GeneXus vs Microsoft Power Apps comparison

GeneXus and Microsoft are both solutions in the Low-Code Development Platforms category. GeneXus is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.5, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.0. GeneXus holds a 0.7% mindshare in LCDP, compared to Microsoft’s 20.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GeneXus users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 2024

GeneXus and Microsoft Power Apps compete in the application development category. Microsoft Power Apps holds an edge in specific categories, while GeneXus has its strengths.

Features: GeneXus users mention robust multi-platform capabilities, automated coding features, and extensive platform support. Microsoft Power Apps is noted for integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, ease of use for non-developers, and seamless integration.

Room for Improvement: GeneXus needs better documentation, improved scalability for larger projects, and more responsive customer service. Microsoft Power Apps requires better flexibility, more customization options, and enhancements in deployment processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GeneXus has a good deployment model but could improve customer service responsiveness. Microsoft Power Apps is recognized for straightforward deployment and strong customer service support.

Pricing and ROI: GeneXus has a reasonable initial setup cost with good long-term ROI. Microsoft Power Apps has a higher setup cost but offers a strong ROI due to its extensive feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

GeneXus

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (5th)

Microsoft Power Apps

Ranking in Low-Code Development Platforms

1st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Rapid Application Development Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Low-Code Development Platforms category, the mindshare of GeneXus is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Power Apps is 20.7%, down from 26.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Ricardo Espinosa L.

D&A and Genexus Manager at KPMG

Fast, stable, and allows us to model a workflow before developing the screens

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. Design, or Unanimo, is an area that GeneXus needs to work on. It's not very smooth. I'd like to see a better chart flow. I use the chart flow quite a lot, but it's not as simple as I wish it to be.

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Praveen Chaudhary

Service Delivery Manager at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Facilitates form creation and application planning but lacks performance

We have started exploring those parts. It is in the initial stages and capable of performing simple tasks that are helpful. We are still exploring how it can work with profiles, and other AI features that Microsoft continues to introduce. It provides a basic starting point within its capabilities. Microsoft Power Apps is a perfect tool. Understanding its limitations is crucial to identifying where it best fits within organizational solutions. It excels in scenarios requiring quick turnaround times, offering easy maintenance with minimal technical expertise needed. However, it's not suited for complex enterprise-level solutions. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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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 front-end features are the most valuable."

"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."

"It is fast in creating systems and connects to the database quickly."

"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."

"The solution provides ease of programming and the speed of delivery of demands."

"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."

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

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"The solution works great and is stable."

"Microsoft Power Apps has helped us handle our fairly complex invoices, including filing and reviewing them manually. We’re working towards automating our invoice processing, labeling them according to organization accounts, and developing an entirely digital workflow. The tool uses customizable AI models for your organization's documents, so it supports AI-driven projects well."

"The integration with SharePoint is part of the enterprise package, making it cost-effective."

"It's a very workable solution because it's an automated way of making applications. You have a template, you have the application know-how,"

"The initial setup is not complicated."

"The most valuable feature is the time-to-market because you can make apps pretty fast."

"I like the solution's ability to approve some tasks electronically."

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

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Cons

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I told them to add something about Angular. They're already working on adding it."

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

"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."

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"The price could be lower."

"We're running a campaign to encourage users to utilize the Power Apps."

"There is room for improvement with the amount of code required to implement the expense classification app."

"PowerApps is still a bit new compared to a slightly more mature product such as OutSystems."

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

"The solution could improve by having more connectors for different solutions in a way to create custom connectors. Additionally, they should make HTTP Connectors free again because it was not always a premium feature. These HTTP connectors allow you to send API requests which can be important."

"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."

"However, for larger enterprises, the licensing costs for premium connectors can be tricky."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution offers multi-plan licenses, depending on the size of the company and the features required, as opposed to being priced per user/device."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten"

"The price is good."

"The solution is very expensive."

"The tool's price is good."

"I know that its licenses are generally per year, and in the past, the license for GeneXus was around $5,000, but I don't know what's the current price of the GeneXus license."

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

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

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"We use the Office 365 package, and Microsoft PowerApps is a part of the package. We don't pay any separate price for this. There are no additional costs. We just pay for the Office 365 package."

"There are two licensing costs, one is pay-as-you-go, or you can develop it for one year."

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

"Pricing for this solution is completely based on user requirement. If your requirement is simple or less complex, then the basic licensing model can work, e.g. the free model, or else, you need to go for the premium features or premium model."

"This is not an expensive product and there are no licensing fees."

"The enterprise-level costs a great deal of money, and you have to purchase additional licenses to scale it."

"In terms of pricing, Power Apps is cost-efficient."

"There are areas of Microsoft PowerApps that can be improved. For example, the license policies are expensive to purchases the premium connectors. If a company would like to use the premium features, they have to pay a lot of money. The Microsoft PowerApps portal could be easier to use when there are a lot of external users because if a company has 1,000 external users, it is too expensive to use the Microsoft PowerApps portal."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GeneXus?

GeneXus evolves with technology.

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What needs improvement with GeneXus?

GeneXus needs to be more consistent in functionality without any errors. Code generation is highly time-consuming for GeneXus, but in some cases, it saves time as well. Some errors will take too lo...

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What is your primary use case for GeneXus?

Our company uses the latest version of GeneXus. The solution is used in our company to develop various enterprise systems, and GeneXus is used as an integrator, which further facilitates low-cost d...

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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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GeneXus

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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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