First reviews: Microsoft PowerApps & Flow will speed app creation, ease distribution, partners say

Although Microsoft just launched Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow on November 1, early adopters are already busy using the tools to build mobile apps and automated processes for their clients.

For Microsoft partner and ISV DynamicPoint, which builds SharePoint-based business automation applications for the Dynamics space, including customer and vendor portals integrated with GP and NAV, the launch of PowerApps and Flow offered a unique opportunity to capitalize on new technology to improve access and the flow of data.

One of the strengths of SharePoint is that all those pages are mobile friendly to a certain extent, says, Tiffany Allen, account executive at DynamicPoint. "With the release of PowerApps, we saw it as an opportunity to bring a more mobile-friendly version of our portal to our customers and their end users. One of the huge benefits that we saw in PowerApps was that it freed up the development time of our resources internally, knowing that we didn't have to have somebody actually coding this application but that we could build it with the tools that Microsoft was supplying."

Allen says that DynamicPoint has streamlined all the desktop functionality of its customer and vendor portals into a mobile application with large icons that is easy to click and navigate.

"We'll also show full historical details in a standard SharePoint desktop view but in the mobile app. We've really streamlined it to be just what's most pertinent to the customer and client," she says. "The beauty of it is that we didn't have to hammer ...