Microsoft Power Apps Consulting

Discover The Potential of Low-Code Technology Like Microsoft Power Apps To Empower Your Business Ecosystem

Empower your organisations with robust apps to better serve both internal and external customers’ needs. With Microsoft Power Apps, teams can benefit from rapidly deployable apps that modernise workflows.

The Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of robust applications that integrate with Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, and various other standalone apps to create end-to-end business solutions, the Microsoft Power Platform provides leading-edge and user-friendly functionality that can build modular and customised business solutions right from “no-code” for those who are new to the programming to “pro-code” for the skilled and experienced professionals.

Microsoft Power Apps consulting services can help you develop interactive and customised business applications rapidly by leveraging the comprehensive Microsoft Power Platform suite, including:

Power Automate – Create time-saving workflows that automate organisational processes and increase business productivity. Develop automated workflows including robotic process automation capabilities to build apps, systems and services that automate repetitive tasks without human intervention.

Power Apps – Build custom apps through custom connecters or on-premises systems to resolve business challenges. Power Apps developers can help you to build responsive mobile applications that operate on iOS, Android and through a modern web browser to store your data within an integrated environment to increase digitisation.

Power Virtual Agents – Quickly create intelligent chatbots to engage conversationally with our customers and employees to answer their queries, immediately, at any time. Develop leading-edge bots for any business to manage conversations with customers, employees and site visitors around-the-clock.

Power BI – Make informed, intelligent business decisions by providing real-time access to data driven insights for employees or other stakeholders. Power BI can help you develop interactive dashboards and generate reports with data visualisations and business intelligence capabilities to extract valuable insights from your data.

Power Apps In The Real World

Bring AI To Your Apps With AI Builder And Power Apps

Discover how you can give everyone in your organization, regardless of their technical experience, the ability to add AI capabilities to the apps they create and use with Microsoft Power Apps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_is1mgniA

Virgin Atlantic Creates Custom-Built Mobile Apps With Power Apps

Discover how Virgin Atlantic easily creates custom-built mobile applications with Microsoft Power Apps and Dynamics 365. You will learn how to create apps to support your business and see how customisable you can make it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db4YfuilxxU

Benefits of Using Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps increase agility across your organisation by rapidly building low-code apps that modernise processes and solve business challenges.

  • Enhance mobility and innovation with no code capability
  • Enhance productivity with prebuilt AI scenarios
  • Simplify tasks and enhance prediction with AI Builder
  • Work faster with data integration and distribution
  • Gain valuable insights from data
  • Increase user engagement

A Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned study by Forrester Consulting in 2018 found that Microsoft Power App users experienced 188% ROI in three years, 74% reduction in app development costs, and 3.2 hours/week average improvement in line-of-business employee productivity. Figures that have surely increased over time with the rapid adoption of the Microsoft Power Platform across organisations both small and large.

Microsoft Power Apps Features

Microsoft Power Apps includes several features and capabilities that help you create applications them like a professional with minimal effort.

  • Common Data Service to store data
  • Over 200 connectors to integrate data and systems
  • Drag-and-drop designer
  • AI Builder and pre-built AI components
  • Portals (for no code responsive websites)
  • Role-based user experience customisation
  • Wide variety of controls such as camera and location
  • Logins via authentication platforms including LinkedIn and Facebook
  • Private and secure submission of information

How to leverage the Microsoft Power Platform?”

Automate business process flows for improved outcomes, improved data collection, reporting, and decreased time to complete processes in a range of ways including:

Rapid Process and Workflow Automation – No-code / low code app development to support organisations in streamlining their business processes such as:

Business Process Flow (BPF) – Automate business processes and eliminate guess work and repetitive common tasks by creating flows and automating key tasks to help your team to capture the right information allowing you to take the best action. Quickly build flows without writing a single line of code and automate key tasks using Visual Designer to help your business stop relying on error-prone manual procedures.

Custom Fields and Forms in Power Apps – Help teams do more, achieve more and help them to avoid doing a task repeatedly. Create custom fields that help you store data and can create custom forms for desired business processes. Design immersive business process flow, instant flow inside solutions, approval processes automation and configure notifications to outlook, teams and much more!

The Power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) In The Power Platform

AI Builder in Power Automate – AI Builder lets everybody – regardless of their technical expertise – add AI capabilities to business processes and flows. In Power Automate, you can use prebuilt AI Builder model, custom AI Builder model such as prediction, form processing, object detection etc. to quickly simplify tasks and increase efficiency throughout the organisation.

