Power Apps Top 10: innovation areas that are reshaping app development

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 4 november 2019

As we open Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, it’s a good time to reflect on the factors that have propelled the staggering momentum behind Power Apps, and share some details of what the future looks like as the service matures. Whether you’re a seasoned #PowerAddict or just starting out with the platform, here’s the definitive “top 10” list of major innovation areas and trends to watch as Power Apps scales across organizations globally.

PowerApps Portals is now available for Public Preview

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 18 juli 2019

PowerApps Portals is a significant step towards empowering all PowerApps makers to create powerful low-code and responsive websites which allows users external to their organizations to interact with data stored in Common Data Service. Public Preview of PowerApps Portals starts today

PowerApps for pros: develop faster with low code

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 6 maj 2019

As we open Microsoft Build 2019 this week, the Power Platform is a hot topic for software developers. That’s right: low-code has arrived as an important new capability in any professional developer’s toolkit. We’ve doubled down our efforts to ensure a “no cliffs” experience in PowerApps, allowing pros to augment the speed of low-code development…

October PowerApps updates are rolling out. Say hello to many new features!

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 24 september 2018

We’re excited to share that many of the items in the October Release Notes are now beginning to roll into preview environments and in some cases are already available in production! We’ve focused across the board on quality, more powerful CDS capabilities, more productive makers, great end user experiences, and improved admin visibility.

New on PowerApps: easily create rules, configure forms and galleries, and get started building apps

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 21 september 2017

PowerApps now sports a better onboarding experience that gets new creators directly to the canvas, a new wizard-like configuration assistant for complex controls such as forms, galleries, and data tables, and — the feature we’re most excited about — the ability to quickly make your app respond to rules and conditions without writing a single formula.

Build offline apps with new PowerApps capabilities

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 5 maj 2017

When building mobile apps, one of the most common scenarios app makers face is how to enable their users to still be productive when they are not connected to the internet. This has been one of the most requested features for PowerApps to allow running apps while being disconnected and to provide some support for offline data caching. In this release of PowerApps, we are delivering the first set of improvements for app makers to achieve this and build offline apps.

Introducing Dynamics 365 Home: the new way for users to discover and launch apps built with PowerApps

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 31 oktober 2016

Starting today, the apps you build and publish with PowerApps will be discovered and used in Dynamics 365 on the web. For business users, Dynamics 365 unifies the experience of navigating a wide range of business applications — not only the solutions offered by Microsoft, but also those of our partners as well as custom business applications developed with PowerApps. Users now have a single starting point at home.dynamics.com to find and launch any business app regardless of where it came from.

Guest post: how we simplified sales case entry in just 10 days

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 5 juli 2016

Reposting this great piece from our friends at HARMAN about their experience with PowerApps. Originally posted here on Medium.   There’s an app for almost everything. What if you wanted an app…

An Introduction to PowerApps: join an upcoming webinar

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 10 maj 2016

Every Thursday in May, we’ll be hosting a 1-hour webinar with the PowerApps product team. The event will be a great chance for new users to get acquainted with the service and returning users to learn more about new features and capabilities.

Getting started with PowerApps

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, den 29 april 2016

Welcome to PowerApps! Let’s take a few minutes to get acquainted with the basics of the service and how you can get up and running quickly. PowerApps makes it possible to create and use robust business applications, but getting started is a breeze.