Next Wave of Power Platform Investments Are Mostly in AI, Administration

Power Platform updates expected in the next six months focus on AI and administration enhancements. These enhancements could simplify working with the offerings via natural language prompts and generative AI, and they could speed management tasks for administrators as citizen developer (low-code) activity grows.

Power Platform components (shown here in the columns) are a set of low-code development tools and services that can create line-of-business apps, workflows, data-driven Web sites, chatbots (also called copilots), and databases for business data.

The chart shows Directions’ interpretation of the relative Microsoft investment across feature categories (shown here in the rows) for each component based on the published Power Platform roadmap for late 2024 through mid-2025. The ratings are on a scale of one to four for each category per component (where four represents Directions’ opinion of maximum Microsoft investment). The Overall column shows the average for each category, reflecting Directions’ opinion of the amount of attention Microsoft is giving the category across all components.