Power Apps: The end of email requests and Excel sheets

For years, Excel spreadsheets and emails have served as makeshift management tools for companies’ internal processes. But as businesses, teams and demands for traceability and efficiency grow, this solution quickly becomes a problem.

Too many lost approvals. Outdated files. Lack of control. Repetitive tasks. It’s time to replace these temporary tools with something structured, scalable and adapted to the reality of each organization.

Power Apps: Simple technology to solve real problems

Power Apps is a Microsoft platform that allows you to create custom applications, without the need for advanced coding knowledge.

These applications can:

• Centralize requests and records (vacations, access, materials);

• Integrate with Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Excel;

• Adapt to the device (PC, tablet or smartphone);

• Ensure traceability, automatic approvals and real-time data.

All in a secure environment, within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

 

Examples of applications with immediate impact

1. Material and equipment ordering app

• Avoid scattered emails to the IT department;

• Records orders, approvals and deliveries;

• Allows consumption reports and forecasting needs.

2. Access and onboarding app

• Centralizes requests for user creation and access to tools;

• Integrates with Microsoft Entra ID and Teams;

• Reduces errors and response times.

3. Internal training registration app

• Records sessions, attendance, feedback and certifications;

• Allows HR to monitor training per employee;

• Facilitates reporting for audits or development plans.

4. Budget approval app

• Avoid uncontrolled email approvals;

• Define workflows with value and hierarchy rules;

• Ensures traceability and decision history.

 

Benefits for teams and management?

• Drastic reduction of errors and rework;

• Full visibility over the status of each order;

• Increased productivity and team autonomy;

• More control for leaders, without increasing complexity.

 

Instead of reacting to every email or correcting data in shared spreadsheets, teams can work more fluidly, with reliable and accessible information.

Why does this matter now?

With the rise of hybrid work and the demand for traceability and compliance, maintaining critical processes based on informal tools is a risk.

Power Apps allows you to quickly transform fragmented processes into simple solutions, adapted to your reality and scalable for the future.

And how can you do it?

At Linkcom, we help organizations identify opportunities, design applications quickly and create tools that make sense for their teams.

If your processes still live between emails and Excel sheets, maybe it's time to give them a new home.