Fostering innovation based on the knowledge and experience of professionals like you, from areas as different as Finance, Marketing, HR, Operations, Purchasing or Sales, is a priority in all organizations. However, it runs into a major brake: IT departments become bottlenecks in the face of the great demand for development. Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code platform that enables individuals and organizations to easily create custom business applications for various purposes, such as data collection, automation, and workflow management.
Analyzing data, creating custom solutions and automating processes is now possible for business professionals, without technical knowledge, thanks to low-code technology. With Microsoft Power Apps you and your team can lead innovation by creating apps much faster and without throwing out a line of code, freeing up IT teams.
If there is an environment that allows business managers to lead innovation, that is undoubtedly the low-code environment. Microsoft Power Platform is a before and after to unlock the innovation capacity of the different areas of the company. With Power Apps we can create all kinds of solutions and with Power Automate, Power BI , automate actions to generate value. In both, the imagination, knowledge and experience of the professional is the only limit to create applications to solve their own business problems.
Main benefits of Microsoft Power Apps
It eliminates the traditional barriers to developing solutions by democratizing and giving access to applications to non-technical users, they are the so-called Citizen Developers.
Connect to any data source (600+ connectors) building rich applications from the data.
It provides tools that make development easy for everyone in your organization with little or no code use.
Empower users by offering them greater autonomy.
Foster innovation by incorporating digital capabilities into manual and outdated processes.
Extends the capabilities of current applications.
It allows intuiting before deploying, which makes it easier to focus on what and not how a solution is going to be implemented.
It enables savings, as it is faster and more accessible than traditional development.
Types of Power Apps
Canvas :
Applications designed for mobile devices, are non-responsive, oriented for simple business processes, allows connection to any data source, very powerful custom design capability.
Model-driven :
Has a predefined design, works for simple and complex apps and business processes, high volume of data, only works with Data verse, intended for business applications.
Portal :
Allows the Power Platform to be extended to external (customers or suppliers) or internal (employees) uses in order to develop web portals with a flexible design, only suitable with Data verse.
Examples of Power Apps by functional area
Human Resources:
This is the area that is undergoing the most digital transformation as a result of the pandemic, since widespread remote work makes it a necessity to have employees happy, connected, and with the necessary tools for their daily performance. Examples of application requests: employee portal, employee registration and termination processes, test process management, celebration management such as birthdays, anniversaries, etc., performance evaluation and appraisals, employee chatbot, vacation requests, leaves and absences, onboarding and offboarding processes, reservation management: parking spaces, rooms, office, dining room, etc., automate newsletters for employees, management of training and certifications, etc.
Purchasing: purchasing needs portal (multi-company), supplier bid request portal, tender portal, supplier price comparison, contract management, order approval process, rate and discount management, supplier price changes, management documentary and administrative of purchase contracts, order tracking, automate purchase receipts from document scanning, etc.
Finance:
journal entries from outside the ERP, automate the creation of companies, approval of expenses and allocation and approval of hours, approval of customer risks, management of collections and collections, integration of bank transactions, management and monitoring of KPIS, monitoring of internal audits and external, document signatures and integration with ERP, authorization of payments, automation of bank statements, automatic posting of received invoices, generation of taxes, etc.
Sales and Marketing:
customer service chatbots, customer registration at the counter and GDPR compliance via APP, partner or subscriber portal, customer community portal, automatic collection of information from the competition, single customer registration in different platforms, automate order registration, contact synchronization, management of commercial area goals, easy registration of opportunities, automate actions by inputs in social networks, generation of information collection landings and integration with CRM , questionnaires to customers, survey on shopping experience, automation of sending offers, generation of newsletters, an app so that the salesperson can consult customers, products and place an order, etc.
Manufacturing:
design process and creation of new products, collection of indicators in the plant, quality controls and audits, automate consumption in the machine, automate purchase requests to suppliers (for example, via the Web) based on material needs, module of quality management etc.
Logistics : mobility (inventories and counts, material reception, picking, receipt of delivery notes), transport management app, signing of sales delivery notes, automatic registration of products from suppliers and rates, order tracking, etc.
Conclusion:
Access our Power Apps webinar where our experts will explain different real use cases through two practical demos so that you can be inspired when building your own business applications. Lead the digital transformation of your company and accelerate the innovation of your business with the experience of Dynamics Square Canada.