The Microsoft Power Platform combines the capabilities of Power Apps, Power BI and Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) into a very powerful platform to build business applications. While each underlying component is powerful by itself, when you combine these tools into the Microsoft Power platform you are able to build robust solutions to automate business processes in Office 365. Power platform provides a low-code tool set allowing you to automate any business process, easily integrate with external systems, and robust reporting capabilities. The Microsoft Power Platform is the tool that allows you to unlock the potential of Office 365.
Gather and manage data and files
Use Microsoft PowerApps with SharePoint lists to build custom forms to view, create, and modify data and files.
Automate repetitive tasks and processes
Free yourself and your team from manual tasks and processes. Use the simple, visual designer in Flow to lay out the steps. Configure alerts and approvals, model complex, multistage processes, and more!
Connect and integrate data and services
Flow lets you automate data exchange, synchronize files, and more so you can easily pull data from other sources without leaving your core platforms.
Build apps that transform your business
Create without writing code. Use PowerApps to create digital experiences that take advantage of technology like cameras on mobile phones to work in innovative ways.
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Power Platform Components
Power Automate / Microsoft Flow: This tool is a no-code solution for non-technical users to automate complex business processes. You can easily build workflows that streamline and automate your processes without involving a large development team.
Power Apps: Configure mobile and web applications and forms without requiring custom code. Power Apps is designed to enable non-developers to create custom forms and applications to increase productivity and automate business processes. Power Apps is designed not only for Office 365, but has connectors to hundreds of applications and databases, ensuring you can develop enterprise level applications.
Power BI: Deliver actionable insights to streamline business decisions by providing visual indicators and KPIs to your team. Easily connect Power BI to your business systems, databases and spreadsheets and allow your end users to create their own dashboards and reports. You can then display them not only on the Power BI dashboard, but embed them into the appropriate SharePoint site and allow for mobile viewing.
These three components provide you with a robust platform to automate processes and build custom application solutions.
Example Use Cases
Developed a fully automated tool that automates the process of creating Microsoft Teams with pre-defined channels, tabs, and provides secure external sharing. The only end-user requirement is to complete a simple form to initiate the process. This solution not only reduces the time to setup and configure new Microsoft teams, but also enforces your policies and governance guidelines through automation.
Delivered a regulatory tracking solution for one of our life sciences companies that allows you to initiate and track all of your regulatory submissions. A custom form was built using Power Apps that defaulted fields based on an underlying master list. Once submitted, workflows running Power Automate flows were triggered to gather approvals and track the request. Notifications ensured that users are notified of all deadlines.
Developed a PO request and tracking solution that allows end users to initiate a PO request user a custom Power Apps form. Once submitted, a workflow is triggered that evaluates the request and based on the attributes (requester, dollar amount, etc.) routes the request for approvals, including legal if required. The submitter has full transparency to the request throughout the process. Once approved, the system integrates with the ERP application to create the required General Ledger entries.
DON’T WANT TO DO IT ALL YOURSELF? TIMLIN CAN HELP.
Office 365 Expertise and Experience
Timlin is a proud Microsoft Gold Partner. Over the past 15 years, we’ve helped organizations like yours adopt the tools in the Office 365 platform to empower employees and optimize operations.
We also leverage best practices from the host of processes we’ve automated.
App Integration & Customization
We not only incorporate the efficiency-accelerating applications SharePoint, Flow and PowerApps, but we also utilize Azure and all of its components for a comprehensive solution.
We then personalize processes for your users.
Time-Saving Approach
We deploy our solutions using a set of templated components – workflows, layouts, and data – that can be modified to create your custom processes in a fraction of the time normally required.
“Digital technology adoption in construction tends to lag behind other industries. But not at Middlesex. Technology is going to enable us to do things faster and more accurately, giving us a competitive edge in the construction space. Thanks to Timlin, our teams collaborate more effectively, we can make decisions faster, and I look like a hero because I can say ‘yes’ to whatever is asked of IT.”
AUTOMATE SHAREPOINT SITE AND TEAM SETUP!
Deliver secure, compliant internal and external collaboration solutions, mitigate content sprawl by establishing a controlled process for site or Team creation; and save time establishing and managing your sites and Teams. You can do it using Microsoft SharePoint, Azure, and Power Platform applications.
See our video that shows you how!