Are you ready to empower your frontline employees to do more? Low code development tools can give you a helping hand. And with Microsoft’s Power Platform, you can develop applications easily — without any kind of background in development.
You want to enable all employees to improve business processes rapidly and continuously. And you might be investing in technology and innovative business solutions in order to reach your goal. But to what extent is digital dexterity top of your agenda? It might be your mandate within the IT department, but it’s certainly not enough to drive your business forward and allow your entire workforce to contribute to success.
And employees demand technology-related training as well. According to a survey conducted by Accenture among 14,000 employees, 62% stated that AI will have a positive impact on their work, and 67% consider that it’s important to learn new skills in order to be able to work with AI in the future. As a result, companies need to make technology part of their employer value proposition.
The employee demand is also reflected in future digital workplace trends. As a result, it’s no wonder that the need for digital skills is expected to increase by 65% in Europe and 69% in the United States. However, evidence suggests that not enough leaders are willing to invest in training and reskilling programs in order to enable their employees to work with intelligent technology.
To close this gap, there is a common solution on everyone’s agenda these days: intelligent automation.
The Promise of Intelligent Automation
Intelligent automation leverages the power of low code development to empower employees to do more by removing manual operations. As a result, employees are able to focus on value-adding activities by shifting the burden of error-prone activities from humans to technology. All this is possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is expected to become more accessible to everyone — from the office to the factory floor.
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Yet to actually deliver on the promise of automation, companies need holistic solutions that can work on a variety of systems. For example, if we look at the data collection process, there are numerous sources from which the data can be harnessed — web traffic, social media, and business systems such as ERP and CRM systems.
But how can businesses put that data to work? Fortunately, Microsoft has just the right solution for this.
Microsoft Power Platform: The Key to Unlocking Intelligent Automation
The Microsoft Power Platform was created to democratize data and AI in order to empower the employees who know their business best to find solutions for their processes and workflows. As a result, the Microsoft Power Platform delivers the following advantages for organizations:
- Provides better access to data for frontline employees
- Aligns job roles with strategic business opportunities
- Enables employees to focus on strategic value-adding tasks
- Adds a layer of flexibility by gathering insight from various systems
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Canvas, Model-Driven, or Portal? Main Types of Power Apps
Wondering what kind of apps you can create with Microsoft Power Platform? You can choose between canvas, model-driven, or portal. And the best part is that building an app can be as easy as creating a slide deck in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Canvas Apps — you can use your data set as a starting point, and then add workflows and your preferred design.
- Model-Driven Apps — the layout depends on the data and the information that enters the app.
- Portals — allows you to create web portals that can be shared internally and externally.
The Benefits of the Microsoft Power Platform
1. Allows You to Operate with Speed and Efficiency
With Microsoft Power Apps, you don’t need to wait for free availability from your IT department. You can quickly develop useful apps by removing the most time-consuming elements from the development process. Users get an intuitive drag and drop interface that makes it easy for everyone to develop an application. And you don’t need a big budget to access these perks.
2. Provides Mobile Access
Microsoft Power Platform was designed to be accessible anytime and anywhere. This means across mobile or tablet devices or web-based applications. This means that users can easily use it every whenever they need it. Moreover, because it can be accessed on mobile devices, users can capture videos, photos, or signature using the app, as well as complete interactive forms.
3. Requires 0 Coding Skills
Because it relies on the power of low-code development, it does not take a lot of technical skills in order to be able to use the platform. As a result, anyone can build an app provided that they take time to understand how this process works, and they understand what they need the app to do. Through the low-code approach, it’s also a lot faster to deploy an app compared to other development methods.
4. Enables You to Easily Connect to Your Data Points
You have the data, but how do you connect to it? Microsoft Power Apps makes this easy with an intuitive drag and drop functionality that helps you easily build the front end of the application. As a result, many standard data storage services can be easily integrated into the Microsoft Power Platform. From there, users can perform additional selections and access the data they need, for the purpose they need.
5. Makes it Easy to Integrate with Other Microsoft Tools
Considering that the Microsoft Power Platform is a Microsoft tool, it can easily connect and integrate with existing tools from Microsoft Dynamics 365. So if your data resides in Office 365, Microsoft Flow, or Microsoft Power BI, it’s easy to export it to SharePoint, Excel, or any other application you use in your business.
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Want to Get More Out of Microsoft Power Platform?
We’re here to help. Whether you need help developing the right applications for your business, or you need to get in touch with a reliable Microsoft Partner to help you unleash the power of this application, we got you covered. Working with business intelligence is now easier than ever.
Contact us today and let us help you reap the benefits of Microsoft Power Platform in your business. It’s time to leverage the power of intelligent automation to take your business to new heights and empower your employees to focus on value-adding tasks that will push your business forward and unlock new opportunities. Get in touch with us today!
