The m-Power Development Platform Reviews & Product Details

The template based system. Having the template based system made it so easy to migrate from our old reporting system to m-Power. Once you've learned the ins and outs of what each template can do, migrating additional reports is a breeze. Sometimes the templates can't do exactly what you want, so they do allow you to modify the code to be able to get as close as possible to your dream report.

We had to migrate from our old system when IBM and the vendor decided it was no longer going to support it. We had hundreds of reports to migrate, but with the template based process, we were able to do this relatively quickly. To the point that I believe we even impressed the team at mrc!

But what makes the platform stand out, is the customer support. We've thrown a lot of off the wall questions to the team at mrc. The basic what about doing this, how about that. Sometimes we'd get the you can't do that, but then that would be quickly followed up with a, but you could do this, and your end results would be the same.

What I'm seeing with the product is between the reports and applications that you can build, it's only limited by your imagination. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like a lot of modular based systems, sometimes I'll forget where we made a tweak or modification. Also because it is a system that you can modify by dragging the widgits or sections around, sometimes you have to be careful that you don't grab something into the wrong position.

Not sure if those are true 'dislikes' but more like warnings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The dedicated development environment offers most of the tools that businesses are looking for. Often, if it does not exist out of the box, it can be added.

MRC is very responsive to customer feedback. It is nice to work with a company that sincerely wants you to succeed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes web-based solutions just do not have the options that runtime based application have, but they do offer more flexibility when it comes to device compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the visualizations are not as "sexy" as dedicated BI/Analytical tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a learning curve to make good use of the development environment but that said, mrc offers very good, professionial training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

m-Power integrates very well with SQL-Server and our reports run fast. Using a data warehouse allows us to collect and store data from multiple sources and m-Power helps us to integrate the data through reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system is very functional in a real world application sense and it is easy to create code that interfaces with our database. The automatic code creation and java class creation is phenomenal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not had formal training for the system/s, MRC M-power, so there are a lot of features that I miss or that I am just learning about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.