WorkshopPLUS –

Power Platform for

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Power Platform
Overview

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Introduction
In this lesson, you will learn the following:

• What is Power Platform?

• Power Apps and Power Automate in few words.
Microsoft’s
mission
Empower every person and
every organization on the
planet to achieve more
Transforming your business is
challenging
Budget Time & Resource Business Paper Complex
constraints constraints expectations processes processes

IT/Business No BI “Shadow IT” Tools to create Security &

partnership integration governance the right culture Compliance

Leverage existing Integrate data

Legacy system Difficult to find Track & measure
technology from the right
maintenance insights performance
sources
Democratizing digital transformation

Empower Innovation Activate Intelligent Decisions Streamline Business Processes

Drive innovative growth by Discover new, data-driven Simplify and optimize day-
enabling everyday users insights to inform intelligent to-day business tasks by
and pro developers to actions and automated modernizing processes
efficiently build and workflows by creating a real- critical to your
customize enterprise-grade time, connected view of all organization’s success.
solutions. your data.
Microsoft Power Platform
The low-code platform that spans Office 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and standalone
applications.

Power BI Power Apps Power Automate Power Virtual Agents

Business analytics Application development Process automation Intelligent virtual agents

Data Common
connectors AI Builder Data Service
Who here has a Microsoft 365 background?

SharePoint, Teams, Exchange…

Microsoft 365

Analyze Act Automate

Data connectors

Standalone apps
Power BI Power Apps Power
Common Data
Service Business Low-code/no-code Automate
analytics application
development Workflow
automation

AI Builder
What about a Dynamics 365 background?

Sales, Service, Talent…

Microsoft 365 Dynamics 365

Analyze Act Automate

Data connectors

Standalone apps
Power BI Power Apps Power
Common Data Business Low-code/no-code Automate
analytics application
Service development Workflow
automation

AI Builder
Last, but not least, what about Azure?

Azure SQL, Azure Functions…

Microsoft 365 Dynamics 365 Microsoft

Azure

Analyze Act Automate

Data connectors

Standalone apps
Power BI Power Apps Power
Common Data Business Low-code/no-code Automate
analytics application
Service development Workflow
automation

AI Builder
 Develop faster than ever before
Azure + Power Apps = No Limits

Power Every
Platform Developer
PowerApps
Azure
DevOps
Azure
services API Azure AKS Cognitive
management Functions Services
Pro
Developer

Azure Data
Services SQL Azure SQL Data Cosmos DB
Warehouse
Visual VS
Studio Code
 PowerApps: a low-code approach to building
apps
Easily build apps with a full featured
low-code/no-code platform.

Connect to your existing data with 250+

pre-built connectors and custom
connectors.
Store your data in the Common Data
Service.
Integrated with Office 365, Azure,
Dynamics 365, and Power BI.

Strong enterprise governance & security.

Pro-dev extensibility.
Rich, WYSIWYG
canvas-based
authoring
Rich canvas-based authoring.
Full creative freedom to craft user
experiences with a PowerPoint-like canvas.

“True WYSIWYG”: use the app while building

it.
Creators work with live data and can
directly use the app as they work, getting
instant feedback.

Template apps for phone, tablet, and web

Pre-built apps covering common business
scenarios across devices and form factors.
Power Apps Types

Canvas apps start with user Model-driven apps leverage your

experience, with pixel-perfect control data model, relationships, and
to build highly customized task- and business processes to
role-based apps that mash up data automatically generate
from 250+ sources immersive, responsive
applications
Instantly publish apps to the web or
mobile
When done, get your app in people’s hands. Publish it to your
organization—no app store required. Web and mobile. Laptops,
tablets, and phones whether Android or iOS.
Automate and integrate business processes with
Microsoft Power Automate
 Automate and model business processes across
your apps and services.
 From simple automations to advanced scenarios
with branches, loops, and more.
 Trigger actions, grant approvals, and get
notifications right where you work.

Enterprise- Cloud and on-premises Pro-developer

grade connectivity extensibility
Microsoft Power Automate helps non-
developers work smarter by automating
workflows across apps and services

Get notifications Copy files Collect data Automate approvals

Power Platform
Connectors
• 300+ built-in connectors in addition of
custom connectors

• Seamless hybrid connectivity to on-

premises systems via the On-Premises Data
Gateway.

• Custom Connector support allows the

registration of developer/IT systems as a
building block for citizen developers.

• Use multiple data sources in a single

application for processes that span
systems.
La Verify Office
b: 365 trial
tenancy

Exercise 1
Login to Microsoft learn on
demand environment.
 Labs Prerequisites –
Follow the steps below to setup labs
activities
• Every workshop attendee will be having a dedicated demo tenant to perform
upcoming labs.
• To provision and access this demo tenant, please follow the steps below:
• Use Edge, Edge Chromium or Chrome web browser to navigate to
http://aka.ms/lod.
• Sign-in using Microsoft personal account (other email service account can also
work) – don’t use business email.
• Select “My Training” > Redeem training key > type assigned training key [Ask MS
engineer delivering this workshop].
• In loaded page, scroll to “Lab” section then select “Workshop labs title” link to
launch it.
• In virtual labs environment select “Resources” tab to get Office 365 Credentials you
need to sign in.
• Copy them and paste into notepad to use them later in your machine web browser.
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