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How does the Microsoft Power Platform work?

With the Microsoft Power Platform, you can build business applications relatively easily and quickly without the need for in-depth programming knowledge. This includes workflows, apps, reports, and chatbots.

The Power Platform brings data from various sources together in a single environment, ensuring everyone has access to the same up-to-date information at all times. Within that environment, powerful tools are bundled to build applications, analyze data, automate processes, and set up digital assistants.

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Power Apps

Turn your ideas into smart custom applications

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Power Automate

Make data work for you with automated processes

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Power BI

Discover connections and make the right choices through data visualization

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Copilot Studio

Boost productivity and reduce workload with AI assistance

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Power Pages

Create an intercompany website incredibly fast with Microsoft Power Pages

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The components of the Microsoft Power Platform

Microsoft Power Apps is a platform that allows you to quickly and easily build business apps without complex code. You can use it to build entirely new apps or customize existing ones to provide your colleagues, both in the office and in the field, with handy tools to handle tasks faster.

Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based workflow application that allows you to create workflows in a practical way to automate routine tasks and business processes.

Microsoft Power BI is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to collect business data from various sources. Power BI provides you with all the possibilities for analyzing and presenting up-to-date business information. The insights it generates are presented in beautiful interactive dashboards and are easy to share with colleagues. Read more about Microsoft Power BI here.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is used to create personalized AI assistants. With Copilot Studio, you create AI-powered assistants or chatbots that answer common questions or handle complaints.

Microsoft Power Pages is the simplest way to create a business website (portal). Low-code, accessible, secure, scalable, and easy to connect to your database or existing Microsoft products.

 

The foundation of the Microsoft Power Platform

The four services mentioned above are supported by the following three components:

  • Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service): this data layer is the connector between all the aforementioned Power Platform services in which business rules are defined. Without Dataverse, there is no Power Platform.
  • Data connectors: these allow you to connect your own data from applications to your new service.
  • AI Builder: did you think Artificial Intelligence was only for the future? With this tool, you can put the power of AI into practice in your organization today!

Getting started together

Are you as enthusiastic as we are about the possibilities of the Microsoft Power Platform and Generative AI? Do you want to work on innovative solutions that increase productivity? Or are you already using one of the Power Platform components and want to do more with it? Please contact us or drop by for a cup of coffee. Together, we can devise smart solutions that make your organization more efficient.

Bart

Lead Functional Consulant