Microsoft Power Platform Services

Embrace low-code/no-code business applications at scale without the need for extensive coding or IT resources.

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Businesses often face several challenges when deploying Power Platform tools. One key challenge is ensuring that the tools are used effectively and consistently across the organization. Because Power Platform is a low-code/no-code platform, it can be easy for individuals or departments to create custom applications or workflows without following established guidelines or best practices. This can lead to fragmentation, redundancy, and inconsistency across the organization, as well as a lack of standardization and governance.

To address the challenges of Power Platform deployments, businesses need to establish clear governance policies and best practices for using Power Platform tools, as well as invest in security and compliance measures. They should also work closely with IT teams to ensure their Power Platform deployments are properly architected, scalable and aligned with their overall IT strategies and goals.

Why Embrace Microsoft Power Platform?

Microsoft Power Platform can help your organization to rapidly build and deploy custom business applications, without the need for extensive coding or IT resources. The outcome is a more consistent, secure, scalable, and user-friendly environment that supports business growth and helps achieve business goals more effectively.

Consistency and Efficiency

Ensure that your Microsoft Power Platform deployments are consistent and efficient, reducing redundancy, errors, and miscommunication by following established best practices and governance policies.

Security and Compliance

Ensure that your Microsoft Power Platform deployments meet relevant security and compliance requirements, reducing the risk of data breaches, regulatory violations, and reputational damage by adhering to best practices and working closely with IT security teams.

Scalability and Flexibility

Create a more scalable and flexible business application environment that can support the ever-growing needs over time by aligning Microsoft Power Platform deployments with overall IT strategies and business goals.

User Adoption and Satisfaction

Increase organizational adoption and satisfaction with Microsoft Power Platform tools by providing training and support for business users, as they can leverage the full potential of the tools and work more effectively.

Faster Time to Value

Ensure that your Microsoft Power Platform applications and workflows are developed efficiently and achieve business goals more quickly and with greater accuracy by following a clear development and deployment process.

Maximize Return on Investment

Maximize return on Power Platform investment by monitoring the performance of your business applications and workflows and continuously improving your Microsoft Power Platforms deployments.

Adastra’s Microsoft Power Platform Craftsmanship

Power Apps

Power Apps provides a range of pre-built templates and connectors, making it easy to create apps that integrate with other data sources and services.

Power Automate

Improve productivity, streamline repetitive tasks, and integrate with business applications through automated workflows.

Power BI

Get to know your performance metrics with Power BI – with any data, at any time, on any device.

Power Platform Success Stories

Adastra’s Microsoft Power Platform Methodology

We help organizations effectively manage and scale their Power Platform deployments, while ensuring that they meet security and compliance requirements, align with IT strategies, and enable users to work more efficiently and effectively by mastering the following strategic areas:

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Establish a Development and Deployment Process

Define a clear process for the development and deployment of Power Platform applications and workflows, which includes requirements gathering, development, testing, and deployment. Ensure that applications meet user requirements and organizational goals.

2

Establish Governance and Best Practices

Create clear guidelines and best practices for the use of Microsoft Power Platform tools, including standards for application development, data governance, and security. This can help ensure that applications and workflows are created consistently and meet compliance requirements, while also providing a framework for managing their growth and evolution over time.

3

Improve Security and Compliance

Ensure that your organization’s Microsoft Power Platform deployments meet security and compliance standards, including data encryption, identity and access management, and compliance. This can involve partnering with IT security experts or using third-party security solutions to ensure that sensitive data is properly secured and managed.

4

Align IT Strategies and Goals

Ensure that their Microsoft Power Platform deployments are scalable and can support their growing needs, we work closely with IT teams to ensure that they are properly architected and integrated with other systems and applications. This can involve establishing clear integration points and APIs, creating backup and disaster recovery plans, and ensuring that the deployment aligns with overall IT strategies and goals.

5

Monitor and Optimize Performance

Monitor and optimize the Power Platform environment for maximum efficiency and effectiveness. This can involve tracking usage metrics, identifying areas for improvement, and adjusting as needed.

6

Provide Training and Support

To ensure that Power Platform tools are used effectively and consistently across the organization, we provide training and support for users, including working sessions, tutorials, helpdesk support and documentation. This can help ensure that users can leverage the tools’ full potential while adhering to established guidelines and best practices.

Build Business Apps Fast, Without Losing Control

We will identify the processes Power Platform can digitize first and set up the governance to scale low-code safely.

Microsoft Power Platform FAQ

What is Microsoft Power Platform?

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code and no-code platform for building and deploying custom business applications without extensive coding or IT resources. It includes Power Apps for custom apps, Power Automate for automated workflows and Power BI for dashboards and reports. Used well, it creates a consistent, secure and scalable application environment.

Because anyone can build apps and workflows, individuals and departments often create them without guidelines or best practices. This leads to fragmentation, redundancy, inconsistency and a lack of governance. To avoid it, you need clear governance policies, security and compliance measures, and close work with IT, so deployments are properly architected and scalable.

The Power Platform CoE develops and implements governance policies and best practices for Power Platform tools and sets a clear development and deployment process. It also provides training and support for users, works with IT security experts on compliance and monitors and optimizes the performance of Power Platform applications and workflows across the organization.

Align deployments with your IT strategy and goals, follow a clear development and deployment process, train and support users, meet security and compliance standards, and monitor and optimize performance. Clear governance policies keep apps consistent and efficient, and close collaboration with IT and other departments keeps deployments aligned with organizational objectives.

Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI form the core, with pre-built templates and connectors for apps, workflows and reports. Azure Active Directory adds identity security such as multi-factor authentication and conditional access, Azure API Management secures integrations with other systems, and Microsoft Teams supports collaboration with chat, file sharing and video conferencing.

Adastra works across six areas: a development and deployment process, governance and best practices, security and compliance, alignment with IT strategy and integrations, performance monitoring and optimization, and training and support with working sessions, tutorials, helpdesk support and documentation. This lets you scale low-code safely while users work more efficiently.

Adastra won the Azure Data & AI 2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Award, our 11th Impact Award, and was a finalist for Business Applications Partner of the Year in the Americas. We combine Power Platform expertise with data platforms such as Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, as clients like Volkswagen AG and Eurowag have seen.