Business Applications
Power Apps
Replace the spreadsheets, Access databases and paper processes your business quietly depends on, with applications built to be supported. Valto designs, builds and supports custom business applications on Power Apps and Dataverse. Our specialists manage every stage, from identifying which processes are worth building for, through to development, integration, adoption and ongoing support - including taking on applications your own teams have already started.
Trusted by organisations like yours
Create applications that fit your business
Many organisations still run important parts of their business on spreadsheets, email chains, paper forms and Access databases-built years ago by someone who has since moved on. These workarounds create inefficiency, limit visibility and carry a risk nobody has quantified. Off-the-shelf software solves some of it, but usually asks you to change your process to fit the product. Valto builds the applications in between. Our consultants identify which processes justify a custom application, design it around how your teams actually work, and build it on Dataverse so the data underneath is governed rather than trapped in the app. We're also clear about when a custom build isn't the answer - sometimes an off-the-shelf product or a change to the process is better value. The result is an application your teams use, your IT function is comfortable supporting, and that doesn't become another undocumented dependency in three years' time.
What can Valto build?
Microsoft Access replacement
Move business-critical processes off unsupported Access databases onto Power Apps and Dataverse, with your data structure, business logic and history assessed and migrated properly.
Spreadsheet and manual process replacement
Replace the shared workbooks holding logic, version conflicts and no audit trail with secure, structured applications that multiple people can use at once.
Legacy system modernisation
Rebuild ageing internal systems with no support path or no original developer, deciding deliberately what to carry forward and what has been superseded.
Field, inspection and mobile applications
Applications that work on phones and tablets, on site and offline where needed, for inspections, asset checks, job sheets and data capture away from a desk.
Internal line-of-business applications
Asset management, onboarding, project tracking, approvals, request handling - the operational applications that fall between the systems you already own.
Existing app rescue and support
Inherited an app built by someone who's left, or a Power Platform environment that's grown without governance? We assess what's there and give you a supportable route forward.
Our Power Apps services
Identify the greatest opportunities
Through structured discovery workshops, we explore existing processes, challenges and inefficiencies to identify where Power Apps can deliver the greatest value and create a clear roadmap for delivery. This is also where we're honest about fit. Some processes justify a custom application, some are better served by an off-the-shelf product, and some just need the process fixing. We'll tell you which is which before you spend anything on development.
Why work with our Power Apps specialists?
Experienced Power Platform and Dataverse specialists
Work with consultants who design the data model as carefully as the interface, because that's what determines whether an app can grow.
Honest about when to build
We'll tell you when a custom application is the right answer and when it isn't, including when an off-the-shelf product or a Dynamics licence would serve you better.
Migration experience, not just development
Most of what we build replaces something - an Access database, a spreadsheet, an ageing internal system. We assess the existing data and logic before designing the replacement.
Built to be supported
Documentation, environment strategy, security roles and version control are part of delivery, so the application doesn't become dependent on one individual.
Fixed and transparent scope
Our clearly defined proposals give you confidence in the approach, deliverables and cost before work begins.
Enable your team, or deliver for them
Some organisations want us to build; others want to build their own with guidance and guardrails. We're set up for both, and for taking over apps your teams have started.
Common application challenges we solve
Expertise for the issues that make custom applications risky
The concern with low-code isn't whether you can build something. It's whether what gets built can be supported, secured and extended once the person who built it has moved on. Our consultants surface these during discovery rather than allowing them to become problems later. We help organisations address:
- Business-critical processes running on unsupported Access databases
- Spreadsheets holding business logic nobody has documented
- Project management | Provide visibility across projects, resources and progress
- Data models designed around the first screen rather than the whole process
- Power Platform environments that have grown without governance or naming standards
- Applications with no documentation, no version control and one point of failure
Turn Power Apps capability into business value
Power Apps provides the platform. Valto provides the judgement about where a custom application is worth building. Our consultants target development at the processes where it changes something measurable.
How we deliver Power Apps projects
Our simple five-step process is clear and transparent from start to finish. From understanding the process you're replacing, through to designing, building and supporting an application your teams will actually use.
1Discovery
Understand the process and the data
We work with your teams to understand existing processes, identify inefficiencies and prioritise opportunities where Power Apps can deliver the greatest business impact - including assessing the spreadsheets or databases the process currently depends on.
2Solution design
Design around your users
Together we define requirements, user experiences and functionality, and design the Dataverse data model underneath, ensuring the application supports the way your teams work and can be extended later.
3Development & integration
Build connected applications
Our specialists build secure Power Apps solutions integrated with Microsoft 365, Dataverse, Dynamics 365 and other business systems, with documentation, security roles and version control in place.
4Launch & adoption
Ready for everyday use
We support testing, training and rollout planning to help users embrace new ways of working and maximise adoption - including retiring the spreadsheet the app replaces, which rarely happens on its own.
5Optimisation & support
Keep ahead
Technology should evolve with your business. We provide ongoing support, enhancements and optimisation to ensure applications continue delivering value.
We're one of the UK's few Microsoft partners to hold all Microsoft Solution Partner designation badges, across all Solution Partner designation pathways. For our clients, that means access to specialists who understand both technology and process improvement. Whether you're building your first Power App or expanding an existing Power Platform environment, we help organisations create solutions that simplify work, improve visibility and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Why organisations choose Valto
Connected, across Microsoft
An application is only as good as the data beneath it
A custom application is a way of working with data. If the data model is designed around the first screen someone sketched, the app will work until the second requirement arrives. Valto brings together expertise across Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Microsoft 365 and Azure. That allows our specialists to decide where each part of a requirement belongs — in the app, in an automation, in a report, in a portal, or in a system you already own. By designing the application and the platform beneath it together, we build solutions that improve how work gets done today and can be extended as your processes change.
“Excellent Power Platform partner... We've seen around a 20% efficiency gain across our team, saved thousands in licensing costs by consolidating old systems, and our ways of working are far more streamlined than before.”
Case study · Spencer West
Valto transforms revenue management for Spencer West with Power Platform
- 43% reduction in manual effort
- Enhanced financial visibility
- Improved revenue accuracy
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