Achieve more with an Anveo Partnership

Microsoft provides training programs and online documentation for Power Apps to train partners and end customers on how to use the application. Responsibility for sales, implementation, and support lies with the end customer and partner.

The Anveo mobile app can also be managed independently. We offer training for sales, consulting, developers, and support teams. If your resources are limited, Anveo takes over the complete solution development and support. This includes assistance in the sales process and requirements analysis.

Like Navision’s Classic Client, Microsoft Power Apps allows flexible placement of fields and buttons. However, positioning must be pixel precise. Usability is an important component of user acceptance, which is why this aspect/extra effort should not be underestimated.

The Anveo Mobile App offers a streamlined layout definition that is automatically optimized for different devices and adapts to various screen sizes and orientations. Responsive design is achieved easily. Anveo also offers possibility to create custom layouts and can be quickly adapted to the company’s corporate identity.

Both Microsoft Power Apps and the Anveo Mobile App are low-code or no-code solutions that allow customization without programming with just a few clicks. Power Apps are customized online in a browser. This requires the Microsoft Power App editor.

The Anveo Mobile App is configured in the well-known Microsoft Dynamics environment. Also, offline capability is setup in just a few clicks. Even business processes can be customized by using Anveo Script, a simple, easy-to-learn, AL-like programming language. ISVs come into play. Anveo supports partners in all steps of a project: from pre-sales to implementation.

Microsoft Power Apps requires a special setup and additional effort for a responsive design, to make the application reasonably usable on different devices.

The Anveo Mobile app automatically adapts to different device sizes and orientations and allows to easily resize windows with a pinch gesture. For example, if you want to make a list easier to read on a device, or if you want to make a field extra-large, you can do so effortlessly.

Microsoft Power Apps’ offline capability is limited. Retrieved data is stored on the device and later sent to the Dynamics system. The app always requests all data in full, rather than requesting just the data changes from Dynamics. Due to this amount of data, this process not only takes a lot of time, but it may not technically be possible. Tracking which changes come from the respective end device is impossible.

The Anveo Mobile App offers full offline capability. Data changes are tracked on the server side and automatically synchronized when Internet is available. Only small and compressed data packages are transferred, and users do not have to worry about sending data themselves.

If different data sources outside of Microsoft Dynamics are required, Power Apps stands out – thanks to a variety of “Power Apps” connectors. Even an Excel file can serve as a data source. This may be sufficient for an app solution, but it does not make sense for more sophisticated mobile apps to create separate “data silos” outside of the core system.

The Anveo Mobile App is fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics – and communicates only with Dynamics – however, it can quite effortlessly handle feature-rich data structures, user filters, and table hierarchies. This makes it possible to easily synchronize large amounts of data.

Licenses are available for both products as a subscription per user, with unlimited functionality. Currently this would be 15€ per user per month for Anveo and 16 Euros 90 per user per month for Power Apps. Power Apps also offers smaller models on an app basis, and Anveo also offers purchase licenses. Binding information on Microsoft Power Apps licensing is available exclusively on the Microsoft website.

Power Apps was primarily designed for the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC-Online as a SaaS solution), which makes it easy to connect. Local installations, such as onPrem or older Dynamics versions, require additional setup and are more complex on a technical level.

The Anveo Mobile App supports all variants of Microsoft Dynamics from NAV 2009 R2 up to the current Business Central versions, both as Online and onPrem installations, and offers direct integration and cloud services starting with BC14.

With Microsoft Power Apps, you must always use the app that is provided by Microsoft. Only after using your login credentials can you display a design adapted to your own corporate identity.

The Anveo Mobile App offers additional features, such as “Basic Branding”, to customize the login screen with your own company colors and logo, as well as to adapt all colors within the app to your corporate design. With the “Theme Administrator”, sample solutions can be optimized for the company colors in just a few minutes. Anveo also offers optional “Extended Branding”, which allows the app to be listed with its own app icon and name in the Microsoft, Google Play, or Apple app store. Or deployed via an MDM Software.

Power Apps is particularly suitable for small apps with simple processes where you also need to store data outside of Dynamics, such as in Microsoft Excel Online. If only one device size is used, and if a reduced availability due to limited offline capability is acceptable, then Power Apps is a quick and suitable solution.

The Anveo Mobile App is optimized for more extensive mobile applications and guarantees 100% availability for users through complete offline capability. Also, all data and content is automatically displayed in the best possible way on different devices.