sptechcon boston 2016 - an inside look at powerapps on office 365
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In this morning’s performance, the role of Jennifer Mason Roth
will be played by Marc D Anderson
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An Inside Look at PowerApps on Office 365Marc D AndersonPresident, Sympraxis Consulting LLC
Who Is Marc? Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform.
Over 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.
Author of SPServices Awarded Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server 2011-2016
Session OverviewMicrosoft has unveiled PowerApps, an innovative and compelling new service for building mobile-first business applications. PowerApps empowers information workers to connect to data sources in the cloud and on-prem, and to create no-code, targeted mobile applications that can be shared with users on any device. PowerApps let users take advantage of pre-configured templates to do tasks like:
Use simple logic flows and create an email notification if a new tweet appears
Create a lead in Salesforce if an email arrives Create an approval process email when a button is clicked in an app
…and more. PowerApps can connect to Office 365, OneDrive, Dropbox, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, Twitter, SQL and more. In this session we will explore this new tool and show some demos. You don’t want to miss this great opportunity to hear about the new PowerApps features.
Ooooh! Shiny!
• All details shared here are based on what is publically available today.
• Tomorrow (and the next day,, and next month, and….) will bring changes, we just don’t know what yet
• My demos may work without issue and they may fail horribly due to the beta environment
• It would be wise to replace the second may in the statement to probably
Disclaimers
PowerApps Overview
PowerApps App Ecosystem
Integrated into Office 365
Office 365 PowerApps Dashboard
Windows 10 PowerApps Studio
Flow Overview
Flow Dashboard
But wait…
Does PowerApps replace InfoPath?
Ok, sure, but…
Does Flow replace SharePoint Designer workflows?
Demo
Resources
Resource Link
PowerApps Web site https://powerapps.microsoft.com/
PowerApps Blog https://powerapps.microsoft.com/blog
ITUnity Recording https://www.itunity.com/session/office-365-pulse-empowering-power-users-2781
Flow Web site https://flow.microsoft.com
Contact InformationEmail [email protected]
Twitter @sympmarcBlog http://sympmarc.com
SPServices http://spservices.codeplex.comSPXSLT http://spxslt.codeplex.comBooks http://sympmarc.com/books
The Middle Tier Manifesto http://bit.ly/middletier