The m-Power Development Platform Reviews

m-Power does a fantastic job at putting an interactive, user-friendly face on data. It's straightforward to setup and use as well. There can sometimes be multiple ways to achieve what you're trying to do too, which gives an excellent level of flexibility for creating a solution that's not entirely built from scratch. Parts of the software can be tweaked somewhat to fit your individual needs, and we rarely find ourselves hitting a brick wall in terms of what we can do with it. Our own imagination & software development skills are the only limiter. Thanks to this flexibility, we use m-Power in multiple ways across our company inside and out. Intuitive web apps for things like accounting, reporting, & dashboards/data analysis can be easily conceived and deployed within minutes. We've developed customer-facing web apps with m-Power to streamline our services to serve them better. The support team is incredibly helpful, knowledgeable, and responsive. It’s a really good value overall!

Honestly, I can’t think of anything I dislike. There’s a slight learning curve for some of the more advanced features (it’s low-code, not no-code), so I see how that could be a hurdle for someone without much technical background, but once you get the hang of it, it’s pretty powerful. The built-in templates are solid, but if you want something more than what’s offered in the m-Painter editor, you’ll have to dig into the HTML.

m-Power allows us to give our customers an interface to the data we provide for them. We've also built dashboards for internal use that give upper management more detailed insight into how certain aspects of the business are performing, and accounting/crediting tools that give our accountants/consultants immediate access to their individual accounts. This drastically improves transparency into the accounting process, and it's helped internal communication tremendously. Building externally accessible reports for our clients has benefitted us by removing the layer of work we do in preparing the data for presentation.

m-Power provides fast, easy tools for the modestly technically competent person to create new tables, upload data, create reports and visualizaions PLUS create powerful web applications in a low-code/no-code environment. The only programming course I have ever taken was Fortran IV in the late 1970's and yet I was able to accomplish all of the tasks listed here in the first line. The visualizations might not quite be as sexy as PowerBI but m-Power's data import tools, overall ease of use and ability to develop applications over top of the data make m-Power stand out from the crowd. The ability to write-back data is phenomenal - a developer can create a fast app for the end-user to maintain information like budgets for later comparison to actual results. The row-level and user-specific record security is exactly what is needed. Rapid deployment, user-creation and setu-up of the training environment by our VAR (MRC PRODUCTIVITY) was amazing. MRC's online education was very good preparation to hit the ground running for the instructor-led training by a top notch resource dedicated to our team of (6).

Some of the visualizations are not as "sexy" as dedicated BI/Analytical tools.

We started out thinking about BI/Analytics only but rapidly came to realize the power of the low-code/no-code development environment. We are creating a multi-divisional data warehouse for visualizaton of key data but now will be created secure cross-functional, cross-site inquiries to the consolidated data. This level of transparency currently does not exist today due to multiple, disparate ERP systems generating the raw data.

m-Power allows us to meet numerous needs and requirements of our agency where our other software platforms fall short. m-Power allows us to build very basic applications for our users, and at the same time, allows us to create elaborate, functionality-rich applications and systems, depending on the skill set of the developer. The documentation on the MRC website is exceptionally well done and easy to find answers to the issue you're facing. If the answer can't be found in their documentation or published tickets with solutions, they have staff ready and available (and highly competent and friendly) to assist. They also offer their services to build applications when our staff don't have the bandwidth or knowledge, and everything is extremely affordable.

While it can be seen as a pro and a con, m-Power is so feature-rich that it is sometimes hard to determine the best approach to building applications. For this reason, we requested a follow-up training to learn more about everything it can do.

While we try to stay away from custom-built software, there are always requirements of the business that support development of new applications. We see tremendous benefit in using m-Power as it integrates with many of our existing software systems, is highly scalable, and is very affordable.

The architecture is reasonably open and flexible, allowing us to customize the vanilla templates. Also, mrc has been a fantastic partner in learning the platform and getting the most out of it.

There is a learning curve to make good use of the development environment but that said, mrc offers very good, professionial training.

m--Power allows us to develop and implement a web front-end over existing and new data architectures effectively and efficiently.

You dont need to know Java programming to build web apps. The built-in templates provide most of the basic functionality you will need to create a user friendly web app. Plenty of online documentation and videos.

Even though you dont need to know HTML, it does help to familiarize yourself with HTML because not everything can be done thru the HTML painter. I would have liked to have seen a more drag & drop style of HTML mpainter. That would be easier to move things around.

