Introducing the Power Platform
Discover the potential of the Power Platform and how Power Framework unlocks that potential for Project Portfolio Management.
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What is the Power Platform?
The Power Platform provides a range of integrated tools that can be used to build enterprise applications, rapidly. As a capability of your organisation's very own Microsoft cloud environment, it can unlock the potential of all your Microsoft applications. It helps you easily manipulate, surface, automate, and analyse data.
Power Platform comes with a data platform called Dataverse, which provides a unified and simplified data schema that allows applications to work together. Onboarding an enterprise application like Power Framework is simple and secure. Data is securely located in your own Microsoft cloud tenant and no data is hosted elsewhere.
Four key products form the foundation of the Power Platform:
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Power Apps
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Power BI
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Power Automate
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Power Virtual Agents
Power apps
The low-code solution for app development
Power Apps enables rapid application development through a 'low-code' approach. Solutions can be built by power users and IT staff who lack development skills. At the same time, professional developers benefit from Power Apps by allowing complex coded features to be embedded when needed.
With Power Apps you can:
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Build mobile-friendly apps quickly and without development knowledge
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Surface key data into a user-friendly app to help data entry
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Connect to data from your Microsoft or third-party business applications
Power Framework is built with Power Apps. Any personalisation you need can be delivered quickly and cost effectively. And there’s no limit to the potential for customisation and extension.
Power BI
Analyse complex data for continuous improvement
Power BI is a business analytics tool that lets you connect to data sources, create visuals, and gather business intelligence quickly. This makes it easy to analyse and understand complex data to engage stakeholders and support decision making.
Power BI allows you to:
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Connect to Microsoft cloud services, third-party apps, and on-premises data sources
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Manipulate data and create visuals that you can present in an easy-to-digest format
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Use natural language to query data and get results
Power Framework uses Power BI to unify project data sources to create a single source of truth from which you can present dynamic and engaging reports.
Power Automate
Process automation in your hands
Save time, reduce human error, and streamline your processes with Power Automate. Create automated workflows that flow seamlessly between Microsoft services and third-party applications to eliminate repetitive tasks.
Power Automate lets you:
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Use pre-built automation templates for common automations
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Connect disparate applications, databases, solutions, and cloud services
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Quickly set up triggers, alerts, automated emails, and push notifications with no coding
Power Framework uses Power Automate to make the lives of PMOs easier and more efficient. Alerts, approvals, requests, project initiation, data integrations, and document creation are just a few examples of what can be automated.
Power Virtual Agents
Self-service support that empowers service teams
Create powerful chatbots without developers or data scientists, such as self-service assistants that reduce helpdesk requests.
Power Virtual Agents lets you:
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Create a foundation for omnichannel communications
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Provide a better customer experience
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Build value-added apps quickly and cost-effectively
Power Virtual Agents gives PMOs with the potential to provide teams with automated bots, with applications such as Q&A automation for process queries.
Power apps
The low-code solution for app development
Power Apps enables rapid application development through a 'low-code' approach. Solutions can be built by power users and IT staff who lack development skills. At the same time, professional developers benefit from Power Apps by allowing complex coded features to be embedded when needed.
With Power Apps you can:
-
Build mobile-friendly apps quickly and without development knowledge
-
Surface key data into a user-friendly app to help data entry
-
Connect to data from your Microsoft or third-party business applications
Power Framework is built with Power Apps. Any personalisation you need can be delivered quickly and cost effectively. And there’s no limit to the potential for customisation and extension.
Power BI
Analyse complex data for continuous improvement
Power BI is a business analytics tool that lets you connect to data sources, create visuals, and gather business intelligence quickly. This makes it easy to analyse and understand complex data to engage stakeholders and support decision making.
Power BI allows you to:
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Connect to Microsoft cloud services, third-party apps, and on-premises data sources
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Manipulate data and create visuals that you can present in an easy-to-digest format
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Use natural language to query data and get results
Power Framework uses Power BI to unify project data sources to create a single source of truth from which you can present dynamic and engaging reports.
Power Automate
Process automation in your hands
Save time, reduce human error, and streamline your processes with Power Automate. Create automated workflows that flow seamlessly between Microsoft services and third-party applications to eliminate repetitive tasks.
Power Automate lets you:
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Use pre-built automation templates for common automations
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Connect disparate applications, databases, solutions, and cloud services
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Quickly set up triggers, alerts, automated emails, and push notifications with no coding
Power Framework uses Power Automate to make the lives of PMOs easier and more efficient. Alerts, approvals, requests, project initiation, data integrations, and document creation are just a few examples of what can be automated.
Power Virtual Agents
Self-service support that empowers service teams
Create powerful chatbots without developers or data scientists, such as self-service assistants that reduce helpdesk requests.
Power Virtual Agents lets you:
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Create a foundation for omnichannel communications
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Provide a better customer experience
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Build value-added apps quickly and cost-effectively
Power Virtual Agents gives PMOs with the potential to provide teams with automated bots, with applications such as Q&A automation for process queries.
Why should you care about the Power Platform?
The Power Platform has 5 key qualities that provide strategic value wherever it’s applied:
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Collaboration
Connect work management tools such as Teams, Project, Planner, DevOps as well as Jira and others.
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Flexibility and Speed to Deploy
Customise at speed to deliver solutions specific to your needs. Build solutions in days, not months.
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Automation
Boost productivity by automating time-consuming and repetitive processes like alerts, data compilation, and report creation.
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Integration
Out-of-the-box connectors let you merge data trapped in disparate silos. Whether that’s Microsoft service or third-party apps.
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Business Intelligence
Valuable data can now be turned into business benefit. Power BI makes data visible, enhancing decision-making and driving a data-driven culture.
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Most importantly, the Power Platform is the most strategic, future-proof place for any business solution. Because unlike 3rd party PPM tools, it’s built in your Microsoft platform.