Apps, Automate, BI & Virtual Agents

The Microsoft Power Platform is a collection of Low Code/No Code tools that allow us to create and deploy internal and external facing line of business applications, with rich analytics & reports and business workflow automation.

The business focused Power Platform solutions can easily be connected to other Microsoft cloud applications, including Dynamics 365, Azure Services and a myriad of non-Microsoft applications that can provide a fully integrated business process across your organisation.

Legacy applications commonly rely on database management systems, but the Power Platform Lowcode apps built with Power Apps and Power Automate can instead use a built-in data management system called the Dataverse, that can store data from all around your organisation to support data driven, real-time business processes.

Power Automate

Boost business productivity by giving everyone the ability to automate organisational processes.

Powerapps

Turn ideas into solutions by enabling everyone to build custom apps that solve business challenges.

Power BI

Make informed, confident business decisions by putting data-driven insights into everyone’s hands.

Power Virtual Agents

Easily build chatbots to engage conversationally with your customers and employees – no coding required.

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Dataverse

Quickly add business value with an extensible data platform that uses out-of-the-box common tables, extended attributes, semantic meanings, and an open ecosystem enabled by Common Data Model.

Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft PowerApps is a tool set that allows us to create and deploy tailored business applications which can be published to Microsoft Teams, desktop and mobile devices. Whilst we can develop within PowerApps in a no-code environment, for more technical users, we are able to extend capabilities by using Azure functions or creating custom connectors and more integrated solutions.

The applications created within PowerApps can be used to target a whole host of business pain points and help you streamline your internal and citizen and stakeholders facing business processes. Apps can be created for almost any purpose, such as a simple citizen and stakeholders on-boarding process or a mobile surveying app. You are only limited by your imagination.

Data from the Dataverse can be seamlessly connected, as well as data from the 200+ different additional connectors that are available, ensuring your applications are driven by the business data you need.

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a tool set that we use to configure business workflow automation.

Workflows can be used to drive efficiency, productivity and innovate a whole variety of business functions, automating repeatable business processes and keeping you informed when you need to be. Microsoft Power Automate works by monitoring trigger point within a business process and then automating subsequent actions to follow.

There are many different uses for Microsoft Power Automate that can help your organisation work better, through simple tasks such as creating a workflow that automatically sends an email notification for approval once an application has been created or saving documents to shared storage and linking back to Citizen and Stakeholders records in business application like Dynamics 365.

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics tool that enables organisations to drive business value from their data.

Power BI replaces the spreadsheets and disparate data sources, silos and duplicate information that tend to grow throughout an organisation over time. The tool can connect seamlessly to many different data sources, including the Dataverse, relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, unstructured data such as documents and business applications such as Dynamics 365.

With data correctly stored in its originating application data store, this “sole source of truth” can build insightful analytics and dashboards that drive informed decision making and management intelligence.

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Microsoft Power Virtual Agents

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents enable rich, natural conversations that expedite business processes and deliver a highly digital client experience. Microsoft’s powerful conversational AI capabilities enable your employees, citizen and stakeholders to have access to the information they need about your products and services through a self-service feature whenever they need it.

Microsoft Power Virtual Agents has been a key part of the overall industry transformation around conversational systems. Since the general availability launch in December of 2019, our focus remains on democratising AI and empowering developers to easily develop conversational AI agents with a simple, no-code toolset.

The Power Virtual Agents AI-powered chatbots, can resolve common issues and answer questions around the clock.

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