Monday, November 30, 2015

Microsoft"s PowerApps spices up its secret cloud sauce

In another rapid catch-up move to the cloud, Microsoft announced a new shortcut method to enable mobile use of line-of-business apps, PowerApps — not only on iOS and Android, but of course, Windows 10 and Windows 10 Phone. It’s about turning apps—especially SaaS apps—into diversely mobile apps.


Note that Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store, among others, carry the client-side of these apps, but the back-end, server geometry of these apps has been dominated largely by a superfluity of cloud-based back ends, some on Apache/Tomcat, Nginx, in combinations with an increasing variety of relational and non-relational database infrastructure. A commonality: a wild west of server back-end structures.


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Microsoft"s PowerApps spices up its secret cloud sauce

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