Power Platform
Power Platform is an enterprise platform that enables organizations to create custom and automated solutions to enhance efficiency and productivity in their business processes. With Power Platform, companies can build custom applications, automate workflows, analyze data, and create chatbots, all without the need for expertise in programming.
Power Platform is a suite of Microsoft products that focus on business automation and application development. These products include:
Power Apps
It is a no-code or low-code application development platform that allows users to create custom applications for the web and mobile devices.
Features
Provides a visual and user-friendly interface for dragging and dropping elements to create applications. No manual coding is required, making app creation easy even for non-programmers.
Integrates with a wide variety of data sources, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, SQL databases, web services, etc., allowing users to access and use existing data in their applications.
Offers a gallery of predefined templates covering common business use cases, such as project tracking, inventory management, vacation requests, etc. Users can also create and share reusable components, speeding up app development and encouraging collaboration.
Integrates closely with Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow), enabling the automation of tasks and business processes.
Applications created with Power Apps can run on various devices and platforms, including web, mobile (iOS and Android), and tablets. Additionally, the applications are responsive, automatically adapting to different screen sizes and devices.
Offers robust security and administration features. Administrators can control access to applications and data, establish permissions and usage policies, and track the usage and performance of applications.
Power BI
It is a data analysis tool that allows users to visualize and analyze data from various sources, generating interactive reports and dashboards.
Features
Offers a wide range of connectors to access data from different sources and tools for data cleansing, merging, and shaping.
Allows the creation of interactive and engaging visualizations, including charts, tables, maps, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other customizable visualizations.
Power BI dashboards combine multiple visualizations on a single page, creating an interactive control panel. Users can filter and highlight data, explore details, and obtain quick, visually appealing insights into business performance.
Includes advanced business intelligence features such as predictive data analysis, rule-based data modeling, and the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language.
Integrates with popular applications and services such as Azure, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Office 365.
It is a business process automation platform that allows users to create automated workflows for data integration and synchronization between different applications and services.
Power Automate
It is a business process automation platform that allows users to create automated workflows for data integration and synchronization between different applications and services.
Características
Offers a wide range of connectors to integrate and automate actions between different Microsoft and third-party applications and services.
Provides a visual workflow designer, making it easy to create and configure automated workflows.
Users can create custom workflows to automate specific tasks according to their organization’s needs.
Supports multiple stages and actions, allowing the execution of complex tasks involving various applications and services.
Can send real-time notifications and alerts through different channels, such as email, text messages, or messaging apps.
Workflows can be triggered by specific events, such as receiving an email, creating a new item in SharePoint, or a scheduled action.
Provides tools to manage and monitor running workflows. Users can view the status of workflows, track metrics and performance, and troubleshoot problems if necessary.
Power Virtual Agents
It is a chatbot creation platform that enables users to create and deploy custom chatbots for their organization.
Features
Offers an intuitive visual interface based on drag-and-drop, making it easy to create and customize chatbots without writing code.
Easily integrates with other Microsoft and third-party services and systems, such as Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Power Apps, and more.
Allows the design of fluid and structured conversations using the Power Virtual Agents dialog editor.
Enables deployment of chatbots on different communication channels, such as websites, mobile apps, Microsoft Teams, Facebook Messenger, and more.
Provides built-in analytics to assess the performance of your chatbot, including user interactions, frequently asked questions, common issues, and other relevant metrics.
You can leverage Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to enhance the understanding and responses of your chatbot. Power Virtual Agents integrates with services such as Language Understanding (LUIS) and QnA Maker to provide more accurate and contextually relevant answers.
