PowerApps and Flow Generally Available

Microsoft PowerApps, a tool for power users to create small apps, and Microsoft Flow, a hosted workflow engine, are now generally available in newly announced pricing tiers. Apps created with PowerApps and Flow could improve productivity by helping automate line-of-business applications, and the tools could help power users and business units create their own applications and reduce an organization’s IT request backlog. However, premium accounts are required to access full administrative features, and the metered utilization model of Flow could lead to unexpected costs if organizations adopt the service widely.

Power User Productivity Tools

PowerApps is a graphical application development environment that lets users without programming expertise create Azure-hosted applications that can present data for viewing and editing. Sample applications perform tasks such as budget tracking and cost estimation. PowerApps could make simple line-of-business applications easier to create and distribute to teams within an organization.