Microsoft Power Apps Room for Improvement
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reviewer1264779
IT Specialist (INFOSEC) at a government with 10,001+ employees
We're one of the administrations within a governmental organization and I wish that they would make it and just provide it to those environments that are still on-premise for their relational databases, which we are. We're stuck on this on-premise environment, however, we don't have the premium connectors subscriptions for those. It's something we require.
As far as dealing with SharePoint, it'll allow you to ha manage up to 2000 rows, however, performance-wise, they're recommending that you just keep it at the default of 500 rows. Beyond that though, I don't know too much about its limitations. Having to do export and import from SharePoint Online and then in the SQL server, the solution is obviously there, if you can get the premium connection.
I'd much rather have the gallery set in a tablet or a normal computer, more of a landscape setting than what you would think you would see for a cell phone.
In my experience, the solution's deployment can be tricky.
In my experience, it was not good as it was giving errors around the tables and I couldn't find what was happening. I had to break it down into different solutions - one solution containing all the tables and the second solution containing the application, plus the power domain that I had for this particular application. It's something that's not good, in terms of the way that things work.
When I added Power Automate into the solution, for some reason it disappeared from my Power Automate page, as it was added inside the solution. It was very, very weird. It may be a bug.
There's a primary interface and integration feature and we build some HL processes there. However, suddenly after adding this part, and automating the solution to deploy it, it was just not available for me anymore and I had to go inside the solution and open the MS files from there instead of the usual place where all the Power Automates are created. It was like a bug and also. In terms of the issues that I have with the solution feature inside PowerApps, I didn't like it. I've seen this too complicated. It's something that Microsoft has to improve.
The speed and performance could be better. PowerApps sometimes gets stuck, gets slow and I don't have any reason for why it's happening. Suddenly you are trying to see the rows on your screen and you just have a wait to get the results back, then there's nothing happening. These things look like an environmental issue, however, I don't know if it's something about the localization or something else.
We'd like our option in terms of licensing that can be paid by the app and not by users. That could be something good. Just the way that they charge the license, it's too much. There are not many options. They could give a little bit more flexibility to choose in terms of options for a license.
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reviewer1645275
Associate Director at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see some of the connectors which they have right now to be more basic. The ones they have right now, they claim, are premium connectors. They should make that a little more affordable and have it in the free version. Some of the basic databases like SQL should be part of their normal connectors, and it should necessarily be premium.
It can be a bit more difficult to set up the first time.
They have a feature that integrates well with Power BI, however, it is not seamless. We'd like a better, more seamless integration with Power BI in the future.
They need more of a font selection. If I'm in Excel and I'm using a particular font, I'm limited in terms of which I can use. It should allow for use of any fonts under Microsoft 365.
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Though I don't remember enough details about the solution to comment on it, I think the solution does need to add some technical features to it since I remember that we had faced some gaps while trying to automate certain processes. One area where the solution lacks is the limited size of the database it offers its users. So, some businesses planning to scale up may face certain restrictions while using the solution. Microsoft Power Apps also needs to provide its users with certain specific connectors within the solution. I won't be aggressive enough to complain more about the solution since, in our company, we have a lot of specific handmade tools, and so we don't explicitly expect Microsoft to create specific connectors for Power Apps.
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reviewer2079927
Owner & Senior Azure Developer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
My problem with solutions like Power Apps and Betty Block blocks and probably with every no-code platform out there is that, as soon as you want to do something custom, something that's not provided by the environment you're using, it gets really tough. You have to work around the constraints of the platform. No-code platforms have constraints. I'm a developer myself, so I tend to not use no-code. I tend to code a lot.
The notion people have is that no code equals no knowledge, and that's simply not true. Even though you don't have to write codes, you still have to know what you're doing.
I had some trouble interfacing with the Dataverse database. If I could, I'd make the couplings with other software easier. The integration with other software could be better. Any developer who had to work with an application made in Power Apps would find that useful.
There are limited use cases.
View full review »The fact that we couldn't share that with our other organization or outside of the organization, consisting of our colleagues in the joint ventures, was a weakness of the solution. So, it is an area that needs improvement.
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reviewer1551780
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft PowerApps is not responsive in nature. For us to make an application responsive, it requires some effort. We need to work with CSS, HTML5, or JavaScript.
I would also like to see improvements made to the integration with other data sources, including Azure Databricks or Spark. When we connect from DataWorks, CDS, SharePoint, or OneDrive where the actual Excel file is kept, it is easy. However, if we connect with other data sources, we need to do a no-data filter, particularly when there are in-built integrations available.
Out-of-the-box connectors, like dataflow, would help to load the data from those data sources into CDS.
For future releases, Microsoft PowerApps should add more templates that help bring more experiences to the websites.
View full review »I can't think of any features that are lacking.
The pricing could always be less.
I have heard from developers that there is documentation missing in the reporting.
It would be useful if Power Apps were capable of providing more flexible reporting to allow the developer to really to manipulate the data, and get into more details - for example, why it's being changed and how it's been changed. If there was a way they could comment right in the reports, that would be very helpful.
There should be more document management capabilities.
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reviewer1811541
Power Platform Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I'm looking forward to further improvements of what you can do with mixed reality capabilities.
I would like to see more improvement, for example, in direct collaboration. There is something currently, however, it's still on a preview mode. I'd like to see more.
What I'd also like to see is to be able to use, for example, another tool for sketching mock-ups or the design of the applications and being able to transport the sketches directly into, let's say, a PowerApps container so I can design the app somewhere else, and then I can transport everything in PowerApps designer, and I can get started with inserting logic in the mock-ups that I have already designed somewhere else. This is something that I'd really like to see in PowerApps.
