Power Apps

- [Instructor] It's time to talk about some of the Power platform components. Many of these will be covered in more detail as it applies to app makers, but it's a good idea to have a general understanding of all the moving parts. So Power Platform has many moving parts. It's a collection of products and services for solving business problems. Let's take a minute and talk through a little bit about each of them. I'll point out the ones that we'll drill into into this course, but I feel it's important for context to have an awareness of each of these. So first, we'll start with Power Apps. Power Apps allow us to build line of business applications that can be built with no-code, low-code, or pro-code options. For example, we have a Canvas app. You'll see here a screen capture from a Canvas app. We can build these by dragging and dropping controls onto a canvas. We use connectors to work with data and the logic that we're going to use building a Canvas app is very similar to what we see and what we're used to when we're building with Excel. Next, we have model-driven apps. These are apps built based on the data, the data model. And that data model comes from Microsoft Dataverse. You can include Canvas apps as custom pages in this app navigation. Microsoft uses model-driven apps themselves as their first party apps, the Dynamics 365 sales, marketing customer service apps, those are all model-driven apps.