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What is Power Apps?

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What is Power Apps?

What Power Apps is: each app type and what it's for, where Dataverse fits, what's really included with Microsoft 365, and when not to use it.

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The three app types

Power Apps is really three products under one name, and choosing the wrong one is the most common early mistake.

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Dataverse is the fork in the road

Every serious Power Apps conversation arrives at Dataverse, the platform's relational database. It brings real tables, role-based and row-level security, auditing, business rules, and APIs — everything a SharePoint list…

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What's actually included with Microsoft 365

The seeded rights confuse everyone, so here is the practical line:

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The governance part you can't skip

Because makers can build apps without asking IT, the platform needs guardrails before it needs a roadmap: environments to separate development from production, DLP policies to stop a well-meaning flow from piping payrol…

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Where it fits

For Microsoft 365 organisations, Power Apps is the fastest route from "we track this in a spreadsheet and it hurts" to a working, mobile-friendly app with real security — embedded in Teams, automated with Power Automate…

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