We performed a comparison between Appian and Microsoft Powerapps based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Microsoft Powerapps seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers find that Appian’s need for integration improvement makes Microsoft Powerapps the better choice.
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"What I found most valuable in Appian is that it lets you drill down on multiple things through the structure of the reporting and UI side. It's also low-code, yet it results in quick deliverables."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product."
"It provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The agile manner that we require to create our workflows. This is probably the most critical part of our solution and the time it takes to start processing the solution."
"It allows us to provide all the information in one single place."
"As a business person, I design a lot of screens. The solution really resonates with me. Their design is amazing."
"We like that this solution allows us to fully define our test environments, and link them using different code. This means we can do different tests, but with one basic structure, and then export the data and use it in other platforms."
"The scalability is good."
"We were impressed with the functionality of the solution."
"Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product."
"The most valuable features are low-code and fast development."
"Generating reports is very fast with Microsoft PowerApps. It's stable and scalable as well."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"I wouldn't say their response time is long, but it could be quicker."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"The scalability of the solution could improve."
"One of the major problems with it is what PowerApps calls the delegation warning. Regardless of what platform, data source, et cetera, that you're using, you can't retrieve more than 2000 records."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"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."
"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."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 58 reviews while Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 79 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". Appian is most compared with Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems, Pega BPM and Mendix, whereas Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Microsoft Azure App Service and Salesforce Platform. See our Appian vs. Microsoft Power Apps report.
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