Power Apps is a collection of applications, services, connectors, and backend data platforms that allows makers or creators to develop applications at a rapid pace, with no or minimal code. It provides a set of tools allowing the creation of custom business applications. The idea is to put the power in the hands of the business users and provide them with the ability to create the necessary tools to be leveraged by the business.
The underlying data platform, called CDS, allows storing business data in a structured manner but is not the only backend available. Power Apps can leverage structured data stores, either through CDS or other structured databases supported by a large number of available connectors or through loosely structured data stores such as SharePoint. We can leverage either online or on-premises data sources. The most common ones include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Office 365
- Excel
- Dynamics 365
- SharePoint
- SQL Server
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