Microsoft Power Apps Initial Setup
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reviewer1264779
IT Specialist (INFOSEC) at a government with 10,001+ employees
There's a learning curve with any new tool, so it's going to be somewhere between a three and a four out of five in terms of ease of setup. It just depends on the person's experience and working with these types of tools, as to how well they understand and are able to work through that.
Once you have a concept of what to do, I'd say it takes less than two weeks to implement. With that initial building out of your very first PowerApps set of forms to accomplish what you're trying to do, you're going to tweak and enhance in the end. I just put this filter or search capability and sort capability on a couple of columns. Implementing new features and adding additional buttons, et cetera, will be something you are going to be doing along the way. You're going to continue to enhance it when you discover new capabilities you want to implement. It's a work in progress to roll it out and it's continual. That said, for the initial rough draft of something, from concept to actually putting it together, it's going to be just a week to maybe two weeks to do.
There is a learning curve for the initial cost of doing it. That said, I would definitely consider this a low-code job. It's definitely not high code. There's low to mid-level coding involved.
We're very limited in terms of users for deployment and maintenance. Staff within my office that would actually develop the PowerApps forms and implement and train up the other analysts are only going to be somewhere between three and four. They are program analysts themselves. They aren't IT.
The solution is deployed on a corporate cloud, so it is for the organization's private use. The time taken for deployment depends on the complexity. But, when I was working on Power Apps, it took me days. When they were responsive or needed to form a table, I needed to manually add blocks on top of each other, including everything in that, and that was taking a long time.
View full review »It's very easy to set up. You should have all the licenses available. It's quick and easy to implement, and you can get your hands on it immediately. It doesn't take too much time to get up and running. In contrast, its contemporaries like UiPath and Automation Anywhere are not so quick and easy to implement.
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It's a stand-alone solution and uses connectivity to the software we want to automate. It's not hard to set up or to start automating things.
I'd rate the solution a four out of five in terms of ease of setup. It's not overly difficult.
We were able to deploy the product in about a week.
We have 50 to 100 people maintaining the solution.
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ChristopherPreffer
Director, Program Innovation & Improvement Medicare at UPMC
The initial setup was straightforward. I would rate it a five out of five.
Deployment took about a month once it was at my level and I fully understood it.
My implementation strategy was to meet with various business owners to identify a solution for them, then build and deploy that solution for them.
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OmarChavez
Lean Manager at GrupoPhoenix
Setting up Power Apps is easy because it's a cloud solution. The deployment required one or two people and took one or two months.
The solution is deployed on the cloud.
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Konstantin Redko
Oracle eBS Solution Architect at Raiffeisen Bank International AG
The initial setup of Microsoft Power Apps is straightforward. The implementation depends on the complexity of the application being deployed. It can range from one week to one month. I have not implemented an application that has taken longer than half a year.
View full review »The initial setup is very easy.
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Christopher Preffer
Senior Product Manager Data Science at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is not complex. It's quite straightforward.
For me, just using it on my own, I just used Google searches or YouTube to figure out how do this or fix and tie items together. After about a month of learning and experimenting, I had a pretty good handle on how PowerApps works.
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reviewer2302872
Director at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
The initial process is simple. We need to create a trial and start working. It takes half an hour to complete. Later, we can purchase the licenses further.
View full review »The initial setup process for the solution is not complex. So, the company had made arrangements to help us manage the initial kickoff and deployment processes. Since it may not be a very easy process, it is more or less a mediocre one.
Because there were a lot of employees in my previous organization, it took around one year for the deployment process to be completed. Taking into consideration the environment, the initial settings, and the need to take care of security, the entire deployment process would take around one year.
