Comparison
A modern alternative
to Microsoft Power Apps
Curiosity builds tools on a permission-aware graph; Power Apps builds forms and apps on Dataverse.
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
Microsoft Power Apps
Microsoft’s low code platform for internal apps, built on Dataverse and the Power Platform connector library, with Copilot to generate apps from a description. It is widely used for forms, approvals and line of business apps inside Microsoft 365.
How Curiosity compares
An app on a table, or a tool on your records
Power Apps is good at the form and the approval. Studio starts from a different place: the records already connected across your systems, with their permissions, so the tool is grounded before anyone draws a screen.
Grounded, not guessed
A tool Studio builds runs on the graph, so every figure it shows traces back to a record in a source system.
Your permissions, inherited
A generated tool cannot show a user anything the source system would not already show them, down to the individual record.
From prompt to production
The tool ships to real users with an audit trail, not as a prototype someone has to rebuild before it goes live.
Runs on your infrastructure
On premises or in your private cloud, with the language model you choose.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | Microsoft Power Apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Microsoft cloud |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Apps on Dataverse tables |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Line of business apps, broad |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Power Platform connectors |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Microsoft regions |
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Your data. Your infrastructure.