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“Building Feature-Rich Workflows Balanced by Costs and Customization Challenges”
“Advanced functionality in Power Apps is extremely limited due to implementation bottlenecks”
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A big plus is not being forced into a specific methodology. You're able to build & customize the exact fields, stages, and approval gates needed (whether using Agile, Waterfall, or a hybrid). The challenge in manually building features that may come standard elsewhere is offset by the ability to build a Project Intake app that automatically scores projects based on ROI before needing a Gantt chart.
The simplest use cases are easy to set up.
Power Apps provides us with an AI app builder function which allows us to incorporate artificial intelligence into our apps, helping us to make them much more productive. Power Apps offers us with a low-code, drag-and-drop app development environment that makes it easy to create any custom app we need. Power Apps provides us with app monitoring features which allow us to track the performance of each app we create, making it easy for us to ensure they are functioning the way we intend them to.
Not necessarily something I dislike personally... but from a project management standpoint, here are three potential weaknesses depending on your needs/objectives: 1) Limits in handling data: If your project list or register exceeds 2,000 rows, Power Apps may stop searching the entire dataset and only rely on the first chunk. Invisible tasks are no fun for someone hoping to populate all results. 2) Blank canvas beginning: There are current PM tools that are not incorporated since you start with a blank canvas that is completely customizable. You will spend early hours simply building out the tool before you can practically use it. Gantt charts, Kanban boards, nested sub-tasks...get ready to build them. 3) Free can become costly: What starts out as a free solution within 365 licensing can quickly become costly. There's a premium paywall for those who need to connect to external SQL databases, use the AI Builder, or automate the generation of PDF reports. Even at just $xx per user per month, that can balloon to a chunk of annual change depending on your project team size.
- PowerFX is not intuitive or well documented. - Complex interaction between application and database (beyond very basic create and update) is overly difficult to implement. - Custom element styles and responsive design are incredibly difficult.
We have had an incredible and very streamlined experience with Power Apps. No one on our team has ever had anything to complain about it.
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- Procurement Manager10B+ USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Building Feature-Rich Workflows Balanced by Costs and Customization Challenges
Although not a replacement for out-of-the-box tools when it comes to project management, it is much more effective than previous offerings within MS. A much better option than off-the-shelf software for those who need flexibility within specific workflows. - Senior Software Developer50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Creating epic custom apps is easy with Power Apps.
Power Apps is giving me and my software development team the best app development experience. Power Apps provides us with user-friendly low-code app development tools which allow us to create our custom apps easily and quickly. With Power Apps, it has been easy for us to turn our creative app ideas into actual apps which help us to automate and streamline our daily activities in our organization. - Data Analyst10B+ USDBankingReview Source
Advanced functionality in Power Apps is extremely limited due to implementation bottlenecks
I come to Power Apps with a full stack web dev background and have also used other low/no code tools. Power Apps does work for basic applications. For very simple web pages and data collection forms, you can be up and running quickly. However, building any form or application with any complexity is a lot of headache. The PowerFX code is very nuanced. Custom formatting of design elements or making responsive UX is incredibly difficult to achieve. Interaction with backend Dataverse tables can be very slow and hard to debug. Overall I don't recommend if you need anything more complex than basic surveys. - Software Development Project Manager50M-1B USDSoftwareReview Source
Power Apps' low-code development features make it easy to create custom apps.
Power Apps is an exceptional low-code software development platform and we have had a great experience working with it to build apps which assist us to streamline our business operations. With its easy to use drag-and-drop app building features, Power Apps allows us to bring our creativity into action and build custom apps which match the exact needs we have at hand. - IT ASSOCIATE<50M USDHardwareReview Source
Many Workflows Possible Without Coding Expertise, Occasional Help Still Needed
Ability to create customized workflows that you can create on your own without being an expert coder.