We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power Apps and Pega BPM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Pega BPM comes out on top in this comparison. It has impressive automotion features, is stable, and scales easily. In contrast, some Power Apps users encounter a sluggish performance when working with heavy volumes of data.
"The platform has valuable features for opportunity and finance management. It has all the essential features for customer service."
"The most valuable feature is the simple data connectivity components."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"We get feedback on a real-time basis, which is actually very useful for us."
"The most valuable feature is the compatibility with other Microsoft components."
"The speed of the solution is valuable."
"You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc."
"As a business person, I design a lot of screens. The solution really resonates with me. Their design is amazing."
"The product helps you to build faster."
"In general, we use web services to integrate this solution with our other tools. It is the main approach we use with this solution and it integrates with all tools that we need. If you want to integrate with other solutions such ThreatFire or similar, it is possible as well."
"Case Management, as well as Workflow Automation, are Pega's most powerful capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility, as we can configure it to best suit our requirements."
"When our clients automate the KYC and onboarding processes, they can reduce their manual force and then deploy them in much better tasks rather than the mundane activities of selecting forms and gathering information."
"The workflow designing and integration are the most valuable features. Also, the UI design was pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are case management and integration services."
"The solution's case management is its most valuable aspect."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see custom APIs, better integration with other solutions, and more connectors available."
"The pricing structure needs to be improved, the current information is confusing."
"The set up of the solution could be simpler."
"The availability of templates needs to be improved. I understand that the ecosystem around it is still developing, but we need more templates. I would like the entire ecosystem around it to improve. I would recommend adding AI components. Even though we can always connect to Azure for AI components, they should slowly start looking at adding some AI components to PowerApps so that out-of-the-box learning can be applied to process flows. Salesforce has the Einstein layer that works along with license platforms. PowerApps should also have something similar."
"It's sometimes hard to import groups of options. At this point, I need to enter those manually and it slows the process down."
"One of the major problems with it is what PowerApps calls the delegation warning. Regardless of what platform, data source, et cetera, that you're using, you can't retrieve more than 2000 records."
"The documentation isn't great. It's only 75% of what you need to know. If you go beyond that and run into issues, it's really not going to help you."
"We use GoCanvas to make forms. It's easier to make forms in GoCanvas, but Power Apps is cheaper because it is bundled with our Office 365 license. if I want to create a form in Power Apps, I need some knowledge, but GoCanvas is intuitive."
"I believe that Pega's strategy when it comes to the UX part is not that great currently as compared to the other emerging BPM tools in the market."
"Sometimes when we are patching some data from the database, we are getting added as a timeout."
"Business specific functionality is needed."
"One of the areas of this solution that could be improved would be to advance the low code features of the application itself. We would also like to use the same platform to build any application, even if it is not necessarily defined as a functionality needed by a BPM."
"In the next release of Pega BPM, they should add more ways to do the customer interaction fields in the portals."
"They need to support the solution better, at this time the company does not have enough support."
"An area for improvement in Pega BPM is security. It's secure, but it still has a lot of vulnerabilities. Pega BPM is robust, but it still needs some improvement performance-wise."
"There are some UX shortcomings within the solution. However, it's my understanding that they have addressed them and in the next three months they will come out with a new updated version. They will be moving away from HTML5."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 7th in Rapid Application Development Software with 55 reviews. Microsoft Power Apps is rated 7.8, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power Apps writes "Low-code, low learning curve, and reduces manpower". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Low code with great APIs and good flexibility". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Appian and QuickBase, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian, IBM BPM and OutSystems. See our Microsoft Power Apps vs. Pega BPM report.
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