Digital transformation has brought flexibility, efficiency and unveiled new areas for growth for businesses. However, the journey doesn’t end there. A comprehensive, forward-looking strategy should follow, continuously examining repetitive processes and turning them into automated business processes.

Custom application development and automation tools could be huge assets in digitizing and modernizing business processes. As enterprise application development is realized on low-code/no-code platforms in ever-growing number, Microsoft Power Platform could represent a versatile and complex solution for any company, especially with existing Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Building blocks for business process modernization

Microsoft Power Platform provides an all in one low-code platform that allow non-technical end user to do more with their data themselves without coding knowledge. The foundations of Microsoft Power Platform are:

1. Power Apps to start building and launching apps right away using prebuilt templates, drag-and-drop simplicity, and quick deployment. There is no need to learn a new scripting language as Microsoft Power Fx is an open-source formula language for the platform that’s based on Microsoft Excel.
2. Power Automate to streamline repetitive tasks and paperless processes. Manual tasks can be traded for automated workflows. It can support individual tasks and entire workflows as well, to save time and effort.
3. Power BI’s strength is in visualizing the data managed in the company’s application. By choosing the data source (i.e. Excel sheet, SharePoint document, OneDrive business folder) data can be extracted and visualized independently in a browser or embedded in data visualization in Power Apps.
4. Power Virtual Agents can act as the new interface for the company’s application. It’s suitable to create, test, and publish powerful bots faster than ever using automation, AI, and a collaborative, low-code graphical interface. With the bot composer service, conversations can be tailor made to any business. 

Besides the main features, there are additional underlying services to provide security, connectivity and further customization:

1. With Dataverse data that's used by business applications can be securely stored and managed. Both the metadata and data are stored in the cloud.
2. Data connectors provide easy connection to the company’s apps, data, and services using connectors for cloud flows in Power Automate.
3. AI Builder enables the company to use intelligence to automate processes and glean insights from data in Power Apps and Power Automate. There is no need for coding or data science skills to access the power of AI.

Typical scenarios for custom solutions

With Microsoft Power Platform various business challenges can be solved increasing agility and modernize processes. The most typical scenarios are:

• Automating data processing
• Automating approvals
• Automating bookings – check out our project for desk booking 
• Visualizing business data in new ways (without investing in additional licensing)
• Creating mobile apps to capture data on the go.

Where to start

Our experts can help you to explore and confidently use all the features Microsoft 365 offers. We support your company in making the most out of your existing services through Power Platform from adoption and jumpstart trainings to custom component development.

Find out more about Microsoft Power Platform from our online presentation.