We performed a comparison between Appian and Microsoft Powerapps based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Microsoft Powerapps seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers find that Appian’s need for integration improvement makes Microsoft Powerapps the better choice.
"Appian is easy to install and set up, and it does not come out with your audit. It has accessible process orchestration and process management. With Appian, the time to market is much faster."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"The flows are good because they can be used in a variety of situations."
"Overall the solution is reliable."
"Of all of the solutions I evaluated, it was the easiest to use and deploy."
"We like that this solution allows us to fully define our test environments, and link them using different code. This means we can do different tests, but with one basic structure, and then export the data and use it in other platforms."
"Microsoft PowerApps's most valuable features we found are that it's very similar to the other Microsoft products, you can do the basic automation quite quickly. The interface is similar to the other Microsoft products which makes it easy to navigate around because we are used to Microsoft products."
"The initial setup is not complicated."
"It is good for using for small apps and automation on Office stuff."
"The scalability is good."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"If the price was reduced and the quality of the user interfaces was improved it would be beneficial."
"In terms of workflow automation, I believe that capabilities for creating the entire business process are required, or, at the very least, the option to model the business process, define complex business events, handle them, and route them to appropriate business stakeholders."
"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."
"In some cases, PowerApps would have some limitations in terms of the data, the number of transactions, and so on, but for a normal solution, it would be enough."
"Technical support could be faster, and more accurate."
"The scalability of the solution could improve."
"It would be beneficial to have a feature that allows users to split the opportunity into separate logs for each product."
"Its user interface can be better. It is good, but it can be a bit clunky."
Appian is ranked 6th in Rapid Application Development Software with 57 reviews while Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". Appian is most compared with OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow, Pega BPM and Mendix, whereas Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, OutSystems and Microsoft Azure App Service. See our Appian vs. Microsoft Power Apps report.
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