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.
"For our purposes, it is quite scalable."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"It is stable and reliable."
"We get feedback on a real-time basis, which is actually very useful for us."
"The solution is very good. It's very full. You can do almost anything."
"I like how fast I can develop an application and put it in production with PowerApps. I think the integration is also excellent. The platforms is growing, so they are constantly adding more connectors on all these things."
"It is very easy for us to implement. We have a Microsoft ecosystem, and this solution has many components for integration."
"The UI functionality is the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"In terms of user support and community engagement, I rate the tool a ten out of ten."
"We have no complaints surrounding both the scalability and stability of this solution."
"It is a stable solution, and the initial setup is straightforward."
"I really like the one-click publish feature in OutSystems. In other development tools/languages, it's not as easy. I also like how easily I can manage all my projects in one place."
"Speed of delivery: We were able to reduce development time by 30%."
"We used almost all of the features, themes, styling guide, and approach components. They are useful in our applications."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems with discipline and the development processes. Instead of each developer doing tasks on their own with their own approach, et cetera, the solution would help bring some organization to the development process."
"OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are like drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work. Thus it helps the organization by saving time for developers."
"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 solution needs a bit more refinement in general."
"I recommend improving Microsoft Power Apps' licensing model. I've encountered challenges related to licensing complexity, which has led some customers to opt for traditional solution development and deployment methods instead."
"You can't add too many filters onto anything you build, otherwise, it will be very slow and it will affect your performance."
"I would like to see more improvement, for example, in direct collaboration."
"Microsoft should combine both the web and the mobile environment with all of the layers of development into one package."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"It would be good if this solution supports standard BPN operations. We are thinking of switching to a BPM solution next year because it is not a BPM solution."
"The solution is costly."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
"OutSystems does not provide any native reporting resources. All reports must be created with other tools or as a webpage."
"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."
"One of the biggest areas for improvement is that every time an existing data element is modified, it creates a new data element. It doesn't really modify that particular data element. So, a user has to follow an extra step of removing the existing data element and bringing in the new and modified data element that is being added, which sort of goes into negative productivity."
"The product's high price is an area of concern, where improvements are required."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Low-Code Development Platforms with 78 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 2nd in Low-Code Development Platforms 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 "The visual program provides the advantage of only requiring one skill set for both the front and backend ". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and Pega BPM, 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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