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Cordango vs Power Apps

Power Apps looks free because it ships with Microsoft 365. Then come premium connectors, Dataverse capacity, environments and a governance project that somebody has to run for years. The governance is genuinely there, it just arrives as work. Cordango is one platform with one price, where the guardrails exist before the first app rather than after the tenth.

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The short version.

Where Power Apps wins

If you are a large Microsoft shop with a Power Platform team, it is a capable ecosystem.

M365 Deep integration with Teams, SharePoint and Office
ENT Microsoft’s enterprise compliance and EU datacenters
FLOW Power Automate covers a lot of workflow ground
ORG Works well when a dedicated maker team owns it

Where Cordango wins

Cordango skips the maker skill tree entirely. Describe the app and it runs on the core.

BUILD Plain words in, working app out. No canvas apps, no formula language
COST One platform, one price you can explain. No per-connector surprises
CORE Permissions, people and audit in one place you can actually see
SPEED Apps this week, not a rollout program this quarter

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Side by side.

	Cordango	Power Apps
Build an app by describing it	✓	~
Licensing you can explain in one sentence	✓	✗
Works without trained makers or consultants	✓	✗
One data core across all apps	✓	~
Permissions & audit in one view	✓	~
EU data residency	✓	✓
Custom-built apps on request	✓	~
Shared company context by default	✓	~
Governance built into every app	✓	~
Company-owned rather than personal	✓	✓
Every user shapes their own interface	✓	✗
One platform price instead of per-tool subscriptions	✓	✗

✓ built in · ~ possible with licensing, setup or partners · ✗ not realistic in practice
Microsoft gets a real ✓ on EU datacenters. The difference is how much platform you have to operate to get the rest.

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Which one should you pick?

Pick Power Apps if

01 You run a large Microsoft 365 estate with premium licensing budgeted
02 A team already owns your Power Platform governance
03 Your apps live inside Teams and SharePoint anyway

Pick Cordango if

01 You want internal apps without becoming a Power Platform team
02 You’d rather not do the licensing math per app and per user
03 You want permissions and audit visible in one place, not five admin centers

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