
What is Power Platform?
Power Platform is a suite of tools to help you build and deploy business apps, create processes and workflows, and gain insight with real-time dashboards and reporting.
With Microsoft Power Platform, you can drive value and insight out of Microsoft 365 through low-code apps, business process automation and business intelligence.
Your business generates tons of data every day. But you can only realise the true value of this data if you have the means to understand it and act on that understanding.
So what if, rather than just generating data, you could analyse, manipulate and make use of it? Microsoft Power Platform makes it easy to make more of your corporate data.
This, combined with an appreciation of the worldwide IT skills shortage, led Microsoft to create a toolset which puts the power of app creation within the grasp of ordinary business users.
You can manipulate and customise Microsoft 365 to an incredible degree, automating processes, simplifying data management and gaining insight into your data that you can actually act on.
How Power Platform Works
Behind the scenes, all Microsoft 365 apps speak the same universal ‘language’.
Data created by one app can be understood by another. Power Platform lets you take advantage of this fact and manipulate your business data, regardless of where it’s stored or what app was originally used to create it.
Microsoft has carefully designed Power Platform to be very straightforward to use, yet still offer users the ability to create incredibly powerful applications.
Rather than relying on IT to impose change, this encourages everyone in your organisation to play an active role in its digital transformation.
Three core products make up Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. Together, they let you discover, manipulate, automate and understand business data. The platform lets you make connections between apps, such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and even link up with third-party software like Salesforce and Workday.
Core uses Power Platform to develop apps, workflows and dashboards that make our customers’ lives easier. But we also believe you should become self-sufficient in understand and being able to use the tools. We are happy to train your team in how to get the most out of Power Platform, so you can drive real value out of your business data.
Act with Power Apps
Power Apps lets you develop custom, low-code/no-code applications. Using a simple drag-and-drop user interface, you can quickly create apps to surface and input data. The resulting apps can be run on most devices and are available on most operating systems, and are mobile-friendly.
Power Apps has experienced an enormous uptake since its initial release, and at Core we’ve already helped many of our customers take advantage of this fantastic technology. The future of Power Apps includes the integration of emerging technologies such as machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence, letting you build apps that can reliably make informed decisions on your behalf.
Rapidly build and deploy apps with no requirement for IT or coding knowledge.
Safely manipulate data from across your Microsoft 365 tenant with ease.
Build task-specific apps to provide a streamlined, more efficient user experience.
Free up your IT team to focus on what really matters.
Automate with Power Automate
Power Automate lets you design workflows that automate your processes by connecting up Microsoft 365 services and third-party applications. This reduces the workload for employees by taking repetitive processes out of their hands and freeing them up to work on more important tasks. It can also be used to ensure that each step of a process is followed correctly, leading to streamlined operations and less chance of mistakes.
Use a drag-and-drop interface to automate your business processes.
Automate common business processes quickly using templates.
Create notifications and alerts in seconds with no coding experience required.
Speed up your business, increase productivity and reduce the chance of failure.
Analyse with Power BI
Power BI is a business intelligence tool which lets you tap into real-time insight from your corporate data. You can connect to data sources, analyse them, and create and share intuitive live dashboards and reports. As with the other Power Platform tools, Power BI is a self-service application aimed at business users. Whether your data is in your Microsoft 365 tenant, on-premises or in another service, Power BI lets you bring it into one place where it can be analysed and reported on.
Make sense of the data your business is generating and put it to work.
Make data easy to understand using charts, dashboards, maps and other visuals.
Simple interface lets you tap into data wherever it’s held.
Surface data using natural language queries (such as “graph last year’s profits by region”).
Democratising data
Data created by one app can be understood by another. Power Platform lets you take advantage of this fact and manipulate your business data, regardless of where it’s stored or what app was originally used to create it.
Microsoft has carefully designed Power Platform to be very straightforward to use, yet still offer users the ability to create incredibly powerful applications.
Rather than relying on IT to impose change, this encourages everyone in your organisation to play an active role in its digital transformation.
Power Platform Pricing
Like many areas of Microsoft 365 licensing, Power Platform licensing is not always straightforward. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner with Microsoft licensing experts on hand, we are very happy to help you navigate it.
We believe the possibilities of Power Platform are extremely exciting. We’d be delighted to help you better understand Power Platform, and how it can be applied to your business requirements. Get in touch with Core's subject matter experts to discover the options for our Power Platform consultancy offering.

Why choose Core?
Core are the leading experts in Microsoft 365 and we would be happy to guide you through your journey with Microsoft Power Platform.
The Core team has more than 30 years’ experience of creating Microsoft digital workplaces that really work. At Core, we have delivered results for customers including Scottish Water, Mencap, Tesco Bank, Diabetes UK, International Beverage Holdings, Greater London Authority and many more.
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Our team is ready to discuss how we can support your journey, tailor solutions to your needs, and help you leverage Microsoft technologies effectively. Don't hesitate to reach out today!
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Core have helped us with various projects, from initiation to delivery for web development to app deployments, and they have always shown a high level of expertise and creativity. Core is not just a solution provider, they are also a trusted advisor who take time to understand our needs and goals to ensure our investment delivers value to the business. In an age where supplier engagement can be painful, it has been a pleasure working with Core since the outset!
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