Building Applications in Office 365 & Teams

Using a practical, affordable approach to building applications with Crow Canyon Software!

A PowerApps Alternative

For Citizen Developers

Greater Affordability

Visual Workflow Designer by Crow Canyon Software

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Building Applications on Office 365 – Practical Advice for Citizen Developers

Citizen Developers using a no-code/low-code platform, such as our NITRO Studio, can produce effective solutions that improve the organization’s efficiency and streamline operations.

However, simply having a tool like NITRO Studio, as powerful as it is, does not make someone a skilled application developer. Established principles and methods should be followed to produce robust and sustainable applications. One model that has proven effective is “Application Lifecycle Management”.

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How Crow Canyon Helps You Deliver Exceptional Results

Using Microsoft Office 365 & SharePoint Platforms
Office 365, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint on-premises provide a solid base for building business process automation solutions.

NITRO Studio Layer
NITRO Studio gives you the ability to build highly functional and useful applications for your organization on top of Office 365, Teams, & SharePoint.

Application Design
With a solid foundation established, you can build applications that meet a wide-variety of organizational needs.

Pre-Built Applications
Crow Canyon also offers pre-built applications that can be customized to your organization’s exact requirements.

Productivity Applications
NITRO Studio integrates with databases, ERP systems, CRMs, and many other third party software programs bringing great flexibility and power to your NITRO-built applications.

How Crow Canyon Software Builds Applications

Using Bots Helps Remote Workers

Running in Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and SharePoint, our bots engage with users 24×7. No vacations, no days off — the Teams bots are always available to help end users and staff! And with Crow Canyon’s telemetry feature, the Teams bots improve over time as usage is tracked and analyzed to maximize performance.

The Three Pillars of Application Design

NITRO Studio gives you the ability to incorporate all of the below into your applications!

1. UI & UX Design

SharePoint and Office 365 offer great potential as collaboration platforms. But how do you realize the possibilities? At Crow Canyon, our focus is on creating a user experience that drives engagement and interaction. To do that, we incorporate “UI/UX” design goals into all of our applications.

Ease-of-use
Simplicity
Information at your fingertips
Attractive, engaging visual displays
Mobile-friendly

2. Workflows & BPA

At Crow Canyon, our focus is on optimizing business processes with workflows that help you provide better service and quicker resolutions. We want to make your job easier! Our workflow components provide these benefits in all of our SharePoint and Office 365 applications:

Automation
Visibility
Accountability
Communication
Approval Processes
Full Lifecycle Tracking

3. Reporting & Analytics

At Crow Canyon, we want our applications to provide the data and results you need so you can make good decisions and see how to provide better service and faster resolutions to your customers and employees. Our reporting tools aim to do the following:

Answer key performance questions
Identify root causes and issues
Guide staff performance optimization
Monitor Service Level Agreements
Provide immediate real-time reports
Provide historical and trend reports

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Is PowerApps the Right Choice for Building Applications?

Organizations looking to build business process automation solutions on Microsoft Office 365 have to consider whether to use Power Apps or find a Power Apps alternative.

Our view here at Crow Canyon, after many years of working with Office 365, is that the preferred route is to go with a Power Apps alternative. Why? Let’s explore that question in this blog.

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