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.
"You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc."
"It is very easy for us to implement. We have a Microsoft ecosystem, and this solution has many components for integration."
"The solution is very good. It's very full. You can do almost anything."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly."
"I would say that the most valuable features are the user interface, navigation, and business routes."
"Creating a PowerApp is very easy. All I do is link and share the result with my colleagues. Deployment is very fast."
"I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"OutSystems' best feature is that you can build tests with the flow, so even the tests are made in the PDD framework in a low-code way."
"The scalability of OutSystems is very good, it scales automatically very useful for us."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of OutSystems are the user interface, the flexibility to quickly integrate with almost anything in the system, and the ability to connect with databases."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"You can go huge - so it is definitely a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of OutSystems is the drag and drop and toolchains in the small AI developing environment. Additionally, the documentation is helpful."
"In my experience, the solution's deployment can be tricky."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."
"Microsoft PowerApps can improve the number of bugs that are present. When you are using the different applications it is not accurate."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"There are occasional performance challenges."
"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."
"One area where the solution lacks is the limited size of the database it offers its users."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
"The new version could be improved."
"I like the OutSystems platform. I am working on integrating it with another platform using APIs, however, it has proven to be difficult. The main issue I am facing is obtaining authorization tokens as well as access and refresh tokens. It may be due to my lack of knowledge of APIs as it is new to me."
"The documentation needs to be more robust."
"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."
"The technical features are good, but the actual commercialization is out of reach."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
"Mobile apps should have been fully native."
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 "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 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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