PowerApps at its heart, is a Platform as a Service, that allows end users to create business ready applications that run on any device. Essentially, PowerApps provides the end user with a blank canvas that provides an easy-to-use drag and drop interface to add different controls (i.e. buttons, text), media Read more…
The Office Graph is the unifying link behind Office 365 services, it learns how you work and who you interact with and suggests content to you based off of that knowledge. The Office Graph continuously collects and analyzes you and your colleagues behaviors as you are working within Office 365. Read more…
Microsoft’s Power BI is a cloud based business-analytics and intelligence software, that allows end users to create visually appealing and dynamic reports on top of existing data sets. Power BI’s deep integration with the rest of the O365 suite make it a really powerful tool for users that are already Read more…
Microsoft’s Common Data Service (CDS) allows users to securely store and manage the data that is used by their business applications. Data is stored in what is referred to as an entity, and those entities can be populated with data internal to O365 or external to O365 through Power Query. Read more…
What is Microsoft Flow? As Microsoft heavily pushes it’s business users towards the Power Platform, they are investing heavily in the software components that make up the platform itself. The Power Platform is defined by 3 approaches to working with data: Act (PowerApps), Automate (Flow) and Analyze (Power BI). In Read more…
Microsoft Forms is a great tool to build custom forms and collect responses, but there are some key pieces of functionality that are lacking and keeping it from being fully business ready. One of those pieces of functionality that is lacking, is the fact that response details can easily be Read more…
Ahh PDFs, the document type businesses love and developers hate…especially when the ability to create a PDF using existing data isn’t handled out of the box in PowerApps. Luckily for us, there is a neat way to get around this limitation by utilizing Flow and some basic HTML! The Scenario Read more…
What are Components? At the beginning of 2019, the PowerApps team introduced a new feature called components that allowed users to create pieces of functionality that could be packaged and duplicated across screens and even different apps. This is an experimental feature for the moment, however the capability has still been Read more…