Microsoft Power Apps Valuable Features
The most valuable features for us are predominantly on the user interface front. It provides ease of development with many modules. The integration with SharePoint is part of the enterprise package, making it cost-effective. This allows our operations team to use existing functionalities without incurring extra costs. We utilize Microsoft Office licensing to take advantage of PowerApps for sixty to seventy percent of its potential, which is very beneficial.
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The ability to build our application is valuable. While it is marketed as low-code, no-code, learning how to use the system takes some development skills. However, the solutions are easily integrated with other Microsoft products. If we are using Outlook or Power BI for our reports, the integration is easier because it is within the Microsoft ecosystem. It eliminates different spreadsheets that people use to track the same information. By standardizing the process, it becomes more efficient.
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Murli Manohar K
RPA Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Two essential features of Microsoft Power Apps are the user experience and the development area. It is easy to build an application within a few hours or a few days, even with complex requirements. With Microsoft Power Apps, there are three different areas: Canvas, Model Driven, and Power Pages. Power Pages, previously known as Power Portal, has been moved into a separate module. Canvas Apps provide complete user design flexibility with many connectors to integrate into Microsoft Power Apps, making it efficient to fetch and update information from various data sources such as Dataverse, Excel, SharePoint, and Azure. This helps in building applications with less effort, as it offers plenty of connectors. It is compatible with Outlook, Gmail, and Office 365 users.
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Microsoft Power Apps
June 2025

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The tool's most valuable feature stems from the fact that in our company, we spend a lot of time sending emails and get involved in identifying what type of users we have. The most valuable feature of the tool is that, with the budget, we can reduce the time we invest in our various processes.
In my experience with Microsoft Power Apps over the past two years, the best feature is its seamless connection with the Microsoft ecosystem. It integrates well with Microsoft Teams, and you can use it with minimal programming, which is typical for low-code and no-code apps.
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Edit Kapcari
Power Platform Advisor and Head of Power Platform Team at Orbis AG
Power Platform has a range of products—apps, CloudFlows, Power BI, Pages, and now the Copilot edition. But the ones I use most often, especially with our customers, are apps combined with CloudFlows running in the background. We're also seeing a rise in conversations about Copilot.
In apps, we tend to jump in when things get critical in context, especially when building enterprise applications for our customers. We often have to go the extra mile in terms of design and user experience. We don’t usually rely solely on out-of-the-box features. Instead, we bring our own designs and improvements in that area. Of course, we start with what Power Platform provides out of the box, but in some cases, we have to build our own components and create custom experiences.
The favorite feature among most makers is the PowerApps Studio, where they can get started and create. For myself, my role is a bit different—I’m more involved in presales, selling the platform to customers, showing demos, and focusing on governance and the security aspects of the platform as a whole. So I have fewer hands-on tasks with Power Apps, and I don’t really have a specific favorite feature. However, I do enjoy the overall experience of creating applications.
View full review »Power Apps offer a wide range of integrations and login options. Typically, we use SharePoint as a backend for these apps. They are both free and paid versions; the paid options are extensively used.
View full review »Power Apps is user-friendly and allows easy application creation without extensive programming experience. It integrates seamlessly with Power Automate for process automation and connects with email, SharePoint, Power BI, and MS Teams, facilitating everyday processes.
Issue tracking and centralized issue management are significantly enhanced with Power Apps, reducing lengthy data consolidation processes across departments.
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Konstantin Redko
Oracle eBS Solution Architect at Raiffeisen Bank International AG
In Power Apps, it's the native integration with Microsoft products. This is definitely the most powerful feature.
View full review »The solution's most valuable feature is integration. It's highly beneficial because you can bring data from many different places to it. It's an easy, pluggable solution that everyone can use. It can make a very user-friendly solution, and you can show your data from it. The solution has a new, modern look and feel and is integrated with Microsoft Power Automate and AI technology.
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Lucjan Stalmach
Director of the IT at Jagiellonian University
I like the solution's ability to approve some tasks electronically. When we use Power Automate to build workflows, one of the steps is the approval process. It is very convenient to have the possibility of accepting some activities.
