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Decoding Power Platform | What are Power Apps?

Low Code • Microsoft Power Apps • Microsoft Power Platform • Jul 12, 2024 9:59:38 AM • Written by: Insights by IntelliconnectQ

What are Power Apps?

Microsoft Power Apps is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that allows us to build custom business apps with minimal code. It's a suite of apps, services, connectors, and a data platform that provides a rapid development environment.
Power Apps is designed to be user-friendly, with an intuitive visual design and drag-and-drop functionality. It combines low-code/no-code app development with self-service analytics and automation. Apps built using Power Apps can connect to data stored in Microsoft Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and other online and on-premises data sources.

Where can it be used?

Power Apps can be used in diverse situations. It can be used to create small applications for taking input of forms, editing, adding, updating, and viewing. It can also be used to create difficult applications such as an e-commerce tool for manufacturers, customers, and suppliers all in one!
From a simple form application to an e-commerce tool, Power Apps can be used to create wonders with Low Code.

Impact of Low Code

Low code makes application development easier, cheaper, faster, and more efficient than ever! It saves you the cost of multiple developers for a single application. It gives a developer the power to work faster i.e. implement multiple functionalities in a much lesser amount of time.
 

Types of Power Apps

 Which one works best for you?

Model Driven:

The Model Driven Power App lets you create a basic CRUD application based on your database. The best part of Power Apps is it gives you thousands of connectors for everything! You can connect your database from wherever you like and within a few minutes an application will be created.

Canvas Power Apps

Canvas Power Apps gives you much more flexibility to create an application with Low Code. You can pick any template or database to start with or start with scratch. It can be used on any device and can be designed to be responsive. This can be used to create scanner apps, e-commerce management apps, GitHub repository-creating apps, report apps, and much more.

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Power Pages

Power Pages are used to create websites using Low Code. It provides hundreds of templates you can choose from and builds websites hosted by Azure App Service. It is a super secure place to host a website with information on what your business is about and much more.

Advantages of Low Code Development using Microsoft Power Apps

Easy to Develop

One must have a clear vision to start with and the tool itself will show the way to create the vision into reality. Low code is easier to develop as it has hundreds of functions already defined asking to be used in creation.

Faster

A developer needs to focus more on algorithms and logic when developing in low code. As a developer gets the logic to create it can be done within a few minutes!

Efficient

It saves your precious money and time. The Power Apps needs a license and no hosting cost for every app. You can host as many apps in a premium license as you want.

Take The Next Steps

Microsoft Power Platform has been declared as a leader In 2023 Gartner's Low Code Application Magic Quadrant 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/blog/power-apps/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-2023-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-low-code-application-platforms/
 

Microsoft Power Apps—The Comprehensive Platform For A Successful Low-Code Strategy

 
 
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