{"id":5279,"date":"2019-09-23T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/powerapps-employee-experience-starter-kit\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T07:20:00","slug":"powerapps-employee-experience-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"power-apps","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/powerapps-employee-experience-starter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Experience Starter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this blog, we are pleased to share the PowerApps Employee Experience Starter Kit – a refactored version of the Microsoft Thrive Apps, built using the latest Common Data Service (CDS) improvements<\/a>\u00a0and available for Microsoft Power Platform customers to download and use as reference samples and templates.<\/p>\n The Employee Experience Starter Kit consists of 5 solutions:<\/p>\n Employee Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0Employee Hub app is where it all begins, employees start here to keep up with company news, get important alerts, see tasks at a glance, find and launch other apps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The employee hub app comes with a model driven app which allows editors to author and preview content.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It includes a hamburger\/fly-out menu reveals the following menu allowing users to find other useful apps.<\/p>\n My conference app lets you browse through event sessions, speakers and venues. There is also an activity feed to post pictures and comments. There is also a Model driven app that let you manage the conference.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It includes usage of AI Builder capabilities to scan business cards and directly add them to your contacts.<\/p>\n With this app, you can give kudos to a colleague and view kudos received by your colleagues. Each kudo message has a badge that you may customize for your organization.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Badges can be configured via the model driven app:<\/p>\n The People app allows you to quickly find people in the employee directory and view their profiles. You can browse the org view for any employee and understand reporting structure, and contact them via your device’s native features (phone, text, email).<\/p>\n The Time Away app lets you check your vacation balance, submit your time off, set your out of office auto reply, and send an out of office invite to the people with whom you work the most. All of this can be done in under a minute.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Installing the solutions requires an environment with the Common Data Service enabled<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nA while back, we shared the story of Microsoft Thrive<\/a>, a suite of employee engagement apps deployed worldwide to 100K+ Microsoft employees. In a recent PowerApps webinar<\/a>, Pat Dunn and the Thrive team demo’d the apps and walked through the solution architecture – how they built the apps using the Microsoft Power Platform connected to existing back-end systems, such as SAP, Web services and more.<\/p>\n\n
Download the packages at\u00a0https:\/\/aka.ms\/powerapps\/employeeapps<\/a><\/pre>\n
\nMy Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKudos<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPeople<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTime Away<\/strong><\/p>\nHow to install the solutions<\/strong><\/h3>\n