GeneXus vs Microsoft Power Apps comparison

GeneXus

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Microsoft Power Apps

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between GeneXus and Microsoft Power Apps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Low-Code Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed GeneXus vs. Microsoft Power Apps Report (Updated: March 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (8th)

Microsoft Power Apps

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (1st)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Low-Code Development Platforms category, the market share of GeneXus is 0.6% and it decreased by 7.4% compared to the previous year. The market share of Microsoft Power Apps is 20.2% and it decreased by 19.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Low-Code Development Platforms

Unique Categories:

Mobile Development Platforms

1.6%

Rapid Application Development Software

19.1%

Featured Reviews

reviewer2091639

Backend Developer GeneXus at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Feb 3, 2023

Supports several languages, improves productivity, and scales well

GeneXus needs to be improved from the frontend aspect. When you work with GeneXus and try to develop the frontend part of an application, it's difficult to manage some aspects. GeneXus is a wonderful tool for the backend. It's the best in the world, but for the frontend, GeneXus needs to improve. There should be easier steps for managing various aspects, such as alerts and messages to show to the end-users. GeneXus could be improved to bring more collaboration between developers. They can add more tools to easily collaborate and manage versions. It could be enhanced for source control and team management and collaboration. GeneXus has a suite called GeneXus Server for this purpose, which allows collaboration and source management control, but in comparison to other implementations of the Git source code, it's not easy for developers. If they can add more features related to collaboration and source control, it would be good.

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reviewer1308135

Intelligent Automation Lead (RPA & AI) at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 30, 2022

Many bugs, not accurate, but easy to navigate

My advice to others wanting to implement Microsoft PowerApps, they should do research on the connectors that are available compared to the competition. This will speed up the time to their end goal because Microsoft doesn't have many. The general support documentation that is available on using the tool, compare them with the other solutions to make a decision on what solution to use. They don't have many resources yet that are qualified in Microsoft PowerApps or Microsoft Power Automate. I rate Microsoft PowerApps a four out of five. Microsoft PowerApps needs a lot of fixes and improvements, and the competition is way far ahead compared to Microsoft at the moment.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration module is the most valuable feature of this solution for our business, as it allows our clients to create new systems based on their outdated databases, across all API's."

"I find the implementation process of GeneXus to be easy."

"I like that it's very compatible with other tools. The most important feature is getting the developer to focus on the project's business case. It's not about focusing on how I can command this or how I can develop a front end, or how I can work with the advantages. The developer should focus on the business case of the project. No need to focus on connecting the database to the server or connecting the server and the front end. The developer can concentrate on the views."

"This solution works extremely quickly in terms of enabling an application in a production environment."

"I like the testing models, which allow me to create unit or interface tests of my programs. It helps us avoid missed deadlines because we can detect all the errors before deploying the new versions of the solution. And I also like the integration with coding managers like DevOps or Jenkins. It enables us to do versioning."

"With the solution, I can work a normal day. I can plan my work and any other activities for days ahead."

"With GeneXus, we can create logical representations of transactions in the form of objects."

"GeneXus evolves with technology."

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"Of all of the solutions I evaluated, it was the easiest to use and deploy."

"Creating a PowerApp is very easy. All I do is link and share the result with my colleagues. Deployment is very fast."

"The solution becomes easier the set up once you get used to it."

"It is very easy for us to implement. We have a Microsoft ecosystem, and this solution has many components for integration."

"The most valuable feature is the compatibility with other Microsoft components."

"When I am developing any user UI, it gives me complete flexibility. I can manage in any way I want."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the user interface."

"The cloud aspect has been great. We don't have to do a lot of research in order to begin integrations. It's so easy to integrate with other solutions."

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Cons

"It would be better if GeneXus had a wiki. The developer needs some experience to work with the tools. It would be better if they could improve the community. If we have some problem, I open a ticket that takes us to a board, and I have to describe my issue in detail. If the tools have a general community for us to explore with some videos or some articles, I think that that may help the developer."

"The front-end with GeneXus is not as good as the back-end."

"The graphical interface could be improved. I also notice some performance problems on hardware that should be more than adequate. GeneXus uses a lot of RAM and other computer resources."

"We would like to see more extensions and more user controls added to the front-end of this solution, in order to help developers manage the website."

"It would be helpful to have additional assisted processing with training."

"There are issues in integrating it with other solutions."

"Documentation is always an issue. In order to develop with GeneXus, there is very little documentation. The documentation is not clear enough in order to develop a great tool."

"GeneXus's user interface has room for improvement."

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"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."

"It's easy to use."

"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."

"We're not in production yet, so we're still working through some issues."

"Microsoft should combine both the web and the mobile environment with all of the layers of development into one package."

"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."

"Microsoft is not cheap. The pricing could be lowered for their customers."

"Most of my training for what I do has been by watching or learning in the community. There needs to be better training on either one of these."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of a GeneXus license is extremely high. At the same time, one person using the solution can do the work of three Java or data developers. I think that's why they charge so much. It's too expensive, which is one reason it isn't widely used."

"The tool's price is good."

"The price is good."

"The solution is very expensive."

"It's expensive. I'd rate it a four out of ten in terms of pricing."

"People tend to work with GeneXus if it's cheap, but GeneXus does have licensing policies...Moreover, the cost of resourcing work in GeneXus may make it more expensive than other programming languages."

"I don't know about the price because I am an employee, but I hear it's cheaper than other tools."

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

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"It depends on the subscription of Office 365 that customers have. With some subscriptions, it's possible to use PowerApps."

"It was about $40. There are people that are lower than that, however, they don't give you the features."

"The price for the license could be more cost-effective."

"Usually, the free licenses of Power Apps come to normal corporate users for free...For normal users within a corporate firm with licenses, it's totally favorable."