AI Builder in Power Apps – You can access AI Builder right within the PowerApps platform. Build custom AI models or can use prebuilt AI models in Canvas Apps and model-driven apps too add intelligence to your apps.

Legacy Data Located Across Multiple Sources

Data is the core of most business applications. Create customizations and connect data located across different data sources.

Dataverse / CDS – Avoid the mess of multiple systems with Common Data Service (CDS). The cloud-based, enterprise-grade data storage service, on which Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications are natively built can help you avoid using multiple database systems both in cloud and on-prem for building Power Apps.

With CDS, you can securely store and manage data used by mission critical business applications built on PowerApps.  CDS lets you integrate data from different sources into a single store that can be accessible to use in Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.

Connectors and Power Platform – Connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud with a large ecosystem of SaaS connectors. Leverage the public connectors such as Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, and more or can build custom connectors to help you to easily connect to any underlying service your business is using.

Streamline Processes & Digitise Business Workflows With Microsoft Power Platform Consulting Services

Power Apps consulting services will provide proper analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of Power Apps to achieve your business goals.

We believe that Power Apps is the right resource to help many companies streamline their business processes. We provide guidance and expertise to organisations that want to use Power Apps to quickly develop custom business applications.

The Power Platform a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platforms that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business

PowerApps has connections to various Microsoft-based and third-party applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and OneDrive in the Office 365 productivity suite, as well as Dropbox, Google Docs, SAP, Oracle, Dynamics CRM and more…

The Power Platform is an indispensable tool to drive the digital transformation of your organization using software designed to create quickly and seamlessly business applications according to specific needs. Microsoft Power Platform provides businesses to build apps that change their manual processes into automated and digital processes, which are simple to use without the requirement of coding experience.

Solutions That Streamline Business Processes

Modernise and automate inefficient legacy business processes and infuse digital transformation into manual and outdated processes with Power Platform development services including:

  • Strategic planning and consultancy service
  • PoC and custom business apps development
  • App design, modern UI and UX
  • BI capabilities and analytics
  • Canvas and model-driven app development
  • Power Automate Flows
  • Power Apps Portal Development
  • Power Apps with CDS / Dataverse / SharePoint / Azure / Excel
  • PowerApps with web APIs
  • Offline capable development

Microsoft Power Apps Consulting

Our PoC program is designed to work collaboratively with our clients to help them understand the uses for Power Apps and the Power Platform in their business to streamline some processes and deliver a more seamless business flow.

Microsoft Power Apps Consulting services aim to help you get familiar with the concepts of Microsoft Power apps and help review current business processes to identify opportunities for automation.

We focus on understanding the current technology environment along with current business processes to identify use cases that can deliver efficiencies, better employee collaboration and higher productivity along with a rapid return on investment.

PowerApps Development Services Methodology

Assessment of Requirements – Our experts assess project requirements, objectives, and expectations to establish a development roadmap.

Agreement on Service Models – We recommend the best-suited engagement model as per the project demand along with the best-fit resources.

Design and Development – Design and development begin to deliver a robust software/application that meets your acceptance criteria and goals.

Testing and QA – Extensive testing, client feedback, and documentation are integrated to deliver the best quality product, every time.

Support – After go-live, “the end of the beginning starts” with constant monitoring and debugging to ensure proper operation.

About Microsoft Power Platform Development

There are a range of low-code software development platforms available to choose from. At App Consultants, we believe that the Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI, combined with the Dataverse common data service model, will provide all of the functionality and extensibility that many businesses will need, before they grow into a fully customised solution, whereby any work done at this stage of the project, will be easily transportable, at a far lower cost, into any advanced technology project in the future.

The Microsoft power platform is fast becoming a leader in the low-code development platform market and provides a comprehensive collection of low-code development tools that meet or exceed the capabilities found in some of the current leading low code platforms.

When PowerApps was launched in January 2017 as an integration with SharePoint and Office 365 to create business solutions for mobile devices, the low-code development platform was still beginning to take shape.

Since 2017, Microsoft PowerApps has continued to add features and functionality allowing it to evolve into the Microsoft Power Platform which includes Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power BI.

The Power Platform, at its core, is essentially a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you to create mobile apps that run on all modern devices and browsers.

