Power Apps

Product

A low-code tool for building custom business apps for web and mobile. Canvas apps give full control over the layout, while model-driven apps are generated from the data model in Dataverse.

Description

Power Apps lets people build business apps with little or no code. Canvas apps give full control over layout, model-driven apps are generated from the Dataverse data model, and Power Fx is the formula language that ties them together. Apps can be embedded in Teams and SharePoint.

Sessions on this topic (8)

• Building Code Apps through Powerful Prompts · David James Wyatt · M365Con 2027
• The Designer–Maker Handshake: Figma + Power Apps Plugin in Action · Ridwan Adekanye, Lukas Pavelka · M365Con 2027
• You Describe It, AI Builds It! Live App Building with Power Apps Generative Pages · Keith Atherton · M365Con 2027
• The Next Generation of Power Pages Development · Nick Doelman · M365Con 2027
• Building Code Apps through Powerful Prompts · David James Wyatt · M365Con 2027
• The Designer–Maker Handshake: Figma + Power Apps Plugin in Action · Ridwan Adekanye, Lukas Pavelka · M365Con 2027
• You Describe It, AI Builds It! Live App Building with Power Apps Generative Pages · Keith Atherton · M365Con 2027
• The Next Generation of Power Pages Development · Nick Doelman · M365Con 2027

Glossary

Related topics in brief

• Microsoft · Developed by · Organization
  Microsoft Corporation is a technology company that develops software and cloud services such as Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365.
• Microsoft tool · Is a · Category
  A software product or service developed by Microsoft.
• Low-code tool · Is a · Category
  A tool for building apps and automations with little or no programming.
• Power Platform · Part of · Platform
  Microsoft's low-code family consisting of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages and Copilot Studio. Together with Dataverse it lets business users build apps, automations, reports and agents.
• Dataverse · Related to · Product
  The managed data platform behind Power Platform and Dynamics 365. It stores tables with relationships, security roles and business logic, so apps and agents work on one governed data source.
• Canvas app · Related to · Concept
  Power Apps app type where the maker designs the screen layout freely, like a slide, and connects it to data with Power Fx formulas.
• Model-driven app · Related to · Concept
  Power Apps app type generated from the Dataverse data model, with forms, views and business process flows laid out automatically.
• Power Fx · Related to · Concept
  Microsoft's open-source low-code formula language, modelled on Excel formulas, used in Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and Copilot Studio.
• Connector · Related to · Concept
  Prebuilt wrapper around an API that lets Power Apps, Power Automate and Copilot Studio read and write data in hundreds of services.
• AI Builder · Related to · Product
  Power Platform capability that adds prebuilt and custom AI models, such as document processing, text classification and prompts, to apps and flows.
• Microsoft Teams · Related to · Product
  Microsoft's collaboration hub for chat, meetings, calls and apps. It is also a main surface for Copilot and for agents built in Copilot Studio.
• SharePoint · Related to · Product
  Microsoft 365's platform for intranets, document libraries and team sites. Most files shared in Teams are stored in SharePoint, so its permissions directly decide what Copilot can find.
• Microsoft Lists · Related to · Product
  Tool for tracking information and work in customisable lists with views, rules and formatting, stored in SharePoint.
• Generative pages · Related to · Product
  Power Apps feature that generates app pages from a natural-language description on top of Dataverse data, using AI.

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