“Our Power Platform – spanning Power BI, PowerApps and Flow – enables anyone in an organization to start building an intelligent app or workflow where none exists. It is the only solution of its kind in the industry – bringing together no-code/low-code app development, robotic process automation and self-service analytics into a single, comprehensive platform. And it enables extensibility across Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 as well as the leading third-party SaaS business applications.”
– Said Microsoft CEO Nadella in a press statement
On 4th February 2014, Satya Nadella was announced as the third CEO of Microsoft after Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Over the years under his leadership, Microsoft emerged as the fourth largest tech giant and covered its lost market by embracing cloud technologies and open-source community.
Earlier, he stated that the world is about cloud first, mobile first. And he helped Microsoft reach the position of leading cloud service provider today.
He delivered the results.
Congratulations, Satya Nadella! Microsoft got its groove back.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves, says Satya Nadella.
While every organization is paying attention to so-called ‘digital strategy’, technology giants are offering more sustainable and innovative technology solutions to the businesses.
In this post, we are exploring Microsoft’s Power Platform.
Microsoft Power Platform wraps 3 different entities into one platform.
For tech company like Microsoft, there are several things must such as:
Microsoft offered the same thing through this powerful platform. Over the years, Microsoft’s innovative products/services are used by millions of people across the globe.
This time, Microsoft targeted ‘anyone-can-use-it’ strategy and designed an innovative platform to make app building easier like never before.
Among these 3 tools, PowerApps caught our attention and we thought to explore it in detail.
PowerApps are designed to be used internally for your business apps.
Here are some facts from A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study of PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Commissioned by Microsoft June 2018.
Note: This study is based on interviewed customers and applied to a composite organization with 2,000 employees who have access to PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.
PowerApps acts as Platform-as-a-Service. It is built in Azure and a part of Office 365.
The purpose of PowerApps is to simplify the app development process for business users. PowerApps allows developers to build a web or mobile applications using Dynamic 365 and Office 365 with drag-and-drop functionalities.
Put it simply, PowerApps is a collection of apps, services, connectors, and data platforms that help developers and non-developers to create, manage, and share business apps.
Moreover, PowerApps platform equipped with built-in, enterprise-level data store feature called as Common Data Service (CDS) which enables easier data storage and management for various on-premises and online data sources including Dynamic 365, SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, SQL Server, and many more.
With PowerApps, you can create two types of Apps:
Basically, PowerApps facilitates app creation for business users by offering many templates, connectors, and third-party applications.
The important feature of PowerApps which makes it popular among developers is its data connectors. It lets you allow perform CRUD operations quickly and supports majority on-premises data sources.
As we have discussed, there are two types of apps you can create with PowerApps, here are all the answers to the questions regarding PowerApps.
Once the app is created, you can share that app with your team or members in the organization with the help of PowerApps platform.
Many organizations are leveraging PowerApps and Microsoft Flow to automate workflows and simply reduce cost and time in development. As PowerApps provides a range of connectors and flow enables automation of workflows, making app development simpler and faster.
PowerApps are intended to be used inside the organization.
It reinforces scalability, robustness, and faster performance and simplifies business app development. PowerApps, together with Microsoft Flow and Power BI is proven as the best solution for small business as it scales when your business grows.
PowerApps can’t be shared with everyone out there means it can’t be used publically.
Additionally, it provides ‘no-code’ functionality so any additionally JavaScript or HTML cannot be added. This feature overall increases the speed of development but at the same time restricts developers to use only inbuilt templates and connectors.
PowerApps, a low-code development platform for business users is already proving its potential for many enterprises. Here are some of them:
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If you are already a Microsoft Enterprise User, Power Platform can reduce time and efforts significantly and enable a rapid, secure, flexible, and efficient approach to the app development.
Watch this space for more posts on PowerApps as we are exploring Power Platform and its advantages for enterprises. You can share your feedback via comments below and help make this post a good read for Microsoft PowerApps.
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