How to get Started building with PowerApps for a small company

[JoyDsz]

Hi All - I am trying to build a power app for a company and around 30 to 50 users would be using this Power App. All users in the company have E3 license assigned. The Power App will not be using any premium feature or connector. Data will be stored in SharePoint and Data verse would not be needed. I have the below questions:

1. We are planning to have 3 environments: Dev, Staging and Prod. What should be the types of these 3 environments?
2. When creating an environment of Production type it is saying database capacity of 1GB is needed. How do I purchase this? I know that when you buy a Power App or Power Automate Premium License some amount of capacity (250 mb). That means I would have to purchase 4 of these premium licenses just to be able to create 1 environment? Open to suggestions here on best way possible. 
3. Will my company users be able to access my power app (with the e3 seeded license). My app will not have any premium connector or feature. It will only connect to SharePoint List/Library.

[Jmanriquerios]

HI @JoyDsz 

We are planning to have 3 environments: Dev, Staging and Prod. What should be the types of these 3 environments?

Normally, environment management is done when you use dataverse because the environments will have a database associated with them. In your case, you can do it but you will have to have three different libraries, perhaps on your sharepoint site. You won't really be making a typical ALM, because you will have to change the connections of your flows and your apps manually, or use environment variables.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/basics-alm

When creating a Production type environment, it indicates that a database capacity of 1 GB is required. How do I buy this? I know that when you purchase a Power App or Power Automate Premium license, a certain amount of capacity (250mb). That means you would have to purchase 4 of these premium licenses just to be able to create 1 environment. Open to suggestions here on the best possible way.

As I told you in the previous answer, you must have an associated database to be able to register environments (although you can create them without a DB), to be able to work with solutions. In this sense, you could buy a single Power Apps Premium license and this will be enough for you to have those three environments, even if you register them with dataverse, since you will not use it you will not have to have more space, which is 1GB

Will my company users be able to access my Power App (with the initial e3 license)? My app will not have any premium connectors or features. It will only connect to the SharePoint list/library.

Yes and as long as it is only as you say in your question, standard connectors