Building apps has always been a thing that only hardcore developers can do, and it was never something that could be achieved by noncoders, especially by business teams. With Power apps, you can build and launch apps by using pre-built templates by simply drag and drop features and UI elements and then quickly deploy them to see the results. It allows the users to create sophisticated apps that will run on any device and it has more than 2000 connectors to integrate unique data and systems that your business already uses.
From a business analyst to professional developers, Power Apps empowers the team to build apps efficiently together by solving challenging problems. There is no hardcore programming knowledge required to be able to build solutions using Microsoft Power Apps.
It provides businesses with a platform that scales with their needs and has enhanced tools that provide performance and stability checks, deeper visibility into usage and resource consumption, and enhanced control and support for admins.
Let’s talk about the promised case study of IKEA’s problem with kitchen sales and the role of Power Apps.
IKEA is a Swedish company, that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, and home products, among other goods and home services across the globe.
After receiving a bulk of customer feedback, IKEA got to know that customers don’t prefer to buy kitchens from the company because they are not happy with the level of support their receive during the buying process. On the other hand, IKEA saw a positive trend in kitchen sales with their competitors capturing the majority market share, they also realized that customer expectations have risen due to superior supported provided by other vendors. For all these reasons, IKEA decided to invest in improving the way kitchen buying experience was being operated for their customers (B2B and B2C). Hence, they joined hands with Capgemini, a Microsoft Gold Partner, to implement Dynamics 365 and provide Power App solutions.
Before Power Apps implementaton at IKEA, the company was burdened with extensive manual work for their B2B and B2C sales, and Customer Support Center (CSC), which resulted in a lack of data security, lack of centralized data maintenance, lack of reporting capability, and more importantly loss of their valuable customer-base.
But with the implementation of Dynamics 365 and Power apps, the company came up with an IKEA Sales Tool comprising of four different apps which are Kitchen App, Co-Worker App, B2B App, and Customer Support Center App. These apps solved most of the problems faced by the company and its customers and significantly decreased manual labor.
With the integration of Sales Tool, IKEA was able to generate double sales within the year and was able to meet customer expectations on the go with centralized and consolidated work procedures.
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