EMPOWER YOUR CRM WITH POWERAPPS?Nicolas Georgeault@ngeorgeault – ngeorgeault@negotium.com

ABOUT MENicolas GeorgeaultEmergent Technologies Officerand Technology Advisor@Negotium Technologies

• Email/Yammer:ngeorgeault@club-sharepoint.fr• Twitter: @Ngeorgeault• Blog: http://blog.georgeault.co / http://www.itlounge.ca • Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ngeorgeault

20 years of experience in IT13 with SharePoint6 as a SharePoint MVPCo-author of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 et 2013 French books

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AGENDA PowerApps Demo Microsoft Flow Demo Bonus ;)

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POWERAPPS

BUSINESS APPLICATION PLATFORM INNOVATION

• Power Users• Professional Developers• The Microsoft Common Data

Model• Connectors and Gateways

BUSINESS APP GAP

We are living in a Cloud First, Mobile First world and we are more mobile than ever

before.TALENT

ACCESSAGILITY

Hard to develop

Cross platform developmentKeeping up with technology changes

Not enough skilled mobile developers

Disparate data source

Difficult to connect to and consume related data

Security & Single Sign on

Data stored on premise and in the cloud

App distribution

Combining this data Making apps available outside the

enterprise

IT Governance

MICROSOFT POWERAPPS

An enterprise software service for innovators everywhere

to connect, create and share business apps

HOW IT WORKS

Source: Microsoft

ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW

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DESIGNED FOR MOBILITY

POWER APPS PRICING TIERS

App Designer (UWP)Logic (App) Flow Designer

(WEB)Sample Application

DEMO

POWERAPPS

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CDM: COMMON DATA MODEL Unified and Secured business database, of well-formed standard business

entities that can be deployed for use in your organization. Breaking the silos between Enterprise Apps Enable organizations to connect business data from applications with

information residing in Office 365 productivity platform Why use entities?

Rich metadata Easy to manage Easy to share Secure

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/data-platform-intro/

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CONNECTIONS

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ENTITIES

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GATEWAYS

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DEMO

POWERAPPSConnect on Dynamics CRMCreate a Contact Mobile Application

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FLOWS

Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals

Microsoft Flow helps non-developers work smarter by automating workflows across apps and services

MICROSOFT FLOW AND LOGIC APPS

Automate advanced scenarios with multiple steps,

branching conditions, and more

Click-to-code for integrating the systems you’re already using… even custom APIs.

New services being added every week!https://flow.microsoft.com/manage/connections/available

Get started quickly with useful CRM templates

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CDM IN FLOW https://flow.microsoft.com/en-u

s/services/shared_runtimeservice/common-data-model/

Many out of the box CDM Flows already available

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DEMO

Discover Microsoft FlowDiscover Azure Logic AppsCreate a Flow between CRM and Wunderlist

With great power comes great responsibility

EAI & Hybrid

AuthorisationAPI / App jungle

K.I.S.S

POWERAPPS AND FLOW PLANSFlow Free

Anyone can sign up for free with their personal, work or

school email

Very low # of flow runs per month included (about

200)Limited to connect to “standard” services

No on-premises connectivity

(Post-GA) No co-authoring or sharing within an

organizationNo SLA

Flow for Office 365Flow for Dynamics 365

Included for free with most* Office 365 and

Dynamics 365 application SKUs

Low # of flow runs per month included (about

2000)Limited to connect to “standard” services

On-premises connectivity to Office, Dynamics

services*(Post-GA) Includes co-

authoring or sharing within an organization

PowerApps for Office 365PowerApps for Dynamics 365

Included for free with most* Office 365 and Dynamics 365 application

SKUs

Limited to connect to “standard” services

On-premises connectivity to Office, Dynamics services*

(Post-GA) Includes co-authoring or sharing within an organization

Additional plans for standalone Flow will also be available with Premium Connectors and 15,000 runs per month

Source: Microsoft

Additional resources

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/getting-started

https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=powerapps#ch9Search

http://www.powerapps.com

https://disqus.com/home/forums/powerappsdisqus

Additional resources

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Mechanics/The-Mobile-and-Intelligent-Intranet-SharePoint-sites-and-PowerApps

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CREDITSSpecial thanks for inspiration ;)

René Brauwers @ReneBrauwers Maarten Visser @mvisser