My Session in SharePoint Saturday Gurgaon on Renovate Business Process with SharePoint, PowerApps, and Flow for Biz Apps, Forms, and Automation In Microsoft arena achieving digital transformation and delivering business value requires new tools and techniques for reinventing business process. No-code and low-code applications have been essential tools in SharePoint for a long time, but we’ve added many other new tools to your palette. Via demo, We will review the roadmap and best practices for SharePoint lists, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Flow, Microsoft PowerApps, and more. In this session, I will have 3 objectives and takeaways I will start by understanding how PowerApps is a better alternative to InfoPath I will explain how PowerApps and Flow integrates with SharePoint And lastly, I will discuss how you can grow their collaboration practice using these capabilities with your client and customers.

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Renovate Business Process with SharePoint,
PowerApps, and Flow for Biz Apps, Forms, and
Automation
MITUL RANA
@mitul_rana

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Thank to the sponsors &
organizers 

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Office 365 toolkit enables collaboration
scenarios
Transformingcustomerconversationsfrom products to solutions
• The hub for teamwork
value meets the unique
needs of each team
member in a highly
secure way.
Modern
collaboration
with effective
teamwork
• Drives employee
engagement and delivers
new insights with mobile
and intelligent intranets
and communities that
empower the workforce.
Employee
engagement and
empowerment
• Connects experiences
using Microsoft Graph
and artificial intelligence
to fully realize digital
transformation.
Business
transformation
Collaboration Scenarios
Connecting people to people, people to information and people to systems

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Session Objectives & Takeaways
Session Objectives
• Understand how PowerApps is better
alternative to InfoPath
• Learn about how PowerApps and
Flow integrates with SharePoint
• Learn how these new capabilities
help professionals grow their
collaboration practice in enterprises
Session Takeaways
• Be able to articulate the value of
PowerApps and Flow for business
users
• Be able to demonstrate new
capabilities to business and
customers
• Be able to articulate opportunities
with PowerApps and Flow integration
in SharePoint

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PowerApps
Connectors and
Gateways
Office 365Dynamics 365 Flow Power BI
Common Data
Service
Pro dev
extensibility

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The InfoPath 2013 application is the last
version to be released and will work with
SharePoint Server 2013. (later updated to 2016)
InfoPath is Dead!!!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/

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Then the date changed…
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/

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Here’s the latest information:
- InfoPath Designer is supported in SharePoint
Server 2016 & 2019 (hidden)
- Currently supported on SharePoint Online but
it is hidden in the Modern look
- No migration tool/path for PowerApps (yet)
- Support ends 2023 2026

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 Allows custom forms to work
with SharePoint
 Could apply business rules
 Could use cascading dropdown
controls
 Formatting and layout
 Field validation
 Simple forms were a reasonable
alternative to custom dev
InfoPath – Reasons for using

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InfoPath - Cons
 Required a particular set of
skills… not easy
 XML foundation
 Not mobile friendly
 Not easy to maintain
 Dated look and feel
 It’s going away… eventually

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First introduction of
PowerApps was on
November 30th, 2015
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/11/30/introducing-microsoft-powerapps/

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Announcing Public Preview for
PowerApps
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-public-preview/

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2016/10/31/sharepoint-welcomes-powerapps-and-microsoft-flow/

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PowerApps and SharePoint
touch-points
• SharePoint data via connector
• SharePoint list embedded forms
• PowerApps apps from a SharePoint list
• PowerApps web part in SharePoint modern pages

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Custom forms with PowerApps
• Built-in browser based
customization
experience
• Integrated to modern
SharePoint UX
• Easy to customize, yet
powerful enough to
tackle complex
scenarios

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Demo
• How to customize forms with PowerApps
• Incident Tracker
• My Leave Request
• Progress-indicator-with-tabular-data

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Flow launch panel
• Create flows that
prompt for information
• Run as the user starting
the flow
• Integrated into modern
lists and libraries in
SharePoint

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Demo
• Flow launch panel

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Surveys
Customer Profile Collection
Employee Satisfaction Survey
Event Feedback
Organizing Team Activities
Quizzes
Classroom Quizzes and Assessments
HR Training
Polls
Town Hall Q&A
Presentation Polling
Ideation
Information Gathering
Partnership Application
Mobile Phone Transfer
Organizing Team Activities
Event Registrations
Microsoft Forms Scenarios

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Demo
• Microsoft Forms
• Feedback form
• Mobile view and Bar code scan.

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Transform business process

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Use PowerApps & Flow

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THANK YOU
Q&A
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