We design, build and support custom business applications with Microsoft Power Apps, replacing spreadsheets, paper and disconnected tools with applications that fit the way your teams actually work.
Whether you need a single internal tool or a connected set of applications across departments, we handle design, data, logic, security, integration and ongoing support.
Low-code
Dataverse
Governed
Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code application development platform within the Microsoft Power Platform. It is used to build business applications that capture data, run processes and connect to the systems an organisation already relies on: Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Dataverse, SQL databases, Azure services and external APIs.
It is worth understanding properly, because it is often misunderstood. Low-code means much of the repetitive work (screen layout, data binding, standard controls, common security patterns) is handled by the platform rather than written by hand. That removes genuine effort and shortens delivery.
It does not mean a complex application can be assembled with no expertise. Determining the right data model, enforcing business rules, designing permissions correctly, integrating systems reliably and building something maintainable still requires real engineering judgement. Low-code changes where the effort goes; it does not remove it.
Most organisations don't set out to "adopt low-code". They set out to fix a specific frustration. These are the ones we see most often, and the ones Power Apps is genuinely well suited to.
A tracker works for ten rows and badly for ten thousand. Versions circulate, formulas break, and nobody is sure which file is current.
Information captured once, then re-typed into another tool, is where errors and hours disappear. Capture once, route onward.
When Finance, Operations and Sales each hold their own version of a process, reconciling them becomes a job in itself.
If every team runs "the same" process differently, standardising it in an application enforces one agreed way of working.
Requests that live in inboxes are invisible until chased. Applications make status, ownership and next steps visible.
Forms completed on paper are slow, hard to search and easy to lose. Digitising them makes the data usable.
Approvals, reminders and follow-ups consume time that could go to actual work, and they are exactly what an application plus automation does well. That is usually where the case for building something starts.
These are the application types we build most often, grouped by the business problem they solve rather than by technical category, because that is how most clients arrive at the conversation.
Problem: day-to-day operations tracked in spreadsheets, whiteboards or tribal knowledge.
How it works: a structured app for recording operational activity, with role-based views and reporting on top.
One reliable operational record, visible to the people who need it.
Problem: data collected on paper or ad-hoc files, then re-keyed for reporting.
How it works: validated forms feeding a controlled data store, feeding dashboards.
Cleaner data in, faster reporting out.
Problem: teams coordinating through email threads and shared spreadsheets.
How it works: an app tailored to a team's specific tasks with shared visibility.
Less coordination overhead, clearer accountability.
Problem: approval requests scattered across inboxes, with no audit trail.
How it works: a request form plus Power Automate approval flows and notifications.
Faster decisions, full history, nothing lost.
Problem: assets and stock tracked in unreliable spreadsheets.
How it works: structured item records, movement history, role-based access, in the field via mobile when needed.
Accurate stock and asset visibility.
Problem: maintenance schedules and job records on paper.
How it works: scheduled jobs, mobile-friendly capture, photo/attachment support, status tracking.
Better traceability and scheduling control.
Problem: project status living in several places at once.
How it works: a project structure with tasks, owners, milestones and a single status source.
One trustworthy view of project health.
Problem: routine customer or supplier interactions handled manually.
How it works: internal apps supporting those relationships, or Power Pages portals for external access where appropriate.
More consistent interaction, and we'll say when a portal fits better than an app.
Problem: key systems that don't talk to each other.
How it works: an app acting as the workflow layer between ERP, CRM, finance, HR or line-of-business systems via API or Azure services.
Data flows without manual re-entry.
These are capability descriptions and illustrative patterns, not claims about specific delivered projects or results.
Power Apps offers fundamentally different approaches. Choosing the wrong one early is the most common reason an application becomes painful later. This is a decision we get involved in deliberately.
Canvas apps start from a blank canvas. You place and configure controls to design an interface around a specific task or workflow. They suit applications where the user experience drives the design: mobile-first tools, field capture, or a process that doesn't map neatly to standard forms. They can work with many data sources, including Dataverse, SharePoint, SQL, Microsoft 365 and external APIs.
