1. TAMPA DYNAMICS Presented by Power Apps in the Real World
Track 2: 10:30 – 11:45
Presented by
Christopher Cognetta

2. Today’s Agenda Introduction Quick Audience Poll
High-Level Overview of PowerApps
Real World PowerApps – 2 Examples
Open Q&A

3. Director, Product Development – Microsoft Dynamics Platform Products
Introduction
7x Microsoft Dynamics 365 MVP/MCT
Dynamics 365, Azure, Infrastructure Architect
Technology Evangelist
Azure & CRMUG Medic Founder
CRMUG Summit Programming Board, CRMUG All-Star & Granite Awards, USF Cybersecurity Board
Over 250+ Dynamics CRM Deployments & Upgrades Ver 1.0 – Dynamics 365)
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Chris Cognetta
Director, Product Development – Microsoft Dynamics Platform Products
Campus Management
MVP/MCT

4. Quick Poll
No Experience
Novice/Basic
Intermediate
Advanced Expert

5. PowerApps Overview
PowerApps Platform was designed to empower Citizen developers to quickly interact with their data, solving business challenges their current systems were not designed to handle.
A Citizen developer could be that person who knows Excel really well, or the PowerPoint wiz. The point is that familiarity with Office tools and you can start building PowerApps!
PowerApps are also being coined as “no cliff” development tools. Meaning, once you reach your technical limits another can step in and continue to add/extend your solution.

6. PowerApps Overview
Microsoft PowerApps is delivered as a PaaS Service or Platform as a Service on top of the Dynamics 365 platform. Microsoft has started referring to PowerBI, PowerApps and Microsoft Flow as the “Power Suite” of tools for Dynamics 365.
While this is a cloud-based service, capabilities exist to connect to on-premises via gateways.
A lot of new announcements (constantly, it seems) along with the Dynamics CE v9 release providing more updates to PowerApps and the Power Suite.
Follow along on twitter for the latest news!

7. PowerApps: Canvas Vs Model
PowerApps are available in 2 different formats: Canvas and Model
If you are using Dynamics 365 today, you’re already using the 1st style which is a Model App. The app uses the Microsoft UI, controls etc. to present for your application needs.
The second method, Canvas App, gives you control over the experience with the ability to implement custom UI design elements.

8. Types of Power Apps Canvas provides the most control of the UI,
Model driven uses the same experience as Dynamics 365 Apps.
Model Apps can only use CDS as your data source

9. Power Apps: Architecture Overview

10. So how do I get started with PowerApps?
PowerApps comes embedded with your Office365 & Dynamics 365 Subscription
Depending on your license type for D365, PowerApps may be included. You can either build PowerApps directly from the web browser or you can download the studio to your desktop. First-party applications like Microsoft SharePoint have added buttons to create PowerApps from lists – AUTOMAGICALLY 
Apps that you build are automatically available to your organization and your admin can control the settings of who can use and distribute apps to the organization.
Everyone (within your organization) can create simple power apps in minutes.

11. So let’s open your mind to….
REAL WORLD POWERAPPS

12. PowerApps #1: Time Tracker
Company has a remote workforce checking into various remote clients around the globe
Currently, a paper process to submit hours, but no way to prove the employee was actually onsite causing concerns for clients and the customer.
Outdated phone-based time management systems barely work, without the ability to customize, also requiring data imports into the Dynamics 365 system
Issue: Does your company pay a service to record time for your employees? Is it scalable? Can you use the data once its collected? What if you could use that data within Dynamics 365, drive adoption and productivity, schedule tasks when people are IN the office? Real-time?

13. PowerApps #1: Time Tracker Solution
Develop a PowerApp that could run on any device to record the time
Enable the device settings to capture location with GPS, time with simple buttons for tasks associated onsite
Use Client On-Site Survey to Geo-fence in the location per client within the CRM database. When locations don’t match the record, workflow is triggered to alert account managers

14. Demo
Time Tracker

15. PowerApps #2: Component Inventory
Customer build various solutions for other clients all over the world. They have so many projects going on, they can hardly keep track of all the new solutions being developed
On-site requirement gathering leaves the engineers wondering which components we have already built for customers
Not having this data in a readily available format, doesn’t make it useful resulting in waste, and rebuilding components that already exist in our library
Issue: Does your company need access to items you develop? How about new R&D product pipeline for your team? Endless possibilities to consume list data. Roadmap tool?

16. PowerApps #2: Solution Finder
Develop a Power App that customer software engineers could use to search their solution library
Provide a location for people to enter data about the solutions created to harvest the knowledge for other projects as well as make it easy to update
Provide a remote solution our field engineers could use to access the library for concepts and ideas when onsite with clients

17. Demo
Solution Finder

18. SharePoint App Builder
Demo
SharePoint App Builder

19. Other PowerApps examples from Ignite:

20. Student Engagement App Prototype – Campus Management
Real-time review of sentiment on courses to faculty
Ability to Analyze Student Sentiment with AzureML
Proactively monitor and send negative responses to Campus Security
Feedback

21. Delivery Power App:
Concept by Power Objects

22. Q&A
Learned what the PowerApps craze is about and how it can easily be used to help solve your business challenges today!
Understand they can go from zero to extreme very fast!
Check and follow PowerApps on Twitter for more news! Getting better & better each month
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