Understanding Power Apps

• 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 enables the creation of internal business apps by citizen developers, rather than using expensive development team resources. 
• The platform consists of hosted development, testing, publishing, and runtime services for building and running apps within a Microsoft 365 tenancy.
• Apps can use a wide range of data sources, and most will incur extra cost.

Power Apps allows the creation of line-of-business (LOB) apps without expensive development team resources by enabling citizen developers (also referred to as makers), who are motivated to build apps but are not expert developers. Apps implemented using Power Apps can access and modify organizational data to simplify common processes that are not addressed by solutions provided by internal IT teams or third parties. However, Power Apps development requires an understanding of general software development concepts, such as working with data sources, UI design, controls, properties, and events, and basic coding with the Power Fx language, which is similar to Excel functions. Furthermore, administrator oversight and management are required for governance.