Microsoft Power Apps- Features and Benefits

2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms recognizes Microsoft as a Magic Quadrant Leader. This study not just shows the dominance of Microsoft in business solutions market, but how rapidly it has gained popularity and is being widely used by businesses all over the world. Microsoft Power Platform is one such product, which when connected to other Microsoft products such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, and various other apps allows businesses to devise end-to-end business solutions, including building custom apps, automating workflows and others.

If you are interested in learning and gaining expertise in different aspects of MS Power Platform, visit Multisoft Virtual Academy and Microsoft Training and Certification Courses Online. This article talks about Microsoft Power Apps, which is a part of Microsoft Power Platform. If you want to learn how to develop custom apps without having to code, enroll for Microsoft Power Platform App Maker (PL-100) Certification Training course from Multisoft Virtual Academy. 

Let’s start with the introduction. 

What are Power Platform and Power Apps?

Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of tools and applications developed by Microsoft to develop and build complex business solutions, analyze, and draw data visualizations, automate a business process, or build virtual agents for communication. Users can utilize these products to build applications without the need of coding experience. Power Platform comprises of 4 Microsoft products, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. 

Power Apps, a part of Microsoft Power Platform offers drag and drop feature to build a user interface for a mobile application. Users can add various features in the mobile application, such as controls to the user interface like textboxes, choice fields, etc., media and others. 

The platform also comes with a feature that enables the application to connect with various data sources after the development is completed. The applications built on Power Apps enables you to quickly build apps that can be run on any modern web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, etc. and on the mobile apps using iOS, Android, or Windows. 

Key Power Apps Features 

• Common Data Service to store data
• 200+ connectors to integrate data and systems
• Pre-built templates
• Drag-and-drop designer
• Power App Canvas
• AI Builder and pre-built AI components
• Portals (for no code responsive websites)
• Role-based user experience customization
• Pixel perfect website development
• Several app scenarios
• Wide variety of controls, including camera and location
• Logins via authentication providers 
• Private and secure submission of information

Power Apps Benefits 

Microsoft Training Power Apps helps to increase agility across the organization by rapidly building low-code apps to modernize processes and solve business challenges. Other key benefits offered by Power Apps are

• Faster app development with data integration and distribution
• Enhanced mobility and innovation with no code capability
• Enhanced productivity with prebuilt AI scenarios
• Simplifies tasks and enhanced prediction with AI Builder
• Valuable insights from data
• Improved user engagement

A study, Total Economic Impact™ by Forrester Consulting states that Microsoft Power App users experienced 188% ROI in three years, with 74% reduction in app development costs. To gain in-depth knowledge about Power Apps and learn how to develop custom apps, consider enrolling for Microsoft Power Platform App Maker (PL-100) Certification Training course from Multisoft Virtual Academy. This course is taught by Multisoft’s global subject matter experts and delivered in live, instructor-led one-on-one sessions, while the course itself comes with benefits such as lifetime e-learning access, recorded training session videos and after training support. Once you have successfully completed the course, you will earn a globally recognized training certificate.

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