MICROSOFT
POWER
PLATFORM
Inside
Components of Microsoft Power
Platform
Why you need Power Platform for
your business?
FAQs
Microsoft Power
Platform
Overview
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had said,
“For the first time in fact, in our own Microsoft history,
we have an extensibility model that is the same for
Office 365 and Dynamics 365. This has been a dream
of mine for, I don’t know, for 15 years probably. And we
are finally here and we are executing super well.”
So, what is exactly Microsoft Power Platform?
Microsoft Power Platform represents a user-friendly
interface to the diverse sophisticated technologies that
are part of the overall Microsoft Stack. The ‘Power
Platform’ is a collective term for four Microsoft products:
Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate and Power
Virtual agent. They provide the means to help people
easily manipulate, surface, automate and analyze data
and can be used with Office 365 and Dynamics 365 (as
well as other third-party apps and other Microsoft
services). The Power Platform is possible thanks to the
Common Data Service (or CDS), which is essentially
the underlying data platform that provides a unified and
simplified data schema so that applications and
services can inter-operate
Components of Microsoft Power Platform
POWER BI Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and
connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of
data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Power
BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that
work together to turn your unhinged sources of data into coherent,
visually attractive, and interactive insights.
POWER APPS Power Apps is a collection of apps, services, connectors and
data platform that provides a rapid application development environment
in the form of 'Platform as a Service'. You can build mobile apps having
responsive design that run across Android, iOS, Windows (Modern Apps),
and on most of the commonly used browsers. Power apps platform comes
with Dataflex at no additional cost. You can hence build apps and store
your data within a single integrated
POWER AUTOMATE Power Automate is a service that enables you
create automated workflows between various systems, mobile apps and
services. Power Automate enables you synchronize files, get
notifications, approve requests, collect data and more. Known formerly
as Flow, Power Automate now has included in it Robotic Process
Automation (RPA) features that enables you automate repetitive tasks.
Power Automate can be used to design logic for Power Apps, without
having to write code.
POWER VIRTUAL AGENT Power Automate used to be known as
Microsoft Flow. This allows you to create automated workflows
between your Microsoft services or other third-party applications, which
allows staff to avoid carrying out repetitive tasks and save valuable
time. Meanwhile you can use that to complete you other important
stuff.
Read more about how Microsoft Power Platform Implementation
can work for your business.
Some of the advantages you get after implementing Microsoft Power
Platform for your business are:
Data Driven Apps
Seamless Data Integration
Cloud Integration
Increased Productivity and Employee Performance
More efficient data input, storage and sharing; improved
communication
Built-in connectivity with ~300 cloud services, files, databases
and web APIs
Ability to customize and build custom connect
On-premises Data Gateway
Significantly reduced application development cost and time
Cross platform and cross device readiness.
The Power Platform enables data democratisation – the ability for digital
information to be accessible to the typical (non-technical) end user. It
provides three technologies that allow staff to do more with their data
themselves without coding knowledge. While it doesn’t allow the intricacies
and flexibility of custom coding, it does provide a simple method for most
users to be able to create, automate or analyse their data in ways which
have never been possible for the average worker.
Common Data Service
The heart of the Microsoft Power Platform is the Common Data
Service for Apps(CDS). CDS is a secure database hosted in Azure
Cloud prebuilt with a standard set of entities and record types. These
record types – for example, Accounts, Contacts, and various activity
types are extensible – so you can add additional data fields.
Developers can also add new entities to fit their business needs.
Entities have relationships to each other, and Business Rules can be
created to make fields required, to hide fields and to set default
values.
Here is a flow chart of Power Platform for you to understand
better
Microsoft Power Platform FAQs
What is Microsoft Power Platform? What happens when I use all the data
storage, file storage, and flow runs
What are the components of Microsoft included in my per user licenses?
Power Platform?
Additional storage is available at a cost.
How is Microsoft Power Apps and Power
Automate licensed? Who can buy Microsoft Power Apps and
Power Automate plans?
How much does Microsoft Power Platform
cost? Do all my users need to be licensed with
the same Power Apps plan, or can I mix
What is Power BI? What is Power plans?
Automate?
Are there limits on the number of API
What are Power Virtual Agents? requests Power Apps and Power Automate
users can make?
What are Power Apps?
How to implement Power Platforms in your
How do I use Power Apps per app plans? business organization?
What are the Power Platform Connectors? What is the Microsoft Power Platform
Solution for Healthcare Emergency
What are the features of Microsoft Power Response?
Platform?
Is it Microsoft power platforms good for
What are the benefits of Microsoft Power business Intellgience?
Platform?
Is Power Platform part of Office 365?
How do I find right Microsoft Power
What are the self-service purchase options
Platforms implementation partners for
for the Power Platform products?
Finance?
Do embedded canvas apps in model-driven
How will power platform change the way I
apps count toward the two-apps limits?
manage identities for user in my
organization today?
Are full Power Automate capabilities
included in Power Apps licencing? How can I easily integrate Microsoft Power
Platform?
SUMMARY
We have seen the overview of the
Microsoft Power Platform and the
essential tools that are provided in this
bundle. In a nutshell, the Power Platform
provides four different tools under the
umbrella. To build business solutions,
users can leverage the Microsoft
PowerApps whereas to automate specific
business processes we can use the
Microsoft Power Automate. Using the
Microsoft Power BI, we can analyze data
and build visualizations from a vast
number of data sources. Finally, to set up
a virtual agent for communication, you can
use the Microsoft Power Virtual Agents to
build a chatbot without much coding.
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