"The product is inexpensive."

"Microsoft PowerApps is expensive, but there are many features included."

"Typically, it's $20 per user, per month, commercial. For the government, on a per user basis, what we were looking at is $11.23 per month."

"For me, it was free to develop with a professional license, which is about 70 euros a month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GeneXus?

GeneXus evolves with technology.

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What needs improvement with GeneXus?

The tool needs to be tuned before being used. You need some experience to get the best out of the tool.

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

The tool helps to build systems that work to capture and check data.

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How would you choose between Microsoft PowerApps and Salesforce Platform?

I think it depends on your use case. If your organization uses Microsoft Enterprise products, PowerApps will work better in your environment. Similarly, if you have a Salesforce integration in pla...

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Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?

Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...

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Would you choose Microsoft Azure App Service or PowerApps?

Microsoft Azure App Service is helpful if you need to set up temporary servers for customers to run their programs in locations that other cloud providers do not cater to. When servers are closer t...

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Overview

What is GeneXus? GeneXus™ is the best Low-Code Platform that you don't know yet.

It's a Software Development Platform that simplifies and automates the tasks of creating and evolving enterprise applications and multi-channel user-experiences. Great Advantages:

- Higher productivity, with automatic maintenance & evolution
- Multi-Experience, we continuously create new code generators
- Agile, incremental approach, with fully functional prototypes
- Easier to learn, one single language to cover all technologies
- Future-proof, we've been around for 30 years, evolving for you

Key Differentiators against the competition:

- No runtime fees, we charge by developer
- Best theoretical framework, which allows us to evolve
- Best coverage in the market: Most technologies, most languages, most markets and industries
- We run on-premise or on the cloud
- Multiple starting points depending on the type of company you work in, with products for Students, Startups, ISVs, Corporate Development, and SAP technologies

GeneXus uses Artificial Intelligence techniques to create software, enabling truly incremental development of apps, providing a low-code, future-proof development platform for the leading execution platforms and languages, and the most popular DBMS.

Microsoft Power Apps is a rapid application development software and low-code development platform. The solution consists of a suite of apps, services, connectors, and a data platform. It provides an environment for building custom apps which is suitable for different businesses.

Microsoft Power Apps allows users to not only build applications, but also connect them to Microsoft's other sources, including the underlying data platform Microsoft Dataverse, as well as online and on-premise sources such as SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365. The applications built using Microsoft Power Apps have a responsive design that makes them suitable for work in browsers and on mobile applications on different devices.

The no-code side of the product makes it suitable for complete beginners to app building, allowing them to easily create fully functional applications with many features. The solution also has a specialized platform for developers where specialists can access data and metadata, create custom connectors, integrate with external data, and apply business logic. The solution allows users to create three types of apps: canvas, model-driven, and portal. They are made using:

Power Apps Studio: Canvas apps are designed through Power Apps Studio. This app designer is suitable for complete beginners, as the app creation process resembles the building of presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.
App Designer: Model-driven apps are created through App Designer. The creation process allows users to define the sitemap and add components to build the application.
Power Apps Portals Studio: This is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) design tool. It is suitable for portal applications, as it allows users to add and configure web pages, forms, components, and lists.

Microsoft Power Apps Features

The three different design tools of the solution, Power Apps Studio, App Designer, and Power Apps Portals Studio, come with various features which allow users to utilize the tools. Some of these features include:

Common Data Service (CDS): The data storage feature of the solution allows users to store and manage the data used for business applications securely. The data within the feature is stored among a set of entities, including a base set of standard entities as well as user-made custom ones, using Power Query. The data within CDS can be used to build apps.
Cloud connectivity: Microsoft Power Apps has the ability to connect with various types of cloud services. It can connect with MS CDS, as well as SQL, DropBox, and Google Drive.
Sharing feature: The tool has a feature for sharing built applications. Users can share the app they have created with users within the same organization as them.
Role-based feature: The product allows organizations to assign their employees roles within the platform. This is done to create customization based on the assigned roles, potentially eliminating issues that a completely free access can create.
AI automation: The tool has a feature that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI). It provides users with an AI builder and pre-built AI components to facilitate the application building process.
APIs feature: Microsoft Power Apps facilitates the app-building process through application program interfaces (APIs).
Collaboration support: The tool supports collaboration within the organization in the application building process. Through this feature, multiple employees can contribute to the creation of an app.

Microsoft Power Apps Benefits

The product brings various benefits to organizations and individuals who utilize it. Some of the biggest advantages of Microsoft Power Apps include:

The solution saves time for organizations by eliminating manual coding and providing ready-to-use solutions.
Applications built on the product can be made compatible with various platforms, including the web, Windows, Android, and iOS.
The premium connectors and wide integration of the platform allow developers to use data from Microsoft and from third-party services to build their applications.
The no-code capability enhances mobility and innovations within companies.
The AI feature of the product allows companies to increase their productivity through prebuilt AI scenarios.
The tool offers various ways to follow the data from the created applications, allowing companies to benefit from the reports of the performance of their apps.
Professional developers receive a platform to follow crucial metrics and access the application development in detail.
Power Apps can be connected across the entire Microsoft Power Platform, allowing organizations to utilize all features that the provider offers.

Reviews from Real Users

An IT Specialist (INFOSEC) at a government appreciates this tool because it is low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower.

Rafael T., a data engineer at NTT Security, likes Microsoft Power Apps, because it is great for making apps quickly, has helpful support, and integrates with Power BI.

Sample Customers

Canal de Panamá, Gerdau, Coca-Cola, Mercado Libre, DHL, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, TECNISA, Mexican Polak Group, Ferrovalle, Canon, Azteca, KPMG, TURBUS, Santander, BBVA

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