Microsoft Learn: Describe the business value of Microsoft Power Platform Flashcards
Enumerate the five key products of Microsoft Power Platform
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Power Virtual Agents
- Power Pages
This provides organizations with the opportunity to empower their team members to build their own solutions through an intuitive low-code or no-code set of services. These services help simplify the process of building solutions. With this, solutions can be built in days or weeks, as opposed to months or years.
Power Platform
This provides a rapid low code development environment for building custom apps for business needs. It is a suite of apps development services with a scalable data platform (Microsoft Dataverse) and an ability to interact with cloud & on-premises data sources. It enables the creation of web and mobile applications that run on all devices.
Power Apps
This lets users create automated workflows between applications and services. It helps automate repetitive business processes such as communication, data collections, and decision approvals. Do not waste important productive hours on drafting the same email for a weekly update or manually walking through approval processes, it can provide automation not only for the individual user, but also for enterprise-grade process automation. Its simple interface allows users with every technical competence (from beginners to seasoned developers) to automate work tasks.
Power Automate
This is a business analytics service that delivers insights for analyzing data. It can share those insights through data visualizations, which make up reports and dashboards to enable fast, informed decisions. It scales across an organization and has built-in governance and security, to allow businesses to focus on using data more than managing it.
You can consider this as the analysis and insights leg of The Power Platform. This dashboard could potentially replace a standing meeting to report on company metrics such as sales data, progress against goals, or employee performance.
Power BI
This enables anyone to create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-code graphical interface. It minimizes the IT effort required to deploy and maintain a custom solution by empowering subject matter experts to build and maintain their own conversational solutions. It is part of The Power Platform, so integration into Microsoft or third-party systems could be streamlined with Power Automate and its rich ecosystem, comprising hundreds of connectors. Users can enable chatbots to perform an action, by simply calling a Power Automate flow, which helps users to automate activities or integrate with back-end systems.
Power Virtual Agents
This is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Whether you are a low-code maker or a professional developer, it enables you to rapidly design, configure, and publish websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and devices. it provides you with rich customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio and an integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.
Power Pages
What product is the newest member of the Microsoft Power Platform family?
Power Pages
Enumerate three of the additional tools that enhance the solutions you create on the Power Platform
- AI Builder
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Connectors
This tool allows users and developers to add AI capabilities to the workflows and Power Apps they create and use. It is a turnkey solution that allows you to easily add intelligence to your workflows or apps and predict outcomes to help improve business performance without writing code.
AI Builder
This is a scalable data service and app platform which lets users securely store and manage data from multiple sources and integrate that data in business applications using a common data model to ensure ease and consistency to users. It is the common currency that enables the components of Power Platform to work together. It’s the foundation that enables the consolidation, display, and manipulation of data.
Microsoft Dataverse
This enables you to connect apps, data, and devices in the cloud. Consider connectors as the bridge across which information and commands travel. Connectors can be used by Power Apps, Power Automate flow, and logic apps. There are more than 900 pre-built connectors for Power Platform, enabling all your data and actions to connect cohesively. Examples of popular connectors include Salesforce, Office 365, Twitter, Dropbox, Google services, and more.
Connector
Which of the following Microsoft Power Platform components would you use when you need to create a customer-facing website with self-support options?
a. Power Pages
b. Power Virtual Agents
c. Power Automate
a. Power Pages
Your team has become frustrated with the number of times they have to perform basic data entry on project startup. There are many divisions who need the information and sometimes human error results in mistakes, making it more difficult to make sense of your information. Which program would be the most help in this situation?
a. Power Apps
b. Power Automate
c. Power BI
b. Power Automate
A client likes the idea of implementing a Microsoft Power Platform solution, but is concerned about the ability to interact with a custom API. How should you respond?
a. Microsoft Power Platform offers the ability to create custom connectors for this purpose, which allow you to connect to Power Apps and Power Automate.
b. Microsoft Power Platform has over 900 connectors to use in these situations.
c. Microsoft Power Platform uses connectors that hold a series of functions available for developers.
a. Microsoft Power Platform offers the ability to create custom connectors for this purpose, which allow you to connect to Power Apps and Power Automate.
