Components of Power Platform

Introduction

Power Platform empowers team members to build solutions using low-code & no-code approaches. In this area you can build any solution without having any coding background. Also, easily build a solution within a day or month.

It is a using low-code & no-code approach building a customized end to end business applications.

And, there are 100+ apps available where we can integrate with Power Platform like Google, M365, Azure, Dynamics 365, and all the business applications.

Power Platform Components

Power Platform

Basically, there are 5 components available in the Power Platform as below.

  • PowerApps
  • Power Automate
  • Power BI
  • Power Pages
  • Power Virtual Agents

PowerApps

PowerApps

PowerApps is an application where you can create any critical or business applicating using low-code & no-code approach. Any also to build PowerApps no development knowledge required.

There are 2 types of PowerApps available in the Power Platform.

  • Canvas PowerApps
  • Model-Driven PowerApps

Example. Student onboarding application or product sales application.

Power Automate

Power Automate

Power Automate component name has been changed to MS flow. So, in this component we can automate our daily or repetitive tasks. And would like to highlight that, when you automate the task, it’s not mandatory that it should be M365 app only, it supports most of the third-party apps and services.

The advantage of building an automated process is that it saves a lot of manual effort, time, etc.

Example. Sending daily reports to clients, sending updates on specific tasks, BAU task reports, etc.

Power BI (Business Intelligence)

Power BI

Power BI is a service where you can analyze the data using visualization. Visualization is nothing but the data showing in a pie chart or line chart.

Example. student report, Sales team, Business report, etc.,

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents components help us to create an automated chatbot. Chatbot is something like when you open any site and immediately a chatbot will open and there is the message that , How may I help you?

This type of chatbot you can build using Power Virtual Agent without using any code, we can use the available graphical interface to achieve this.

Example. Institution site or government portal, etc.,

Power Pages

Power Pages

Power Pages is components which helps you to create different pages and integrate with different sites or external sites. It also, Power Pages handled the new challenges so its robust.

It is a low code Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.

Example. Forum site or community site & etc.,

Please keep learning Power Platform fundamentals. I will share more contents on part-2 article soon.

Thank you!

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