Extending Microsoft Teams using Power Apps

Power Apps is a platform that empowers everyone to build business applications without writing code. With a simple and intuitive layout, it allows every user to build more and to achieve more. Microsoft Teams wants to embrace the power of apps created by users and allows you to use them on the platform. This way, we can say that every Power Apps app is also a Teams app.

This section of the book does not cover the creation of an app; it only shows you how you can integrate an existing app into Microsoft Teams.

Let's now take a look at a scenario to understand this better:

Power Apps scenario: Adele, the event manager

Adele is responsible for all the events at the company and has a budget to manage during the year. To help her with all the events and with the visualization of how much is being spent on each one, Adele has created a Power Apps app based on the data she already has from all the events...