Microsoft Power Apps
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Microsoft Power Apps in Brief
Power Apps is a suite of low-code development software to help citizen and pro developers create custom apps with rich business logic and workflow automation capabilities. The suite is best for building web and mobile apps (e.g., for employee onboarding, work scheduling) and web portals (e.g., a customer portal, a community portal).
86% of the Fortune 500 companies leverage Microsoft Power Apps with its drag-and-drop app designer, pre-built app templates, AI Builder, and 200+ data connectors for easy integration with other Microsoft products (e.g., SharePoint, Office 365, OneDrive, Excel Online, Dynamics 365) and third-party platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and tools (e.g., Dropbox, Google Docs).
86% of the Fortune 500 companies leverage Microsoft Power Apps with its drag-and-drop app designer, pre-built app templates, AI Builder, and 200+ data connectors for easy integration with other Microsoft products (e.g., SharePoint, Office 365, OneDrive, Excel Online, Dynamics 365) and third-party platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and tools (e.g., Dropbox, Google Docs).
Types of Apps to Build with Microsoft Power Apps
Canvas apps
- App elements are dragged and dropped onto a canvas, data sources are connected to the app via Excel-style formulas.
- Highly customizable.
- Suitable for apps with simple business logic, e.g., for holiday approval, event registration.
Model-driven apps
- Apps are created based on data models built on Dataverse, an underlying data platform for Power Apps.
- Layout and functionality customization is limited.
- Suitable for complex apps, e.g., customer service management and event management apps.
Web portals
- Designed using preconfigured and custom templates, forms, and views.
- Highly customizable.
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Useful Integrations for Power Apps
- Power BI – to build applications in Power Apps that offer diverse reports and dashboards.
- Power Automate – to create logic in Power Automate for workflow automation in Power Apps.
- SharePoint – to extract and store data from SharePoint lists, libraries or OneDrive in Power Apps and create apps directly from a SharePoint list.
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Workflow management
- Drag-and-drop workflow editor for creating custom workflows.
- Pre-built templates for typical workflows.
- Workflow-related emails and notifications.
- Real-time dashboards with workflow status, progress, due dates, etc.
- Workflow analytics (e.g., workflows by type, complexity, average completion time).
Financial management
- Expense reporting.
- Review and processing of accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Invoice creation and review.
- Invoice creation and review.
- Business card management (scanning and capturing contact information).
Power Apps Use Cases
Workflow management
- Drag-and-drop workflow editor for creating custom workflows.
- Pre-built templates for typical workflows.
- Workflow-related emails and notifications.
- Real-time dashboards with workflow status, progress, due dates, etc.
- Workflow analytics (e.g., workflows by type, complexity, average completion time).
Financial management
- Expense reporting.
- Review and processing of accounts payable and accounts receivable.
- Invoice creation and review.
- Invoice creation and review.
- Business card management (scanning and capturing contact information).
Workflow management
- Cost estimation.
- Budgeting.
- Cost allocation.
- Cost tracking.
- Reporting (actual and committed costs, cost variances, cost trends, etc.).
Inventory management
- Automated inventory data uploading and editing.
- Storage of multiple data types (e.g., image, RFID data).
- Inventory search by keywords and serial number.
- Purchase order creating and approval.
- Sales order placing.
Benefits of Power Apps*
x2-3
speed of UI development of simple apps due to drag-and-drop app designer
-74%
average costs of app development due to using app templates and ready components like forms and views
* from the Total Economic Impact™ study on Power Apps by Forrester
Power Apps Pricing Plans
Per app Plan
(Run one app per user) Licensing each user to run one app at a time, with the flexibility to stack licenses for each additional app. The plan requires access to the Microsoft 365 admin center with
$5 user/app/month
Per user Plan
(Run unlimited apps per user) One license for each user, regardless of the number of apps they need to run.
$20 user/month
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