Power Platform Advisor: The Guide to Optimizing Your Power Platform Tenant

In the ever-evolving landscape of business technology, Microsoft's Power Platform stands out as a beacon of innovation, enabling organizations to create custom business applications that connect to their data and work across the web and mobile. To further enhance this robust platform, Microsoft introduced the Power Platform Advisor, a tool designed to guide users through personalized best practice recommendations, thereby optimizing their Power Platform tenant.

What is Power Platform Advisor?

Power Platform Advisor is a managed environment capability within the Power Platform that provides IT administrators with proactive recommendations and inline actions to govern, organize, and secure their low-code assets. It analyzes Power Platform resources and environments, offering insights and actions to enhance security, reliability, and overall low-code health.

Key Features of Power Platform Advisor

- Proactive Recommendations: The Advisor generates personalized best practices recommendations to improve the health of your Power Platform tenant.

- Inline Actions: It allows users to take immediate actions or automate actions using cloud flows, streamlining the process of implementing recommendations.

- Security and Operational Efficiency: Initially, the recommendations focus on enhancing security and operational efficiency, ensuring that your Power Platform deployments are both secure and efficien.

- Weekly Scans: The Advisor performs weekly scans of all managed environments within the tenant, ensuring that the recommendations are up-to-date and relevan.

Benefits of Using Power Platform Advisor

- Enhanced Security: By following the Advisor's recommendations, administrators can lock down overshared apps and add owners to abandoned apps, significantly improving the security of their Power Platform environments.

- Operational Efficiency: The Advisor identifies unused apps and offers solutions to clean them up, thereby optimizing the operational efficiency of the Power Platform tenant.

- Collaboration and Delegation: With the 'Share Recommendations' feature, teams can collaborate more effectively or delegate actions, enhancing teamwork and productivity.

User Experience and Feedback

The introduction of Power Platform Advisor has been met with positive feedback from users. For instance, Lumen Technologies highlighted the importance of the Advisor in their maintenance and governance processes, stating that it enables quick re-assignment of apps with no owner and quarantining of non-compliant apps.

Summary

The Power Platform Advisor is a testament to Microsoft's commitment to continuous improvement and user empowerment. By providing a suite of recommendations and actions tailored to each tenant's needs, the Advisor plays a crucial role in ensuring that Power Platform deployments are secure, reliable, and efficient. As the tool continues to evolve, with more recommendations and actions lined up for the coming months, it is poised to become an indispensable asset for Power Platform administrators worldwide.

For those interested in optimizing their Power Platform deployments, the Power Platform Advisor is accessible to all tenant admins in the Power Platform admin center and is currently available in public preview1. It's an exciting time for Power Platform users, and the Advisor is sure to be a valuable resource in their journey towards digital transformation.

Links

Introducing Power Platform Advisor | Microsoft Power Apps. https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-power-platform-advisor/ .

Use Power Platform Advisor (preview) - Power Platform. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/power-platform-advisor .

Use Power Platform Advisor to get recommendations. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/release-plan/2023wave2/power-platform-governance-administration/use-power-platform-advisor-get-recommendations