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NielsenSegment
Copper Contributor
Dec 01, 2021

Licensing for external connectors

Our business case:

 

We are building an application as a Power Apps canvas application which will be implemented in a Danish municipality with an estimated 1500+ users.

The application is intended to be used by healthcare workers and supporting personal in their daily routine in caring for the sick and elderly. To do just that, they need access to basic information about the specific citizens.

That information is provided by a 3rd party system.

Therein lies the challenge, because the solution will become quite pricy licensing wise, if 1500+ people need to use the app when the app needs to use a Custom connector or the HTTP Request connector which both requires a licensing plan.

5-10 dollars pr user pr month is not an, for the costumer, acceptable prizing. 

 

We are therefore unable to proceed with development of the application, using Power Apps. 

  • RobElliott's avatar
    RobElliott
    Silver Contributor

    NielsenSegment for external people to access a canvas app will require Power Apps Portals. but there is a cost for that. Not sure there is any other solution.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

    • NielsenSegment's avatar
      NielsenSegment
      Copper Contributor

      RobElliott Thx for the reply 🙂 

       

      Perhaps we did not express ourselves correctly... We need a premium connector to connect to an external datasource, which requires a license pr user pr month. 

       

      We have tried with a custom connector as well, which also requires a license. Basisly we are at square one... 

       

      Now we have decided to avoid to Microsoft Power platform, and are going for an IOS application, hence we do not see any other possibilities. 

       

      Thx man! 

      • Joao Livio's avatar
        Joao Livio
        Iron Contributor
        It’s a little bit confusing, You tried a premium connector, so you go further to a custom connector, now you want to use an IOS app to connect somewhere, is that so?

        Why don’t you build your own connector and submit to Microsoft for review?

        What is your real pain?

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