Browser-based business applications

So far in this chapter, we have talked about business applications that are installed locally on a computer. Although there are many of these applications today, developing business applications for browsers has also become more popular and widespread. Of course, this also is related to the fact that many software products are developed and provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) by major manufacturers. These include, for example, ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft, and many more. As a rule, these software products also have an application programming interface (API) through which all functions and data are available. In the Microsoft ecosystem, we have Power Automate as part of Power Platform, where a constantly growing number of connectors can be used, for example, to establish a data connection to the aforementioned systems and to work with them.

But sometimes, the possibilities of API usage are not available and data must be entered via...