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Custom Applications for Real Business Processes
Many businesses rely on spreadsheets, email trails, paper forms or manual workarounds to manage important tasks. These processes may work for a time, but they can quickly become slow, difficult to control and hard to scale.
Power Apps gives businesses a practical way to create secure, user-friendly applications for specific operational needs without the cost or complexity of traditional software development.
While Power Apps is a low-code platform, most businesses still benefit from expert support to design, build and manage applications properly. Qi helps turn the technology into practical apps that fit your users, your processes and your wider systems.
What Power Apps Can Help You Improve
Power Apps can be used to create practical business applications for everyday processes, including:
- Internal request forms
- Approval workflows
- Job, task or case tracking
- Stock, asset or equipment records
- Customer, supplier or employee information capture
- Field or site-based data entry
- Mobile apps for operational teams
- Finance, operations or service team processes
- Apps that connect to Microsoft, third-party, cloud and on-premise systems
The aim is not to build technology for the sake of it. The aim is to remove friction, improve accuracy and give teams better tools for the work they already do.
Increase Output Without Increasing Headcount
Power Apps can help teams do more by reducing manual work, improving data capture and making everyday processes easier to complete.
For many businesses, the challenge is not that teams are unwilling to work efficiently. It is that they are relying on tools and workarounds that make simple tasks harder than they need to be.
Qi helps identify where a tailored Power App could save time, reduce duplication and improve the flow of information across the business.
How Qi Supports Power Apps Projects
App Discovery and Process Review
Qi starts by understanding the process, the users and the business outcome. This helps ensure the app is designed around real operational needs, not just technical functionality.
Custom App Design and Build
We create tailored Power Apps that are easy for users to adopt and aligned with the way your organisation works.
Rapid Low-Code Delivery
Power Apps projects can often be delivered more quickly than traditional software development projects, while still being structured, secure and built around clear business requirements.
Microsoft and Business System Integration
Power Apps can connect with tools such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Dataverse and other data sources to improve the flow of information across the business.
Automation and Reporting Links
Power Apps becomes even more valuable when connected with Power Automate and Power BI, helping businesses trigger workflows, reduce manual intervention and turn captured data into useful insight.
Governance, Security and Support
Qi helps ensure your Power Apps are structured, secure and manageable, with the right access controls, support and long-term governance in place.
Build Your Workforce Multiplier
Identify where apps, automation, dashboards and AI-ready workflows can remove friction and increase output.
Power Apps and Agentic AI
Power Apps forms part of the wider Microsoft Power Platform, helping businesses create the application layer needed for automation, reporting and AI-enabled processes.
As businesses move towards agentic AI, well-structured apps and connected data become increasingly important. Power Apps can help capture the right information, present it to the right users and connect processes that may later be supported by automation or intelligent agents.
Qi helps businesses take a practical approach, starting with the processes where better apps, cleaner data and connected workflows can make the biggest difference.
Why Businesses Work with Qi
Business-Led Guidance
We look beyond the software itself, taking time to understand your goals, processes and operational challenges before recommending the right solution.
Direct Access to Experts
You work with in-house consultants, developers and support specialists who understand your systems, reducing delays and unnecessary handovers.
Long-Term Support
We build lasting relationships with our clients, providing ongoing advice, support and system reviews as your business and technology needs evolve.
Connected IT Expertise
From ERP and Microsoft cloud solutions to reporting, automation, infrastructure and cyber security, Qi supports the systems that keep your business running.
Benefits of Power Apps
Reduce Manual Admin
Replace repetitive spreadsheets, forms and email-based processes with structured applications.
Improve Data Quality
Capture information consistently and reduce the risk of missing, duplicated or inaccurate data.
Connect Teams and Systems
Bring information from different Microsoft and business systems into one usable app experience.
Support Faster Decisions
Make it easier for teams to access, update and act on the information they need.
Scale with the Business
Create flexible applications that can evolve as your processes, teams and requirements change.
Strengthen Control
Use Microsoft’s security, governance and access management capabilities to keep business apps structured and protected.
Not Limited to Microsoft-Only Systems
Power Apps works naturally with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Business Central, SharePoint, Teams and Dataverse, but it is not limited to Microsoft tools.
Through Power Platform’s connector ecosystem, Power Apps can also work with third-party SaaS platforms, cloud applications, databases and on-premise systems.
Qi can help assess which systems can be connected and where a Power App could add the most value across your existing technology setup.
Who Power Apps Is For
Power Apps can support businesses that want to improve internal processes without commissioning large, bespoke software projects.
It is especially useful for:
- Manufacturers
- Distributors
- Engineering businesses
- Finance teams
- Operations teams
- Service teams
- Field or mobile teams
- Businesses using Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Business Central or other connected systems
- Businesses with manual processes, spreadsheets or repeated admin tasks
Build Better Business Apps with Qi
If your teams are relying on spreadsheets, manual processes or disconnected tools, Qi can help you explore how Power Apps could simplify the way your business works.
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Benefitting Clients with Power Platform
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Thistle Scientific Ltd
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Power Apps?
Microsoft Power Apps is a low-code application platform that helps businesses create custom apps for specific processes, teams and operational needs.
What can Power Apps be used for?
Power Apps can be used for internal forms, approvals, mobile data capture, task tracking, job management, asset records, service processes and many other business workflows.
Can Power Apps connect to our existing systems?
Yes. Power Apps can connect to Microsoft services, third-party SaaS platforms, cloud applications, databases and some on-premise systems, depending on the systems and integration requirements involved.
Is Power Apps only for Microsoft systems?
No. Power Apps works especially well with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Business Central, SharePoint and Dataverse, but it can also connect to many non-Microsoft systems.
Can our team build Power Apps themselves?
Power Apps is designed to be more accessible than traditional development, but most businesses benefit from expert support to design, build, secure and manage applications properly.
Can Qi improve an existing Power App?
Yes. Qi can review existing Power Apps, improve their structure, connect them to other systems and provide ongoing support.
Is Power Apps suitable for mobile teams?
Yes. Power Apps can be used to support field-based, site-based and mobile teams that need to capture or access information while away from the desk.