Power Platform
The Power Platform creates value by lowering costs, improving productivity and enabling rapid innovation. For our customers, this means increased efficiency, faster digital transformation and better use of Dynamics 365 and Azure.
The Microsoft Power Platform is a set of tools that enables you to create and manage business solutions with minimal coding. The platform consists of several components that together offer a powerful solution for data analysis, application development, workflow automation and website creation.
The Microsoft Power Platform consists of:
Power apps provide non-developers with the ability to create customized apps for business support without complex development. It is divided into two types: Canvas Apps and Model-driven Apps.
Dataverse serves as a data source for apps and is similar to a cloud database. It includes data modeling, permission models, and various business logic and data management capabilities.
Previously part of Power Apps as “Power Apps Portals”. Used to create portals and provide easy access to relevant information for customers.
Power BI is a service for retrieving, processing and visualizing data with the ability to create interactive analyses from different data sources.
Formerly known as Microsoft Flow, it includes different types offlows such as cloud flows, desktop flows (RPA support) and business process flows to automate and integrate different applications.
Connectors are wrapped around APIs to connect to various services from the Power Platform, including over 900 connections to cloud services.
Copilot Studio allows you to create chatbots without code, which can be published in different places like the web or in Microsoft Teams.
AI Builder integrates with Power Platform and enables the use of pre-built AI models or the creation of your own models for functions such as object identification, receipt scanning and text recognition.
Benefits of the Power Platform
Power Platform offers several benefits that enable companies to streamline processes, increase productivity and drive innovation. By combining automation, application development and data-driven analysis in a coherent solution, it becomes easy to integrate with existing systems. When you use Power Platform together with Softronic, your business becomes more efficient, smarter and safer.
Process Automation
Streamlines workflows: Power Automate automates repetitive tasks and business processes, freeing up time and reducing the risk of errors.
- Examples: Automated invoice management, reminders and customer cases.
- Result: Faster lead times and better use of resources.
Fast Application Development (Low-Code/No-Code)
Build apps fast: Power Apps allows you to develop business applications without extensive coding.
- Example: Create apps for time tracking, inventory or incident management in just a few days.
- Result: Shorter development cycles and faster innovation.
Data-Driven Insights and Visualization
Real-time decision-making: Power BI aggregates data from different sources and visualizes it in interactive dashboards.
- Example: The business gets an overview of sales performance, customer satisfaction and finances.
- Results: Better decision-making and faster response to change.
Cost Savings and Increased Productivity
- Reduce dependency on external suppliers: low-code solutions allow the organization to develop its own solutions instead of hiring external consultants.
- Automation reduces errors and manual work: fewer errors means reduced costs for correction and more time for value-adding work.
Integration with the Microsoft Ecosystem
Seamless Integration with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365: The platform integrates easily with Teams, Outlook, SharePoint and Dynamics.
- Example: Automate CRM flows in Dynamics 365 or create Power BI reports directly in Microsoft Teams.
- Result: A unified and coherent digital work environment.
User-Driven Innovation
Harness the power of ordinary users: Ordinary users can build and customize solutions without burdening the IT department.
- Example: Employees in the finance department can create automated approval flows themselves.
- Result: Higher innovation rate at all levels of the organization.
Enhanced Security and Compliance
Centralized Management and Security: Solutions built in the Power Platform comply with Microsoft security standards and can be centrally managed.
- Example: Data storage and automation comply with GDPR and other regulations through Microsoft Purview.
Softronic’s Power Platform offering focuses on streamlining, automating and democratizing innovation across the organization. By helping customers fully leverage the Power Platform for digital transformation and modernization. With Softronic as a partner, your business becomes more efficient, smarter and more secure.