PowerApps: A Toe In The Water
Power Apps! Yeah! Maybe. 15:00 CDIO : PowerApps! ... Me : Wha? Colleague : Yep 15:10 CDIO : Looks interesting, do a presentation with me on it next week. ... CDIO : And a workshop! 15:30 Me : Hey, we have an app! Colleague : Yep So, a couple of new tiles have turned up in my O365 tile estate. Exciting day. PowerApps promises automatic, intuitive, mobile ready app generation from a plethora of data sources - everything from external databases to facebook to simple Excel tables. This sort of connectivity, without the need for deep technical understanding, has been promised before. Can PowerApps deliver? Getting up and running: There are two routes to access PowerApps. Either a desktop application (Windows 8.1+), or a browser based solution defined as 'Preview'. The latter is a bit limited, missing functionality found in the desktop app, which may cause issues for organisations still using Windows 7. So most of them. On
