Hi and welcome to Azure and Dynamics 365 better together my name is Scott Durow
and today we're gonna be talking about PowerApps. Well of course we've had
PowerApps for a while they are those rather cool apps that we can create by dragging
and dropping elements onto a design surface and using Excel style formulas
and then using connectors we can connect to our Dynamics 365 environment
that's got all those first party apps for sales,service,marketing etc and then
of course we've got the CDS that we can connect to and if there's some data
created in Dynamics we can also put that into the CDS using connectors but
they're all rather separate components and we have to think carefully how we
connect them together well those of you that are observant may have noticed that
in version 9 online if you open up the solution Explorer you now see the power
apps logo so what's going on there. Well it's rather exciting because what we've
been after for a long time which is the xrm platform now has become a reality
with the CDS applications so the old CDS has gone away and the new CDS
effectively is the organization database platform that's got all the
functionality around workflows and custom entities and plugin. So those
first party apps have been decoupled from that CDS layer and so now power
apps is built on that CDS layer so that we can have canvas apps where we can
drag and drop elements and connect to our entities in our CDS but we can also
have model driven apps which are effectively built using the same
functionality as the first party apps so the great news is if you're a dynamics
365 expert you're now a power apps expert. So canvas apps requires us to create
our user interface from the ground up but model driven apps have got the
metadata driven user interface with all the functionality of business process
flows etc. So I've just come back from the dynamics 365 user group in Dublin and
this conference was a really great example of how you might use a canvas
app alongside a model driven app so the organizers of the event would use a
model driven app against the CDS that would contain entities around speakers
and events and once all the schedule is created we may have then have a canvas
app built on top of CDS as well that allows delegates to look at the schedule
and maybe give feedback on each of the speakers. So how is all of this licensed?
Well an office 365 license includes canvas apps but we really can't do very
much with the CDS. We have to go to the power apps plan 1 that allows us to
build canvas apps on top of CDS but doesn't allow us to use some of the more
premium features such as plugins and synchronous workflows and then we've got
the plan 2 - which allows us full access to that XRM platform and then of course
you've got the dynamics 365 enterprise plans that allows us to use the sales,
servicing apps as well as all of the features of that CDS platform. Plan 2
is kind of like that XRM platform that we have been wanting for a long time. So
when I go over to admin.powerspps.com I can create an environment and inside
that environment I can create a database and what this is doing is is actually
creating a dynamics 365 database that we know and love today and inside that it
creates a solution which holds all the CDS entities that I create through
admin.powerapps.com and then I can go and create app modules which are my
model driven apps and then if I head over to web.powerapps.com I've now got
the traditional canvas apps designer but if I swap over I can now create my model
driven apps. So I think you'll agree that this new business application platform
is really promising to be what we've been after for a very long time.
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