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Creating Multiple Department‑Specific Applications in Dynamics 365 - Business Central

Hello,

Our company currently uses Dynamics 365 - Business Central For Sales, Finance, Part Center Operations,

Which was set up and managed by a vendor. We i want to expand by creating several additional applications for different business processes — for example:

1.Leave approvals for HR - (so around 300 staff can use to apply leave and manage)

2.Visitor tracking for the reception team

3.Driver and shipment tracking for logistics

My questions are:

Is it possible to create these as standalone Power Apps applications within our existing Dynamics 365 environment, rather than building them outside as separate systems?

Since my concern is - The Dynamics 365- Business Central UI looks quite different from the Power Apps UI, can these two be incorporated into the same application so that staff feel like they are working in one unified system or url?

Thanks you for the Time

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Dynamics 365 Business Central

Hello ,

Yes you can build those as Power Apps inside your existing Microsoft/Dynamics environment instead of creating totally separate systems. The clean pattern is usually: keep Business Central for ERP, and build the new apps in Power Apps/Dataverse for HR leave, visitor tracking, driver/shipment tracking, etc. Microsoft supports connecting Power Apps to Business Central either through the Business Central connector or through Dataverse integration / virtual tables, so the apps can read or update BC data when needed. On the UI side, though, Business Central and Power Apps won’t become one identical native app — they are different products with different UI patterns. What you can do is make the experience feel unified by using same tenant, same sign-in, shared navigation/links, embedded experiences, and one portal/app launcher, so users feel they are in one ecosystem even if the screens are technically from different apps. So the short answer is: yes, same environment/ecosystem, no, not one truly merged BC+Power Apps UI, but you can get very close from a user experience point of view.

Regards,
Oussama Sabbouh

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