We performed a comparison between Microsoft PowerApps and OutSystems based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users of both solutions seem to be satisfied with their ease of deployment, features, and overall technical support. However, users seem to favor Microsoft PowerApps slightly because it is more affordable.
"The initial setup is very simple."
"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."
"Time to market is most valuable because you can make apps pretty fast. It also has pretty good integration."
"I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution allows you to use data to create excellent UI and quickly deliver an app. It speeds up production time."
"The platform has valuable features for opportunity and finance management. It has all the essential features for customer service."
"Microsoft PowerApps's most valuable features we found are that it's very similar to the other Microsoft products, you can do the basic automation quite quickly. The interface is similar to the other Microsoft products which makes it easy to navigate around because we are used to Microsoft products."
"OutSystems is easy to use."
"Refactoring with TrueChange is very simple."
"The drag-and-drop feature is very valuable."
"There is literally a ton of stuff it can do. It's very flexible."
"The scalability of OutSystems is very good, it scales automatically very useful for us."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"Reduces the manual labor in compiling and deploying applications and generating procedural code (by reducing development bureaucracy/processes, resulting in real gains). The LifeTime Server approach, requiring just a few steps to publish applications in production environments, is fantastic."
"It is a stable solution."
"Improvements to the capturing of geographic locations and integration with maps would raise my score of the product from seven point five to its maximum of ten."
"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."
"I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard."
"In my experience, the solution's deployment can be tricky."
"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"There are occasional performance challenges."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"I like the OutSystems platform. I am working on integrating it with another platform using APIs, however, it has proven to be difficult. The main issue I am facing is obtaining authorization tokens as well as access and refresh tokens. It may be due to my lack of knowledge of APIs as it is new to me."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
"The tutorials for the solution should be updated."
"The installation is a bit tedious."
"I would like to see OutSystems improve its integration capabilities, especially with emerging technologies like AI and GPT."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"We'd like OutSystems to add stronger workflow-based automation similar to what Appian offers. It needs more workflow modeling and RPA features."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 3rd in Rapid Application Development Software with 46 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while OutSystems is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OutSystems writes "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Appian and Microsoft Azure App Service, whereas OutSystems is most compared with Appian, Mendix, ServiceNow, Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Pega BPM. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. OutSystems report.
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