The Power Apps Playbook: Design, Build, and Deploy Business Applications Faster with Low-Code Automation

By Fred Thompson

Unlock the full power of low-code development and take your skills from beginner to expert with the most comprehensive Microsoft Power Apps guide ever published. Power Apps in Practice is the definitive all-in-one resource for designing, building, and scaling professional-grade business applications.

Whether you are a business analyst looking to solve a departmental bottleneck or an IT professional aiming to accelerate software delivery, this book guides you step-by-step from foundational data modeling to advanced, agentic AI integrations. Inside, you'll discover how to:

Master the Ecosystem: Navigate environments, licensing, and the core differences between Canvas and Model-Driven architectures.

Architect Data with Precision: Move beyond simple spreadsheets and master Microsoft Dataverse to build secure, relational, and scalable foundations.

Design for Adoption: Build beautiful, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that employees actually enjoy using.

Harness Power Fx: Learn the logic and language of the platform to create complex, high-performance app behaviors.

Automate Beyond the App: Seamlessly integrate Power Automate to handle background workflows, approvals, and system-wide notifications.

Deploy Intelligent Agents: Build next-generation applications by embedding Microsoft Copilot and AI Builder to automate data extraction and reasoning.

Enterprise-Grade Governance: Manage the full Application Lifecycle (ALM) with professional deployment pipelines, security roles, and monitoring.

Unlike basic tutorials that only skim the surface, this book delivers a complete professional journey-blending architectural theory with hands-on projects and best practices from real-world enterprise experts. By the end, you won't just "build apps"; you'll architect strategic solutions that drive innovation and efficiency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GH63PXSJ
• ISBN13: 9798244074260
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"