How Power Platform can help your business growth

We've said it once, and we will say it again. Great business decisions require great data insights. And as the amount of data generated by businesses each day continues to increase, it's important to take advantage of every opportunity to analyse and derive valuable insights to drive your business forward.

Traditionally, analysing data and creating detailed reports has proven painful, with few people within a business knowing how to create these reports and the access to the systems where data is held, or, simply being unaware of how they could be using data analytics to support their business objectives.

Today, software such as Microsoft's (MS) Power Platform enables non-technical users to analyse data, act on that data and automate workflows based on those actions.

Power Platform combines the robust capabilities of PowerApps, Power BI and Power Automate into one application to provide quick and easy app building and data insights. If your organisation is already using MS, chances are you will already have licences for Power Platform available to you.

Let's take a closer look at each component of Power Platform and how it can benefit your business.

PowerBI

PowerBI is a powerful tool for providing an informative visual interface for users to digest their data quickly and easily through interactive visualisations and tables – readily surfacing business information otherwise invisible in basic reports or spreadsheets.

These rich reports and interactive dashboards are completely customisable to your needs, whether they be operational, strategic, financial or performance based. The dashboards and reports can then be published on websites, in SharePoint or Teams, and in Apps. Power BI allows organisations to "empower all team members to discover insights hidden in your data".

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PowerApps

PowerApps allows anyone to quickly build and share low-code apps to modernise processes and solve business challenges. While Power BI provides data analysis, PowerApps allows you to act on it. Simple drag and drop editors, templates and easy deployment instructions allow anyone in your team to build apps to support productivity and innovation, instead of waiting for months for expensive solutions to be created by developers.

From employee onboarding and expense approvals to employee idea generation and risk reporting and everything in between, PowerApps functionality is limited only by the imagination of your team.

Power Automate

Power Automate is a service that helps anyone create automated workflows between apps and services, allowing your employees to easily automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks, and find better ways to get things done.

With nearly 300 data sources and APIs available to connect to, it is easy to connect your favourite services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and even social media sites, so they can be put to work in your workflows.

Amongst a multitude of other tasks, Power Automate can be used to:

Send automatic reminders for past due tasks.
Trigger single or multi-stage approval flows for documents or other requests.
Move business data between systems on a schedule for weekly, monthly, or quarterly reporting.
Automate tasks on your PC like computing data in Excel.
Send SMS notifications when a high priority email is received from a certain employee.
Automatically save email attachments.
Monitor social media posts that are published about your business, and respond automatically.

Power Automate allows its users to"streamline repetitive tasks and paperless processes, so you can focus your attention where it's needed most."

How Diamond IT's Software Development team can help you

Our Software Development team is ready to assist you in getting the most out of using Power Platform and are experts in a wide range of solutions, including:

To give your organisation a competitive edge, call us today on 1300 307 907.