What is Power Apps
Power Apps is a versatile suite of applications, connectors, services, and a robust data platform. It’s designed to help you quickly create custom business applications specifically tailored to your needs. The seamless connection to your database is a powerful feature whether it’s within Microsoft Dataverse or comes from various sources such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and SQL Server. This integration will ensure that your applications can effectively utilize the required data, whether stored in a cloud or on-premises.
Types of Power Apps
- Canvas Apps
- Canvas applications provide an empty canvas on which you can drag elements to create the app’s user interface and define its functions by using Excel-like expressions.
- Utilization Cases: These are ideal for creating customized user interfaces, custom solutions, and integration of different data sources.
- The most essential features are the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) design, flexibility, integration with various data sources, and mobile and web-based deployment.
- Model-driven Apps
- Model-driven applications rely on business models and data models to create applications automatically. They have a standard user interface when compared to Canvas applications.
- Utilization Cases: These are suitable for more complex business processes, automation, and applications that require data.
- The key features: Design is driven by components, a Data-first approach, and robust Integration with Microsoft Dataverse. The layout is responsive.
- Portals
- Power Apps Portals enable you to build external-facing websites that people outside your company can access. They can be integrated with Dataverse to display information and functions.
- Application Cases: These are ideal for partner, customer, or community portals in which visitors from outside interact with internal services and data.
- The main features are Web Content Management, user authentication, integration with Dataverse, and templates for speedy setup.
- Power Pages
- Power Pages is a more advanced version of PowerApps Portals, providing advanced capabilities for building security-focused websites. It’s designed primarily for outside users and can deliver more sophisticated information and data interactions.
- Use Examples: This is ideal for public sites, secure extranets, and other complicated web-based applications.
- The key features are Web design advancement capabilities, improved security, advanced integrated data, and the latest web frameworks.
- AI Builder
- AI Builder is a feature that lets you include artificial intelligence capabilities in your applications using pre-built and custom AI models.
- Use Examples: Enhancing apps by using AI features such as the process of form and object detection and prediction and recognition of texts.
- HTML0’s main features are non-coding AI model creation, integration into Power Apps, and power automation of various AI models.
- Dataverse
- While it’s not an application, Microsoft Dataverse is the platform for data used in Power Apps. It is a secure, scalable storage solution for data with powerful models of data using relational technology.
- Application Cases: Centralized data management in Power Apps and other Dynamics 365 applications.
- The most essential features: Security, data modeling integration, extensibility, and integration.
- Power Virtual Agents
- Power Virtual Agents enables you to build chatbots that participate in user conversations.
- Utilization Cases: Customer support Help desks for internal support and interactive User Guides.
- The main features are chatbot creation with no code, natural language processing, and connection to different Power Platform elements.