Best for:
Model-driven apps are built around data first. You define the data model, relationships and business process, and the application is generated around it. They suit structured, process-heavy applications where consistency, complex relationships and role-based security matter more than pixel-level design. They are built on Microsoft Dataverse.
Best for:
Power Apps supports use across desktop and mobile, and applications can be designed for phones, tablets, browsers and mixed scenarios. It is worth being precise: responsive design means the application is built and tested to work well across the devices your users actually have. It does not mean identical functionality is guaranteed on every screen and configuration. We design for the real device mix, test on it, and tell you honestly where behaviour differs.
The right approach depends on four things:
Where several approaches could work, we explain the trade-offs rather than defaulting to the one we happen to prefer.
A feature list is easy to write and hard to use. Below are the capabilities that actually matter in a working business application, and what each one buys you in practice.
Proper field types, defaults and required fields are the difference between data worth reporting on and data you must clean first. We design forms around how the work is done, not around the schema.
Validation stops bad data at entry; business rules enforce what is allowed to happen. Enforcing a rule in the application is one of the clearest reasons to move a process out of a spreadsheet.
Not everyone should see every record, field or action. Applications present different views and permissions by role, so each person sees what is relevant and permitted to them.
Once data is in a controlled store, finding it becomes practical: filtered views, saved queries and search that surface the right records rather than requiring you to scroll a spreadsheet.
Many processes have a defined sequence: request, review, approve, execute, close. Applications guide users through it so steps are not skipped and status is always clear.
Simple charts, counts and status indicators inline. Where deeper analytics is needed, that data flows into Power BI. We keep visualisation in the app focused on the decisions made inside it.
Applications read from and write to the systems that already hold your data, so an app becomes part of your environment rather than another silo.
Applications are not finished at launch. We structure solutions so they can be extended, updated and maintained (versioned, documented and deployable) rather than becoming a one-off nobody dares touch.
An application is only as good as the data behind it. The question we start with is not "Dataverse or not" but "where should this data live, and what already owns it."
Microsoft's structured data service, and the natural foundation for model-driven apps. It provides defined tables, relationships, business rules, security roles and auditing in one place. The right choice when data is genuinely relational, shared across applications, or needs strong role-based access and audit history.
For simpler applications, SharePoint lists, Microsoft 365 data and other supported connectors can be entirely appropriate, and quicker to adopt where the data already lives there. We match the data store to the application rather than forcing every project onto the same foundation.
Where data already lives in SQL Server or another line-of-business database, applications can work with it directly. Here the design questions are about performance, read/write patterns and where the system of record truly sits.
Applications reach into external systems through REST APIs, custom connectors, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps and Azure API Management. This is where a Power Apps application stops being an isolated tool and becomes part of your actual operations.
Quality & consistency
Definition, validation and ownership of data are decided up front, because retrofitting them into a live application is costly.
Permissions & data access
Access is enforced at the data and application level, aligned with your identity and existing controls.
What determines integration options
Options, licensing and requirements depend on the systems, connectors, architecture, data volumes and your environment. We assess this per project rather than assuming a standard answer.
An application captures and displays information; automation is what makes things happen with it. Used together, they turn a form into a working process.
The application is the interface where a person records or requests something. Power Automate is the engine that carries it onward: routing it, notifying the right people, updating another system, and escalating when something is overdue.
From the user's perspective it is one experience. Underneath, a form submission can trigger a chain of activity that would otherwise be done by hand.
A field engineer submits a maintenance request in a Power App (asset, fault, photo, priority). On submit, Power Automate:
Power Automate is a dedicated service in its own right, with its own design considerations around error handling, retries and ownership. We build the automation needed to make your application work as a complete process, and where a project calls for deeper automation work we take that on through our workflow automation practice.
