1. PowerApps

2. Let’s innovate faster MEASURE ACT AUTOMATE
Compose analytics, user experiences, and automation together using a complete and integrated set of services from Microsoft.

3. Business Application Platform
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Power users who understand their business challenges the best can now quickly build and deliver solutions without writing code.
Power users
Power BI
PowerApps
Microsoft Flow

4. Azure Internet of Things
Business Application Platform
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Professional developers can now easily extend capabilities for power users and take advantage of rich platform services with the full power of Azure.
Power users
Power BI
PowerApps
Microsoft Flow
Developers and IT pros
Pro BI
Pro Dev
Pro Integration
Azure Data analytics
Azure Internet of Things
SQL Server BI …
Azure App Services
Azure Service Fabric
Azure Functions …
Azure Logic Apps
Azure API Management
BizTalk …

5. What is Powerapps
PowerApps is a collection of software services and apps that work together to fundamentally transform and accelerate how you build and share custom line of business applications.
Some scenarios where you would use powerapps
PowerApps connects to the cloud services and data sources you're already using, giving you the ability to quickly build apps
PowerApps also integrates with Microsoft Flow, making it possible to trigger workflows from within apps. PowerApps can be simple and fast - capable of producing an app in minutes that pulls in data from Excel or a cloud service.
PowerApps is also robust and enterprise-grade, ready for complex requirements like tracking assets across a corporation and tying into your backend systems

6. 6/19/2019
Microsoft PowerApps is a service for creating and using custom business apps across platforms
Connect to Common Data Model or existing systems/data sources
Build apps, forms, and workflows without writing code
Publish apps instantly for web and mobile
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7. PowerApps: How it works
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PowerApps: How it works
Use on web and mobile Find and use apps instantly on the web and in PowerApps mobile for iOS and Android
PowerApps Cloud Publish apps to people in your organization so they can access anywhere
Create in PowerApps Studio Build apps in a visual experience that shows exactly what you’ll get
Connections Build apps that interact with your data sources and respect their permissions
Your data PowerApps connects to Common Data Model and a range of data sources, including custom APIs
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8. Architectural overview
Clients connect through API’s, or an existing backend to different cloud and on premise systems.
App Service Environment
- Dedicated environment / Shared
- Virtual network support for better connectivity and security to on-prem system
Tons of OOB APIs ready to use
Expose your OWN API, hosted anywhere
AAD Authentication
Advanced User/Group based authorisation
API definition discovery

9. Why PowerApps
Almost every business process can benefit from mobile… but not every business process justifies custom development.
PowerApps and Microsoft Flow can be a way of implementing some of the projects that do not go forward today – by either the same teams or by the end users themselves.

10. Why PowerApps? Connect across your data from the cloud to on-premises
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mobile
tablet
desktop
Why PowerApps?
SaaS apps
enterprise services
business systems
Connecting data sources and creating solutions is only part of the story, though. What’s required for an app development solution to be truly effective is for users to have the ability to easily deploy and share their useful solutions across all the places, teams, and devices that will find value in them. Seen from another perspective, that all users are able to browse and discover new ideas and solutions, easily install and use them across their devices, and even modify them to make an exact fit for themselves. And all this with the security and oversight your business demands.
Connect across your data from the cloud to on-premises
Create business apps with easy visual tools and powerful cloud services
Share securely with your team across devices
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12. What about InfoPath?
InfoPath is on it’s way out and has too much technical debt
XML-based forms are from the past – no real benefits anymore
Very limited connectivity & too ”SharePointy”
Not really web/mobile focused and challenging to customize
Is PowerApps an InfoPath replacement?
PowerApps lacks features that InfoPath has – more on these in a moment
PowerApps is not ”forms on web page” with clunky workflows
PowerApps is what InfoPath should have been in

13. The Parts of PowerApps
PowerApps consists of components to create, share, and administer apps; and components to run those apps.
You create apps in PowerApps Studio using the data connections that your app requires.
You use web.powerapps.com to configure and manage data connections and on-premises gateways, and to work with the the Common Data Service for Apps.
After you create an app, you often share it to Microsoft AppSource, and administer it in the admin center.
You run apps in a browser from Microsoft Dynamics 365 or by using PowerApps Mobile, which is available for Windows, iOS, and Android devices.

