Microsoft Power Platform – turn intelligence into action
Microsoft’s integrated business applications platform
Microsoft Power Platform is designed to empower everyday users to leverage the data at their disposal. The Power Platform gives everyone the ability to create apps, derive insights and easily automate business processes.
The Power Platform comprises of four solutions – Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) and Power Virtual Agents. Together the four solutions come together to form a powerful integrated application platform.
Analyse data, build solutions, automate processes and create virtual agents, all with the Power Platform.
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Power BI
Analyse
Unlock and share data-driven insights with interactive, real-time dashboards.
Power Apps
Build
Build apps that turn ideas into organisational solutions.
Power Automate
Automate
Empower workflow automation across your systems with a no-code approach.
Power Virtual Agents
Engage
Create chatbots to conversationally engage with your customers and employees.
Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools used to analyse data and share insights. Power BI enables everyday users to connect with their data and make informed business decisions.
Power BI enables you to harness data from Excel spreadsheets, on-premise data sources, big data, streaming data and cloud services, and allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources.
Power BI seamlessly integrates with the wider Microsoft stack such as Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365, providing users with easy insight directly from the other systems they use every day.
Power Apps
Microsoft Power Apps enables organisations to rapidly solve business challenges through the creation of low-code or no-code applications, created in a matter of hours rather than months.
Power Apps empower non-technical users to easily create custom, mobile-responsive applications that support a wide range of business tasks. These apps enable people to share and capture information on the go, simplify processes and remove manual or paper steps. Power Apps inspire people to make the changes they would like to see a reality.
Power Automate
Microsoft Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, is a no-code, cloud-based tool that allows users to create and automate workflows and repetitive tasks across multiple applications and services without the need of help from developers.
Once a workflow is built, it can be managed on your desktop or through a mobile app. Power Automate integrates with the wider Microsoft cloud, Power BI, Power Apps, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365.
Power Automate comes with over 200 out-of-the-box connectors, allowing you to connect to all your other business platforms.
Power Virtual Agents
Microsoft Power Virtual Agents empowers teams to create powerful no-code chatbots. Customer service professionals, rather than developers, can themselves create impactful chatbots in just a few simple steps, to create an improved customer experience.
Power Virtual Agents address many of the challenges associated with bot-building. With ease of configuration and the ability to integrate easily with platforms such as Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Power Virtual Agents allows subject matter experts to develop chatbots to suit their needs and reduces the reliance on developers to build and maintain chatbots.
Read our Power Platform guide: Powerful alone, transformational together
Power Platform FAQs
What is included in the Microsoft Power Platform?
The Microsoft Power Platform is a business application platform comprised of Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents. These applications can be used alone to improve processes or combined to deliver more complete business solutions.
What cloud service is the Power Platform hosted on?
The Microsoft Power Platform is powered by Dataverse, a secure database hosted in Azure Cloud.
What is a Power Platform Centre of Excellence?
A Power Platform Centre of Excellence program ensures governance and optimisation across your Power Platform estate.
Download our brochure to find out more and discover how Incremental can help you establish a Power Platform Centre of Excellence.
What are the data connectors for Power Platform?
The Power Platform connects to 200+ external data sources. Examples of Power Platform data connectors (available through Power Automate) include Adobe Creative Suite, Basecamp, Gmail, DropBox, LinkedIn, Sharepoint, Outlook and many more. See the full list here.
How much are Power Platform licenses?
Licensing options start from £7.50 per-user/month.
If you are already using Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365, you already have the Power Platform. Stand-alone licenses can be purchased per-app or per-user.
The lowest cost option to begin building applications is through a Power Apps per-app plan.
To find out more, access our pricing guide, which outlines options for all Power Platform applications.
Does Incremental offer Power Platform training?
Yes. From implementation and adoption training, through to ongoing support, our Power Platform consultants will ensure your organisation makes the most out of this intelligent solution. Get in touch to discuss training programme options.