Explore Workflow AutomationApprovals
Notifications
Task assignment
Automated follow-up
Power Apps sits inside Microsoft's security model, which gives you a strong starting point, but a platform being secure and an application being secure are not the same thing. Security is a design decision made throughout the build, not a setting applied at the end.
Built around least privilege: users get what their role requires and no more. This applies at the application level (who can open it, which screens they see) and the data level (which records and fields they can read or change). Roles are decided deliberately, not left to defaults.
Development happens across separate development, testing and production environments, so changes are validated before reaching live users. Sharing is controlled explicitly rather than proliferating through convenience sharing.
For organisations in the Netherlands and across Europe, where data is stored, how it flows and who can access it are practical questions, not just legal ones. We do not claim Power Apps automatically makes an application GDPR-compliant. That depends on design, configuration, the data and your controls.
Validating input rather than trusting it, enforcing permissions on the server side and not just the interface, controlling secrets and connection credentials properly, and limiting what each component may do. These are engineering decisions made during development.
Security is not a one-time review. Applications are tested for correct permissions and behaviour, then maintained: dependency and platform updates, review of sharing and access as teams change, and monitoring of what the application actually does in use.
How an application is licensed, who owns it, and how it is governed across the organisation all affect cost, supportability and risk. These are decisions worth getting right at the start.
Power Apps is a general-purpose platform, which can make it hard to picture what it would actually do for you. These are the use cases we see most often, organised by the function that benefits.
Recording and tracking operational activity, capturing exceptions and incidents, and giving supervisors a live view of where work stands, instead of reconciling spreadsheets at the end of the week.
Stock and asset tracking, goods-in and goods-out records, cycle counts and inventory accuracy, captured where the work happens, including on a handheld device, so the record reflects reality.
Structured capture feeding cleaner reporting, controlled approval flows with an audit trail, and fewer manual reconciliation steps between systems.
Onboarding checklists, internal request handling, equipment and access provisioning, and employee self-service for routine questions.
Job scheduling, mobile job records, photo and document capture on site, and status tracking from dispatch to completion.
Tasks, milestones, owners and status in one place, with a single trustworthy view of project health rather than status scattered across several tools.
Internal tools supporting customer and supplier interactions, or external access through a Power Pages portal where the audience is outside the organisation.
We deliberately keep this list to the areas that match what we actually do: operational improvement, data and integration, and business applications. If your situation doesn't appear here, that usually means it is worth a conversation rather than a page of filler.
How an application gets built matters as much as what gets built. This is the sequence we work through, adapted to the size and shape of each project.
We start with the problem, not the platform. What is not working, what does it cost you, and what would better look like? This is where we establish whether an application is genuinely the right answer.
We look at how the work is actually done, who does it, what data is involved and where it currently lives. Process problems are frequently misdiagnosed as software problems, and fixing the process first changes what needs building.
We agree what is in scope, what deliberately is not, and the architecture that fits: canvas or model-driven, where the data lives, what needs integrating, and how it will be licensed and secured.
We design the screens and the information structure together, so the application matches both the task and the data model. Getting this right early prevents the expensive redesign later.
We build the application, the data model and the connections to the systems it needs, with the error handling, retries and monitoring that keep an integration dependable rather than a quiet point of failure.
Testing covers more than "does the button work": correct behaviour under real conditions, permissions doing what they should for each role, and whether people can actually use it comfortably.
We deploy through controlled development, test and production environments, and support the people using the application, because an app that is technically correct but not adopted has not solved anything.
After launch we maintain the application: updates, small improvements, extensions as needs change, and keeping it healthy over time.
A note on timelines and methodology: We have not stated fixed delivery timelines or a rigid methodology here, because both depend on scope and context. What we commit to is working in reviewable increments so you see progress early and can adjust priorities as you go.
We want to be precise here, because this is where service pages usually overstate. Each item below is a potential outcome of a well-designed application, not a promised result, and not a figure we have invented.
Work that involves copying, re-typing and chasing can often be reduced or removed by capturing information once and letting the application and automation route it.
