{"id":9891,"date":"2022-01-05T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=9891"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:05:35","slug":"microsoft-power-platform-one-platform-for-all-your-business-needs","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/microsoft-power-platform-one-platform-for-all-your-business-needs","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Power Platform \u2013 One Platform for All Your Business Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t you love it when your work desk is organized? The table is clean, your laptop is freshly sanitized, and your pen stand has all your stationery neatly arranged in sections. All your stuff is in one place. That is exactly what the Power Platform does. It offers all the sets of low-code tools you and your team need to take your business to the next level.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Microsoft Power Platform consists of four primary services \u2013 Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
TABLE OF CONTENT<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Apps<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Automate<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power BI<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Power Virtual Agents<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Why choose the Power Platform?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Certifications You Can Do<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Power Apps<\/h1>\n

They <\/span>can be used to create low-code and no-code applications that users can interact with. You don\u2019t need traditional developer tools to create them. Therefore, a significantly larger set of people within an organization can build and deploy applications that are easier to maintain as the underlying platform is updated.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Power Automate<\/h1>\n

This is exactly what it\u00a0sounds like \u2013 it automates a set of instructions that you would otherwise have to do manually. It helps remove human error and instead provides robotic precision to iterative tasks.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Power BI<\/h1>\n

Power BI <\/span>collects raw data and processes it into creative and easy-to-understand graphs and charts which help give insights to the statistics involved with your business. It makes Business Intelligence simpler and more interactive.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Power Virtual Agents<\/h1>\n

This service <\/span>helps you build chatbots even without prior knowledge of developing one. These chatbots can hold conversations with users that interact with them. Here you can provide the chatbot with reactions to situations using Power Automate and make the user experience smoother.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course,<\/span> there are a few more features provided by the Power Platform \u2013 <\/span>The <\/span>D<\/span>ataverse<\/span> helps maintain databases and keeps your information secure and connectors connect various data and services.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why choose the Power Platform?<\/h1>\n

The <\/span>Power Platform is perfect for businesses since it has <\/span>everything\u00a0<\/span>under<\/span> one roof. From business analytics and intelligence with Power BI, to interactive chatbots for websites and apps using Power Virtual Agents, to the apps themselves with the help of Power Apps \u2013 everything your business needs can be provided by the Power Platform. Plus, the low-code and the no-code graphical interface makes it so that someone without sound technical knowledge can create and maintain services that would otherwise be more difficult and time-consuming.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Certifications You Can Do<\/h1>\n

There are several certifications that can help you utilize the resources that the Power Platform provides.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fundamental Certification PL-900<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The PL-900 – <\/span>Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification is a must-have when you are getting Power Platform-certified. It walks you through the different services that are provided by them and trains you to use them to increase your and your team\u2019s productivity. It explains how the Power Platform can be versatile across Dynamics 365 apps, Microsoft 365 apps and services, Microsoft Azure services, and 3<\/span>rd<\/span> party apps and services.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Role<\/span><\/b>–<\/span><\/b>Based <\/span><\/b>Certifications<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft also offers role-based certifications like the PL-100 Power Platform App Maker Associate, PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate, PL-400 Power Platform Developer Associate, PL-600 Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, and DA-100 Data Analyst Associate. Some of them include a brief introduction to the Power Platform in case you decide to skip the fundamentals and jump right into the big picture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n