Microsoft Power Apps
Accelerate innovation with low-code apps designed by business teams, for business teams.
What is Power Apps?
Power Apps is a tool from Microsoft that helps businesses easily create custom apps without needing to write a lot of code. It allows teams to build apps that improve how work gets done—such as tracking tasks, managing approvals, or collecting data—quickly and cost-effectively. Power Apps connects to business systems like Excel, D365, and other tools you already use, making it easier to streamline everyday processes and boost productivity. It’s designed so both business users and IT teams can create solutions tailored to meet specific business needs
Organizational Impact
Executive Perspective
Microsoft Power Apps helps organizations accelerate innovation as it empowers business teams to develop custom applications without having to involve IT. Development cycles are faster, and the applications are less expensive and more effective because they are created directly by the people involved in the business workflow. Power Apps enables the development of modern and intuitive applications that minimize the learning curve for business users, accelerating the rate and depth of adoption, continuous improvement, and innovation.
Departmental Perspective
As teams mature digitally, they can leverage Power Apps to create applications that streamline workflows, automate processes, and gather real-time data. The design aspect of Power Apps enables the departments to develop an interface that is fit for purpose and makes navigating through the app easy for those doing the work, which helps users quickly adopt the app for use in daily routines. Power Apps allows non-technical business analysts to improve their departmental workflow, which speeds up the delivery of solutions that enhance productivity.
Microsoft Power Apps: Empowering Everyone to Build Apps
Power Apps: Strategic Benefits
Power Apps enables departmental SME’s to develop applications to meet the unique needs of cross-functional teams such as Sales and Operations Planning. Teams can design an intuitive interface for each business group involved, simplifying and standardizing how teams input and share information. Additionally, Power Apps can pull data from D365 into the custom app for dashboards and reports that help the team see what’s happening in real time and make informed decisions. Additionally, the team can establish thresholds with triggers that alert appropriate team members when changing business conditions require attention.
Microsoft Power Apps empowers organizations to accelerate innovation and drive growth by enabling non-technical employees to create custom apps, creating new and more effective ways of getting work done. As business teams work together to design a custom app, it forces cross-functional collaboration to standardize workflow for the team, allowing employees to apply their experience in new, exciting ways, ushering in a rewarding culture of collaborative problem-solving. The old Peter Drucker adage that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ still holds true.
Power Apps Features
Low-Code/No-Code Development
Power Apps help users develop custom applications with minimal or no coding skills, making app development accessible to business teams and providing faster solutions.
App Templates
A wide range of pre-built templates are available to help users quickly build the applications they need for standard business processes such as tracking tasks, collecting data, and managing approvals.
Connectors
Power Apps is integrated with Microsoft services such as SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Office 365, and with more than 400 third-party applications so that you can develop apps that fetch data from various sources.
Custom Business Logic
Power Automate can incorporate custom business logic and workflows into the applications. Power apps have a formula-based language that mimics the formula bar in Excel, enabling very tailored and optimal app behavior.
Data Integration & Common Data Service (Dataverse)
Power Apps is integrated with Dataverse, a single data platform that helps users securely store and manage data used by business applications.
Responsive Design
Power Apps produces apps that are adaptive, which means the apps can adapt their layout to the screen size of the device being used, including desktops, tablets and smartphones for a seamless user experience.
AI Integration
Power Apps is integrated with AI Builder which helps users incorporate artificial intelligence features like object identification, form processing, and text analysis into their custom apps without the need to understand AI.
Power App Portals
Power App Portals are a product that enables organizations to build external websites that can interact with data in Dataverse, enabling customers, partners, or any other external entities to access apps and data.
Security and Governance
Power Apps has in-built governance and security features, including role-based access control, data loss prevention policies, and audit logs to help ensure that the apps being developed and deployed are secure and compliant.
App Sharing & Collaboration
Apps can be shared with teammates, departments or even external users, collaborate on the construction of the app and make sure that the right people have access to the right tools.
App Testing & Debugging
Power Apps has built-in tools for testing and debugging apps so that developers can quickly find problems and make sure that apps work as intended before they are released.
Cloud-Native Architecture
Being a cloud-based platform, Power Apps provides scalability and adaptability, enabling organizations to build and expand applications to match their business needs.
Why Ascent Innovations?
With 16 years of experience in Microsoft ERP, analytics, and digital transformation solutions, Ascent Innovations specializes in helping organizations maximize the value of Microsoft Power Platform. Our deep expertise in Power Pages ensures that businesses can seamlessly design, deploy, and optimize their external portals while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.
We offer:
- Tailored strategy workshops to align Power Pages capabilities with business objectives.
- Integration services to connect Power Pages with Dynamics 365, Power Automate, and enterprise data sources.
- Security and compliance optimization to meet industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Power Pages enables businesses to modernize how they engage with external users, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences—all while maintaining robust security and governance. Contact Ascent Innovations to explore how Power Pages can transform your external-facing business operations.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
Why Businesses Trust Ascent Innovations
Ascent Innovations is a trusted Microsoft Solution Partner, delivering scalable, business-driven D365 solutions that optimize operations and drive game-changing growth.
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