Frustrated by Power Apps?
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the #1 Power Platform Alternative
“Finding NITRO Studio and the awesome support received by the Crow Canyon Software Team, I once again love my job!”
“NITRO Studio provided us with an intuitive and user-friendly set of tools that allowed our non-technical users to create a solution to automate the entire QA process, turning Office 365 into a true business process automation platform.”
5 Factors to Consider When Evaluating NITRO Studio vs PowerApps & the Power Platform
1) AFFORDABILITY
NITRO Studio provides the same features as the Power Apps Unlimited Plan (plus more) for just a fraction of the cost!
While Office 365 includes basic Power Apps software, you need to pay for advanced capabilities: Premium Connectors, On-Premises connections, Portal Licenses, Power Automate, and many other features. These are not included with your Office 365 subscription and come at an extra cost.
It can be hard to budget for an application that has an escalating cost structure with hidden fees. With NITRO Studio, we provide affordable, flat rates for unlimited sites, forms, and workflows to make budgeting easier.
2) BUILDING SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS
It is one thing to have a set of tools for building an application, quite another to build business-ready applications. After all, giving someone a set of knives does not make him or her a chef!
The Power Apps that is part of Office 365 is too readily used to create poorly functioning applications. As someone stated, “no code/low code is just a way to do bad designs faster”. For an application to be successful, there needs be: Requirements Gathering, Prototyping, QA, and User Acceptance Testing. There are often security and compliance issues that can come into play, as well as consideration of the impact on IT resources. And a very important concern that is often overlooked is on-going user support and training.
NITRO Studio is controlled at the Admin level as to which sites and site collections are allowed to use it. This allows administrators to review and vet applications to make sure the adhere to the proper standards, are needed by the organization, that they have been well-tested and perform well, and that they are cost-effective for the organization. On-going usage can be monitored and adjustments made as needed to ensure optimal performance while shutting down poorly operating ones.
3) AVOIDING APP SPRAWL
Without IT Governance, a “Shadow IT’ infrastructure can get embedded in an organization. This means users of Power Apps and other unregulated “no code” solutions have written and implemented applications that don’t meet the organization’s IT standards. Inevitably, when there are issues or problems with the application, such as it needs upgrading or does not work on certain devices or conflicts with other programs, IT is called in to clean up the mess.
Often, these rogue applications are created with the best of intent — to streamline a process or get something done quickly without having to wait for IT’s approval. However, it is best to avoid these situations and work from the get-go with a tool such as NITRO Studio that provides application management control and administrator-level monitoring in order to avoid app sprawl and a “shadow IT” establishing itself in the first place.
4) GREAT SUPPORT
Let’s face it, Crow Canyon Software is quite a bit smaller than Microsoft! However, that just means we try hard to provide the absolute best support we can. We work closely with our customers and are committed to their success. We have training, manuals, knowledge base, user forum, and workshops. We have many ways to contact us when needed — email, chat, tickets, phone. Our support has won praise from all sides.
We do our best to make sure our customers have the resources, guidance, and skills needed to use NITRO Studio successfully so they can drive business process automation forward in many ways in their organizations.
5) NITRO IS A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
NITRO Studio includes all the features you need to build robust applications. It is not a collection of separate tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, etc., each having separate costs, licensing, and learning curves.
NITRO includes forms, portals, workflows, bots, actions, email synch, print manager, reports, Teams integration, templates, and much more. NITRO Studio provides an all-in-one solution for creating applications on the Office 365, SharePoint, and Teams platforms.
