We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, and ServiceNow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the user interface."
"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."
"If you want something that you can use for cellphones, multiple tablets, and things like that, you can use PowerApps for the front end. It gathers all the information, and the information goes somewhere else."
"It's very easy to build an app using this solution."
"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."
"Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product."
"The platform has valuable features for opportunity and finance management. It has all the essential features for customer service."
"When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly."
"There is literally a ton of stuff it can do. It's very flexible."
"We've used features like batch processing timers, components, and integrations with other systems like SAP, which have accelerated our development process.In terms of productivity, we've seen a 30 percent reduction in screen design time and an additional 10 percent improvement when implementing client requirements. OutSystems' integration capabilities have significantly enhanced our app's functionality, making it quicker and easier to connect with other systems."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of OutSystems is easy."
"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."
"Refactoring with TrueChange is very simple."
"The architecture of OutSystems is quite simple, and the features are similar to Mendix's. OutSystems has connectors for different enterprise apps and solid reporting capabilities. You can also integrate with any content management platform like SharePoint or Adobe Enterprise Manager, or something like that. You can also create and integrate workflows."
"We can do the validation before calling the API."
"I like the mobile features the most, and there are also various features around the portal we created that I enjoy."
"Very easy to implement and to respond to my clients' needs."
"The solution is stable, scalable and easy to use."
"Easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"What I like the most is the functionality, it's features are rich, and there is a high degree of compliance with IT standards."
"You can scale the solution."
"It can scale well if you are managing IT assets."
"The solution integrates well with other products."
"The look and feel is a valuable benefit for adoption."
"PowerApps can't do a lot of things that users need now. For example, it can't handle signatures."
"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."
"The editor in the Web browser could be improved because it can be difficult to implement the commands in the buttons."
"I would like to have more options for changing the layout because customizing something as simple as colors is very hard."
"We're not in production yet, so we're still working through some issues."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"I have always felt that you need an IT background to use this solution."
"There is room for improvement in error handling and debugging."
"It is hard to find the logic in OutSystems. From an improvement perspective, I want to be able to properly use logic in OutSystems."
"In OutSystems, cloud management is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The documentation needs to be more robust."
"It's difficult to do the component version control. I would like them to add more studying materials."
"The dashboards in OutSystems could improve. There are a lot of tabs in the service center that can be confusing."
"The integration points need to be increased. People have also started to adopt this solution for their regular needs. That means it's not only the big enterprises that are adopting this solution. There are also small and medium enterprises that are adopting it. I've read that where you have large deployments, OutSystems starts to crumble a bit. That is the idea that no customer would know at the beginning and would also not like to hit the wall there. When it is on the client, there are a lot of applications already on low-code, and then suddenly you realize that you want to do some big applications, and you face hurdles. This is the general feedback for all such platforms."
"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."
"While I can't speak to the market impact, as a developer, I've seen significant reductions in development time across different versions of our applications. One area for improvement would be the UI controls in Service Studio. Sometimes, controls don't appear in the IDE, requiring us to check them in the web browser instead. Overall, our experience with OutSystems has been positive, though improvements in UI development would be welcomed."
"The interface is not user-friendly."
"Its stability and pricing need improvement."
"I know that discovery tools are not meant to be simple, but somehow, if they could make it more simple and robust, that would be great."
"Where it could be improved is Discovery. This may sound odd since I just praised the value of ServiceNow Discovery, but improvements to its automatic detection, the breadth of devices, and the depth of devices covered, as well as keeping up with new technologies, are all essential."
"Currently, we are finding it a bit difficult to monitor the subscriptions that are being used. The reporting feature related to this can be improved. Its ITOM functionality can be improved. BMC does a better job than ServiceNow in terms of capturing utilization and other such things."
"Compared to other products that I have been using, it is not as user-friendly."
"Change Management is the area I have found that this tool can be improved because there are so many fields which are missing, such as urgency of the customer request and how the priority is defined. These are some of the areas in which I found that BMC Remedy is much better than ServiceNow."
"Before implementing this solution, you should have the ITSM model in place for chain management requests. That is a prerequisite because you cannot perform tasks without it."