View full review »The platform's most valuable feature includes the gallery for displaying data for managing approval flows, which is useful for our multi-level approval processes. Additionally, the 360 payments feature is valuable for its default hierarchical approach.
View full review »In my experience with Microsoft Power Apps over the past two years, the best feature is its seamless connection with the Microsoft ecosystem. It integrates well with Microsoft Teams, and you can use it with minimal programming, which is typical for low-code and no-code apps.
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The solution's most valuable feature revolves around its low code capabilities. Coding work is less in the tool.
The solution integrates quickly with our organization's existing systems.
View full review »The product's usability and the ability to fine-tune are really good. It is easier to work with compared to AgilePoint. The product is very user-friendly.
View full review »Microsoft Power Apps is the building block for creating applications, similar to how children use different types of blocks to build structures.
Power Apps is a part of the Microsoft Power Platform suite, enabling users to build custom applications using various components. It is more akin to SharePoint in creating web pages and applications. It allows integration with SharePoint, connected web services, data files, and more.
View full review »The best aspect of Microsoft Power Apps is its time-to-market efficiency. Unlike traditional programming, it doesn't involve lengthy coding processes, allowing for rapid deployment. You can input your requirements and get started without writing millions of lines of code.
View full review »What I find the most valuable is the simplicity to create PowerApps and link them to a list and then bring the list from SharePoint, and sharing the data in SharePoint with other people who do not need to have access to a mobile.
Creating a PowerApp is very easy. All I do is link and share the result with my colleagues. Deployment is very fast. It takes about a month or so.
View full review »It's easy to use. We create great user experiences.
The track-to-use function is great.
It is easy to design automation processes.
The initial setup is mostly pretty simple.
Users don't have to have any technical competence in order to begin creating automation.
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ChristopherPreffer
Director, Program Innovation & Improvement Medicare at UPMC
The UI functionality is the most valuable aspect of this solution.
View full review »Flexibility, easy setup, and fairly quick results are valuable features of the product.
View full review »I would say that it's a very advanced product because it empowers people to do simple things, which previously may have required people to have some technical skills. So, no matter which department or what technical skills a person possesses, it has become very easy to build or automate certain processes. In my company, we chose Microsoft Power Apps since it helps us with small and medium tasks like making certain processes, generating reports, and so on.
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Konstantin Redko
Oracle eBS Solution Architect at Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Overall the solution is reliable.
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OmarChavez
Lean Manager at GrupoPhoenix
You can easily connect Power Apps with other databases, like Excel, SharePoint, SQL, etc.
View full review »The features I find the most valuable are the 365 and Microsoft applications integrations and the automation.
With Microsoft, the main benefit that we get is it's easy for a layman to understand it. That's the advantage of it, it's user-friendly.
The way it integrates with the other applications is very good. The experience is seamless; there are no hurdles. Connectors are easily available, which can help you connect with some third-party apps if required.
The initial setup is easy.
It is stable and reliable.
We can scale it.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the ease of use to create an application. For example, if you use the Canvas app, there is a feature that you can upload an image, and it will easily identify it and convert it into the application.
The solution is convenient for using Power Effects so we can write customized business logic.
View full review »I did some POC for another application. We’re expecting we'll get it in a new project in the near future. It is a really good tool. We can run programming knowledge, we can learn the PowerApps and we can interact with applications.
It is user-friendly. Anyone can easily learn and work on this tool.
The solution is easy to implement.
It’s a stable product.
Not much coding is required.
View full review »It offers integration with several Microsoft products, including SharePoint and Outlook, in my opinion, is a huge plus.
It can also integrate with Microsoft SQL servers, which makes it easy, and you can send reports and create business applications from it.
View full review »The write-back capability right now is just SharePoint Online, however, hopefully, we'll get the funding and subscriptions so that we can get write-back to our SQL server database. Of course, this is for our analysts within business architecture so that they can maintain the metadata, the relationships, and the mappings. Those are the biggest things that we need to have analysts able to do - the research, analysis to identify what data needs to be updated for those relationships and giving them a front end, a form to go in and edit, either create rows or modify existing, whatever needs to be done to the table.
I like that you can quickly click together a user interface. For all no-code platforms that let you create a front end, you can click together something very quick.
