out-of-the-box learning can be applied to process flows. Salesforce has the Einstein layer that works along with license platforms. PowerApps should also have something similar."
"First-time customers will find its licensing tricky. The technical support team for this solution could be faster in resolving tickets."
"From a technical point of view, it would be helpful to have some advanced analytics to help with configuration. We have a lot of unwanted features and it would be good to configure it more appropriately so that we are using just exactly what we need."
"The solution would benefit from more integration capabilities."
"What should be included is some UI features and maybe some integrations. This includes documentation on how the UI works."
"They need to support the solution better, at this time the company does not have enough support."
"It should have integration with non-relational databases. A lot of databases are non-relational, and as a company, we are planning to move to NoSQL or open-source databases. It would be good if we are able to install and use Pega on a NoSQL database. They can also try to tailor or organize the company a bit differently and go more towards the microservice concept. I would like Pega to develop machine learning and intelligent AI algorithms. They have a good foundation in terms of the model and the stuff that we are using for some customers, and it will be good to onboard as many machine learning algorithms as possible."
"It needs more integration with other platforms."
"It's called a local platform but on the other hand, it needs a lot of experience. It's not all that easy to click and plug and play. If you really want to use all the features out of this platform, you definitely need a lot of experience and a lot of training to get there."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 78 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 8th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Pega BPM 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 Pega BPM writes "Provides built-in frameworks that can be reused and reduces time and cost". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and QuickBase, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian, IBM BPM and OutSystems. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. Pega BPM report.
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