14. Parts of PowerApps
web.powerapps.com - manage and share the apps you build
PowerApps Studio - build powerful apps with easy to use visual tools
PowerApps Mobile - run apps on Windows, iOS, and Android devices
PowerApps admin center - administer PowerApps environments and other components
The Common Data Service for Apps - integrate business data using the common data model

15. web.powerapps.com ?
If you build apps, this is where you spend most of your time. You learn from the sample apps and templates that are available here, and see all the apps you have created. You create apps in PowerApps Studio and then share those apps with individuals and organizations. You manage data: connections, gateways, and entities (all of which we'll cover shortly.) And you see all the flows created in flows.microsoft.com, which you can integrate with your app

16. PowerApps Studio ?
PowerApps Studio is available as a web application that you can use in any modern browser. PowerApps Studio has three panes and a ribbon that make app creation feel similar to building a slide deck in PowerPoint

17. PowerApps Mobile
PowerApps Mobile for Windows, iOS, and Android provides an environment where you can find and use apps. Instead of going to separate app stores, you stay in PowerApps and have access to all the apps that you've created and that others have shared with you. When you use apps in PowerApps Mobile, you get the most out of your device's capabilities like camera controls, GPS location

18. Admin center
The PowerApps admin center is the centralized place to administer PowerApps for an organization. This is where you define different environments, which house apps, data connections, and other elements. The admin center is also where you create Common Data Service databases, and manage permissions and data policies.

19. Microsoft Common Data Service for Apps
The Common Data Service for Apps makes it easy to integrate business data from multiple sources.
The service features a common data model that includes many entities common to apps and business processes.
The service stores the data in a scalable and reliable way, and makes the data available so that multiple applications can use it.
The applications can be apps that you build in PowerApps, Dynamics 365, other Microsoft applications, or third party applications.

20. Related technologies to PowerApps
Microsoft Flow - create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services
Data sources, connections and connectors, and gateways - bring cloud and on-premises data into your apps
Microsoft Dynamics 365 - run all your business apps in the web
Microsoft AppSource - share your apps into this centralized place for Microsoft and our many partners

21. Microsoft Flow
Microsoft Flow is a service for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and services that business users rely on.
Microsoft Flow can accelerate your business so you spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks, and more time on what you want to do.
Use Microsoft Flow in conjunction with PowerApps to build apps that trigger and respond to workflows.

22. Data sources, connections and connectors, and gateways
There are many data sources that you might care about, and PowerApps uses connectors to make connections to these data sources.
Some of the most popular data sources are shown below—many of them are cloud services, like Salesforce.
Connectors might not feel like the coolest part of app development, but they are essential to working with data that you, your colleagues, and your customers care about.
For data that is stored on-premises rather than in the cloud, you use a gateway to provide a reliable connection between PowerApps and your data source. The gateway sits on an on-premises computer and communicates with PowerApps.

23. Microsoft Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365 is a cloud service with purpose-built apps that enable you to address specific business needs like sales automation, operations, or customer service.
In PowerApps, you share apps into AppSource, then users you share with view and run those apps in Dynamics 365, as well as on mobile devices.
The advantage of having the apps in Dynamics 365 is that you have one place to run all your business apps - from creators in your organization, from Microsoft, and from third parties.

24. Microsoft AppSource
AppSource is the place to easily find and evaluate apps from your colleagues, and from Microsoft and our partners. When you share an app from PowerApps, you make it available in AppSource. 

25. Packaging for PowerApps & Microsoft Flow
Full PowerApps and Flow available stand-alone and as part of each of the three Dynamics 365 plans. Full PowerApps and Flow will have a free on-ramp. PowerApps and Flow capabilities provided with context of Office 365 and Dynamics 365
Office 365
Dynamics 365
Applications
Dynamics 365
Plans
Enterprise Edition Plan 2
Enterprise Edition Plan 1
Microsoft Flow for Office 365
Microsoft Flow for Dynamics 365
PowerApps for Office 365
PowerApps for Dynamics 365
Business Edition Plan
Stand-alone
(Per named user, will include Free on-ramp)
Microsoft Flow
Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
PowerApps

26. Overview of creating apps in PowerApps
PowerApps is a high-productivity development platform for business apps, and it has three major components:
Canvas apps start with your user experience, crafting a highly tailored interface with the power of a blank canvas and connecting it to your choice of 200 data sources. You can build canvas apps for web, mobile, and tablet applications.
Model-driven apps start with your data model – building up from the shape of your core business data and processes in the Common Data Service to model forms, views, and other components. Model-driven apps automatically generate great UI that is responsive across devices.
Common Data Service is the data platform that comes with PowerApps and allows you to store and model business data. It's the platform on which Dynamics 365 applications are built; if you’re a Dynamics customer, your data is already in the Common Data Service.

27. PowerApps Comparisons
PowerApps Does not replace InfoPath (Forms Services) Integration with SharePoint (Online) Microsoft Flow Does not replace Workflow Manager today Similar to If This Then That (IFTTT.com) Also integrates with SharePoint (Online)

28. Current limitations with PowerApps
Supported platforms for using PowerApps
You will need custom development, if default connectors are not enough
Limited SharePoint support – does not replace forms/list views

29. Best practices
PowerApps is flexible, but it also has specific strengths
It revolves around data – so best start with a data model & mindset
APIs are the key to accessing data and external systems
Provide centralized access to API’s via Azure API Management Portal
Use other Office 365 workloads to your benefit
Planner, Power BI, OneDrive for Business, Groups etc.

30. References Find & Run apps
Create a apps
For Admin (PowerApps Administrator)