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LilianaPina
Owner at 40+60 consulting
We particularly like the workflow connectors in the forms, for information introduction purposes.
Our customers appreciate the fact that the licensing for this solution is also connected with Office 365, making it a it's less expensive overall system.
It is also very user-friendly in terms of learning curves; it can be picked up very quickly by new users and provides good interoperability between Teams, Outlook, and other solutions from Office.
View full review »It's extremely user-friendly. It's easy to use. Of course, it's a local tool, however, if you're aware of some of the basic Microsoft products, you can really get on with it. That's something which is really wonderful.
Even a beginner can set up a Power App and run with it. That's one of the most important features when it comes to the adoption of Power Apps.
The solution becomes easier the set up once you get used to it.
It's a stable product.
The solution has the potential to scale.
View full review »There are many things there that I like about the solution. I like the galleries, which are really powerful. I like the way that we can build forms very quickly.
In terms of timing to develop, PowerApps is very fast. We can integrate with Power BI. You can just show the Power BI report embedded in PowerApps, and it works really nicely.
View full review »We really like Microsoft PowerApps. When compared with Microsoft Power Automate, it is a bit more mature, and we're able to build things pretty rapidly.
It's a different paradigm to build around, and it's a different programming paradigm. It's more like Excel in that you build formulas and pieces, but we've been able to build some fairly sophisticated business logic inside of it. As a result, we believe that is much more mature. I'd say that's around an eight, eight and a half, out of ten.
View full review »The platform has valuable features for opportunity and finance management. It has all the essential features for customer service.
View full review »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.
I am from the sales side, so I really do not know the technical aspect of it.
It's my understanding that it has been issue-free.
We have pretty easy integration options.
Technical support is great.
The solution is stable and reliable.
The scalability is good.
View full review »The solution offers good integration on the Microsoft Power platform. You can use and develop apps, local apps using Microsoft Power Apps. It helps automate processes. We can do the monitoring and tracking of the Power BI app in Microsoft.
It's very easy to set up.
The solution is stable.
The scalability is good.
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Edit Kapcari
Power Platform Advisor and Head of Power Platform Team at Orbis AG
Everything that includes PowerApps is very interesting, especially the late editions in direction and mixed reality.
The way you create applications and the nature of language processing are great. The ideas feature that has been added lately has been wonderful. All these types of additions are really cool.
It's a stable product.
It uses a lot of AI, which is helpful, especially during the setup process.
The pricing is reasonable.
Technical support is good.
View full review »What we like about Microsoft PowerApps is that it allows us to simplify business processes and user experience. We can also create responsive applications and canvas apps through this solution.
If we need an app that is more specific to what the business requires, we can create model-driven apps through Microsoft PowerApps. We can also create a reusable component which we can use in this solution, through the power component framework, which is a recent development model from this product.
We also love that this product is a low-code tool which has drag and drop controls, so building apps is simplified.
View full review »It is easy to use.
View full review »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.
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Kamesh Gunupur
Vice President - Information Systems at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is pretty easy to create and deploy apps.
You don't need a very high level of technical knowledge. Of course, you do need some level of technical knowledge, however, a normal developer can easily learn and deploy Power Apps.
The initial setup is very simple.
The solution scales well.
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Ameer Ali
Executive Director at Ali 4 Solutions FZE
Because there is no need for lengthy code, applications can be created quickly. That's the beauty of PowerApps in general, whether I'm using Power Automate or PowerApps for UI development. And the UI is very user-friendly.
When I am developing any user UI, it gives me complete flexibility. I can manage in any way I want.
It is constantly being improved. I've been using it for three years and have noticed that upgrades are happening on a regular basis, and it's becoming more and more user-friendly, both for developers and for users.
We can now also share it on Microsoft Teams. As a result, it is becoming increasingly powerful.
It is very easy to use.
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Abubakar AL Seed
IT Senior General Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel
From an architecture point of view, the architectural criteria are the most valuable aspect of the solution.
The solution is quite stable.
The product integrates well with other Microsoft products.
Technical support is very helpful
The initial setup is not complicated.
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Youness Ziach
Digital Transformation Project Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is the Model-driven or Canvas application-making platforms. The power of the two gives us exactly what we are looking for.
