I really enjoyed delivering a session on “Democratize development with Power Apps & AI Builder” for the #m365virtualmarathon conference on the Boston Marathon Track. I get so excited talking about the endless possibilities of #LowCode #NoCode Platforms like the Microsoft #PowerApps to empower businesses around the world.

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

4. WHERE ARE WE?

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.

23. PREBUILT AI MODELS

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

27. MICROSOFT LEARN
aka.ms/D365FundamentalsLP

28. aka.ms/M365DevAccount

29. THANK YOU
Let’s continue the conversation
@venkatarangan tncv.me