Executive Focus: Power Apps Benefits and Risks

• Power Apps, part of the Microsoft 365 Power Platform, is a low-code development platform for building simple, data-intensive line-of-business apps.
• It speeds implementation of line-of-business apps while reducing development burden on dev and IT teams.
• It has trade-offs and risks that organizations must consider when determining how it will be used.
• It has evolved since its 2016 debut to deliver more capabilities, but it now requires a higher level of development expertise.

Power Apps is a component of the Power Platform set of services, which are a part of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. These services, which also include Power Automate, Dataverse, Power BI, and others focus on simplifying line-of-business (LOB) processes and access to and modification of organizational data from all sources. Power Apps allows the creation of LOB apps without expensive developer resources, but it requires more expertise than when it was first introduced, and organizations must provide oversight