Exploring Power Apps September 2024 Update

Power Apps, Microsoft's application development platform, is designed to facilitate the creation of custom apps tailored to business needs without extensive coding knowledge. This tool enables both developers and non-developers to streamline business processes and improve workflows. The September 2024 update brings significant enhancements that focus on user experience and efficiency, ensuring that applications not only perform better but are also more intuitive to use.

The new features aim to improve productivity and foster innovation within organizations. This update can potentially transform how businesses interact with data and processes, making it a critical tool for anyone involved in digital transformation. By democratizing the app development process, Power Apps allows a broader range of professionals to contribute to their organization's digital evolution.

As businesses continue to embrace digital tools, updates like these highlight the importance of platforms that cater to enhanced user experiences and more efficient operational processes. Whether you are a seasoned developer or a business user, the new Power Apps features are designed to support more robust and user-friendly app creation, thereby enhancing the overall business performance.

 

Power Apps Monthly Feature Update

Summary: Welcome to the Power Apps monthly feature update! This blog shares what's new in Power Apps, including product, community, and learning updates. This month, we have key announcements from the Power Platform Community Conference, Explain this in GCC, the GA of Power Catalog, and more!

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Start building from plans, announced at PPCC

Bring the ability to build a plan to the Power Apps Studio. With this ability, developers can start working on the business problem in an iterative discussion with Copilot in Power Apps. This iterative and outcome-focused development cycle can all happen right within Power Apps Studio.

Copilot Power Fx Formula Explanations now available in GCC

The Formula Bar Copilot button is now enabled for GCC environments. You can select the option to Explain the Formula and receive a natural language description of what the formula is doing. This feature helps diagnose problems in an app by explaining each formula in simple terms.

Intelligent Application workload guidance as part of Power Platform Well-Architected

New documentation on Intelligent Application Workloads in Power Platform is available. This guide provides insights for planning, developing, and maintaining intelligent application workloads. Key areas covered include responsible AI, security and compliance, performance optimization, deployment and testing, and integration options.

Enterprise-Grade Governance

Announcing Public preview for mask sensitive data with column-level security

Admins can now mask sensitive fields and eliminate the risk of sensitive data being bulk exported. This feature helps protect customer data and sensitive information from data leaks.

General availability for cross-tenant license recognition Power Apps using Dataverse

Cross-tenant license recognition is now generally available for canvas and model-driven apps using Dataverse. This reduces administrative overhead for multi-tenant organizations.

Power catalog is Generally Available

The catalog enables makers to share and install reusable components and templates customized for their organizations. This provides more useful starting points than generic templates. The Catalog is built on top of the Solutions framework and comes with enterprise-level security.

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