It’s possible to use Power Platform yourself create applications to digitalize your business processes. Now, Microsoft has integrated its AI tool, Copilot, into the Power Platform, making the development of these applications even faster and easier with GenAI.
Let's look at three of the key Power Platform solutions – Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Pages – and where embedded AI can make a real difference in helping developers work more intuitively.
1. Power Apps: streamline app creation
Using Power Apps can help developers build apps at pace using drag-and-drop functionality and a range of pre-built templates. You can build apps to transform and modernize tasks like:
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Information sharing
- Auditing
- Inventory management
– and much more besides.
Microsoft Copilot can further speed development by allowing you to
- Describe the app you want, or start with a sketch or table, and have Copilot Studio design it
- Finish your app faster by building with AI suggestions
2. Power Automate: describe it to design it
Power Automate is a comprehensive automation platform that enables automation and optimization of business processes across almost all systems, desktop apps and websites – helping you save time and focus on what really matters to your business. With Power Automate you can, for example:
- Automate repetitive work (such as managing document approval flows)
- Build guided workflows that take users through processes using defined steps
- Develop flows that trigger automation in response to an event, such as the arrival of an email from a specific sender
Even if you're not sure where to start, you can simply describe what you want to automate, and the built-in Copilot AI tool will build a workflow customized to your requirements.
Additional Copilot capabilities can help evaluate existing processes and tasks to quickly uncover opportunities for automation and improvement.
3. Power Pages: website building made easy
Power Pages is a drag-and-drop development platform that helps you create engaging, data-driven business websites for purposes such as:
- Customer self-service
- Partner onboarding and management
- Application processing
- Citizen services
Power Pages comes with built-in templates and customizable themes to help you get started fast. Taking advantage of Copilot makes website authoring even simpler, with a user-friendly, conversational interface for generating text, creating forms, embedding chatbots, and more.
Accelerate transformation with Power Platform + GenAI
The Power Platform development environment can help your organization on its digital transformation journey. Taking advantage of Copilot – the platform's built-in GenAI capability – can help developers pick up the pace and see the transformation benefits sooner.
For best results, you may well prefer to work with a partner like Konica Minolta on transformation and modernization with Power Platform – especially when it comes to more complex or business-critical apps and workflows.
We'll work with you to understand your current processes, where you want to get to, and what your priorities are. Holding all six Microsoft Cloud Solutions Partner Designations, we bring the skills and experience to help you get the best out of Power Platform; ensure optimization of the apps, automations and websites you want to develop; and guide you on your broader transformation journey.