Traditionally, mobile app development has involved creating separate apps for each mobile operating system or a web app that may provide cross-platform functionality at the cost of features in some cases. The app development process traditionally doubles or triples the workload, support costs and development resources needed to create business apps.

With the Microsoft Power Platform and Power Apps, the platform created applications essentially run in a container through the PowerApps App and in a web browser, providing complete cross-platform functionality.

Benefits of Building Apps With Power Apps

  • Line of Business Connectors
  • Data Source Independent
  • Process Automation
  • Quick Turnaround
  • Easy Maintenance
  • Improved Security

Power Platform provides the opportunity to transform your key legacy applications and processes or replace and modernise legacy processes while extending their functionalities far beyond their current performance.

Create a fully integrated power platform solution for your business!

What Is Low Code App Development?

When understanding the power of low code app development, it is important to understand the difference between low code app development and no-code app development.

No-Code Apps – A no-code app builder is really as simple as its name suggests — it is development software that allows users to create apps without needing to understand how to write code. No-Code Apps are ideal for people without coding experience and this type of development helps anyone create fully functional apps via a simple visual editor.

Low-Code Apps – A low-code development platform refers to an app development platform that allows you to create business and mobile apps with little to no coding skills. They use a graphical UI with minimal logic and drag and drop capabilities instead of writing extensive lines of code. Low-code app builders add extensibility that allows for more flexibility and customisation, when compared to a no-code app builder.

Whether you are choosing low code apps or no-code apps for your business, it is important to understand your objectives and make sure that you are choosing the right technology solution for your business, both now and in the future.

Low-Code Apps vs Traditional Software Development

Traditional software development, requiring developers to write individual lines of code that is organised into functional routines and modules that provide the features and functionality of the software.

Code-driven software development requires the programmer to have a wide range of knowledge across the software development spectrum including software development languages, development environments, compilers, testing and deployment tools, along with the various policies and practices used to handle coding, testing and deployment.

In comparison, low code platforms usually allow users to select from a range of reusable functionality components using a drag-and-drop visual interface with much of the programming needed to create the software encapsulate in the back end.

Using the low code visual interface, users can easily add, move or delete functional components in order to develop the process flow. Once the low code app is created, the low code platforms also support testing and deployment.

Low code technology can enable an enterprise to deliver a range of micro-solutions faster and for less money.

There are still many projects that require functions and operations that do not easily fit into the low code approach, where the amount of work to create and modify the low code platform to meet those requirements, cannot be justified.

Why Develop Low Code Apps?

Low code solutions can simplify and accelerate many everyday business programming tasks; however low code is not intended to eliminate all coding. Many low code platforms still require some basic programming knowledge to either modify existing functional components or to create new custom functions.

No-code systems aim to provide all the intended function and features, eliminating any need to add or modify components, meaning that users need no knowledge of application design or programming.

No-code platforms are usually considered to be the more user-friendly, easy-to-use subset of low code solutions.

If the technology and business use case align the business goals with enterprise requirements then there are a range of common low code applications that could be implemented within the enterprise including:

  • MVP Apps
  • Startup Business Apps
  • Business Systems
  • Business Processes Improvement
  • Micro-Service Apps
  • iOT-Based Apps
  • Web Portals

There are a wide range of low code tools and platforms available, and the market continues to evolve. Businesses can choose from various cloud-native and third-party low code platforms for uses that range from simple websites and mobile apps to enterprise-class application development.

Businesses should evaluate the specific capabilities of the low code platform before commencing to ensure that packaged models, functionality and components align with the project objectives with a minimal amount of customisation required.

How Much Does It Cost To Develop Power Apps?

The cost to develop Power apps, as with any low code app, is difficult to estimate due to the wide range of options that are available when choosing a low code development platform and the level of complexity involved in creating a low code solution.

Some businesses are starting out and automating their first business process, which provides a lot of freedom to select the solution for your business and create a suitable data model to ensure your data will be available as you further develop low code solutions for your business.

Other businesses may already have data in a legacy database or in the database of a paid app that has been used and isn’t meeting expectations or capable of handling future growth. This requires consideration around how the data is stored and how it can effectively be migrated into a new system or attached to a low code app using APIs.

The requirements will ultimately determine how much it costs to develop Power Apps low code apps, however the opportunity to integrate future technology combined with a rapid return on investment, in many cases, often ensure low code development projects pay for themselves quickly.