Democratize development with Microsoft Power Apps and AI builder
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The document discusses the need for low-code platforms like Microsoft Power Apps, particularly during the pandemic, highlighting their increasing prevalence in companies that now average over 129 applications. It emphasizes the benefits of Power Apps, including reduced application development costs, increased efficiency, and empowerment of users without requiring extensive coding skills. Examples and data, such as significant savings on application development, illustrate the platform's effectiveness for both pro and citizen developers.
Democratize development with Microsoft Power Apps and AI builder
- 1. DEMOCRATIZE DEVELOPMENT WITH POWER APPS VENKAT THIRUMALAI | @VENKATARANGAN APRIL 28, 2021
- 2. ABOUT ME 25 years experience in running a software firm(s) with operations in India, USA and UK Been through four industry’, three business cycles & architected several high-traffic applications A Microsoft Regional Director (Honorary) from 1999 Created Simpligic – a U.S.patent pending (62/343,406) news app Predicted in 2003, that Mobile Phones will be the first and only computer for the developing world.
- 3. AGENDA Why do we need low-code platforms? Convince you, the professional; Is it relevant during a pandemic Power Apps AI Builder
- 5. COMPANIES ARE FULL OF APPS Companies have an average of 129 apps, some have over 200 apps* World is in middle of a pandemic, negative growth and fast change Internal or professional applications costs average of $45,000 per application * Study by Okta Inc in 2018
- 6. NUMBER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS (IN MILLIONS)
- 7. WE NEED A BETTER SOLUTION TO COMPLIMENT NOT REPLACE
- 8. RISE OF LOW-CODE PLATFORMS Forester Research predicts a 15% growth for low-code platforms in 2021
- 9. EXAMPLES FROM THE REAL WORLD
- 10. FOOD DELIVERY DURING THE LOCKDOWN IN INDIA
- 13. One of the 500 largest companies in the world (84K employees)
- 15. MICROSOFT POWER APPS POWER PLATFORM
- 16. POWER APPS IS NOT .NET 6.0 / .NET Core / .NET MAUI/ WinUI/ WPF Xamarin Visual Basic SharePoint* * Lotus Notes to SharePoint
- 17. MICROSOFT POWER PLATFORM Microsoft Dataverse Data connectors AI Builder Portals Power Automate Process automation Power Virtual Agents Intelligent chat bots Power Apps Application development Power BI Business analytics
- 18. BUILD FOR THE CLOUD & TO BE CONNECTED Built-in connectivity to over 350+ cloud services, files, databases, web APIs, etc. Seamless hybrid connectivity to on-premises systems via the On-Premises Data Gateway Build custom connectors for everyone to leverage
- 19. DEMO
- 20. PRO DEVELOPERS (CODE FIRST) Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code Azure Services Functions to Kubernetes – your pick Azure / Office Data Services Microsoft Graph Cosmos DB Microsoft Dataverse (aka CDS) Custom Controls Pro Developers create visuals based on TypeScript Use common frameworks like React Check in to source control (Git) and support CI/CD
- 21. AI BUILDER Build, train, and publish AI models without a single line of code Built on top of Azure AI AI Scenarios Documents Vision Prediction Language Citizen Developers
- 22. CUSTOM MODELS Prediction: Likelihood of specific business outcomes. Form Processing: From scans, emails, PDFs, and images. Object Detection: Recognizes and counts visual objects. Entity Extraction: Recognize your entities in large volume of text. Category Classification: Classifies text to track sentiment, and mine insights.
- 24. MORE PROOF FOR POWER PLATFORM
- 25. POWERAPPS CHAMP
- 26. FORRESTER REPORT 74% - Average cost to develop an application saved by PowerApps $742,449 – Was the amount saved by a composite app in one organization Developing applications in-house eliminates vendor license costs Power Apps increase activity efficiencies Mobile applications developed with PowerApps are more secure PowerApps empowers users, which increases employee satisfaction Employees can make better and faster decisions from better access to information
- 29. THANK YOU Let’s continue the conversation @venkatarangan tncv.me
Editor's Notes
- #12: People were on bench during a lock down, but you want to utilize your employees for both physical and virtual store jobs Business analysis managers Greg Soto and Matt McDermott – both of whom sit in T-Mobile’s Northeast Regional Business Planning organization – quickly produced a solution using Power Apps, a “low-code” method for building professional-grade applications using simple, drag-and-drop functionality and pre-built templates. The result was the COVID-19 Employee Roster Mobile App, an easily updateable app that uses Power BI to unify detailed information from numerous sources, yielding dashboards and reports that provided T-Mobile team members with constant staffing insights via their handheld devices. “From the first piece of code to a rough draft, it all took about 24 hours,” explains Soto. “From there, it took one more day to iron out requests and notes, and then we took it live.” T-Mobile announced early on it would take steps to maintain income for hourly employees, and their paychecks were dependent on constant, accurate updates regarding who was working in a store, who was “on the bench” (aka willing to work, but without a physical location) and who had been assigned to a virtual retail location. According to Douglas Allbright, a T-Mobile retail store manager in Syracuse, New York, the app’s arrival was a godsend. “Right around March 15, T-Mobile made the call to close my location in a mall,” he recalls. “We began operating out of a corporate store in Syracuse, combining three teams into one store — it was a very chaotic time. Suddenly, the challenge was to manage scheduling while simultaneously prioritizing everyone’s health and safety. To do that, people needed to opt in or opt out, often on a daily basis.”
- #13: https://news.microsoft.com/transform/how-t-mobile-used-power-apps-to-adapt-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-define-a-new-path-forward/
- #15: Power Platform is designed for every developer Citizen developers Pro developers IT professionals
- #18: Lotus Notes to Sharepoint migration project, had Power Platform been there it would’ve been a huge advant
- #26: Alan has wrote 80+ apps over 18 months https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/schlumberger/
- #27: https://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/d/fdd28db7-d4b1-497f-89a3-7463a7b4c35a/TEI%20of%20MSFT%20Power%20Apps%202020.pdf.pdf
- #30: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Community/ct-p/PowerApps1