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Microsoft Power platform is a powerful
platform to execute development of apps, automate repetitive tasks, and
visualise growth. The three combined major Microsoft products: Power Apps,
Power BI, and Power Automate (formerly known as Flow) offer an absolute
customer experience to users of Dynamics 365 CRM.
Microsoft Power Platform continues to
transform opinions about low code development, business intelligence, and
automation "With over 16 million active users each month,"
With reference to our previous article The Ultimate Guide to Use Power Platform More
Efficiently. In which we have discussed about Microsoft Power Platform
fundamentals. The many capabilities it offers for development and
monitoring the processes. Additionally, we talked about how businesses who
struggle to develop their own software and applications can address their
challenges of workforce expectations, increasing development costs, and
scalability issues using a single tool in Microsoft Power Platform.
In this article, we will take the recap
of all the modules and their capabilities to give a broad-scoped overview of
the developer experience. Means we will try to create a roadmap for a more
simplified and speedy development of applications, web apps and chat bots in
Microsoft Power Platform using Power Apps.
Here we go,
Microsoft Power
platform capabilities at a glance:
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Module |
Capabilities |
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Power Apps |
Microsoft PowerApps is a platform
that allows you to create unlimited reliable and high-efficiency custom
business applications. All this using a low and no code development
environment, with integration and easy integration with other modules.
1. Platform-wide development using
Data connectors, AI, ML and Common Data
Service 2. PowerApps Integration with Power
BI, Power Automate, Dynamics 365, Teams, or
Office 365 3. Adoption of low-code technologies
that are robust, secure, and compliant. 4. Lead data storage from sources and
contacts. 5. Cost efficient mobile and web
application development
|
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Power BI |
Power BI data visualisation and
business intelligence tools can create easy to understand visualisations with
relevant, actionable data insights, across the organisation.
This includes: 2. Import data from nearly any data
source, database or web service with APIs 3. Insightful data visualisations
with different departments, functions, or projects 4. Create Interactive Data
Visualisations – Charts, Maps, Graphs, etc. 5. Consistent analysis across your
organisation.
|
|
Power Automate |
Power Automate offers strong data
connectivity, and built-in platforms to integrate applications within and
outside Microsoft Cloud through standard and purpose suited custom workflows.
To provide you a complete, intelligent, and automated experience.
This includes: 1. Streamline everyday repetitive
tasks using ML solutions for complex issues 2. Improve workforce productivity and
reduce cost 3. Reduce human error across business
systems 4. Creation of low code workflows 5. Logic design for Power Apps |
|
Virtual Agents |
Power Virtual Agents helps create
intelligent chat bots with capabilities to facilitate standard FAQ/QNA tasks.
Additionally, the same bot can be equipped to handle advanced queries and
tasks like form submission, etc. This includes: 2. Improve customer satisfaction and
loyalty 3. Measure performance for further
improvement 4. Connect and drive action of your
chat bots. 5. Extend Power Virtual Agents with
Azure
|
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Microsoft Power Pages offer quick and
convenient ways to build sites that deliver information and services to
customers and provide engaging site-visiting experiences to visitors.
This includes:
1. Developing comprehensive websites
with low to no-code functionalities 2. Easy to manage and connect with
Power Platform tools 3. Hundreds of ready-made templates
and websites ready to be customised 4. Ability to access data from the
Microsoft Dataverse 5. Leveraging site security features
from Microsoft Azure |
Microsoft
Power Platform Development life cycle
1.Design
App design is an important part of the
process, in which you specify what you'll be creating in the 1st
phase of power platform development. Based on the information you
collected in the planning phase. There are many popular traditional ways to
develop the application. A no-code development through component of Power
Platform may go with choices and convenience of users.
Power platform enables users to create
professional-grade low-code apps, chat bots, and websites that can be deployed
across iOS, Android, Windows, and the web. A no-code platform like PowerApps,
which employs a drag-and-drop methodology and doesn't necessitate coding
expertise, may be preferable to developing conventional applications.
2.Data Model
A data model is a
visual model that shows how data flows through your system and how different
entities relate to each other. Choosing a right data model is crucial to the
design of the solution. Because it will affect app design, especially in
model-driven apps.
As Microsoft Power Platform consultant, we understand the
capabilities of Microsoft Dataverse when designing the data model for any
solution.
The best practices to follow:
- Lead the data model design
effort to establish a high-level data architecture for the project.
- Establish a data model that
can be extended by the individual design teams and communicate the design
with the teams.
- Review and provide feedback
as the data model evolves during detail design of solution features.
3. API Management for Power Platform Development
API management may refer to the processes for creating, analysing, and
controlling the distribution of APIs. That connects applications and data
across the organizations and across clouds.
Power Platform Development enables
developers to use capabilities of Azure. Developers can create and distribute
apps that are based on internal and external APIs, managed by API
Management.
For this, once your API is ready, all
you have to do is export your APIs from Azure API Management to your Power Platform
development Environment. Everything you need to do is to create a custom
connector for your API, that can be used in Power Platform components like
Power Apps, Power Automate etc.
4. Automate flows
Microsoft Power Automate is an
important component of developing applications in Power Apps. Which gives you
the choice to automate processes within your apps and streamline app
development through drag-and-drop automated workflows (Previously known as flows).
Automation tasks and tools are
fundamentally used to create and reset sandbox environments, as well as create,
export, unpack, and validate solutions. Since workflows for various
applications and services are intended to be automated by flow. The pre-configured
application connectors included in Flow also enable task and workflow
automation across a wide range of Microsoft products and third-party
apps.
This includes tasks like:
- Provisioning and de-provisioning of
environments
- Synchronization of solutions’ metadata, to securely
moving solutions between deployment, source control, or another
environment
- Conducting static analysis checks against your
solution by using the PowerApps Checking Service
- Build and customize artefacts, like data,
models, diagrams, setup scripts
- Deployment to downstream environments
5. Build/test - Use Power Apps test
framework to automate your UI testing for Canvas apps.
Power Apps test framework (AKA Power
Apps Test studio) is a low-code solution to write, organise, and automate tests
for canvas apps. It allows app makers and testers to write tests using Power
Apps expressions and automate UI and end-to-end tests for Canvas apps
development. App makers can use a recorder to save app interaction and
automatically generate the expressions. This process is easier for them to
catch issues early when they move between environments.
Also helpful to:
- Test out new service versions or push updates
to their existing production applications.
- Create and organise test suites and test cases
for your app in a new test designer.
- Capture your actions and create test steps
automatically by using an intuitive recorder.
- Manually setup test stages and validate
expected results by using new Power Apps testing expressions.
- Play back your tests to quickly identify
issues early and understand any failures.
6. Deployment of application in Power Platform development environment
The final stage, deployment may involve
migrating software from a controlled environment in production and then get it out
into the world. Once the App development is complete and you are ready to
deploy it to test/production. Makers just need to make sure all the components
configured correctly. In final steps of deployment, makers can export their
unmanaged solutions to the production environment as managed solutions.
Well done! Your app is ready to deploy.
Next is making your first Power Apps
version available for production use. You will now get it into the hands of
your users. At this stage you need to make sure the app is working well and
meeting your objectives once it has been launched.
The final points
We have covered the steps for creating
and deploying a solution that contains all the project artefacts/customisations
from development to production environment. These steps, along with the tips,
should give you enough to set up your development plan for any power platform
project.
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development services that will help you in your custom business applications.
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