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Oscar Osorio
Senior Programmer Analyst at Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
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 solution works well with Microsoft Teams. We used to use Skype for Business, and now we rely on Microsoft Teams Enterprise E5.
There's great integration with Dynamics 365, Office 365, and more. It's great that everything is easily connected.
We can use the solution from cell phones, tablets, or computers. It works on every platform and in every environment.
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Christopher Preffer
Senior Product Manager Data Science at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's easy to use due to expert UI. It is great.
The initial setup is easy.
There's a lot of online knowledge on the solution, to the point where new users can basically teach themselves how to use the solution.
View full review »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.
Power Automate has been the most valuable feature.
View full review »The flows are good and probably the best component of this product because they can be used in a variety of situations and we're using it all the time. We're also using a lot of portal and canvas too. This is a simple solution and user friendly.
One of the valuable features of PowerApps is the ability to generate QR codes and scan barcodes, as well as take an image. Integration is good; the solution is low code and easy to deploy. It's great that you need to create a unique verification, it's a feature that helps a lot.
The solution is very straightforward. Its context is obvious and everything is easy to understand.
Compared to previous applications which developed by Visual Basic, we can quickly update the whole business process without spending weeks or a month dealing with those aspects.
In Microsoft PowerApps the most valuable features are the fully customizable design that we can control everything that we would like to control. For example, the integration between Microsoft and third-party services through pre-built connectors, and the functionality to create custom connectors.
View full review »Generating reports is very fast with Microsoft PowerApps. It's stable and scalable as well.
Also, the technical support is good.
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Pratik Bajaj
Sr. Digital Experience Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The model that allows you to establish flow automation is getting a lot of traction from the customer side. It offers a lot of flexibility.
View full review »There are lots of good videos on Youtube that are available to help users train themselves on the product and understand its intricacies. They have a workshop that allows you to learn the product in a day.
As a business person, I design a lot of screens. The solution really resonates with me. Their design is amazing.
You are able to create a screen app within a day once you get the hang of everything.
There are great templates on offer that make creating apps easy. They have galleries that help you pick predefined templates. You can also standardize these. It's low effort and low code. However, if you want to code more and have code validation or mobile, you can do that as well.
They have a web version of the solution, as well as a version for tablets.
Microsoft PowerApps is a no-code solution.
I would say that the most valuable features are the user interface, navigation, and business routes.
It quickly drags and drops. It doesn't take much coding, there is no coding in fact. You drag and drop, select a few things to configure, and then read those applications in the user screens.
With business rules, you can just select and you don't need to elaborate coding or backend code. This way, it's much easier to write or create those applications using their features.
View full review »The most valuable feature is automized processes.
View full review »We get feedback on a real-time basis, which is actually very useful for us.
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Guillermo Carles
Business Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is really strong. I'm not an engineer. I'm an economist. Even without being an engineer, I can handle working with the data warehouse. It offers good speed and excellent design.
If I want to process for payments, I can do it fast and easy in Power Apps. If I need to process information from Facebook, from Twitter, or other places, it's really wonderful.
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.
The most valuable features are low-code and fast development.
Microsoft is evolving constantly.
View full review »I like the fact that Microsoft PowerApps it a self-contained solution; I could build everything and then deploy it. I liked the UI designer that they had for building the screens and also defining the flows. Of all of the solutions I evaluated, it was the easiest to use and deploy.
Microsoft Power Apps has helped us handle our fairly complex invoices, including filing and reviewing them manually. We’re working towards automating our invoice processing, labeling them according to organization accounts, and developing an entirely digital workflow. The tool uses customizable AI models for your organization's documents, so it supports AI-driven projects well.
View full review »The tool helps simplify tasks like conference room bookings, onboarding new employees, managing documentation processes, or handling form submissions; PowerOps can adapt to various use cases. Its ability to develop templates and seamlessly integrate data makes it a valuable tool. It can be integrated with Microsoft Copilot.
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Chun Kit Chow
Senior Manager at Macro Systems Limited
The most valuable feature of Microsoft PowerApps is the user interface.
View full review »The performance is showing signs of improvement.
Technical support is okay.
It is good for using for small apps and automation on Microsoft Office items.
View full review »The most valuable feature is that PowerApps can be used by most business users. It is not only for programmers.
