What is Power Apps?
Microsoft Power Apps is a set of tools that provides the functionality to build bespoke apps to automate repetitive processes and generate huge efficiencies. It levels the playing field with the ‘big boys’ once again and allows SME’s to massively streamline their business and make a real difference. The beauty of it being that you can design it so that it is specific to your company’s requirements.
Where Power Apps differs from traditional developer tools is that it can be used by ‘non-technical’ people to create apps. That being said, a reasonable amount of technical knowledge is required but what it means is that you don’t have to purely rely on developers to do the work for you and it is hugely easier to generate new apps.
How Can You Use Power Apps?
There are multiple ways it can be used such as automation, reporting, workflow and visualisation of data – to name a few. It can be utilised right across your organisation in a complex and intricate manner, or in a comparatively simple format with just a couple of processes. Basically, it depends how deep you want to go – even improving the fundamentals can be highly effective.
Power Apps can be used via website, mobile devices or on Office 365 tools such as Teams
Here are some ideas to inspire you:-
- Standardise documentation like contracts using automation based on metadata and key criteria.
- Allow on-site and remote workers to enter real time information such as logging faults, repairs and inspections.
- Track assets, for example hardware and software licenses to ensure nothing goes astray or by the wayside.
- Automate some marketing functionality to ensure you’re maximising your interaction with your customers.
- Build an assessment system across the business, drawing information from multiple departments, workflows and users.
These are just a few suggestions, a taster, to give you some ideas about how Power Apps could benefit your business. Plus, new capabilities are always being developed so even more exciting features are in the pipeline.
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