This platform empowers both first-line workers and seasoned developers to craft apps that modernise business processes and elevate productivity, offering custom solutions tailored to meet unique challenges. By facilitating app creation without compromising security and compliance standards, Power Apps clears the path for innovation without risk.
The platform significantly reduces the time required to build an app from months to just a few hours, making it the ultimate tool for user-friendly app development. With its streamlined module selection approach, users can swiftly construct solutions and seamlessly integrate them with their data, employing out-of-the-box components for simplicity without constraints. This enables the quick deployment of working apps, designed for agile deployment to deliver value rapidly and evolve features continuously to further benefit your organisation.
Apps developed on Power Apps run on a variety of devices, including web, Android, and iOS, utilising the same logic as Excel to ensure ease of use across platforms. The platform not only cuts down the development time but also effortlessly connects with your existing business applications like Dynamics 365, Office 365, and third-party sources. This integration ensures your app has a comprehensive view of your organisation's operations, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.
In addition, Power Apps streamlines data integration, allowing the creation of business applications that act on the data you collect daily. With just a few clicks, users can capture new data directly, integrate data from hundreds of sources with pre-built custom APIs, and act on insights with ease. The platform also infuses AI into applications, automating manual processes with AI-enhanced app components that provide built-in intelligence and actionable insights through simple point-and-click, adding powerful in-app intelligence.
Power Apps is a transformative app builder that not only simplifies the development process with its low-code approach but also empowers organisations to innovate, integrate, and intelligently act on data, all while rapidly deploying tailored solutions that drive productivity and modernise business processes.
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Power Apps Overview
Discover what you can build with Microsoft Power Apps. Spark creativity and unlead innovation with the simplicity of low-code.
What to expect from Power Apps
User-friendly Interface
The Power Apps platform features a series of functionalities designed to help users easily get to grips with the system. Pre-built templates, simple drag-and-drop options and seamless deployment capabilities enable your team to quickly launch custom apps, then carry on developing improvements.
Accessible Quality
Microsoft have ensured companies can build exceptional solutions in house without trading development time for quality by providing Power Apps users access to advanced features historically reserved for professional coders, such as pre-built AI components.
Potential to Expand
On top of the entry-level low code approach, the platform has the built-in potential to expand its capabilities though custom connections with Azure Functions and on-premise systems, which makes it the ultimate developer playground.
Endless Connectivity Options
As well as being a fantastic standalone system, Power Apps has the ability to integrate with a range of Microsoft products, including the rest of the Power Platform, Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure, along with various third-party apps, enabling you to build custom end-to-end solutions for your business.
Advanced Scalability
All the low-code apps your team creates with Power Apps can easily be scaled using Azure to meet the large-scale requirements of your organisation. Through Azure, you can easily create and manage your company’s app development efforts, access your entire data log and take advantage of various reusable components.
Common questions
What do organisations typically use Power Apps for?
There's loads of uses for Power Apps and some can be very organisation specific, however, there's some common uses relevant to the majority of businesses. Here's our starter for 10...
On site attendance (we've created our own Kick Power App for this)
Employee onboarding
Annual leave request
Expenses Approval
IT service request
Field employees visiting client sites/sales intake
Mobile apps for inspections/reviews
What is the cost of Power Apps?
At the moment Microsoft do not offer the Power Platform as a package, but you can buy each individual component and combine them to meet your needs. You can assess a free version of Power Apps, or purchase a license. However, the licensing guidance can be rather confusing, so we recommend contacting our team with your pricing queries
Low-code is method to develop applications that simplifies the process so anyone can easily and quickly create custom apps—regardless of technical training or coding experience. Low-code utilises visual methods for app building. Low-code users can use templates and drag-and-drop capabilities to create simple or complex web and mobile applications that meet the specific needs of their organisation.
Why Kick for Microsoft Power Platform?
We are dedicated to sharing our expertise with companies from across the UK. Our team can answer all of your Power Platform questions and advise on the best solution for your organisation.
If you want to learn more about what the products in Microsoft’s Power Platform can do for you, get in touch with our Dynamics team. With over 300 years combined experience delivering transformational Microsoft solutions and accreditation's including Microsoft Gold and Silver, you can trust in our expertise - we’re here to help.
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