While some people say that PowerApps is Office, others will say PowerApps is Dynamics. They are both correct.
Canvas
Canvas apps si exactly what it sounds like, a blank canvas you create. Here you can choose where to store data: SharePoint, SQL Server, Office 365, OneDrive for Business, CDS , Excel, and many other data sources. For the ease of use I often see storage within SharePoint lists here.
Model Driven
Model Driven app is essentially the Dynamics database, but without all of the bells and whistles that come with Sales/Service/Marketing/Field Service/Project Service etc. It is a clean database where you can start from “scratch” and create fairly complex applications within a short period of time.
Why make a fuss about it?
Well, if you know Microsoft as an organization you will understand me asking this question. Office is now called Modern Workplace, and Dynamics is Business Applications. PowerApps is both, so where does it belong. What team will be the ones promoting the product, and who will gain from selling PowerApps licenses?
Up-sell, Down-sell or Cross-Sell?
Office – “Up-Sell”
While Office consultants se this ass an “Up-sell” and potentially expensive
Office E3 20$ + Plan 1 7$ = 27$
+ Plan 2 20$ = 40$
Dynamics – “Down-Sell”
Dynamics sees this as a “Down-sell”
Dynamics Sales 95$ —> Plan 2 40$ = 55$ savings pr customer
PowerApps – “Cross-Sell”
If you read Jukka’s post about PowerApps maybe what we are doing is creating a bridge between it all, the “Cross-Sell”. I can no longer only focus on Dynamics, and have to embrace PowerApps Canvas and Model Driven. Eventually I think the Office users also will see the benefits of the Model Driven, and then we can start adding value inn all areas to a common database.
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