Sunday, August 3, 2025

Unveiling the New Power Apps: Empowering Innovation with Enterprise-Grade Trust

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Today, we’re taking another big leap forward in applying AI to the future of app development: you can now work with agents to generate code directly in Microsoft Power Apps. This advancement merges the speed and flexibility of vibe coding with the connectivity, security, and scalability of a robust enterprise platform, transforming how applications are crafted.

The vision for this revolutionary shift was first unveiled at Microsoft Build 2025, where we showcased our collaboration with early access users to fine-tune this capability. As of now, Preview access has been expanded to all users across North America, with plans to roll it out globally soon.

This innovation ushers in an entirely new, agent-first approach to app development, enhancing the Power Apps experience from beginning to end. Power Apps makers can now start with a plan, partnering with intelligent agents to shape user stories, requirements, processes, data, and solution architecture. The collaboration doesn’t end there; as they craft and customize user experiences, the design process becomes iterative and responsive.

Traditional low-code development tools, like the Power Apps canvas, previously relied on complex abstraction layers for drag-and-drop configuration of pre-built components. While this model unlocked productivity for users uninterested in code, it introduced limitations on customization and creativity.

By allowing the generation of pages directly in code, we are removing these boundaries, enabling a broader range of creativity and customization. This evolution is especially significant given Power Apps’ established stature as a mature and enterprise-ready platform, used by millions for mission-critical business applications. Various emerging tools offer agent-based code generation, but they often falter in robustness and secure integration for enterprise needs.

Power Apps now bridges these two worlds effectively, combining the strengths of a leading low-code enterprise platform with the speed and agility of AI-driven app generation.

AI-Powered App Creation with Full Control

With the introduction of generative pages, users can transform a simple prompt into a tailored app experience in mere seconds. The process is straightforward: describe your app’s features, optionally upload a whiteboard sketch, select your necessary Dataverse tables, and voilà—a fully customized, production-ready app is generated, all without any coding required. This advancement builds on the inherent efficiencies of low-code development, marking the dawn of a new era within Microsoft’s trusted and scalable platform.

The AI engine behind the scenes generates the code for your app, enabling you to review, modify, and refine it, thereby ensuring you maintain full control. Built on open standards, the applications remain portable, extensible, and future-ready.

Generative pages uniquely combine AI-assisted creation with complete transparency and control over data, logic, and security. This duality empowers both business users and professional developers to confidently build enterprise-grade applications. For users at different experience levels, Power Apps facilitates a seamless transition between no-code and pro-code environments:

  • No-code to pro-code: Begin crafting your app by describing features in natural language, integrating code elements, or leveraging drag-and-drop functionality, all within the same application.
  • Full transparency: Access the underlying React code behind your application, providing complete visibility and control.
  • Iterative design: Easily update your app with simple prompts, such as “add a search bar” or “enable dark mode.” The platform even allows you to revert to prior versions with a single click.

Real Customers, Real Impact

Across various industries, organizations are already leveraging Power Apps to address pressing business challenges effectively. The implementation of generative pages is prompting remarkable transformations:

  • Time tracking, transformed: A global manufacturer eliminated manual spreadsheets and swiftly created an intuitive time reporting app with analytics and automated reporting.
  • Modernizing the old, effortlessly: A financial services firm reimagined a 25-year-old desktop tool as a modern web application for investment simulations, thanks to generative pages.
  • Student support, enhanced: At a prominent university, a team developed an advising app that significantly aids first-year students in tracking appointments and monitoring academic progress.
  • Game day, simplified: A youth sports league created a team manager app using generative pages, centralizing all logistics in an accessible format.
  • Equipment tracking, streamlined: One retail chain improved real-time tracking of equipment between stores, leading to reduced losses and faster audits.

These examples demonstrate the tangible benefits of Power Apps, highlighting that customers are not just working faster but do so with renewed confidence and clarity.

Enterprise-Grade, AI-Native

With generative pages, enterprises can harness the power of AI-driven app creation, bolstered by the security, governance, and global scale synonymous with Microsoft. Notably, Power Apps is designed specifically for enterprise needs from the outset. Here’s how:

  • Robust security and governance: Microsoft Power Platform includes in-built security measures, monitoring, and governance, ensuring that your apps benefit from the same protections as the broader Microsoft ecosystem.
  • Open, transparent code: Unlike competitors that produce opaque code, Power Apps utilizes open React and TypeScript, protecting users from being locked in to proprietary models.
  • Easy Dataverse integration: Thanks to its foundation on Microsoft Azure, Dataverse efficiently manages sensitive data with enterprise-grade security, seamlessly integrating with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.
  • Rich, interactive user interface (UI): The generative page capabilities support advanced UI features such as dark mode, interactive charts, and file uploads—transforming time-consuming tasks into quick, efficient solutions.

Get Started

The future of software development is undeniably AI-assisted, agent-driven, and incredibly swift. However, speed without security presents risks, and flexibility without governance can lead to disorder.

With the introduction of generative pages in preview, Microsoft Power Apps is embarking on a new chapter of enterprise app development. The blend of AI-powered creation, open code, and integrated security allows teams to transform concepts into functioning apps rapidly—no coding skills required. This innovative approach is particularly advantageous for organizations determined to maintain agility without compromising on essential controls.

To take the first step, simply add a page in any model-driven Power App, à la those created from existing plans, and articulate your build vision, or dive into our tutorials on the Learn page

If you’re already utilizing generative pages, we invite your thoughts and experiences—your feedback plays a crucial role in shaping the future of AI-native app development.

We’re excited to see what innovative applications you will create!

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