The deployment process was carried out in three stages. If we consider the deployment's first stage, it is free for one year, though I can't recollect it entirely. However, I can say that it was related to Microsoft Azure since it was about security involving steps like how to create the security levels and which levels one can create. So, this process was carried out to create, considering our structure, resources, strategies in the company, security, and environment. The second stage involved the creation of real environments and splitting environments, divisions, and departments. The third stage involved communication and promotion. We then created the specific site devoted to the tools in Power Apps before creating a knowledge base consisting of general articles, specific articles, and the general question and answer section.
View full review »It’s straightforward to set up the solution. It’s not overly difficult or complex.
View full review »The initial setup is not complex or difficult. It's easy to set up. It's very straightforward.
It took us about four to five months to set everything up. The apps vary in how long it takes to develop and release them.
View full review »The initial setup is easy because you don't need to write a million lines of code.
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reviewer1645275
Associate Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was not straightforward, however, once you get a hang of it, then it's pretty simple to create things. From a documentation perspective, it's kind of a good guide that they have as far as Power Apps is concerned. It's easy to get started. Like any tool, you have to spend some time understanding and navigating around it. There is just a normal learning curve that is required as with application. You won't really find it that difficult if you are ready to invest the time to learn the tool. There's a moderate level of complexity.
It was not that effort-intensive, yet it definitely took us close to three weeks to create our first app on Power Apps, which was mostly SharePoint driven and had pretty decent complexities. It was not a very straightforward application. It took a fairly decent time. It was not a very long-term project, it was short-term, and we could manage to do it in three weeks.
We have not found it difficult to maintain Power Apps. It's pretty straightforward. We haven't had any challenges so far.
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Mauricio Rosa Barbosa
Head of Business & Cloud Services at Brm Soluções
The setup is easy. In five steps you configure the dashboards and decide on data imports.
View full review »IN terms of the initial setup, we have to choose which kind of approach we are going to use in PowerApps, as PowerApps has different strings. You can choose PowerApps Canvas, or you can choose a driving app, and that's a little bit different. In my case, I chose a PowerApps combo as I needed a little bit more in terms of flexibility and in terms of how I build this topic they screen.
In terms of the development, it's quick, really it's quick, however, it's not the fastest way to develop and there are some other solutions in the market that are faster in some ways. In terms of deployment, in my experience, when you're going to deploy perhaps an application, you have to build a solution and a solution and it's a little bit tricky. You have to add all the components to the solution and, after that, you have to export the solution and import the solution into the production environment. We have an environment for development and a second environment for production.
The application is deployed, however, it's not in use yet. They are just preparing to start testing the application and once they finalize the test, the app is going to go live.
After I passed over all these little issues that I had, it was quick to deploy. It was just a question of minutes. When we export the solution and import the solution back, it's easy. However, all the processes to be able to finally get over these issues and everything, it took me four weeks just to realize what was going on and handle it.
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reviewer1482435
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I think for the first-time user, the initial setup takes more time. Other tools like Automate are easier to deploy. PowerApps requires so many things to click and customize, it's really detailed. Building the system takes a little bit more practice than with other solutions. The deployment was done in-house and we had a couple of people working on it. The implementation took about a week.
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reviewer1907370
Sr. Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. It does not take long.
Maintenance is minimal. It is only one or two people who keep it running.
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Kamesh Gunupur
Vice President - Information Systems at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is very straightforward and simple. It's not complex or difficult.
There was some background development involved during the deployment process.
The is no maintenance required.
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Youness Ziach
Digital Transformation Project Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The initial setup was easy, we had no problems.
We have a small team that does the maintenance of the solution.
View full review »The initial setup is fairly straightforward. I would rate it a seven out of ten.
The whole life cycle takes two months to develop, test, implement and deploy.
View full review »The initial setup was straightforward because they have a quite number of templates that you can pick from. The deployment does not take long as it comes with the Office 365. If you have Office 365, you have the Power App enabled in your directory.
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Abubakar AL Seed
IT Senior General Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel
The initial setup was very easy and quite straightforward. I would not describe the process as overly complex or difficult. A company shouldn't have any issues with the implementation.
