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What can we do with Power Apps?

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Innovation is one thing that's constantly evolving in our fast digital world today.

Power Apps is a powerful and aggressive suite of services and apps that you can do a lot with. 

Even if you're inexperience in developing apps, you could easily use it with the convenient drag and drop interface that would allow you to create apps with screens to be able to add different controls such as text field, choice field, media that includes images, video, camera controls for your phone, and forms.

It was designed to work on all devices, and it would allow its users to build mobile apps that could be customized according to their businesses' needs. It could create apps both simple and with a more complex functionality quickly and more cost-effectively.

What can we do with Power Apps?

Aside from the qualities mentioned above, there are numerous things we can dabble at Power Apps. 

With Office 365 it would allow you to collaborate better by bringing products such as Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint to the cloud. As compared to Microsoft Access that never made it to the cloud, and Access databases are being used less and less now. 

As Power Apps works in the cloud, there's no need to install your system into every user's PC. Each time you'll be making an update, all you need to do is just need to publish it again, and the users would get the latest version automatically. 

What could PowerApps do for you to make it easier to install software? Power Apps works in a browser, so there is no software needed to be installed on your PC. All you need is access to a browser be able to use the system. A user should also have an Office365 account plus a license to run PowerApps.

You do not necessarily need to be a Power Apps developer to be able to use it. It is quite easy to get started. You could create apps for your mobile phone or tablet device such as an iPad. Examples are an invoicing app, helpdesk, or a booking system, and more. 

What you could also do is you could create a separate version for the mobile platform and the desktop platform to get the best quality suited for every device. 

Power Apps was primarily aimed at mobile devices, but it would still be used to create apps that users could run on their laptop or desktop PC. Everything would run in the browser. Power Apps could be used to convert existing applications on other platforms, and if users an InfoPath form or MS Access database, then they could convert it to PowerApps.

Users could also instantly publish apps to the web or mobile with no app store required. It would be across the web, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones such as Android, iOS, and Windows.

With an external data source so you can turn your data into apps and be able to integrate with other existing data sources and services to be able to automatically generate a meaningful business app.

The most important feature of Power Apps is there is no code required, and users could build apps that could use device capabilities, including cameras, GPS, and pen control, and all without code.

How do you get started with Power Apps?

Learning any new technology could sometimes overwhelm you. Please check the video below to learn what you should know about Power Apps. This is a must-watch video for new Power users. 

It would tackle how to get the correct accounts and development environment set up, how to get a base level understanding. This would enlighten you on how you could get started with Power Apps.

What can Power Apps do with Data Sources?

Users could connect Power Apps to a variety of data sources. They can connect to Excel, SharePoint, SQL Server, DropBox, and many, many more. 

SharePoint is perfect for connecting to another cloud-based app like Power Apps which is also part of Office365. It is possible to connect to the premises on SharePoint and the SQL Server. To be able to do this, you would need to use an on-premise Gateway.

Overall, Power Apps had given a lot of its users empowerment and confidence even if they have no background in IT or any experience in coding to make their ideas possible and make them become a reality.

Be able to build professional-grade apps the easy way that would benefit their company and employees as a result.

After Thoughts

Everyone could quickly build and share low-code apps with Microsoft Power Apps. now

It's one of the best solution providers for your business or organization to have streamlined processes quickly. 

It would give anyone the power to build the apps they need that have advanced functionality that was only once possible to developers who are professionals, and it includes pre-built AI components.


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