Microsoft Power Platform: What are the benefits?
Microsoft Power Platform is a powerful set of low-code tools that empowers individuals and organisations to create custom solutions to automate processes, analyse data, and enhance business operations.
TIEVA’s Solutions Architects can advise on the use of Microsoft’s Power Platform to help our customers identify their business challenges and present solutions that can improve their productivity, efficiency, and overall performance.
The Power Platform tools are Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate and Power Pages. Each tool has unique features and benefits that make it a powerful solution for businesses. These features are as follows:
Power Apps
Power Apps is a low-code application development platform that allows users to build custom apps that meet their unique business needs. The benefits of Power Apps include:
· Quick and easy app development: Power Apps allows users to create custom applications without requiring extensive coding skills. With its drag-and-drop interface, anyone can create, configure, and deploy applications quickly and easily.
· Integration with other Microsoft tools: Power Apps seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools like Dynamics 365, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams, providing a more comprehensive and cohesive solution to customers.
· Mobile-friendly applications: Power Apps allows users to develop mobile-friendly applications that can be accessed on any device, making it easy for employees to work remotely and stay connected.
· Low total cost of ownership: With its low-code development and pre-built connectors, Power Apps reduces the time and cost of building custom solutions, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership.
Power BI
Power BI is a business analytics tool that allows users to analyse and visualise data from various sources. The benefits of Power BI include:
· Rich data visualisations: Power BI provides users with powerful data visualisation capabilities that allow them to analyse data and gain insights quickly.
Integration with other Microsoft tools: Power BI seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools like Excel, SharePoint, and Teams, providing a more comprehensive and cohesive solution to customers.
· Improved data management: Power BI provides users with powerful data management capabilities, allowing them to integrate data from various sources, transform it into a usable format, and visualise it using rich data visualisations.
· Robust security and compliance: Power BI offer a robust security and compliance features that are critical to organisations. These features include data loss prevention, role-based access control, and compliance certifications.
Power Automate
Power Automate is a workflow automation tool that allows users to automate business processes and tasks. The benefits of Power Automate include:
· Automation of repetitive tasks: Power Automate allows users to automate repetitive tasks, reducing the time and effort required to complete them manually.
· Integration with other Microsoft tools: Power Automate seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools like Dynamics 365, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams, providing a more comprehensive and cohesive solution to customers.
· Improved productivity: Power Automate allows users to automate tasks, freeing up time and resources to focus on more critical tasks and projects.
· Scalability: Power Automate is designed to be scalable and can grow with the organisation's needs, providing a solution that can evolve as the organisation grows.
Power Pages
Power Pages is a design tool that allows users to create professional websites. The benefits of Power Pages include:
· Easy website creation: Power Pages provides users with a drag-and-drop interface for building web pages and configuring website functionality, enabling them to create external-facing websites quickly and easily.
· Integration with other Microsoft tools: Power Pages seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools like Dynamics 365 and Power Automate, providing a more comprehensive and cohesive solution to customers.
· Customisable branding: With Power Pages, users can customise the branding and styling of their websites to match their organisation's branding guidelines and create a more consistent customer experience.
· Secure access: Power Pages includes built-in security features that enable users to control access to their websites and ensure that confidential information is protected.
· Mobile-friendly: Power Pages enables users to create mobile-friendly websites that can be accessed on any device, making it easy for customers to interact with the organisation while on the go.
Quick and Easy Development
One of the most significant benefits of Microsoft Power Platform is that it allows users to create custom applications without requiring extensive coding skills. With its drag-and-drop interface, anyone can create, configure, and deploy applications quickly and easily. TIEVA can leverage this benefit to show organisations how they can quickly address business challenges by developing custom applications tailored to their needs.
Integration with Other Microsoft Tools
Microsoft Power Platform seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools like Dynamics 365, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams. This integration means that TIEVA can build custom solutions that leverage the full capabilities of Microsoft's ecosystem, providing a more comprehensive and cohesive solution to customers.
Improved Data Management
Microsoft Power Platform provides powerful data management capabilities, allowing users to integrate data from various sources, transform it into a usable format, and visualise it using rich data visualisations. TIEVA can use this feature to help organisations understand their data better, providing them with valuable insights to make informed business decisions.
Robust Security and Compliance
Microsoft Power Platform offers robust security and compliance features that are critical to organisations. With its built-in security and compliance features, TIEVA can assure customers that their data is secure and meets compliance standards. These features include data loss prevention, role-based access control, and compliance certifications.
Scalability
Microsoft Power Platform is designed to be scalable and can grow with the organisation's needs. TIEVA Solution Architects can show customers how they can start small with a specific application and scale up over time as their business grows.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
With its low-code development and pre-built connectors, Microsoft Power Platform reduces the time and cost of building custom solutions. This feature means that TIEVA can help organisations reduce their total cost of ownership by developing custom solutions that address their business challenges cost-effectively.
In conclusion, Microsoft Power Platform provides a wealth of benefits. Its quick and easy development, integration with other Microsoft tools, improved data management, robust security and compliance, scalability, and lower total cost of ownership are all features that can help customers build compelling solutions for organisations.
The Microsoft Power Platform is a tool set that is still relatively new and is being actively developed by Microsoft, however it is quickly becoming the tool of choice to improve end user utilisation and improve productivity. The potential of Power Platform has been mostly ignored by organisations for one reason or another, but once understood, can greatly assist in reducing repetitive tasks, or centralising information.
Through the understanding of how your organisation’s data flows, is inputted, and used, these platforms can help transform that to easily understood metrics which can assist in accurately forecasting, assist in decision making and support administrative functions of the business.
By leveraging these benefits, TIEVA can help its customers streamline their operations, drive efficiency, and ultimately achieve their business goals.
Do you think your business could benefit from Microsoft Power Platform? Why not contact one of our Solution Architects
