Power Apps is an initiative by Microsoft that lets you quickly build and share powerful low-code applications. It’s a suite of apps, services, and data platforms that enables rapid application development to build custom apps based on business requirements.
You can quickly create custom business apps that connect to your business data either on-premises (Excel, Office 365, SharePoint, and more) or data platform (common data source for apps) or Power Apps at its core is a platform as a service that enables you to create applications that run on any mobile device or browser. The purpose behind developing Power Apps is to make users build applications with new capabilities without having coding expertise. Microsoft touts an initial visual design for PowerApps, with drag-and-drop functionality.
Power Apps has connections with various Microsoft-based and third-party applications, including SharePoint, SQL server, and OneDrive in the Office 365 productivity suite and Google Docs, Dropbox, Dynamics CRM, and Oracle.
What sets Power Apps apart from other offerings is both developers and non-technical teams can use it.
Power Apps comes with features that allow you to build apps without coding. Below listed are the powerful features of Power Apps:
Microsoft Power Platform comprises Power BI, Power Apps, and Flow. These three services provide tools to manage the data of any enterprise process.
PowerApps facilitates app creation by offering various templates, connectors, and third-party apps for business users.
The primary reason that makes it popular among developers is connectors. It allows you to perform CRUD operations and
supports the majority of on-premises data sources.