A study on how Power Platform helps improve enterprises’ ROI
The Total Economic Impact study and ROI analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting interviewed six businesses implementing Power Platform into their business strategy. The study found that the Power Platform reduces application development time significantly by giving non-developers access to develop custom apps and workflows. This way, the businesses could save development costs, increase flexibility, and improve business processes. Businesses also saw massive improvements like reduced time to market, increased customer support, and increased revenue.
With Power Platform, the average cost to develop an application has dropped significantly by 74%. Additionally, businesses can benefit from increased savings in service fees, application purchases, reduced code maintenance, and management. The study concluded that Power Apps and Microsoft automated Power Platform Business applications boosted efficiency and saved 1.6 hours each day for 1650 users.
With Power Platform, businesses can create, automate, and analyze data with ease. The platform integrates the functionalities of Power BI, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, and Power Pages into existing systems.
The Power Platform gives users access to applications that enable business transformations and significantly enhance business outcomes. Additionally, individuals can benefit from better access to information, better insights, and faster decision-making abilities.
With the power platform, businesses can create, automate, and analyze data with ease. The power platform brings the functionality, capabilities, and controls of Power BI, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, Power Pages into users’ existing systems.
How Power Platform, Azure, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Teams work seamlessly together
Power Platform, Azure, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Teams work together seamlessly due to the recent improvements in Power Platform. These changes have increased the speed of business application development while reducing the costs significantly.
1. Power Platform and Azure API Management
Developers can now leverage Azure Functions and Azure API Management to build custom API, which can be utilized to access cloud-hosted data sources. Additionally, developers can publish Azure API management connectors to Power Platform, which improves discovery and consumption and decreases the time to create apps by multi-folds.
- Streamlines the process of building APIs with integrated Azure services.
- Enhances scalability and reliability by hosting APIs in Azure’s secure environment.
- Simplifies app development by providing easy access to existing data and functionality through APIs.
2. Power Platform and GitHub
Developers can now seamlessly create Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) or use already available templates with GitHub to develop, test, and release solutions. Code-first and low-code teams can now work together and have a line of sight over the center of excellence.
- Offers a unified development lifecycle, from planning to deployment.
- Enables automated testing and deployment pipelines, ensuring high-quality applications.
- Improves collaboration between teams with GitHub’s version control and project management features.
3. Power Virtual Agents and Azure Bot Framework
Bot makers can now use Azure development platforms like Bot Framework Composer to develop custom bots and add them to Power Virtual Agents. Users can use the dialogs to save, host, and execute simultaneously with Power Virtual Agents bot content. Additionally, these will upgrade the application similar to custom code bots and decrease dependency on Azure hosting, deployment, and billing.
- Combines low-code bot building with custom enhancements for tailored solutions.
- Allows integration of AI and NLP capabilities, improving user interaction quality.
- Facilitates quick updates and scalability of bots without redeployment hassles.
4. RPA and Power Automate
RPA capabilities of Power Automate have extended to Power Automate Desktop. Desktop activities using connectors with SAP, websites, legacy terminals, JAVA apps, and Citrix is available with Power Automate Desktop. The desktop can be leveraged to manage Azure apps, workflows, and resources through APIs. Additionally, developers can seamlessly automate manual work to develop, test, and deploy applications in record time.
Fusion Development made possible by Power Platform
Fusion development allows your business to build better applications, faster by bringing together professional developers with citizen, or low-code, developers.
Microsoft’s Power Platform is designed to empower fusion teams & enable fusion development.
In the next blog, we shall dive into the Microsoft Power Platform Architecture. Stay Tuned!
