PowerApps and Flow are services for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile - without the time and expense of custom software development. This session demonstrates how to build custom business applications, describes the vision behind PowerApps and Flow, and features key scenarios.

1. Ahmad Najjar
Building Applications with Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and Office 365

2. ♥

3. About Me
• Senior Consultant at Infoworker.
• SPS Oslo Organizers Committee.
• Passionate and enthusiastic developer,
heart and soul.
• +13 years of experience in SharePoint.
• Business-Tech focused:
• PowerApps.
• Microsoft Flow.
• Logic Apps.
• Power BI.
• Azure Machine Learning.
@ahmadn82
http://goo.gl/mezU5r

4. You are all Invited!
NOOO!
I’m your
father

6. Most business automation challenges
today are met with a single solution

7. You

10. Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating
workflow across your apps and services
Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals

11. Common workflow scenarios:

12. Get started quickly
with over a
hundred useful
templates

13. Integrate the systems
you’re already using…
even custom APIs.

14. Microsoft Account (free) or Office 365 or Dynamics 365 or Flow (paid)
or PowerApps ( or free new PowerApps Community Plan)
Flow.microsoft.com
Powerapps.microsoft.com
A modern SharePoint Online list
Mobile app (iOS and Android, Windows Mobile is coming)
Creating and Managing

15. Extensibility: Communicating with the outside (On Demand)
PowerApps
Custom app (Action Request)
Power BI (Data Alerts)
Flow to the Outside
• Custom Connector (REST API described in a Swagger)
• Action HTTP

18. Secure
Scalable
Managed
Integrated
Compliant
Fast
Iterative
Cross-platform
Beautiful
Easy
VS

19. What about every
other need your
business faces?

20. Connect to data &
systems you’re already
using; create the data
you need
Microsoft PowerApps is a service for creating and using custom
business apps across platforms
Create apps, forms, and
workflows without
writing code
Use apps on web
and mobile

21. Quickly generate and customize apps based on
Excel files, SharePoint Online lists, Salesforce
records and more. You can even connect
custom APIs.
Even connecting to data in your on premise
systems through a common Data Gateway.
Your apps will be able to fully interact with
underlying sources and will respect the
permissions you’ve already established in them.
Connect to the systems
you’re already using

22. Get apps to your team when and where
they’re needed, whether that’s on the web,
Windows, iOS or Android—no app store
required.
Publish apps instantly
for web and mobile

23. Where is
SharePoint
in all this?

24. Office 365 extensibility

25. SharePoint scenarios
• When you build your SharePoint solutions you can now leverage
Microsoft Flow
• Microsoft Flow can pull in data from external services into SharePoint lists
or document libraries
• Can also be used for automation on top of SharePoint content like list
items or documents (e.g. when an item is added to a list, do something)

26. Supported Read
Features
Text Number
Currency Yes/No
Person (One
Only)
Date and Time
Lookup Hyperlink
Choice
Managed
metadata

27. Text Number
Currency Yes/No
Person (One
Only)
Date and Time
Lookup Hyperlink
Choice
Managed
metadata
Supported Write
Features

28. Office 365 extensibility
SharePoint Modern List integration with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow

29. • When you build your SharePoint solutions you can now leverage
PowerApps
• User PowerApps form(s) as an input form for SharePoint (e.g. List).
• View, Sort and filter SharePoint list data.
• SharePoint will work as a data backend.
SharePoint scenarios

30. Supported Read/Write Features
Text Number Currency
Yes/No
Person (One
Only)
Date and Time
Lookup Hyperlink Choice
Managed
metadata

31. Supported Filter Operations
Filter Sort
Sort by Column Lookup
Search

32. PowerApps & Flow
♥
SharePoint

33. On-prem capabilities

34. Enterprise Readiness of Flow
1.Common Data Platform
Environments
Data Loss Prevention Policies
Flow Sharing and Collaboration
App Source
Localization (42 languages)

35. Environments
Isolated spaces where Flows/Data are running/stored
• HR, Marketing, Development, Test, UAT, Production…
Different rules
• E.g. Marketing can use Twitter but, Legal can’t
Different regions if needed

36. b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Deployment environments
Support for environments to enable enterprise scale out and
improved manageability
b
Contoso Canada
Contoso Corp.
b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Canada
Apps Flows CDM
b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso Canada
b
Contoso Australia
Apps Flows CDM
Contoso USA
Apps Flows CDM

37. Build modern business apps fast
Compose analytics, user experiences, and automation
using an integrated set of services from Microsoft
More efficient developers
Seamlessly extend capabilities for power users and
leverage powerful Azure platform services
Business application platform innovation
Empowered power users
People who understand their business needs best can
now build apps quickly without writing code
Connected data across apps
Whether built on the Common Data Model or integrated
with existing systems, get more value from your data
App Services
Service Fabric
Azure Functions
…
Logic Apps
API Management
BizTalk
…
SQL Server BI
Data analytics
Internet of Things (IoT)
…

38. Who are the audiences for Flow and
Logic apps?
Flow Focus:
Business Users & Specialists
Logic apps Focus:
IT Pro / Developers

39. Demo
Go with the Flow

40. Demo
In the context of SharePoint

41. Demo
Diving into PowerApps

42. Demo
All pieces are falling in place!

43. Demo
Going Mobile!

44. Questions

45. Thank you
@ahmadn82