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reviewer1354854
Cloud Application Architect, Senior Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
For me, the initial setup was very simple and smooth-flowing.
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LilianaPina
Owner at 40+60 consulting
The initial setup for this solution is very easy.
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reviewer1767510
Project Manager at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It was easy. We started in February, and everything had to be up and running in March because of the pandemic of 2020.
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reviewer2079927
Owner & Senior Azure Developer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The ease or difficulty of the initial setup varies. For me, it wasn't that hard. However, I already had an Azure subscription and a Microsoft account. If you don't have any of that, it's not that easy - especially if you're not very technically inclined. It can be a daunting task.
I'd rate the ease of setup six out of ten.
The deployment is fast and takes almost no time at all. I developed the application, and I pushed the publish button, and it was published.
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reviewer1551780
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup of Microsoft PowerApps is straightforward.
For deployment, we use the ALM CoE kit, and GitHub through the pipeline. It is done through the team, creating a Dev environment for each pre-Dev and production environment. When we have completed testing and validation, we proceed with staging and then production.
We have not implemented using an automatic deployment through Azure Pipeline as there are a lot of bugs. We are still doing the implementation manually.
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Pratik Bajaj
Sr. Digital Experience Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is quite straightforward.
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Oscar Osorio
Senior Programmer Analyst at Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Our company is quite large. With 1,500 or so people, changes take a while to implement. It's not like a small organization where you can do everything quickly. You need to make sure people know how to use it.
In general, the full deployment took a few months.
View full review »We use the cloud version of the solution. There isn't an in-depth deployment process.
View full review »Setting up PowerApps is easy, and I can do it by myself.
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Bujjireddy Pokala
Technical Lead at SmartIMS India Pvt.Ltd
Initial setup is not very difficult. Even with minimal knowledge it's easy to understand. Deployment took somewhere around half an hour and it required one person to implement. We have four people in the company maintaining the solution.
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reviewer1811541
Power Platform Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup is AI-infused. If you start working on an application, AI works for you in the background and tries to provision everything you need. I would like it to be a bit faster. Sometimes the designer just breaks and you get an error notification.
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Ameer Ali
Executive Director at Ali 4 Solutions FZE
The initial setup is extremely simple for me. I am an IT professional, but it is easy, even for others.
I have worked with many who have been using other tools and when they were introduced to PowerApps, they expressed that it is amazing.
It didn't take long for me to install, only a couple of minutes, because I've been using Office 365 since 2013, but I've never used PowerApps before. I started only recently, in 2018.
One of my clients asked me to create a small app in PowerApps for him. That's where we began. I had a PowerApps application ready in a week.
We don't require any maintenance as it is on the cloud.
View full review »The installation was very easy because it's already in the cloud. It took about 20 minutes to install PowerApps.
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reviewer1595526
Practice Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was relatively straightforward.
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reviewer1517280
Director, Product Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There isn't an implementation process for the product. It is on the cloud. Everything is pretty automatic. In that sense, it's rather straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. It's on the user accounts. I just go ahead and start creating my app from there.
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reviewer1319937
Data Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup was straightforward, but if you want to put more options, it gets complicated.
View full review »The initial set up of this solution is fairly straightforward.
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Guillermo Carles
Business Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The initial setup was not complex. It's very easy as it's on the cloud. You don't need to be an expert in order to deploy it.
View full review »The initial setup was easy and straightforward.
It took approximately two days, but it depends on what features have to be implemented.
I maintain this solution myself, and it only requires one person for maintenance.
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reviewer1493574
Principal at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is quite straightforward. A company shouldn't have any issues with the setup process. It's not overly complex.
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reviewer1391160
Information Technology Operations Analyst at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. It is a self-service solution, so there is no real deployment. It is a case of enabling that functionality within the Microsoft account, and then telling the people that it is enabled and available. At that point, I think that that they can create their own applications if they need to.
