What is Microsoft Dataverse? 8 Minute Overview

#MicrosoftDataFlex #PowerPlatform #MicrosoftTeams
In this video I do a quick overview of Microsoft Dataverse. You'll learn:

✅ Difference between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams
✅ What problems Dataverse is trying to solve
✅ Why you would want to build Teams based Power Apps
✅ How the security model will work

** IMPORTANT EDITS AND CLARIFICATION **
In the slides I use "DataFlex" but it is actually "Dataflex" without the capital F

For Model Driven Apps for Teams - that will not be available in the first release of Microsoft Dataflex but will be added eventually.

[jimfitch]

Extremely helpful, April. Thank you! Very clearly explained. Especially grateful for the gotchya’s. MS did a solid for very small companies like ours by splitting the offerings. Pro does not make sense for us financially, but now I no longer will be jealous of others who develop model-driven apps. 🙂

[doidrs]

Finally understood it! Thanks for explaining it so clearly. It's like Microsoft really tries to make everything as hard as possible to understand.

[tenisviejos]

Such a clear and concise explanation. Thank you April, I didn't know about the lightweight license for Dataflex, I hope we can all start learning to make new apps with it soon. I also hope the restrictions in the lightweight license don't limit us building simpler and lighter apps. I'm already excited about this new alternative and will stay tuned to your videos!

[yehunlavolontededieu]

Thank you April, I couldn't understand clearly from the MSFT blog. Maybe it's because I am auditory /visual person, And I prefer such visual explanation.

[biliatto]

Congrats! BTW I love the soundtrack of your intro!

[vikramreddy]

Good info. I always wanted to say that, your introduction is like WWE stars entering towards the ring. 👍

[berndkroon]

I welcome Dataflex, a further development to help stimulate growth of the digital literacy in any organization. Great insightful overview, thank you April, with ah’s, oh’s and most valuable Gotcha’s!!

[RudeyCapone]

Great video, thanks April! Read the article on the MSFT website today but this explains it way more clear :-).

[silverwhite]

Thank you April. looking forward for videos on data flex and bots.

[mortensandahl]

Thanks, April! How do you view the differences between Dataflex and Microsoft Lists? Especially within Teams, I’d imagine a lot of people being quite confused about which of them to use.

[danielbell]

Hi April, great topic, hadn’t heard about this coming out so thanks.

In the video you mention about guests within the teams app, do you know if external guest members in the team. Ie. Not a paid licensee will be able to use the app within teams. Obviously at the minute all users of power apps have to have a licence which is what has stopped us rolling apps out to our site engineers as it will be quite costly on a monthly basis but if this worked with the guests in a team it would be great!

[mustafahussainmohsin]

Haha, Loved that WWE Intro Music xD, and as Always a Perfect Overview and a Video!

[sundrapillay]

Thanks April for the information great video

[tmcpang]

Thank you so much, April. This is a very informative video. I have two questions, however. 1). I currently develop Canvas PowerApps using SharePoint lists as the data source mostly. One of many concerns of the SharePoint list as the data source has always been the performance when the data grow bigger. Do you think this Dataflex will mitigate this concern? 2). If this new free Dataflex is a "lightweight" of current CDS, does that mean we can develop a model-driven app in Teams for free? Thanks again for your awesome video.

[MrBlackspoon]

It is sad that Microsoft did not do the nitial market research because the Dataflex brand is already taken by Data Access since the 80s.

[Slash]

You must be psychic, this topic is very interesting, possibly the most interesting update yet

[gfreemankz]

Thank you April for the useful information! I’m really glad that I will be able to use CDS for free, I’m so sick of using MS Lists. Do you know if this CDS will have any limitations in terms of size, etc? Also I thought CDS was rebranded to “DataVerse”, not DataFlex.

[micamack]

April,
Does Microsoft EVER think about having to migrate any of these "solutions" to modern day workplace problems? To me, all this sounds like is more of a nightmare when it comes to having to migrate Teams and their data. Think acquisitions, company re-branding, company restructuring, things that Microsoft's very target customer goes through all of the time. Thoughts?

[tonyollivier]

April, thanks this was very helpful ( and I agree with the WWE intro music :) )

[sandeepadode]

Can we leverage the power of dataflex in any of our .net web applications or is it only limited to the power platform?