After its spectacular decline and then its transformation in 2014, Microsoft is placing increasing emphasis on one of its most popular packages, the Power Platform, and its design, which can be said to be truly responsive to user needs.
What is Power Platform?
Power Platform connects four services: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.
Power BI is Microsoft's business analytics service. It provides real-time insights from dynamic or non-dynamic data and enables you to create rich visualizations and highly personalized reports.
Power Apps is a no code/low code environment where you can build mobile-friendly business apps without any developer resources.
Power Automate is a workflow automation toolset. It lets you automate business processes using templates, triggers, alerts, and RPA. All of this can be done quickly and without coding.
Power Virtual Agents is a guided, no-code graphical interface where you can easily create intelligent bots. These AI-powered capabilities help you deliver personalized bot conversations to solve customer problems and automate common questions.
Power Platform has many benefits that can give your team an edge.
Self-service for easy pickup and use
Traditionally, many enterprise business applications have relied heavily on IT or IT-savvy staff to fully leverage their capabilities. Power Platform’s no-code/low-code approach makes it much easier to generate valuable insights from data, deploy rich apps, create efficient workflows, automate, and leverage AI—all without requiring developer resources.
Simplifies processes and improves productivity
Power Automate can automate manual tasks and repetitive processes to save time for value-adding activities. Some common routine tasks that can be automated with Power Automate include:
- Approval of documents and processes
- Document generation
- Scheduled processes
If your organization currently does everything manually, it's time to change your practices.