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.
"The speed of the solution is valuable."
"The solution is very good. It's very full. You can do almost anything."
"Ability to generate QR codes and scan barcodes."
"There is value in being able to collect and compare information in real-time to present alternatives for correcting vulnerabilities."
"Power Automate has been the most valuable feature."
"As a business person, I design a lot of screens. The solution really resonates with me. Their design is amazing."
"When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly."
"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."
"I like the mobile features the most, and there are also various features around the portal we created that I enjoy."
"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."
"Speed of delivery: We were able to reduce development time by 30%."
"The solution helps to build mobile and web applications on SOAP and REST. You can integrate it with backend systems by submitting a code."
"One thing I like about OutSystems is that there's no lock-in. You can keep running your applications because it's on .NET and hosted centrally. That's one of the advantages I see there in terms of not having an IT strategy that has a dependency on a particular platform."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"The product is mostly stable."
"It has to improve the threshold limit where it can handle data beyond 5000 items."
"Its user interface can be better. It is good, but it can be a bit clunky."
"The price could be lower."
"There is room for improvement with the amount of code required to implement the expense classification app."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"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 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."
"When shared extensions are updated, all the applications are redeployed."
"Since we first started using OutSystems, they switched their language support from Java and .NET to .NET only, which was a bit of a surprise. Their language support could be better in this sense, although on our resource side it is now a bit more flexible."
"Its ability to create and run automated tasks could be better."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
"In OutSystems, cloud management is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 resource availability needs to be increased."
"OutSystems does not provide any native reporting resources. All reports must be created with other tools or as a webpage."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Low-Code Development Platforms with 77 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 3rd 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 "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Mendix, ServiceNow, Appian and Salesforce Platform, 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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