March 2021 Power Apps Community Call: Responsive Dataverse Apps, Application Lifecycle Management and AI document tagging

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Monday, 15 March 2021

For the March community call we are happy to announce Reza will be delivering his: Responsive Dataverse for Teams Power Apps session. In addition, we have two additional topics “You” indicated wanting to see more of: Application Lifecycle Management and Artificial Intelligence using AI Buiilder. For March we have two of our Power CAT super stars: Phil Topness and Michael Ochs walk through how to get started with Application Life Cycle Management for Power Platform. Uday Adhikari will then walk through how to Use AI Builder to do document tagging in Power Apps.

FortisAlberta wins Canadian Safety Technology Award for Microsoft Power Platform solution

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, Friday, 12 March 2021

FortisAlberta delivers safe and reliable electricity service in Canada to more than 60% of Alberta’s total electricity distribution network. In this blog post we learn how they used Microsoft Power Platform to transition from a paper-based process to a digital solution for documenting Injury Prevention Plans (IPPs). The solution recently won the Canada’s Safest Employers award for Most Innovative Use of Safety Technology.

More Environments, More Places, and More Capabilities When You Need Them

Marc Mercuri, Thursday, 11 March 2021

In response to strong customer demand, Dataverse for Teams is dramatically increasing the number of potential entitlements, making it available from more places, and has enabled an easy, in place upgrade to Dataverse.

New in ISV Studio: Read-only access!

Zankar Desai, Senior Program Manager, Monday, 8 March 2021

A new feature in ISV Studio now allows publishers to give more users access to ISV Studio without also giving access to the publishing process in Partner Center!

Democratizing application development inside Microsoft with the Power Platform

Manas Maheshwari, Principal Group Program Manager, Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Application development today can present numerous challenges, especially for large organizations with numerous teams working across various workflows and apps at once. With digitalization increasing rapidly, so has the pressure on teams to develop and maintain a multitude of applications to meet current needs. As central dev teams struggle to keep pace with growing demands, it becomes increasingly difficult to address the needs of individual business units and results in painfully long lead times. While Microsoft’s Power Platform enables individuals in the organization to develop apps for their team’s business needs without relying on central dev teams, a new set of challenges arise around the accessibility and reusability of data and apps across the organization. The lack of a central location for teams to co-develop and work from shared data led the Business Application Group (BAG) team at Microsoft to realize an immediate need to democratize app development within its own initiatives.

Introducing Microsoft Power Fx: the low-code programming language for everyone

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Today we’re introducing the newest member of the Microsoft Power Platform family: Microsoft Power Fx, an open source formula language for low code that’s based on Microsoft Excel.

What is Microsoft Power Fx?

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Microsoft Power Fx is the low code language for expressing logic across the Microsoft Power Platform.  It is the same language that is at the heart of Microsoft Power Apps canvas apps today and is inspired by Microsoft Excel.   It enables the full spectrum of development from no code to pro code with no cliffs in between, enabling diverse teams to work together and saving everyone time and money.  We are very excited to bring it to more of the Power Platform and to share it with everyone as open source.  Only through a strong user community can a language grow and flourish.

New in the CoE Starter Kit: Review the impact of DLP policy changes

Denise Moran, Program Manager, Monday, 1 March 2021

We are excited to introduce you to the DLP Editor – a new app part of the Center of Excellence Starter Kit. The DLP Editor is a tool you can use to observe the impact of an existing policy or updated/new policy changes you want to make.