Microsoft Power Platform
Accelerate business performance by one connected
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Common Data Service (CDS) model.
Power Platform is a set of Microsoft’s no-code/low-code tools where business users can produce apps at speed with little to no IT intervention. It aims to bring together business processes, data, and people to a single platform thereby offering a seamless experience to the customer.
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Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power Virtual Agent
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Power Pages
Brief Outline about Microsoft Power Platform!!
Microsoft Power Platform is such a cutting-edge platform that is fast emerging as one of the market leaders in the enterprise tools and business-applications landspace.
Power Platform is primarily made up of five independent components: Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate (RPA), and Power Virtual Agents, all of which commonly use Common Data Services(CDS), AI Builder, and Microsoft Azure Data Connectors to connect with tools like Dynamics 365, Office 365, Azure, and numerous other apps, to build effective business solutions.
Key Advantages of Microsoft Power Platform
Low-code No code model
Low-code No code model
Developing and Designing business applications with techniques and tools like drag and drop functionality and visual guidance to provide solutions to the problems. Hence no technical coding experience is required.
Easy governance
Easy governance
By consolidating your data into a single platform, it provides end-to-end capabilities, so you can manage all your Office 365 applications, users, as well as external data sources, from a single dashboard even when you are using multiple tools for generating data.
Empower the business with self-service innovation.
Empower the business with self-service innovation.
Instead, of heavily relying on programming, low code platforms streamline application development.
Data security
Data security
Improves data security for users by implementing double encryption, built-in identity management, and multi-level authentication which allows enabling data security based on specified job roles for providing access to certain individuals.
Pricing flexibility
Pricing flexibility
It brings a whole slew of cost savings across the entirety of your project portfolio.. Power platform will enable your organization to eliminate the extra services subscriptions, reducing half-of licensing expenses.
Microsoft Power Platform is suitable for?
Ideally, Microsoft Power Platform is for organizations using any of the services belonging to the Microsoft Products, like Microsoft 365, Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, etc. Although organizations using other platforms like Google Business Suite, etc. can also use it with the same ease, as each platform comes with its own set of connectors, accelerators, etc.
Power Platform is useful whenever there is a need to extend or automate the functionality of an application, establish connectivity \ data interchange between different apps or data sources, or perform data analytics. So, a quick answer to above question is “Any/Every Small, Medium or Large Organizations can implement it.”
Power-Platform backed Microsoft Business Applications Ecosystem.
Facilitate business using low-code platforms
Low-code technologies offer the end-to-end cost-effective solutions, where business users can produce apps and virtual agents at speed with little to no IT intervention.
Microsoft’s Power Platform combines the strengths of key products:
Power BI
Power BI is Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) and analytics tool that provides users & organisations with powerful real-time data analysis, helpful for making data-backed decisions to drive your business forward and understand your performance in-depth.
It can visualise data from a huge number of data-sources and analyse it through interactive visualisations.
Power Apps
Turn ideas into solutions – build custom apps that solve your business challenges. PowerApps has been developed with developers and non-developers in mind and can be used by both to create apps for all kinds of functions and business processes.
Power Automate
Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, is a solution that has been designed to allow people to easily create workflow solutions across a huge variety of applications and services. It allows anyone to create workflows thanks to its easy-to-use interface that requires little technical experience.
Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual agents helps your business to utilise intuitive AI Chatbots to help solve common customer and internal-facing issues automatically, freeing up staff to focus on complex requests and high-value interactions.
Use custom workflows with a simple no-code editor to get up and running quickly, with advanced code options available to gain more complex capabilities.
Use custom workflows with a simple no-code editor to get up and running quickly, with advanced code options available to gain more complex capabilities.
Power Pages
Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites.
With Power Pages, you have the capability to construct websites using the same shared business data stored in Microsoft Dataverse that you use for building apps, workflows, intelligent virtual agents with other Microsoft Power Platform components in your organization.
With Power Pages, you have the capability to construct websites using the same shared business data stored in Microsoft Dataverse that you use for building apps, workflows, intelligent virtual agents with other Microsoft Power Platform components in your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included in the Microsoft Power Platform
The Microsoft Power Platform is a business application platform comprised of Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. These applications can be used alone to improve processes or combined to deliver more complete business solutions.
What can power platform do for my business?
Power Platform combines the robust power of Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents into one dynamic business application platform which provides quick and easy app building and data insights.
What Power Platform connectors are available?
There are more than 900 connectors available within the Power Platform.
Examples of Power Platform data connectors (available through Power Automate) include Adobe Creative Suite, Basecamp, Gmail, DropBox, LinkedIn, Sharepoint, Outlook, SQL Server, Excel , Microsoft 365 and much more!
How much does the Power Platform license cost?
Even though the Power Platform is a collection of Microsoft products, it is not sold as one bundle.
If you are already using Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365, you already have the Power Platform. Stand-alone licenses can be purchased per-app or per-user. The lowest cost option to begin building applications is through a Power Apps per-app plan.
If you are already using Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365, you already have the Power Platform. Stand-alone licenses can be purchased per-app or per-user. The lowest cost option to begin building applications is through a Power Apps per-app plan.
What cloud service is the Power Platform hosted on?
The Microsoft Power Platform is powered by Dataverse, a secure database hosted in Azure Cloud.
What is a citizen developer?
A citizen developer is anyone in your organisation that is using low-code applications like Power Platform to create solutions where they are not a professional developer. As Power Platform is drag and drop and what they call low-code it allows anyone to be able to use it create solutions
Does RiseAscend offer Power Platform training?
Yes. From implementation and adoption training, through to ongoing support, our Power Platform consultants will ensure your organisation makes the most out of this intelligent solution.
Why would I use the Power Platform over traditional solutions?
The Power Platform generally offers a lower cost to implement than traditional software routes, driven by the fact that much of the capability is provided out of the box and the simple drag and drop editor.