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.
"The most valuable feature is the completeness of the concept. It is not restricted by where you are allowed to use it and that is its greatest strength."
"You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc."
"Can design apps quickly and can connect to any database."
"Time to market is most valuable because you can make apps pretty fast. It also has pretty good integration."
"Creating a PowerApp is very easy. All I do is link and share the result with my colleagues. Deployment is very fast."
"The solution works great and is stable."
"The cloud aspect has been great. We don't have to do a lot of research in order to begin integrations. It's so easy to integrate with other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the simple data connectivity components."
"I really like the one-click publish feature in OutSystems. In other development tools/languages, it's not as easy. I also like how easily I can manage all my projects in one place."
"OutSystems is a low-code solution. Most features are like drag-and-drop, so it's pretty easy to work. Thus it helps the organization by saving time for developers."
"I like the mobile features the most, and there are also various features around the portal we created that I enjoy."
"OutSystems is easy to use."
"It provides for faster development and better software releases."
"You can go huge - so it is definitely a scalable solution."
"Integrations with external systems with SOAP and REST are easy to implement off-the-shelf, but a developer can always implement specific libraries for other integrations."
"The scratch coding is useful. The solution is easy to understand."
"The user interface is pretty good, although it is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"I have heard from developers that there is documentation missing in the reporting."
"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."
"Microsoft PowerApps is not responsive in nature."
"You can't add too many filters onto anything you build, otherwise, it will be very slow and it will affect your performance."
"There are occasional performance challenges."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities in the future."
"The solution could improve by having more connectors for different solutions in a way to create custom connectors. Additionally, they should make HTTP Connectors free again because it was not always a premium feature. These HTTP connectors allow you to send API requests which can be important."
"I have difficulty in using several new features. Some of the product's features are tricky to use as well."
"The integration Studio could be improved. It needs a tool in which we could develop C# code and then integrate into OutSystems. The application could have a better UI."
"We have performance issues while fetching bulk data."
"It needs improvement in the AI capability."
"We'd like OutSystems to add stronger workflow-based automation similar to what Appian offers. It needs more workflow modeling and RPA features."
"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."
"OutSystems could improve by being more like GitHub. It would be more helpful for us for division management and version control for our application."
"The tool needs to improve the efficiency of its widgets."
Microsoft Power Apps is ranked 1st in Rapid Application Development Software with 77 reviews while OutSystems is ranked 3rd in Rapid Application Development Software 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 "Useful natural speech to algorithm, reliable, and beneficial automatic task". Microsoft Power Apps is most compared with Mendix, Oracle Application Express (APEX), ServiceNow, Appian and Microsoft Azure App Service, 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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