We performed a comparison between Knack and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."The security is the most valuable feature, in particular, the way I can give different access to different areas to different people, so you can really fine-tune access for different users."
"User interface and portal are great."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The application services are the most valuable in Microsoft Azure. I'm not using them directly but I am using the function and the web applications. I don't need to pay a lot for the maintenance. I do not need to have a DevOps employee."
"The user interface for the systems that you build can use some improvement because as it is now, you have to do a lot of HTML and CSS to make it look modern."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"We had issues with the Mobile Service ORM and the Azure SQL Database (cloud version of SQL Server). At times, the queries that are created automatically from the ORM mapping are not very well optimized for this database and that can lead to performance and stability issues. On occasion, the connection manager from the ORM does not handle the database connections very well."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
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Knack is ranked 30th in Rapid Application Development Software while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Knack is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Knack writes "Flexible and granular security options, good filtering, and the pricing model is cost-effective". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Knack is most compared with Caspio, Microsoft Power Apps, Salesforce Platform, Amazon AWS and AppSheet, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform.
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