Comparison
Mobile2b or Microsoft Power Platform
You want to digitise your processes and shape the applications yourself. Both routes get you there. Here is what separates them, point by point.
Side by side
| What it is about | Mobile2b | Microsoft Power Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Working with large amounts of data | ++Reports always take every record into account. | -Past 500 records Power Apps may carry on with only part of the data, and it reports no error while doing so. The limit can be raised to 10,000. |
| People and automation in the same process | ++One process that pauses, shows the right person a screen, and carries on afterwards. | +The application and the automation are two separate products that you connect and then keep maintained. |
| Changes without the IT department | ++Everything is set through forms. Whoever knows the process can change it. | +Many steps need a formula language, similar to Excel but more extensive. |
| Working without a network, with photos | ++Part of the standard, including in buildings with no WLAN. | +Built in with Dataverse. For other data sources only small amounts of data in device memory, which Microsoft calls unsuitable for images. |
| Running in your own data centre | ++Available, and entirely on your premises if you want it. | -The platform runs only in the Microsoft cloud. A gateway keeps your data on your premises, but not the application itself. |
| Machines, sensors and barcodes | ++Connecting them and scanning are part of what you get. | +Through additional Azure services and paid connections. |
| Support | ++One fixed contact who knows your company and your application. | +A support ticket, or a partner who bills by the day. |
| Licences for frontline staff and outside people | ++Staff and guests are part of the plan, suppliers and auditors included. | -Everyone who opens the application needs a licence of their own. |
| Inspection records and reports as PDF | ++Documents and tables are produced inside the process, ready to file and send. | +Through paid connections, or Word templates that are converted afterwards. |
| The next application | ++Runs on the same platform, with the same users and no new licence tier. | +Every further application raises the licence cost again. |
| More than one language | ++Text can be translated, automatically if you want, and imported or exported per language. | +Maintained by hand, for every application. |
| More than one plant | +Roles and groups per plant inside one shared system. | +Through separate environments that are managed one by one. |
| Time until you are live | ++We set up the first process together with you. In use within weeks. | +Depends on when your developer or your partner has capacity. |
| Ready-made connections to other systems | +Ready-made connections to Teams, SharePoint, Slack, email, SMS and machines. Any system with an interface can be connected, and we build a missing connection during the project. | ++Over 1,400 ready-made connections to almost every common system. |
| Working together with Microsoft 365 | +Teams and SharePoint are connected and sign-in runs through your Microsoft account. Everything else through interfaces. | ++Built directly into Teams, Excel, Outlook and SharePoint. |
- ++part of the standard
- +doable, with extra effort
- −not possible or strongly limited
See it on one of your own processes
Thirty minutes. Bring a process that still runs on paper, Excel or someone shouting across the hall. We will rebuild it while we talk.