Microsoft Power Platform
Power Apps development is quick to start and easy to get wrong at scale. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner that also builds full .NET systems, we build Power Apps, Power Automate flows and Power BI reporting that are governed, supportable and still standing in three years, and we'll tell you when low-code is the wrong tool.
Proof
Wandle Housing Association has more than 7,000 homes across nine south London boroughs. Staff and managers needed to see case workloads and performance as they happened, not in month-end spreadsheets.
As part of Wandle's Dynamics 365 implementation, we delivered Power BI analytics with individual and team dashboards. Case queues let staff pick up work and progress it. All of it integrates bi-directionally with the existing Housing Management System.
Every team has immediate analytics across anti-social behaviour, complaints, fraud, repairs, estate management and income. There is one live view of work, not six departmental versions of it.
It's the most common way organisations arrive here: someone enabled Power Platform, forty apps appeared, three of them now run something important, and nobody knows which. Citizen development did its job, proving demand, and then outgrew its governance.
We audit the estate: which apps are used and by whom, where the data actually sits, what breaks under licence or platform changes, what each app costs to keep, and which apps should be consolidated, rebuilt or retired. You get a written picture of the estate and a prioritised plan, governance, ALM and environment strategy included.
No gated form, no obligation to remediate with us. It starts with the same 30-minute scoping call as everything else.
Low-code has a ceiling, and pretending otherwise is how estates end up unsupportable. Complex data models, high-volume transactions, demanding integrations, external users at scale, licence costs that climb past the cost of building, these are the signals that a custom .NET build is the cheaper, sturdier answer.
Because we build both, the recommendation isn't rigged. Sometimes the answer is a Power App on Dataverse; sometimes it's a bespoke system with a Power BI layer on top; sometimes, as at Wandle, where Dynamics 365 and Power BI run alongside a bespoke .NET resident portal, it's deliberately both.
It depends on whether apps are standalone or ride on licences you already hold, how many users touch premium connectors, and whether Dataverse is involved. Licensing is the first thing we model in scoping, because it changes the build recommendation, sometimes decisively.
Environments separated for development, test and production; apps deployed through pipelines rather than edited live; connectors controlled by policy; every app with a named owner. If that sounds heavier than "citizen development", it is, it's what keeps app forty-one from taking down app three.
Almost always, partially, and that's the honest answer. In most unmanaged estates some apps are unused and can simply be retired, most of the rest need consolidating or re-homing onto a proper data model, and a small core deserves rebuilding properly. The audit tells you which is which before you spend.
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Whether it's a new build or a sprawl that needs taming, we'll tell you what to keep, what to fix and what it costs to know for sure.