Its performance is also valuable.
View full review »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.
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RahimKhowaja
Chief Information Technology Officer at BMC Solutions
The solution is easy to use and map.
View full review »What I like about it is that it is coming from Microsoft. It is very easy for us, our techno-functional consultants to spin an application in days, not in months.
This is easily integrated with native systems including the Microsoft stack. If we have to integrate with other products such as SharePoint, we can leverage any services using Azure or the same platform.
In terms of scalability, it can scale quite well. It's so scalable with forthcoming technologies. We can develop something in PowerApps, and that can easily be scaled to a bot. We can quickly make a bot there and make it work in conjunction with applications.
We had it integrated earlier with voice channels. You can manage an omnichannel kind of scenario between Voice, Teams, WhatsApp, social integration platforms like Twitter, Facebook, et cetera.
The RPA is very closely integrated onto the same platform and BI as well. It's great.
The initial setup is very easy.
The product is very stable.
I have found the technical support to be helpful.
The usability, in terms of low-code applications, is a feature we have found most valuable. We just do development and then distribution.
It's very easy to build an app using this solution. It's easier than with other tools.
The solution is excellent at figuring how to build an application in three months. It makes it very quick and easy.
The pricing is very reasonable. it's not overly expensive.
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ATHANASSIOS FAMELIARIS
S/W Technologies & Processes Unit Manager at Unisystems
I like the containerization of Azure. We are trying other architectural options that they offer.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the compatibility with other Microsoft components, the connectivity to Microsoft databases, the connectivity to other components on the Microsoft Azure environment, the connectivity to Office 365 and the connectivity to teams and the overall environment.
View full review »We were impressed with the functionality of the solution.
View full review »The solution allows you to use data to create excellent UI and quickly deliver an app. It speeds up production time.
View full review »Time to market is most valuable because you can make apps pretty fast. It also has pretty good integration.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the time-to-market because you can make apps pretty fast.
The integration with other products is pretty good.
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Linderman Torres
Architect director at Olimpiait
It is very easy for us to implement. We have a Microsoft ecosystem, and this solution has many components for integration.
View full review »The solution integrated well in Azure environment thus provide a full rapid development solution. Thanks to the extensibility (as low code platform should), You can do anything, and if not directly, you can use other Azure functionality.
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Bujjireddy Pokala
Technical Lead at SmartIMS India Pvt.Ltd
We can design apps quickly and we can connect to any database. We can connect to any technology, like Microsoft Analytics or SAP. It requires less code from our side and is available on cloud. Updates are done automatically, which is a valuable feature.
The most valuable feature is the simple data connectivity components. With no code, you can use multiple data sources with different software systems.
View full review »I like the status of the flow and the dashboard, with all of the flows that are running and showing the stages of them.
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DavidGerard
Business Intelligence Consultant at FumAstra Management Consulting
The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact it is highly customizable. All types of forms can be created to collect information, pictures, and files. With PowerApps, you can connect your application to a wide variety of databases and applications where your data lives to read or write to it. If a connector doesn't exist, it's also possible to create a custom one.
With a plan starting at 10 USD, it makes it very affordable for anyone to create a low-code, no-code application. Very little costs are needed to run the solution. Furthermore, PowerApps has a community plan for free, and usually offer a trial period of about 2 months. Plenty of time and potential to learn, discover and develop.
The solution has a large community, so it's quite easy to find tutorials, how-to, and help.
PowerApps is part of the PowerPlatform from Microsoft, with Flow, or Power BI and enhances the possibilities to collect data, to automate processes, and to create rich and visually appealing data visualizations.
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YousefHasan
Developer at Australian College of Kuwait
The common data point would be the most valuable feature. PowerApps is also usable for data mining, it can be used with Power BI or SQL. All the data integrates easily on all Microsoft apps. And it comes with most of the subscriptions and extras.
View full review »The most valuable feature is easily connecting to data services.
I can have a SharePoint list and connect with users through PowerApps to present the information.
I am also able to connect with Microsoft Flow, which allows me to connect with different people to email and update items in Sharepoint.
View full review »The support is the most valuable feature.
View full review »The speed of the solution is valuable.
View full review »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.
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