What are Microsoft Power Apps?

Power Apps is a SaaS application used to provide a suite of apps, services, connectors and a data platform so you’re able to build custom apps for your business needs.

In using Power Apps you’re able to build apps built around your business with custom business data that is stored in Microsoft’s data platforms such as Microsoft Dataverse, external API’s or other on-premises data sources such as SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamic 365, SQL server etc.

Benefits of Power Apps

If you build apps with Power Apps, you’re just in luck! Apps that are built using Power Apps provide rich business logic and workflow capabilities to transform manual business processes into modern, digital, automated processes.

Power Apps makes the custom business app building experience easy by allowing users to build feature-rich apps without writing code. Think of Power Apps as the “Powerpoint” application for building presentation slides, but instead for Mobile, Tablet and Web applications.

Power Apps provides an extensible platform that also let’s pro developers and technically advanced developers to program and interact with data and metadata, as well as apply business logic, create custom connectors and integrate external data.

  • You can connect to data and systems you’re using easily.
  • You can create apps, forms and workflows without writing code.
  • You can use apps on any device, both web, mobile and tablets.
  • You can build an app quickly using your current skillsets.
  • You can connect to the cloud services and data sources that you’re already using.
  • You can share your apps instantly so that coworkers can use them on web, mobile and tablets.