8 April 2022 | Noor Khan
Power Apps are an offering from Microsoft under their Microsoft Power Platform released in 2018. The platform provides complete solutions for businesses that include, visualising and analysing data with Power BI, building powerful mobile apps with Power Apps, reducing manual work and automating business processes with Power Automate and creating chatbots for communication with Power Virtual Agents. One of the greatest benefits the Microsoft Power Platform solutions offer to businesses is that no code is required to build the applications. They are presented in the form of a simple Graphical User Interface (GUI) which remove the need for code expertise and any user or developer can learn them easily to build powerful business solutions.
In this guide, we will be providing an insight into Power apps, the benefits, the limitations, when should you consider using the tool and finding experienced developers.
Power apps is a platform that enables you to build business apps quickly and easily such as Project Workflow apps. At Ardent, our software developers have leveraged the tool to build apps for several clients including a footfall survey app and supplier management app. The great thing about Power Apps is that it can connect your apps to your datasets easily from many different sources where your data will typically sit. This includes Excel, SharePoint, SQL and many more. Although, a relatively new technology, it's gaining popularity with the number of benefits it offers.
There are a number of cases when it might be the best option for you to go with Power Apps for your business solution and they include:
Power Apps is an incredible tool, however, it has several limitations as highlighted above. Paired with Power Automate and Power BI it can enhance business apps and enable automation of processes as well as gaining visibility of data with Power BI. The integration of the three technologies can help create a powerful solution that is easy to use and understand by various users in the organisation, enable real-time actions, understand and analyse your data and much more.
At Ardent we have experienced developer teams that have used Power Apps alongside Power Automate and Power BI to deliver powerful solutions for clients such as TEB, a growing business automation software business as well as supplier management solution for a large automobile parts supplier based in the UK, to name a few. We are a Certified Microsoft Gold Partner and work towards being at the forefront of this technology and building robust solutions. If you are looking to leverage these tools to automate your business processes, then get in touch and our expert engineers will be board to deliver.
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