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DavidGerard
Business Intelligence Consultant at FumAstra Management Consulting
The solution is very easy to set up. Deployment is almost instantaneous. It's on the cloud, so you connect the logins and it's ready to go. You don't have to download it onto any device.
View full review »Although I'm not the person who handles the initial setup, my understanding is that it's not too difficult and pretty straightforward.
Deployment typically takes two months. The last deployment we did started in May and was completed by July.
There isn't a lot of maintenance needed. We have one developer that's dedicated to the maintenance and changing the environment as needed. It's pretty hands-off though.
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reviewer1717350
EVP, Solutions at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult. It's pretty simple and straightforward.
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YousefHasan
Developer at Australian College of Kuwait
The initial setup was very straightforward. I tend to think the documentation and the community forms are more than enough to help improve your setup experience. It's very, very, straightforward. I don't think it took more than five minutes to set up and that's amazing. Previously, it might have taken a week to complete setup - all the code, database, linking.
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reviewer1472169
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is pretty straightforward. They have a lot of third party connections. It's easy to connect things if you need to. However, this can add to development costs. That said, it's nice to have the option.
View full review »The initial setup is straightforward.
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ATHANASSIOS FAMELIARIS
S/W Technologies & Processes Unit Manager at Unisystems
It is easy to deploy, although we have some experience.
It seems pretty straightforward.
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reviewer1424412
Vice President, Information System & Technology at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup is quite easy, it's as simple as turning it on.
It took us two weeks to deploy it and to come out with the first prototype.
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Chun Kit Chow
Senior Manager at Macro Systems Limited
Microsoft PowerApps is simple to install.
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reviewer1276098
Application Support Specialist at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees
Setting up PowerApps isn't straightforward. We allow users to be citizen developers, as they call it, and around 95 percent of the time they end up going back to us, saying, "Hey, we can't use this. We don't know what to do. Help us!" As IT, we're spending a lot of time creating these forms for them instead of users doing it themselves.
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RahimKhowaja
Chief Information Technology Officer at BMC Solutions
As the solution is deployed on-cloud, there is no need for installation.
View full review »As always - depends on the size and complexity of the needed solution. But the cloud based solution + the Low Code approach simplify it.
View full review »The initial setup is not complex, but there were some areas that we struggled with, such as the gallery limitation. Nowadays, we are able to pull more than two thousand records, but if we do so, we have a lot of problems with the performance of Microsoft Power Apps.
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Linderman Torres
Architect director at Olimpiait
The initial setup is very easy because it is a SaaS solution. We don't need to implement any server in the company. We just use the SaaS solution.
In terms of the implementation strategy, we take a small business use case in the financial area and do a proof of concept to evaluate a solution.
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reviewer1278951
IT Manager at a printing company with 201-500 employees
The initial setup was very easy. It's a cloud solution. Because we were already using Microsoft products, we only had to enable the license and just start using it.
View full review »The initial setup was not easy, but not exactly complex. There was a lot of research.
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reviewer1231884
CEO at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
It doesn't require any installation. PowerApps works on the Microsoft cloud on the server, and you have two options for using the data. The data is possible on-premises or on the cloud, but PowerApps is only on the cloud.
View full review »The initial setup is no more complicated than similar solutions. I'd say it's pretty straightforward.
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reviewer1479564
Contractor/ Developer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The initial setup is easy. It is hosted in the cloud, so it is ready to go.
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reviewer1479564
Contractor/ Developer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It is very easy to install. It takes no time because it just talks to the cloud.
View full review »When it comes to installation, we need to install a gateway and integrate between two tools, for example, PowerApps and Power Virtual Agents, Deployment is a little complicated. The data is available in Google but it's a little difficult.
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reviewer1424256
IT Department Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The install is not a problem at all, it did not take very much time.
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reviewer1414065
Solution Architect IAM at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is moderately complex.
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Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Power Apps. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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