Power Apps

Microsoft's Power Apps is a low-code platform that lets you build AI-infused apps quickly and easily. The tool lets you start with a prompt, photo or data set and then use AI to create an app. The service is designed to modernize legacy apps and systems, with a range of features to make development easier and faster.

Some of Power Apps' features include:

• Start with Copilot: Tell the app what you want, and AI will create it, and you can then edit and automate it.
• Build with AI suggestions: Finish your app faster by selecting the right controls and getting suggestions.
• Start from scratch: Create working apps and data sets quickly from images and Figma files.
• Simplify development: Use prebuilt templates, drag-and-drop interfaces and quick deployment to build fast and iterate continuously.
• Manage apps at scale: Get visibility and control over apps running in your organization with minimal overhead.
• Deploy with confidence: Use built-in deployment pipelines for centralized application lifecycle management.
• Build securely: Manage environments and low-code development without introducing IT risk.
• Interoperability: Integrate with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio and GitHub.
• Extend app capabilities: Create custom user interfaces for different devices and tasks.
• Work with code: See the underlying code and create packages using low-code abstractions.
• Low-code language: Use Microsoft Power Fx, a general-purpose, strong-typed language across Power Platform.
• Data platform: Use the built-in Microsoft Dataverse for business logic, security and compliance management.
• Connect to any data source: Choose from over 1,200 connectors or create custom ones for easy integration.
• Create apps from data: Automatically generate immersive apps based on your data model.

Power Apps has a variety of use cases across industries:

• Finance: Create budgets, forecasts and reports from multiple data sources.
• Sales and marketing: Integrate disparate systems for real-time notifications and mobile access to product information and sales tools.
• Human resources: Create easy-to-use apps for employee engagement, data tracking and action management.
• Operations: Improve auditing processes, modernize inventory management and reduce dispatch costs.
• Frontline workers: Create apps for efficiency on desktop, mobile, shared devices or in Microsoft Teams.

Power Apps has two pricing plans:

• Developer Plan: Free for building and testing unlimited apps across three environments.
• Power Apps Premium: $20.00 per user/month, allowing licensed users to build, modernize, deploy and run unlimited applications.

Power Apps has been recognized by top industry analysts, including being named a leader in The Forrester Wave for Low-Code Development Platforms, the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms and the Omdia Universe for No Code, Low Code Solutions.

Power Apps integrates with other Microsoft tools like Azure and Teams, helping you be more productive and build professional-grade applications. With Power Apps, organizations can lower development costs and improve the overall efficiency of their application development process.

Published on June 24, 2024