The need and desire for modern tools and web apps. We run our ERP on the old style "green screen" user interface and are very limited to what we can do. With m-power, we are able to present data in a more user friendly fashion and build useful tools quicker than the traditional programming methods.

It would not be an overstatement to say I have been waiting for a product like mPower since the 1970s when I first started programming computers. It is a development environment that makes working with databases streamlined, consistent across applications, easily maintainable, and available to both business owners and programmers. It allows simple, low-cost, and secure delivery of applications whether it is to the public or a private community. Security is so important today and mPower makes it so straightforward, flexible and integrated. We chose to build a customer-facing mobile app using mPower over any other platform because of the flexibility and control it offered. Additionally, it was developed in days and not months. We have novice business owners who build mPower apps to access and maintain their data as well as distribute reports. At the same time, we have HTML/Java programmers that build complex, powerful systems incredibly fast. Each of our 2-week sprints accomplishes with one programmer what many development shops would take months to develop. Our developers customize the HTML and/or Java creating very specific and unique user features which make the app so much more valuable and productive for the end-user. And what is truly amazing is that this ability to customize is baked into the mPower environment. The mPower environment allows you to easily build and integrate new templates where you have specific requirements for the behavior/look and feel of your application. And finally, any product is only as good as the vendor's support and vision. MRC provides phenomenal training, support, and professional services when you don't have the internal resources. Their rates are incredibly reasonable. Their goal is always to have you pick up long-term maintenance for anything they develop. They are not in the business of trying to milk you on professional services and support. And their product enhancement is driven by what their customers are asking for and need. When looking to develop any application, mPower should be considered as an option. It checks all the boxes.

It is difficult to identify anything I don't like. Certainly, there are additional features and capabilities that I would like to see in mPower, but to date, there is nothing that we haven't been able to accomplish with mPower. As we develop boilerplate customizations, we pass those on to MRC as options for inclusion as part of the standard environment.

We originally found mPower when we were looking for an easy-to-use, secure way to deliver forms and database maintenance to our remote users. Our data is stored in an on-premise SQL Server database. We needed a way to give remote users secure and robust access to the data through browser-based applications without opening access to our network. The solution needed to be cost-effective and easy for business owners to build/deliver an application in a day or less. mPower was perfect. Then we realized the true strength of mPower and in the first 6 months of using mPower, we built and delivered: Targeted CRM package for our fleet management group; Lease management system; Licenses and permits management system; Maintenance system for accounting reference tables; Environmental health and safety monthly compliant checklist for 240 service centers; Loyalty customer app for mobile devices; Uniform ordering, tracking, and management system; Application to identify mismatches between vendor invoices and receipt of material information; and several utility applications for our employees in the field. We have realized significant improvement in employee productivity using these systems as well as access to new data points to improve analytics and business decisions.

The reporting capabilities of m-Power provides excellent selection and filtering tools and allows the use of subtotals and grand totals within a report. Creating a report is a quick process and provides an interface to use html and ajax to further refine a report.

Data selection is SQL based and works well.

m-Power does not interface very well with Target, which is a Unix based system that Kuna uses for our main business processes. To integrate better with m-Power, we created an SQL-Server based data warehouse that is updated daily from Target.

It's the people. The tool has a learning curve. But, it's the support staff and management that makes the difference. Every question, every issue I had which I could not figure out, they were there with "this is how you do that", or "good idea. we will add that to MRC."

Searching for answers in the on-line documents.

GUI reporting. And the users are able to drill into their business sales information on their own.

. mPower was implemented world wide in months rather than years.

. Report development and deployment is quick and straight forward.

. mPower is available on multiple platforms, desktop devices, tablets and mobile phones.

. No detailed user training is required, the reports are simple for my users to run.

The speed to development is a huge factor and the ability to deliver reporting quickly through the intuitive report building process. Our company has also leveraged several of the interactive maintenance and calendar applications to bridge the shortfalls of the shared excel spreadsheet within the organization. Most of the user community are very skilled with Excel and using Excel as the common report delivery vehicle is a plus. There a large amount of powerful features which are built in to the product.

Large amounts of detailed data reporting can bog down the capabilities when processed through the Apache Tomcat environment. Any reporting of 650,000 rows of data is typically not able to be processed. Some of our report users were disappointed in being unable to process data sets of this size or larger.

We have been to increase the speed to create reporting and we are able to provide a wide range of reporting to serve the user community. The menu system is a real plus and has provided a very stable and easily administrated system to users. We are using a scheduling system to email reports and are able to re-generate reports as needed as well as serving an on demand reporting system to deliver reporting in a variety of common formats.