The experience could be a bit better improved and be consistent throughout all parts that form components. For example, the same experience we have in PowerApps is something that should also be in other PowerApps platform products.
In general, the environments in the workspaces are a bit faster than in the cloud.
View full review »They probably need to improve intelligent document processing. In terms of reading the documents, whether it's a Word document, an Excel, a PDF, an HTML, or a webpage. Identifying the key things with its own intelligence is something that Power Automate and Power Apps need to improve.
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reviewer2029749
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There is room for improvement in error handling and debugging. I would appreciate it if Microsoft created something like the social network graphs Facebook sometimes shows you (potential connections). It would be great for Microsoft to take a similar point of view regarding the data and data flow in Power Apps. It would help us see which field is changing and which is influencing the follow-up field or display or workflow, etc.
As a chief financial officer, I would like to see the mark of chain retracement and where the money flows. Imagine dropping a little drop of ink onto a handkerchief and seeing the ink sucked into the fibers of the handkerchief and distributing itself. Similar things happen to money if you put it into a small market and a chief financial officer needs to have that information.
View full review »We'd like to have access to previewed content and preset options. If we could preview content for specific software, that would be ideal.
The user experience could continue to be improved upon.
We'd like more features and less to no coding.
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reviewer1308135
Intelligent Automation Lead (RPA & AI) at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft PowerApps can improve the number of bugs that are present. When you are using the different applications it is not accurate.
In the next release of Microsoft PowerApps, they should add IDP and a control room.
View full review »The area where this product can be improved is the documentation. When we get stuck it's with the documentation when we are not able to find the codes we need. The solution requires a lot of codes and understanding of the scripting language. Most of the time I end up going to forums to get them. I would like to see Microsoft come up with a knowledge base for Power Apps.
In the next release, I would like to see more integrations because there are some that are not available and we end up having to get adjacent script to work on to work with that.
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reviewer1907370
Sr. Technical Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
In terms of workflow automation, I believe that capabilities for creating the entire business process are required, or, at the very least, the option to model the business process, define complex business events, handle them, and route them to appropriate business stakeholders.
Those, I believe, are the critical areas that require improvement.
For the time being, it is only an application development platform. I am not counting a business processing management platform, only working on capabilities with business process management.
View full review »I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard. The environment is low-code/no-code, so changing something small is hard because you need to find tips for doing that online. It takes quite a few clicks to find a solution sometimes.
Greater customization overall would be good.
I would like for them to make it easier to link to a list. It would be great to see not only empty boxes but also those with the first data of your actual list when you create pages.
More widgets would be better as well.
The end-user experience would benefit from being more fun.
View full review »The solution must provide more integration with third-party applications.
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Mauricio Rosa Barbosa
Head of Business & Cloud Services at Brm Soluções
The solution should move to the next step in its maturity model and include mobile versions for Android and iOS. This type of distribution would make it possible to integrate other platforms and applications. It is our vision for the future.
View full review »The flexibility of the user interface could be better. Currently, they are using the Microsoft OMS, Management System. It would be ideal if we could customize the layout of the user interface.
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ChristopherPreffer
Director, Program Innovation & Improvement Medicare at UPMC
If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial.
View full review »I don’t have much hands-on experience with PowerApps. I’d need more time with it. As of now, I can’t think of an area for improvement.
View full review »We would like to see the period for viewing executions within this solution to be extended beyond its current limit of 28 days. We would prefer to be able to offer our customers an infinite amount of history to search.
I don't have any notes for improvement. It does what it says it does.
We'd like to see more integration capabilities in the future.
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reviewer1482435
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We had issues with the syntax during the build. Writing quotes could be simplified. Customization, in general, is somewhat complicated.
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OmarChavez
Lean Manager at GrupoPhoenix
We use GoCanvas to make forms. It's easier to make forms in GoCanvas, but Power Apps is cheaper because it is bundled with our Office 365 license. if I want to create a form in Power Apps, I need some knowledge, but GoCanvas is intuitive.
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Konstantin Redko
Oracle eBS Solution Architect at Raiffeisen Bank International AG
The scalability of the solution could improve.
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LilianaPina
Owner at 40+60 consulting
We would like to see some improvement in the cost of the solution when an organization has a more complex network structure. The advanced connectors are very expensive, which discourages our customers from implementing it.
We would also like to see a more robust library of uses for different system roles to be built into this solution, such as for authorizations.
The product is expensive. It costs around 20 euros per month.
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reviewer2302872
Director at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes, the opportunity includes two products, and the outcome for each product is different. It would be beneficial to have a feature that allows users to split the opportunity into separate logs for each product.
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reviewer1595526
Practice Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The product has a few issues. The portal and canvas apps are the main things that need to be improved. Bringing the UI of a model-driven app to something closer to what Salesforce has will definitely be a game changer.
The incorporation of AI to construct a no-code application is an advantageous feature. However, I believe it is an unfulfilled promise. I think it will eventually be implemented, but ultimately, we will require the assistance of a programmer to guide us through the process.
There is room for improvement with the amount of code required to implement the expense classification app.
View full review »The stability of this solution could be better. It's getting better, the performance. However, it's not there yet.
We'd like to be able to leverage more reuse of the code we are implementing in the apps.
View full review »The set up of the solution could be simpler.
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Sorachart Karphkraikaew
Senior Information Technology Manager at Tipco Asphalt Public Company Limited
The solution can be improved by including codes that can speed up aggregates for our project development applications.
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Chun Kit Chow
Senior Manager at Macro Systems Limited
Microsoft PowerApps could improve the speed of Power Automate, it is not very fast.
In a feature release, any additional features would be beneficial.
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