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Microsoft PowerApps
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Microsoft PowerApps

#70in Platform as a Service
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What is Microsoft PowerApps?

It is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform (Common Data Service) or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).

Microsoft PowerApps is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Provide professional developers the tools to seamlessly extend app capabilities with Azure Functions and custom connectors to proprietary or on-premises systemsGive everyone the power to build the apps they need with advanced functionality previously only available to professional developers—including pre-built AI componentsEmpower your team to start building and launching apps right away using pre-built templates, drag-and-drop simplicity, and quick deployment—then roll out continuous improvements as needed

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Microsoft PowerApps Integrations

Microsoft 365, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Automate and 1 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Microsoft PowerApps. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Microsoft PowerApps.

Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Pages
Microsoft Power Pages

Microsoft PowerApps Discussions

Discover why developers choose Microsoft PowerApps. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Mark McClure
Mark McClure

Feb 23, 2023

Needs adviceonMicrosoft PowerAppsMicrosoft PowerAppsDashDashRetoolRetool

My company wants to make some relatively small, self-contained web apps to go through specific engineering analysis workflows.

Each app would involve:

(a) User inputs numbers and tabular data either in a table or from a csv import

(b) App makes plots of this data

(c) App performs calculations based on user input and outputs results as either plots or numbers or tabular data

It seems like there must be zillions of applications where people want these things, so I want a 'low code' approach that already handles a bunch of details so we don't have to. Experience in the past with Angular has involved, in my experience, a lot of low-level coding to 'reinvent the wheel', creating capabilities (like menus to control plotting options like font size) that I'd expect to be very common.

Specific wants:

(a) Plotting capabilities with prebuilt convenient plotting controls

(b) Ability to 'save' and 'load' (as in, you do the analysis and get results and want to save so that you can reopen this save environment with the data and analysis, as if you'd never closed it)

(c) For specific components, ability to swap out the built-in components with a customized plot/widget.

For example, with (c), we might have a situation where we do want to make a custom plot or tool, and would like to be able to drop that into the general application

Question is - does something exist that does what I am describing? What would you recommend? On our list to check out: Microsoft PowerApps , Dash , UI Bakery, Retool , Tibco Spotfire , Outsystems, Zoho, Creatio, or any other suggestions.

Other considerations:

(a) How easy are these apps to maintain (i.e., do they frequently make non back compatible, breaking updates, like they do with Angular)

(b) Need excellent security so I can deploy web apps for large companies

(c) General ease of use (would like to be efficient with developer time).

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