Why Power Platform?

Why Power Platform, before that lets have a brief about it, I will not define what is Power Platform, you can find lot more information on Microsoft documents.

So, as we know, Power Platform is a suite of services, where these services are Low Code / No Code in nature that mean development using these services require no or low coding skills and no specialized degree or certificate. Following are the services with a quick description –

1. Power Apps – to create apps
2. Power Automate – to create business flows
3. Power BI – reporting tool
4. Power Pages – to create web sites
5. Copilot studio (Power Virtual Agent) – to create chat bot

Now topic of the discussion, Why Power Platform? Altogether we are talking about democratizing application development. Following are the top ten reasons to go with Microsoft Power Platform.

1/10????? Anyone can develop

With little understanding of the Power Platform any business user can convert his/her ideas into solution. Its like creating a Power Point and using some Excel formulas.

2/10????? Develop fast

as it is a low code approach, time to develop any application is way better than any traditional approach.

3/10????? Excellent underwiring

Lot of work is already done for you, like you don’t have to worry about login, deployment resources, mobile app, networking infrastructure to connect various data sources, testing at control level etc.

4/10????? Connectors

there are hundreds of connectors to connect various services. Almost with all your favorite services you can work with, and if anything is missing then you can always create new connector.

5/10????? Copilot

Microsoft is adding Co-pilot an AI/ML based help Bot for all its products, Co-pilot for Power Apps comes with new possibilities, development has never been this easy.

6/10???? Development Environment

Traditionally you need to setup a development environment on your machine, but with Power Platform for most of the services in Suit you just need browser with internet.?

7/10????? Zero Environment maintenance activity

As compared to the traditional way of managing environment, we end up updating OS security patches, updating compilers, drivers... on cloud PaaS also there are lot of maintenance related activity we need to manage. Power Platform being a SaaS service there are zero maintenance activity below Session Layer of OSI model.

8/10????? Low application maintenance

Being a low code platform mean low maintenance at application level.

9/10???? Accessibility

Being a SaaS platform, you just need internet, be it mobile/tablet or laptop you can access almost all services with minimum setup.

10/10?? Security

Security is well sorted on Power Platform; it is more like one time configuration than a regular maintenance activity. And it is enterprise grade, guaranteed by Microsoft.

Diwakar Jadhav