Microsoft Power Platform

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customised end-to-end business solutions.

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Power Platform is comprised of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, and Copilot Studio. All built on, and leveraging, the Microsoft Dataverse, each component gives organisations the ability to meet unique business goals or create holistic, end-to-end solutions. This can include creating and enhancing analytics, automating legacy and manual process, or building functionally rich, bespoke applications.

The platform’s low-code method allows everyone in an organisation – from frontline staff to professional developers – to contribute to the creation of business solutions that drive positive results. Professional developers can work in conjunction with citizen developers to improve business solutions and address complex needs by using the platform’s various code extension capabilities. Thanks to a native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to enhance Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development method, business objectives can be reached faster, giving developers more time.

Why choose the Microsoft Power Platform?

The Microsoft Power Platform empowers organisations to drive digital transformation, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation by democratising the creation of custom solutions.

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Microsoft Dataverse

Use a low-code platform to create and control apps, workflows, and AI-powered tools that make the most of your data

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Security and governance

With enterprise-grade compliance and governance, you can handle, track, and protect your low-code investments with ease

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Connectors

Use more than 1,000 Power Platform connectors to link data from your applications and build integrated solutions

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A connected cloud ecosystem

Enhance your impact and opportunities by linking your solutions to Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365

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AI capabilities built-in

Use AI-powered tools to develop apps faster, streamline workflows, show data, and cut down on repetitive tasks

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Enterprise-grade solutions

Boost efficiency and teamwork by empowering developers to build creative, adaptable solutions quickly

Discover and deliver innovative solutions for the whole business

Whether it’s analysing data, automating processes, or building applications, the Microsoft Power Platform provides a suite of powerful tools that enable users across the organisation to turn ideas into actions quickly and efficiently.

Discover valuable findings and transform them into actions.

  • Discover insights with AI: use advanced data-analysis tools, AI capabilities, and a user-friendly report-creation tool to turn your data into visuals
  • Connect all your data sources: create datasets from any source and add them to the OneLake data hub to create a single version of the truth for your data
  • Make an impact with insights: help users make better decisions by embedding insights into the apps you use every day, like those in Microsoft 365
  • Enable every data team: transform how your organisation accesses, manages, and acts on data by activating Microsoft Fabric in your Power BI experience

Quickly update your legacy applications and systems with apps that have AI built-in.

  • Create once, consume anywhere: build responsive, function rich, applications that can be consumed across devices with a single unified format
  • Build with AI recommendations: speed up your app development. Pick the suitable controls for the app you’re creating with suggested options
  • Start from zero: allow AI and Copilot to produce working apps and data fast from images and Figma files
  • Ease development: reduce time to deploy by leveraging low and pro-code tools alongside ready-made community templates. Empower front line workers to be actively involved in development through low-code, simple functionality

A complete cloud automation platform that leverages low code and AI for all stages of the process.

  • Discover: enhance processes and identify opportunities for business automation with task and process mining
  • Automate: automate on almost any system, desktop app, or website with AI and digital and robotic process automation
  • Orchestrate: grow automation securely and dependably across your organisation with integrated security, governance, and monitoring
  • Extend: accelerate digital transformation with automation-improved apps, websites, chatbots, and more in Microsoft Power Platform

Build fast, safe, and easy to use websites built directly on your business’ customer data.

  • Create captivating websites: use the simplicity of drag-and-drop design with elements such as images, videos, lists, and forms
  • Customise your website: make your pages more dynamic using out-of-the-box adjustable themes from the styling workspace and match them with your brand
  • Manage business data: give users and customers direct access to their own personal webpages surfacing only business data specific to them or their functional role
  • Adapt for all devices: build your page once on a standard framework that automatically adjusts across all platforms – desktop or mobile

Transform experiences for customers and employees with copilots made in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

  • Manage critical situations: create customised conversations for expected situations that need specific answers, such as compliance or regulatory issues
  • Enhance efficiency by automating workflows: handle the complexities of your processes with ease by using a copilot to automate complicated business tasks such as filing expenses, onboarding employees, and updating benefits
  • Leverage your data: choose, edit, and improve data using over 1,000 prebuilt connectors as plugins, linking business applications such as SAP and Workday with your copilot
  • Personalise connectivity: build and publish custom plugins, GPTs, and prompts to bring your business data where you need it
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Transforming processes with Power Platform to drive life-changing research

The Francis Crick Institute was looking for a way to make reports and data more available across the whole organisation. The institute needed a modern platform that was affordable and user-friendly when developing its own solutions – which is why it leveraged Power Apps to build an app that met its unique requirements.

“Within a matter of six months we were able to build something that the users absolutely loved.”

Pete Barnsley, Head of Special Projects, Francis Crick Institute

Microsoft Power Platform FAQs

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customised end-to-end business solutions. It consists of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, and Copilot Studio. United by the underlying Microsoft Dataverse technology, all areas are designed for a connected experience to achieve your business goals, whether it’s creating analytics, process automation, or data-driven productivity applications.

Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals is a certification to show how the Microsoft Power Platform can help businesses, using examples of Power Apps, Dataverse data connections, and Power Automate.

The certification is intended for those seeking to start their journey building solutions with Microsoft Power Platform.

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As a strategic Microsoft partner, Phoenix prides itself on helping organisations maximise their investment in Microsoft technology whilst establishing excellence for users, customers and the community. Our in-house certified consultants echo this approach as we aim to help organisations embrace Power Platform tools and use cases to reinvent how organisations engage with systems, data, and customers.

Our consultants have a deep knowledge of the platform’s capabilities, limitations and best practice as well as a breadth of experience working across the UK public and private sectors. These specialists can be called upon for technical and non-technical assistance with the design and build of Power App solutions, Power Automate workflows, Power Page site, and data insights through Power BI. Our workshops, solution builds, and ongoing support can help your organisation with the successful implementation and ongoing management of your Power Platform solutions.

To achieve long-term, successful adoption of the Power Platform technologies, it’s important to establish a solid foundation in governance, security, and data policy. This not only ensures that users are safely utilising the platform tools but also that access to company data is standardised, secure, and maintained throughout build, deployment, and usage of your Power Platform solutions.

Phoenix offer a range of service to help organisations establish this foundational governance layer and successfully adopt the platform thereafter. Centred around the Microsoft Power Platform Centre of Excellence Starter Kit, our workshops are focused on admin and governance, building safely and securely, enablement and training, and ongoing management and support.

Accelerate innovation with the Power Platform and Phoenix

Take the next step towards digital transformation and innovation by scheduling a call with our dedicated Power Platform Specialists today. We will guide you through the possibilities, tailor solutions to your unique needs, and accelerate your journey towards greater efficiency and productivity.

You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.