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Find out how the Microsoft Power Platform can improve your business processes. Streamline workflows, create process automation, and get business insights by using Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Pages. Drive efficiency, innovation, and growth in your back office by integrating with Business Central.
With many Power Platform products listed as Leaders in Gartner Magic Quadrants find out how you can boost your business today!
The Power Platform is a set of low code tools from Microsoft. It lets you analyse data as well as create custom applications. You can carry out process automation and build websites. The Power Platform is a complete tool kit for driving digital transformation and innovation in your business. It integrates with Business Central to provide a complete business solution.
There are four main parts of the Power Platform:
These tools will help you to innovate and drive digital transformation through process automation.
The Power Platform helps by streamlining processes, driving innovation and making your team more efficient. With Power BI, you can gain insights into your business. Use Power Apps for making custom apps. Power Automate for process automation. Whilst Power Pages gives your customers and suppliers the ability to self serve. Together, they transform operations, boost productivity, and fuel growth.
Licenses for the Power Platform mostly operate on a per user or per instance basis. Although some other subscription options are available. If you have an M365 license then you have a license to build simple Power Automate Flows. Business Central users are licensed to create Flows that link in with Business Central. Additional licenses might be needed for premium features or connecting with some 3rd party systems. Power Pages work on the number and type of users to access the pages each month. If you’d like to know more then please contact us.
To start with the Power Platform, visit the official Microsoft Power Platform pages. These pages are a great source of resources and documentation. Start with beginners tutorials and hands on exercises provided by Microsoft Learn. You could then consider joining community forums and signing up for webinars to learn more. Or, come and talk to us to see how we can assist you in your journey.
The Microsoft Power Platform works with all modern Microsoft products, including Office 365, all of Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. This allows for data sharing, automation, and enhanced functionality across all the platforms. The Power Platform allows users to make use of the full potential of Microsoft’s set of products. It will assist in improving your business operations and boosting productivity.
The Power Platform lets users of all levels get started thanks to its no code/low code features. While having a basic level of knowledge of business systems is beneficial, no deep coding skills are required. User friendly interfaces, guided set up, and Copilot help are all through the platform. This allow users to create apps, automate workflows, and analyse data without a lot of technical expertise. It’s so simple that all levels of users in your business will be able to help you innovate.
Increase your business performance by automating repetitive jobs and workflows with process automation.
Microsoft is named as a Leader and Positioned Furthest for Completeness of Vision in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Robotic Process Automation
Use Power Automate with nearly any systems you can imagine. It will work with desktop apps, websites and web apps. The power of AI can help with digital and robotic process automation. Choose from over 1,000 API connectors or create your own.
Have Power Automate Flows run manually from within Business Central. Or, have Flows run automatically when certain things happen in Business Central. Integrate to hundreds of external systems to speed up manual tasks such as credit checking.
Connect to Power BI and let Power Automate kick off workflows when your KPIs cross your set thresholds. Process automation can help make you aware of issues sooner and allow you to address them. In some situations it could even deal with it itself!
Build your process automation using natural language with Copilot in Power Automate. Built in AI models help with automating repetitive work. AI Builder is a solution that brings the power of Microsoft AI through a point and click experience.
Guide decision making with stunning reports and real time insights from across your business.
Microsoft is named as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and BI Platforms
Power BI turns raw data into dynamic, interactive dashboards. See business insights, explore trends, and use data to inform your decisions. Give your team the tools to drive business success with clarity and precision.
Turn your data into graphics with advanced data analysis tools. AI capabilities and a user friendly report creation tool will get you started. Help users make better decisions by building insights into the apps you use every day, like those in Microsoft 365.
Data is the core of Power BI. Pull data from any source and add them to the OneLake data hub to create one source of truth for your data. Build reports that shape this data in ways that engage with your business. With other parts of the Microsoft Power Platform you can drive workflows straight from your data.
Create reports in seconds, write DAX formulas, create summaries, and get answers, all in conversational language. Describe what you want or ask questions about your data and let AI give you the answers. It might not be perfect but it gets you started. Find out more about how Copilot in Power BI works.
Quickly create websites and customer portals in Power Pages whilst keeping your data safe and secure.
Use the drag and drop design with no code parts including images, videos, lists, and forms. Then bring your Power Pages to life using themes that you can tailor. Use the styling workspace to align them with your brand. Use Power Pages to build sites that work across all platforms, desktop or mobile. Bring your Business Central data to life.
In Copilot, you’ll find helpful guidance, lots of training, and expert tutorials. Plus, you can ask questions and get answers along the way. Get more efficient with advanced forms and code customisations. Enhance your site by adding AI chatbots.
Store your business data in Microsoft Dataverse. Create tables using the data workspace. Publish data from Business Central in Power Pages allowing customers and vendors access to view and manage their own records. Make use of prebuilt templates for things such as building permits, after school registrations, and meeting scheduling.
Reduce your security concerns through advanced encryption and rich role based access controls. Support for web application firewalls is also included. Allow users to get access with a Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Google account to authenticate on your site.
Build and launch professional grade apps and automate workflows with no code and low code tool kits.
Microsoft again named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low Code Application Platforms
Describe the Power Apps you want and AI will design it. Make edits, add automation, and write code – all with Copilot in Power Apps. Finish your app faster. Choose the right controls for the app you are building with suggested ideas. Or, let AI build working Power Apps and data quickly from images and Figma files.
Use Microsoft PowerFx – a general purpose, strong typed, low code language — across the Microsoft Power Platform. It’s easy to understand and your users that are used to Excel will pick it up quickly. Build Power Apps with only a small amount of development knowledge.
Work with Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio, and GitHub, to let users choose their preferred tool during the build process. Custom code allows you to tailor your apps to specific business needs or integrate with external systems.
Get a built in data platform that takes care of business logic, security, and compliance. Choose from more than 1,000 built in connectors. Or, create your own to connect to any data source with ease. Build Power Apps using your data model in a simple drag and drop interface.
If you want to know how the Microsoft Power Platform can help you grow then contact us now. Unleash the power of your business with process automation.
Digital transformation can start with the automating of the simplest process.
