Microsoft PowerApps

Agenda Background & Overview How Does It Work? Let’s Build an App…

Background & Overview

Background & Overview The way we do work today is fundamentally

different than just a few years ago.

Work happens on our phones, tablets and laptops everywhere we go: −on manufacturing floors−in airplanes−Or at customer meetings

Background & Overview

Yet, the apps we use to do business have been slow to keep pace with employee demand.

Current IssuesSome movement to Office 365 and Cloud

However, most business app scenarios still remain locked on premises, dependent on corporate connected PCs

Too often, they’re not optimized for mobile, not easily integrated with other services, and not accessible when and where people need them most 

The business app category continues to lag behind consumer app scenarios in terms of richness and ubiquity

The Innovation GapBusiness versus Consumer Apps1. Not enough skilled mobile developers. Gartner predicts,

“through 2017, the market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organization capacity to deliver them.”

2. Business data proliferation.  Business data has proliferated spanning on premises systems and beyond the firewall to SaaS clouds.

3. IT agility and app sharing. Mobile app distribution typically happens through app stores, or through mobile device management, governed by IT.  This creates inherent friction in getting apps onto employee phones. 

Introducing PowerApps PowerApps is an enterprise service for innovators

everywhere to connect, create and share business apps with your team on any device in minutes.

And PowerApps helps anyone in your organization unlock new business agility.

Introducing PowerApps For employees :

−Quickly create apps that work on any device using a Microsoft Office-like experience, templates to get started quickly and a visual designer to automate workflows.

−Use built-in connections, or ones built by your company, to connect PowerApps to cloud services such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, Dropbox and OneDrive and on-premises systems including SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle databases, SAP and more.

−Share PowerApps like documents. It’s as simple as typing an email address and your coworkers can take advantage of an app you created.

Introducing PowerApps For developers and IT professionals:

−PowerApps includes Azure App Service for employee-facing apps, so native web and mobile apps get into employee hands faster than ever.

−Build additional data connections and APIs to any existing business systems, thus empowering any users in your organization to create the apps they need.

−Data security and privacy controls are respected by PowerApps, so you can manage data access and maintain corporate policies.

PowerApps

PowerApps will dramatically accelerate how business apps are built, reducing time to solution from weeks or months to minutes and empowering a new category of app creators. 

(the next MS Access?)

How Does It Work?

Getting Started1. Sign up for an account at:

−https://powerapps.microsoft.com/ −Currently in Beta

2. Download the PowerApps application−Available on Windows Store−From Windows 8 or 10, just search the store for it

Start An App Start from a Template

−Collaboration, CRM, Events & Calendar, Personnel Management, Project Management

−Examples: Event Signup, Conference Agenda

Create from Data

Create from Scratch

Share Data Box, Dropbox, Dynamics CRM, FTP, Google Drive,

Microsoft Translator, Office 365 Outlook, Office 365 Users, Office 365 Video, OneDrive, SFTP, SMTP, SQL Azure, Salesforce, SendGrid, SharePoint Online, Slack, Twilio, Twitter

On Premise Sources (SQL Server)

Custom APIs

Basic Concepts Screens

−Add multiple screens and navigation between screens−All touch-enabled by default

Add controls – such as textboxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, and more

Create Lists Add multimedia, images, video, and more Pen input Add charts

Formulas Use “Excel-like” formulas to format and calculate

data

Create Logic Flows Automate a workflow

−Start from a template or from scratch Associate your workflow to your App

−For example, configure a button so that, when a user selects it, an item is created in a SharePoint list, an email or meeting request is sent, a file is added to the cloud, or all of these.

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