We performed a comparison between Bizagi, Microsoft Power Apps, and OutSystems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, OutSystems and others in Rapid Application Development Software."The interface, design, and accessible user manuals to help get started using the solution are valuable features in Bizagi."
"The most valuable feature is the organizational modeling capability."
"The amount of control that this solution provides is great."
"Process management is easy with Bizagi; validating processes and assigning resources is straightforward."
"Bizagi is simple. It's simple to learn."
"I very much like the reusable rules and forms, and the way Bizagi controls the process flow. I also like the document generating system to generate PDFs and then .doc files with information gathered from a flow. At the end of a process, you can generate a document that can be printed."
"The product enables the users to automate the processes and provides a good user experience."
"I find Bizagi so user friendly. I also think that its modeling abilities are great and it's easy to teach them to new users."
"I like the galleries, which are really powerful."
"There are a lot of different applications; you can connect PowerApps, or Flow, or Power BI to many different types of applications to interchange data."
"It uses a lot of AI, which is helpful, especially during the setup process."
"Microsoft PowerApps allows you to simplify business processes and user experience. You can also create responsive applications and canvas apps through this solution. It's an easy to scale, stable, and low-code solution."
"I like how fast I can develop an application and put it in production with PowerApps. I think the integration is also excellent. The platforms is growing, so they are constantly adding more connectors on all these things."
"Creating a PowerApp is very easy. All I do is link and share the result with my colleagues. Deployment is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the time-to-market because you can make apps pretty fast."
"Overall, the tool is very democratic. It's easy for anyone to use. You don't have to be a professional or well-versed in technology."
"We can quickly develop an application using the tool."
"The tool makes the development process easier."
"The scalability of OutSystems is very good, it scales automatically very useful for us."
"There is literally a ton of stuff it can do. It's very flexible."
"Reduces the manual labor in compiling and deploying applications and generating procedural code (by reducing development bureaucracy/processes, resulting in real gains). The LifeTime Server approach, requiring just a few steps to publish applications in production environments, is fantastic."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"It is very stable."
"It is a stable solution, and the initial setup is straightforward."
"The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing."
"The performance could use improvement. We couldn't connect the processes to on one file. The performance is an issue for us."
"Its performance needs to be improved. The main thing is that it is limited, especially in terms of the response times. When the processes become a bit large, it is very awkward to work with the Bizagi modeler. When you have already modeled but start to rearrange, it is quite a bit of an effort to change the stuff. When you rearrange lanes or have new structures, it goes rather squiggly up and down and so on, which could be improved. The visual outputs of the DIREPs of the process models are pixelated and have a bad image quality. It is a PNG or JPEG, and you cannot export it as a PDF. When you have rather large processes, you should be able to arrange them hierarchically. Currently, it is not supported. If you use sub-processes and inflate a process, suddenly the arrangement is totally different, and although you know the process, you have to look where is it now. You need a good understanding of the levels of your processes before you start in Bizagi. It can have automatic support for optimal presentation. In BPM, you should have it from the top left to the bottom right. However, in most cases, people don't know how they should arrange it. Therefore, it would be nice to have a suggestion system for different arrangements to be able to better present the process."
"Sometimes, when your process is big with multiple lanes, the product will freeze the issue noticed on multiple laptops, not a single PC."
"The solution was very limited."
"Bizagi has been aggressively adding features to maintain its market-leading position, however, in some cases, this has impacted the stability of certain product builds."
"One part of the university has changed its regular desktops to Linux. This is a weak point because Bizagi doesn't run on Linux. I would like the opportunity to run the software inside of Linux."
"I'm not really satisfied with the reporting aspect."
"There is room for improvement with the amount of code required to implement the expense classification app."
"In my experience, the solution's deployment can be tricky."
"It is not enough user friendly. It also doesn't integrate very well with SQL Server."
"Improvements to the capturing of geographic locations and integration with maps would raise my score of the product from seven point five to its maximum of ten."
"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."
"When it comes to PowerApps, debugging can be difficult at times. It would be beneficial to simplify it."
"The connectors are the main components that reference the data sources, and these need to be improved."
"I’d need more time with it. As of now, I can’t think of an area for improvement."
"The solution's testing framework needs to be improved, and the workflow should be slightly more mature."
"The technical features are good, but the actual commercialization is out of reach."
"The resource availability needs to be increased."
"The new version could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in versioning. It can be challenging to keep track of what changes should be committed, especially when many developers are working in one environment."
"The largest obstacle currently associated with OutSystems is its high cost and limited availability of skilled personnel. Despite being a rapid application development platform, having a highly skilled individual familiar with the platform can be much more beneficial than an inexperienced individual. Because there is a shortage of people with the necessary OutSystems skills, utilizing the platform can become expensive. This makes little sense, considering that a rapid application development platform should be accessible to the average person. However, having a highly skilled individual can greatly increase productivity, making the cost worthwhile."
"I think OutSystems needs to improve in many areas. First, sometimes Service Studio becomes really slow and even hangs for long periods. Also, if I have not published my module in some time, and some kind of Service Studio exception occurs, I lose my work."
"The tutorials for the solution should be updated."