When a process runs inside an application, it runs the same way every time. That consistency makes results comparable and quality less dependent on who happened to do the task.
Validation at the point of entry improves data, which in turn makes any reporting built on it more trustworthy.
Information held in a controlled, searchable store is available to the people who need it, when they need it, including in the field.
Status, ownership and next steps visible in one place reduce the time spent asking "where is this and whose turn is it".
Because Power Apps integrates with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Azure and external systems, it tends to extend what you already use rather than adding an isolated tool.
We will not attach percentages, savings figures, named clients or case-study results to this page unless they are verified. Your situation determines the outcome, and we would rather scope it honestly than advertise a number we cannot stand behind.
Power Apps is the right answer for some situations and the wrong answer for others. Honest comparison is more useful than a sales pitch, so here is where each option genuinely fits.
Spreadsheets are flexible, familiar and free, and for small, stable, single-person tasks they remain a perfectly reasonable choice. They break down when the data becomes relational, when multiple people edit at once, when access needs controlling, or when the process needs validation and an audit trail. Power Apps is worth the move when those pressures arrive, not before.
Off-the-shelf products are quick to adopt and cheaper up front, and for standard processes they are often the right buy. They become costly when your process is genuinely different, when you need integration the product does not support, or when your requirements are stuck on a vendor's roadmap. Power Apps fits the middle ground: more tailored than off-the-shelf, far faster to deliver than a bespoke build from scratch.
When requirements are complex, highly specific, need deep custom engineering, unusual performance characteristics or ownership of every layer, a purpose-built application is the better route. The useful question is not which is more "advanced" but which fits the problem, the timeline and who will maintain it. We tell clients plainly when a custom build is the right answer rather than a Power Apps project.
Explore Custom Software & Full-Stack DevelopmentSometimes the real need is not an application at all but a properly integrated platform: ERP or CRM implemented and connected correctly. Power Apps can complement that landscape, and it cannot replace an enterprise system that your business genuinely requires. Where that is the case we will say so.
Explore System IntegrationLower development effort does not mean lower complexity in the solution. Licensing costs real money and depends on user type and scenario. Scalability and integration depth have limits that vary by requirement. And long-term ownership still matters, whoever builds the application. These trade-offs are the conversation, not the fine print.
Cost is a legitimate first question. The honest answer is that it depends on several variables, and rather than publish a misleading figure, we scope properly and price against real requirements.
Application requirements
How much needs to be built, and how specific it is.
Data sources and connectors
Where the data lives and which connectors are needed.
Licensing
Depends on the type of application, how users access it, and the connectors involved. Microsoft's licensing model changes over time.
Integrations
The number and complexity of systems the application must work with.
Security and governance
The access model, environment structure and audit requirements.
Number of users
Including the distinction between internal users and external users.
Ongoing support
What level of maintenance and improvement you need after launch.
Power Apps has more than one licensing model, and the right one depends on the scenario: internal users, external users, premium connectors and Dataverse all affect it. We recommend confirming current figures against Microsoft's official licensing documentation, because the details change and the correct answer is specific to your environment. We are glad to walk through it with you, but we will not publish fixed prices or definitive licensing advice on a web page, because it would not be accurate.
A project assessment is the normal starting point for anything beyond a small, well-defined application. It is how we get from "we think we need an app" to a realistic scope, a sensible approach and a defensible estimate. It also prevents the most common and expensive mistake: building before the requirements are genuinely understood.
Applications change as your business does. We support what we build, and offer support arrangements covering fixes, improvements, extensions and keeping the application healthy and current.
Explore Support & MaintenanceStraight answers to the questions that come up most often when businesses are considering Power Apps.
If a process in your organisation is running on spreadsheets, paper or chasing, it is worth a conversation. Tell us what is not working and we will give you a straight answer on whether Power Apps is the right fit, and just as plainly, if it is not.
We will talk through the problem, the data and the systems involved, and what a sensible first step looks like. No obligation, and no assumption that you already know what you need built.
