1. PowerApps and Microsoft Flow for Business Users
Business-solutions on Microsoft SharePoint
Adis Jugo, Director Product Technology at skybow
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2. Director of Product Technology at skybow Microsoft MVP
Adis Jugo
Director of Product Technology at skybow
Microsoft MVP
Office Development
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3. Why PowerApps and Flow?
Maintenance
Data
Price
Resources
Time

4. Why PowerApps and Flow?

5. What

6. PowerApps background
Extension of Project Sienna
Cloud-based apps for range of mobile devices and browsers
Authentication through Azure Active Directory
Built in connectors for some popular data sources
Extensibility through custom managed APIs (Azure Functions, Azure API Apps…) and Microsoft Azure

7. Microsoft Flow
Workflows and task automation
Data connections, connected services
Actions
Conditions
Loops

8. What can I build with PowerApps?
Apps based on data (SharePoint*, SQL, but also DropBox and Google Drive)
Onedimensional, form-based apps
Simple, single-task apps
Microphone, camera, GPS coordinates. Ink and pen support.
Multiple data sources in one app
Multiple screens

9. InfoPath replacement. It is a successor, not a replacement.
What it isn’t?
InfoPath replacement. It is a successor, not a replacement.
Limited functionalities
List forms
Microsoft stated there will be no 1:1 parity
SharePoint-specific product
Limited SharePoint support
Will get better
Free

10. So, how does it work? PowerApps basics

11. High-level architecture
SaaS apps
mobile
enterprise services
tablet
business systems
browser

14. Data Sources and connections PowerApps basics

15. PowerApps, Flow and Connections

16. Data sources? SaaS data sources Excel on OneDrive Excel on Dropbox
Excel on Google Drive
Office 365
SharePoint Online lists
Google Sheets
Salesforce
Dynamics CRM

17. Demo 1 PowerApps basics with SharePoint Online

18. Environments

19. Microsoft Common Data Model

20. Secure Business database, comprising of standard business entities
Common Data Model
Secure Business database, comprising of standard business entities
Encrypted at rest. Built for scale –Service Fabric and elastic SQL.
Standard entities, Custom entities
Issues
No management capabilities
Multitenant databases
Future
Some kind of Office 365 integration
3rd Party ISV Apps

21. Demo 2 Common Data Model

22. On Premises Data Gateway

23. And Flow? Microsoft Flow basics with demo

24. Simple, data-driven actions, conditions and loops
Microsoft Flow
Simple, data-driven actions, conditions and loops
Start from PowerApps, by another services/events, or schedule
No write-back to PowerApps
Joonas

25. Security / Permissions
AAD
Internal sharing
External users – still no info
Anonymous use – still no info

26. Extensibility Overcoming PowerApps and Flow limits

27. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Expressions
Actions and Conditions
{ C# }
Azure Service Bus
{ LOB }
Azure API App, Azure Function
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28. For your developers: Extending PowerApps and Flow
Adding custom data sources to PowerApps and Flow
Extending PowerApps language through Azure API Apps
Extending PowerApps and Flow with Azure Functions
Exchanging data from PowerApps and Flow with 3rd party system using Azure Service Bus
Using Azure API Apps to create custom Flow Actions …

29. Management, operations and governance

30. Managing PowerApps & Flows
Limited management capabilities
Basic export and import capability (”Save as”)
Automatised deployments are missing
No PowerApps or Flows versioning
Limited data and security governance capabilities through Environments
Limited authentication and sharing story
Rogue data sources along the enterprise-ready data sources
Custom entities throufgh Common Data Model
No governance
No management
Multitennant SQL Azure

31. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
WrapUp
Loosely coupled forms and flow engine.
NOT the InfoPath replacement you were waiting for, some scenarios covered (take a look at skybow Rich Forms –
Mixed enterprise and consumer oriented data sources, manage wisely
Limited expression language in PowerApps
Extensibility options still pretty limited / undefined
Limited SharePoint support
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32. Don’t overpromise. Remember your lessons from InfoPath.
WARNING
PowerApps are published as a Minimum Viable Product: things are changing. Prepare for change, and make your plans flexible.
First prove that feature you require is supported by PowerApps, or is at least on the roadmap, to avoid dead-ends.
Don’t overpromise. Remember your lessons from InfoPath.
You might end up deploying hacks as workarounds

33. InfoPath replacement choice list#
Feature
PowerApps
skybow Rich Forms 1
SharePoint native (no 3rd party technology has to be installed on the clients)
+/- + 2
Integrated security (no additional security layer, or unauthorized data sources should be allowed) - 3
Powerful UI designer 4
Master-detail relations, and managing multiple lists and libraries inside a form 5
Field behaviors, calculation, validation 6
Code Behind (for complex calculations and from behaviors) 7
Acting on data changes 8
Custom form controls and actions (adding custom buttons with actions, and form loading actions) 9
Forms Business Logic – executing business logic within the forms
-/+ 10
Easy deployment

34. THANK YOU questions? Business-solutions on Microsoft SharePoint
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