This brief introduction was given at the first Utah PowerApps & Flow User Group meeting in September 2019. These slides provide a very brief introduction to the Power Platform and were followed up by demos of actual applications that had been built leveraging the platform.

1. POWER
PLATFORM
INTRODUCTION
POWERAPPS & FLOW
GREG MCMURRAY
SEPTEMBER 2019

2. GREG MCMURRAY
• Experience in Aerospace, Branding & Marketing,
Energy, Healthcare, Software
• Currently Senior Software Engineer at WECC
• Co-Founder of Aritus Computer Services, L.L.C.
• President of SharePoint / Office 365
and Dynamics 365 User Groups #MUGUT
• Find me online:
- @goyuix
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/goyuix
- https://stackoverflow.com/cv/goyuix
( top 2% of users )

5. OUR JOURNEY BEGINS
APRIL 2016
 James Phillips introduces Power
Apps and Flow to the Business
Apps family
 “People in [all] departments … not
slowing down to ask for
permission”
 “Not every business problem can
be solved with off-the-shelf
solutions”
 “Too many technology needs end
up unsolved”
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-flow-and-announcing-the-public-preview-
of-powerapps/

6. MICROSOFT FLOW
 IFFT & Zapier
 Triggers
 Actions
 Connectors

7. POWERAPPS
 Custom line of business applications
 Forms over database fields
 Extremely fast to build and deploy
 Types: Canvas, Model, Portal

8. LICENSING CHANGES
 Talk to your partner for clarification
 Substantial changes in February and October 2019
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-
platform/admin/powerapps-flow-licensing-faq
 https://jussiroine.com/2019/01/the-comprehensive-licensing-
guide-to-microsoft-flow-and-powerapps/

9. WHERE TO LEARN MORE
 Learn menu on both landing sites
 https://microft.com/learn
 https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-powerapps-learning-
resources/
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/index
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/

10. DEMOS
Bryant
Boyer
Joshua
Miller
Ben
Fetters
Marty
Galvan
Rob
McArthur