Reduced pricing makes Microsoft Power Apps more accessible for your business

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the reduction in price for all Power Apps per user and per app plans, effective October 1, 2021.

With the goal of making the platform more accessible, the price reduction benefits both organisations who are starting their Power Apps journey with a small number of users, and those deploying the software across the entire workforce alike.

Users can expect the following Power Apps licensing changes:

• The Power Apps per user plan will be priced at $54.90 per user/month. This is a decrease from the previous price of $109.8 per user/month. Plan entitlements remain unchanged, including the ability for users to run unlimited apps and portals.
  
  
• The Power Apps per app plan will be priced at $13.70 per user/app/month, a decrease from the previous price of $27.4 per user/app/month. Like the per user plan, the per app plan will also be available across the same commerce channels without license minimums or other purchase requirements.

In addition to these price reductions, Microsoft will be simplifying the entitlements to each plan "by providing users with the ability to run one app or access one portal, in contrast with the current entitlement of two apps and one portal" and providing flexibility for customers seeking to license users one app at a time. 

Let's take a closer look at the Power Apps platform, and how it can benefit your business.

What is PowerApps?

Power Apps allows anyone to quickly build and share low-code apps to modernise processes and solve business challenges. Using simple drag and drop editors, templates and easy deployment instructions allows anyone in your team to build apps to support productivity and innovation, ultimately enhancing the way they work.

Learn more about Microsoft Power Apps in this short video.

How can your business benefit from using Power Apps?

From employee onboarding and expense approvals to employee idea generation and risk reporting and everything in between, Power Apps functionality is limited only by the imagination of your team.

Think streamlining internal processes into a workflow, automation, data visualisation and reporting, or collaboration with your employees, field workers, your management team and even your customers. Power Apps can be experienced as a mobile app, a website or even within Microsoft Teams.

Common examples of how Power Apps can be used to improve your business include:

• Employee onboarding processes.
• Sales orders and processes which integrate with your CRM.
• COVID-19 related tracking and monitoring.
• Process improvement and flow with managerial requests and approvals.
• Centralising notifications from disparate systems.
• Financial reporting and monitoring.
• Marketing automation.
• Project management and resource planning.

How Diamond IT's Software Development team can help you

Our Software Development team is ready to assist you in getting the most out of using Microsoft Power Apps and are experts in a wide range of solutions, including:

• Microsoft CRM - Dynamics 365
• Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
• Microsoft SharePoint and Teams Collaboration Solutions
• Custom Application and App Development
• Integration between Software Applications 

To give your organisation a competitive edge, call us today on 1300 307 907.

*Image credit: Microsoft