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Here are 5 things we think you should know about the Power Apps (and Flow) phenomenon and why everyone from line-of-business managers to CIOs are taking notice.
1) Power Apps is Platform as a Service (PaaS) and ready when you are
Power Apps is a cloud application development platform from Microsoft geared toward empowering the non-technical business user to create and deploy apps fast. It offers an intuitive web-based studio for building and rapidly publishing apps across desktop, tablet and mobile. If you’re 1.) able to buy per-user Power Apps licensing or start a free trial, 2.) comfortable using a web browser and C.) motivated to solve business problems in spite of having little to no coding ability, then you’re well on your way to becoming a citizen app developer with Power Apps. Microsoft and their partners offer classes like “Learn Power Apps in a Day” and there are plenty of YouTube videos out there on building robust business apps in “10 minutes” …or less.
2) Power Apps is “No Code/Low Code” …and just may offer 362% ROI
Power Apps is a buzzy player in the codeless movement, but rest assured the buzz is real.
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The J. Geiger Consulting Process Automation Team
Just ask Forrester, a leading research organization Microsoft commissioned to perform “The Total Economic Impact™ Of Power Apps And Microsoft Flow.” In the 2018 study, Forrester interviewed four Microsoft customers ranging in size from 430 to 3,500 users with access, noting that “Prior to using Power Apps and Flow, all application development was done using traditional tools, and only ‘high-code’ developers were engaged in these activities.” Forrester modeled the benefits to a composite organization with 2,000 employees who have access to Power Apps and Flow through their O365 and/or Dynamics licensing. The results were compelling by any measure, not the least of which included 3-year ROI of—wait for it—362%. The following table summarizes a few of the more notable findings.
| Quantified Benefits | Unquantified Benefits |
70% reduction in application and development costs |
Power Apps increases process automation and improves business outcomes (e.g., faster time-to-market) |
38% reduction in ongoing application maintenance |
Power Apps empowers both IT and business users to create applications that deliver business value and otherwise would not have been built |
122,850 worker hours saved from process automation (by year 3) |
Power Apps offers more secure mobile application development and reduces shadow IT |
Side note: for hardcore developers, the Power Apps platform is extensible, so it is possible to programmatically interact with data, develop business logic, build custom connectors, etc. (there’s even a Power Apps CLI).
3) Power Apps pairs nicely with Microsoft Flow
Like Power Apps, Microsoft Flow offers a codeless, cloud-based platform for automating business process workflows, including processes that may span multiple cloud applications (through a growing inventory of “connectors”). Flow makes it possible to rapidly automate scenarios like posting a tweet every time a user takes a picture of an item with your new lost-and-found PowerApp or updating a SharePoint Online list every time a new sales opportunity is created in Salesforce. Pricing tiers for workflows, or “flows,” are based on number of executions, or “runs,” per user as well as frequency of checks (i.e., how often a flow trigger checks for changes). A free trial is a great way to get the creative juices, um, flowing…
4) Power Apps run seamlessly on mobile
Apps built on the Power Apps platform can be run on an iOS or Android device just as readily as a supported web browser, offering integration to device features like camera and location services. The Power Apps mobile app is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play (on phone or tablet) and any app that you create, or that has been shared with you, is accessible from the Power Apps mobile catalog. Design is responsive, which means your app will look like it’s supposed to—modern, scaled appropriately, etc.—regardless of form factor.
5) Leverage experience to achieve outcomes even faster!
Let J. Geiger consulting kickstart your Power Apps and Flow journey or partner with you to accelerate more value from your existing efforts. Microsoft continues broaden the reach of application development and digital process automation to empower the non-technical user community, but sometimes just finding the trailhead, picking a path and taking that first step is half the battle. Not only do we help our clients ditch the stops-and-starts and go to market faster (#MVP), we use Power Apps and Flow within our own organization and continue to see the benefit.
Sources:
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Power Apps And Microsoft Flow, A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study Commissioned By Microsoft June 2018
Microsoft Docs / Power Apps / Get started: What is Power Apps? (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/powerapps-overview)
What Really Is Low-Code/No-Code Development?, Forbes, January 2019 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johneverhard/2019/01/15/what-really-is-low-codeno-code-development/#5fdb44822a8e)


