Hearing Australia – Audiologist adopts Microsoft Power Platform to transform hearing loss prevention program

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 31 March, 2022

Hearing Australia is Australia’s largest provider of government-funded hearing services and have been servicing people with hearing loss in Australia for 75 years. This is an inspiring story that features Jacqui Peck, an Audiologist who taught herself Power Platform while visiting remote communities in the Australian outback. She partnered with the ICT team, as a fusion development team, to transform one of their key programs for hearing assessments. The solution was built using Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. Over 100 Community Engagement Officers and Audiologists use it each month and it has become a single source of truth for program data. This has also helped secure continued funding from a government grant.

Runtime localization support for Code components on Custom pages and Canvas apps

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, 30 March, 2022

Runtime localization support for Code Components on Custom pages and Canvas apps

Try out the Power Apps 2022 April Release Wave 1 updates for Model-driven apps!

Evan Chaki, Principal Group Program Manager, Thursday, 10 February, 2022

The Power Apps April release wave 1 for Model-driven apps is now available for you to take advantage of. In this release wave you can take advantage of cohesive and modern experiences while collaborating with team members in Power Apps.

Modern advanced find with enhanced view management in model-driven apps

Srihari Srinivasa, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 8 February, 2022

We are announcing the availability of a modern advanced find in model-driven apps, including usability improvements to view management, all of which enable you to be more productive with data exploration. Now available for admins to enable with 2022 Release wave 1.

December 2021 Power Apps Community Call: Power Apps co-authoring features with Emma Cooper and creating Xbox games with Brian Dang

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Monday, 13 December, 2021

The December Power Apps community call brings us two presenters from the Power Apps product group and their favorite topics: Building Xbox games with Power Apps by Brian Dang and a look at a soon be released preview feature: Office-like collaborative comments in Power Apps by Emma Cooper!

Visualize data in model-driven apps with Power BI (preview)

Srihari Srinivasa, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 9 December, 2021

Visualizing data in a view to get to interactive insights is a lot faster and easier, with Power BI quick reports available on model-driven apps’ view pages.

Improving sales conversion by placing products directly in your customer’s space with Mixed Reality

Anthony Uitz, Senior Program Manager, Wednesday, 8 December, 2021

Showing products in a customer’s environment helps sales teams have better conversations about how a product might fit into a space, including how it impacts lines-of-sight and egress. By using Mixed Reality (MR), you can visualize products at real size in context of the physical world to close deals that would not have happened with just images or videos and differentiate your company from its competitors. Learn how to use the Power Apps Mixed Reality controls to land larger opportunities faster, increase customer satisfaction, and optimize brand performance – without the need for a specialized team of 3D / MR content creators, developers, and designers through low-code.

Easily activate features for model-driven apps with the new Settings solution component (Public preview)

Anees Ansari, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 30 November, 2021

We are excited to announce public preview of a new solution component named Settings. Using settings, application authors can, with just a few clicks, activate or configure features for a model-driven app. This allows them to easily and quickly provide a customized experience for end-users. These settings can be created by application authors, administrators, or partners.

November 2021 Power Apps community call: Power Apps Christmas Calendars and ProvisionGenie an open-source provisioning engine for Microsoft Teams

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Sunday, 14 November, 2021

The November Power Apps community call brings us two exciting topics: How to create calendaring applications (in this case a Christmas Advent calendar for the Holidays) and one of the hottest topics for the year: integrating the Power Platform and Microsoft Teams, specifically how to automate the deployment provisioning and monitoring new Team’s Teams!

Custom Page runtime has reached General Availability

Adrian Orth, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 9 November, 2021

Announcing Custom Page runtime has reached General Availability.