We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps and Pega BPM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Pega BPM comes out on top in this comparison. It has impressive automotion features, is stable, and scales easily. In contrast, some Power Apps users encounter a sluggish performance when working with heavy volumes of data.
"Generating reports is very fast with Microsoft PowerApps. It's stable and scalable as well."
"As a business person, I design a lot of screens. The solution really resonates with me. Their design is amazing."
"Ability to generate QR codes and scan barcodes."
"Microsoft PowerApps allows you to simplify business processes and user experience. You can also create responsive applications and canvas apps through this solution. It's an easy to scale, stable, and low-code solution."
"Can design apps quickly and can connect to any database."
"If you want something that you can use for cellphones, multiple tablets, and things like that, you can use PowerApps for the front end. It gathers all the information, and the information goes somewhere else."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Model-driven or Canvas application-making platforms. The power of the two gives us exactly what we are looking for."
"The scalability is good."
"Can do a lot of things with minimum time and cost."
"The stability has been good. We haven't had any issues."
"The most valuable features of the solution are case management, routing, and low-code environment."
"The most valuable feature is the situational layer cake."
"The most valuable features are case management and integration services."
"The product helps you to build faster."
"Allowed us to develop and quickly release with confidence using cloud technologies."
"Case Management, as well as Workflow Automation, are Pega's most powerful capabilities."
"The documentation isn't great. It's only 75% of what you need to know. If you go beyond that and run into issues, it's really not going to help you."
"The solution is evolving very fast and every month new features are introduced. Sometimes it's difficult to catch up with all the evolution that's happening. I had to focus on Power BI for a while and left PowerApps at the side for a couple of months and when I came back, it had changed its interface and moved components around."
"The solution needs a bit more refinement in general."
"I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard."
"The solution should move to the next step in its maturity model and include mobile versions for Android and iOS."
"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."
"We're not in production yet, so we're still working through some issues."
"The solution would benefit from more integration capabilities."
"Pega is claiming they're into low code but as per Gartner Magic Quadrant, Pega is not there now."
"It should have integration with non-relational databases. A lot of databases are non-relational, and as a company, we are planning to move to NoSQL or open-source databases. It would be good if we are able to install and use Pega on a NoSQL database. They can also try to tailor or organize the company a bit differently and go more towards the microservice concept. I would like Pega to develop machine learning and intelligent AI algorithms. They have a good foundation in terms of the model and the stuff that we are using for some customers, and it will be good to onboard as many machine learning algorithms as possible."
"We have experienced a few technical challenges, particularly triggering the workflow through file drops and accessing files."
"An area for improvement in Pega BPM is security. It's secure, but it still has a lot of vulnerabilities. Pega BPM is robust, but it still needs some improvement performance-wise."
"I think there is room for improvement in the low code/ no code environment that they're promoting now. That needs to be aligned a little bit more. I still feel that it is not that friendly for a person who has no experience with Pega to just go in and try to create something."
"The main problem with Pega is that it is quite complex, so it is very difficult for the developer to learn."
"From a technical point of view, it would be helpful to have some advanced analytics to help with configuration. We have a lot of unwanted features and it would be good to configure it more appropriately so that we are using just exactly what we need."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 78 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 7th in Rapid Application Development Software with 57 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Provides built-in frameworks that can be reused and reduces time and cost". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and QuickBase, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian, IBM BPM and OutSystems. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. Pega BPM report.
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