Power Platform for Beginners: The future of app development and more

At the heart of all Microsoft products is a compelling mission to enable and empower its users. Every day, trillions of people depend on Microsoft Office and the whole suite of Microsoft Cloud tools available in accomplishing tasks and making milestones.

In 2016, Microsoft surprised its supporters with the Power Platform. This software lets users easily create apps, reports, triggers, chatbots and more, paving the way for centralised and intelligent systems that can seamlessly connect with your existing tools. To this day and age, Microsoft’s innovations continue to influence and transform people’s lives.

Barhead Solutions is a specialised IT consulting firm leveraging the power of Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 to unlock business growth. Barhead offers enablement workshops on Power Platform, whether you are a citizen developer without prior knowledge or an IT professional already working with Dynamics 365. Through these workshops, you can quickly learn how to use Excel-like expressions in creating apps, flows, dashboards and chatbots for your business.

What is the Power Platform?

Power Platform is a cutting-edge yet approachable Microsoft technology that lets you create apps and chatbots, automate workflows, analyze data and more in a matter of days and without having to learn code. It has four main product offerings—Power Business Intelligence, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. Knowing about these four products will help you understand what Power Platform can do exactly.

The 4 product offerings of Microsoft Power Platform

Allow me to walk you through some helpful Microsoft developments and capabilities as I learn them for the first time myself. Hopefully, this blog can be helpful in your personalised business journey, coming up with modern and creative solutions to everyday challenges.

Power Business Intelligence (Power BI)

The socials we know today have one substantial advantage over traditional advertising—socials can provide quantitative data on engagement through measuring the likes, shares and comments in a post. Similarly, growing companies accumulate a massive amount of data from various departments, and always, the best ones look to data to make critical decisions.

The importance of intelligent reports in a data-driven society cannot be said enough. With Power Business Intelligence (Power BI), an organisation obtains, unifies and analyses AI-infused insights and recommendations from many sources to help them make the best decisions. Moreover, Power BI lets you create immersive reports that provide actionable insights. Its interactive dashboards provide information at your fingertips and allow you to visualise impactful data.

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