This slide deck accompanied the presentation at #SUGUK on 20180322 in London, UK. PowerApps allows you to build business application with no-code, and is included in most Office 365 plans.

1. PowerApps!
Penelope Coventry
@pjcov

2.  MVP: Office Server and Services
 11 years
 Author/Co-author
 10+ SharePoint Books
 Independent consultant
 Trainer & product specialist
 Worked with SharePoint since 2001
 UK Based, work in Europe & US
Speaker Bio

3. Introducing PowerApps
 One of the Business Application Platform (BAP) apps
 A single, unified extensibility platform
 Easy Authoring –WYSIWYG – Excel like expressions
 Mash up data from multiple sources
 Cross Platform – iOS,Android,Windows, web
 Enterprise Ready – Centrally managed, DLP policy on
data & connectors
Power BI PowerApps Microsoft Flow
Common
Data Service
Connectors
+ gateways

4. Data sources
 External data - connections
 Local storage - collections
 Common Data Service – Azure base storage for
importing data from multiple data sources
 Offline
Calendar
Documents
Products
SharePoint lists
SharePoint site connector
Product Code List Price Color
Batman Action Figure
Captain America Action Figure
GI Joe Action Figure
Green Hulk Action Figure
Red Hulk Alter Action Figure
WP0001
WP0002
WP0003
WP0004
WP0005
$14.95
$12.95
$14.95
$9.99
$9.99
Black
Red
Green
Green
Red
Connection
Local storage
Connection takes care
of authentication of
user access the data
Loaded when app started or the
Refresh function runs

5. 213k+
People in organizations
are using
PowerApps and Flow
1M+
monthly active users
https://www.featuredcustomers.com/vendor/microsoft-powerapps/customers

6. https://www.pcmag.com/review/353386/microsoft-powerapps
12th June 2017

7. A PowerApps Audit Solution in 5 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgYBGKNNGk

8. It’s not just for business

9. How to build a Fidget Spinner
Ashlee Culmsee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqKS_k4WCRM

10. What is PowerApps Studio?
 A web application that empowers:
 Business experts
 Business analysts
 Consultants
 Other app “imagineers”
 to create:
 new purpose-specific mobile apps
 that enable new business scenarios for employees and
customers
 without requiring any programming skills

11. What PowerApps is not
 A developer tool (replacement forVisual Studio)
 A means for creating
 Mission-critical transactional applications
 Complex forms with dependencies
 Printable forms, unless a screenshot is enough
 Anonymous form entry
 A silver-bullet solution for all business scenarios
 A tool to build responsive web applications
Support for SharePoint in PowerApps and Flow
is developing but there are definitely things
you can’t do!

12. Create an app
 Three options to create a PowerApps:
❑ Start an app from scratch – blank surface
❑ A template
❑ Create an app from data,
if you know where you data resides, e.g.,
❖ A SharePoint custom list
▪ PowerApps created from a SharePoint Online list are treated as either Private
v Public views
▪ Can now create SharePoint custom forms
❖ Excel spreadsheet
 Save:
 Locally (.msapp)
Or
 The PowerApps cloud service

13. PowerApps Studio:
 1. Ribbon
 2.Thumbnails of all screens
 3.App Screen
 4. Property list
 5. Formula bar
 6. Options
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2
3
4 5
6

14. PowerApps packaging (licensing)
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
PowerApps and Microsoft Flow for
Office 365 and Dynamics 365
Extending Office 365 and
Dynamics 365
PowerApps P1
For business users:
Run any app using CDS
PowerApps P2
For creators and IT
admins: Full creation &
admin capabilities

15. Administration
 PowerApps admin centre: https://admin.powerapps.com/
 Microsoft Flow admin centre:
https://admin.flow.microsoft.com/
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-
us/tutorials/environments-administration/
 Enables you to manage environments and data policies
(DLP)
 Environments are used as a space to store, manage and share
the apps, flows and business data from your organization

16. PowerApps Spring 2018 Update
 Combining Dynamics 365 and PowerApps into a single
unified platform
 PowerApps platform is now the platform that the
Dynamics 365 for Sales, Service, Marketing, andTalent
applications are natively built on
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-spring-announce/
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cds-for-apps-march/
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-model-driven-apps/

17. Common Data Service for Apps – CDS 2.0
 Major advancements
 Model-drive apps
 More data centric way to build “forms over data” declarative
applications.
 Focus on entities in CDS for Apps, their relationships, associated
business logic and forms.
 Server-side logic to enable scenarios from simple validation and
defaulting to complex code executing during data updates.
 Business Process Flows to model business process stages and guide
users through them.
 Sophisticated security model providing row level security and even
models hierarchies.
 Calculated fields to user server side logic to compute values in an entity.
 Production ready pro developer SDK, based on the proven xRM SDK,
allowing CDS for Apps access from any pro-dev application.
 Generally available from early May

18. Demos
Canvas apps

19. Getting Started
 Sign up – work or school account
 Getting started for free: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/
 Community Plan: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/communityplan/
 Use PowerApps Studio:
 Web
 Short videos
 https://www.youtube.com/
 Keywords:Audrie Gordon PowerApps getting started
 In the long term:
 Microsoft Flow and PowerApps sessions at Microsoft Ignite
 https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sessions-ignite-2017/
 Follow the blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
 Follow on Twitter: @powerapps
 Join the community: aka.ms/powerapps-community
 PowerApps in a day: aka.ms/appinaday
 One scenario – choose one of two datasources – SharePoint or CDS

20. Strategic Considerations
 Updates to PowerApps/Flow/Teams/etc are frequent
 The PowerApps team uses 3-week sprints
 Don’t even think about packaging up the PowerApps Studio
App
 Learn to tolerate rapid change – Industry asked for it!
 Turning these tools off will just push people to other platforms
 There will always be gaps
 Most gaps can be worked around effectively
 PowerApps team are very up-front with their backlog

21. How to position PowerApps
 If your organisation is
super-conservative, risk
averse and still on
Windows 7
- “We are not building a
production app.We are
piloting ideas without the
risk and expense of
custom development.
Let’s face it, users don’t
know what they want…”
 If your organisation is a bit
hipster & uses terms from
the start-up world like
“minimum viable product
(MVP)” and “fail
forward…”
- “PowerApps allows us
to quickly test our most
critical assumptions at
low cost and low risk
and develop an MVP…”