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Rob Sanfilippo

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

What is Power Platform?

Power Platform is a marketing umbrella brand encompassing several services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Power Pages, Power BI, Dataverse, and AI Builder. Each service is licensed separately, but other licenses such as Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide limited rights to use them, and each service provides some rights to use the other services.

Power Apps is a visual application development environment for citizen developers (also called low code developers) to create hosted applications that can present data for viewing and editing. For example, Power Apps can perform tasks such as budget tracking and cost estimation. Power Apps could make simple line-of-business applications easier to create and distribute to teams within an organization, but licensing limitations have stood in the way of some basic deployments.

Power Automate is a visual workflow automation design portal and engine based on the Azure Logic Apps service. Power Automate

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