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Unleashing the Power of Dynamics 365 Power Apps as a Platform

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their processes and enhance productivity. Dynamics 365 Power Apps emerges as a powerful and flexible platform, providing a plethora of features and extensibility options. This article explores the capabilities, market position, cost benefits, and how an expert in Power Apps can assist in designing and developing efficient no-code/low-code solutions.

Power Apps: A Powerful and Flexible Platform

Dynamics 365 Power Apps empowers organizations to build custom applications without the need for extensive coding knowledge. With its user-friendly interface, it allows users to create intuitive and visually appealing applications for a wide range of business scenarios. The platform offers various templates, connectors, and data integration capabilities, enabling seamless integration with other Microsoft services and third-party systems.

Feature-Rich and Extensible

Power Apps offers a rich set of features that cater to diverse business requirements. These features include drag-and-drop visual development, responsive layouts, data integration, AI builder, and pre-built connectors. The platform’s extensibility capabilities allow developers to enhance functionality by adding custom code using JavaScript, TypeScript, and other scripting languages. Additionally, Power Apps integrates well with other Microsoft services such as Power Automate (formerly Flow) and Power BI, further extending its capabilities.

Dynamics 365 Power Apps has gained significant traction in the market due to its versatility and ease of use. Its integration with the broader Dynamics 365 suite, including CRM and ERP solutions, provides organizations with a comprehensive business platform. Power Apps caters to a wide range of industries and sectors, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. The platform’s strong community support and Microsoft’s commitment to continuous improvement ensure its market relevance and future growth.

Cost Benefits over .NET or Java Development

Compared to traditional development using .NET or Java, Power Apps offers substantial cost benefits. The platform reduces development time and cost by enabling citizen developers to create applications without extensive coding knowledge. Organizations can leverage existing Microsoft licenses, such as Office 365 or Dynamics 365, to access Power Apps, eliminating the need for additional investments. Moreover, Power Apps supports rapid prototyping, iteration, and deployment, resulting in faster time-to-market and reduced development cycles.

by lokin

Dynamics CRM Performance checklist

This could be an ongoing topic ever, You have to check health of your CRM on regular basis and/or every time new development is done certain checks should be made. In current Agile world when Business takes very short time to change process software must adapt and frequent changes are desired. There is possible negligence of long term impact causing performance issues.

This could be nightmare for any product owner, technical architect to find the real cause of performance issue. Here list of some standard issues that we investigated and improved upon

  • Improve workflows that may cause delays
    • Longer workflows with too many steps, can be replaced by plugins with few lines.
    • Clean up waiting workflows
  • Automatic deletion of completed items
  • Java Scripts with synchronous calls
    • Loops within Scripts that make sync calls(this is worst programming)
  • Multiple plugins on same event with Synchronous steps(Try to combine them and call from one plugin)
    • This becomes problem, when developers do not want to touch existing code 🙂
  • Late binding server side plugins are faster that early binding.
  • Third party API services, latency and response from other system is key here.
    • Calls made from plugins/custom workflows to external system, this can cause delays in internal processes
    • Calls made by external system to CRM, make sure to create staging entity to collect any data and process them in batches in background.
  • Enable Compression in IIS(On premise)
  • The reason for our issue was OLEDBTImeout !!! Yes because the OLEDBTimeout was 30 sec the deletion jobs were timing out.(OnPremise)

There can be other reasons and possible solutions, feel free to write to me to discuss more ideas you may have.