Transform your business with the Power Platform by maximising the value of your data

What is the Power Platform used for? In a nutshell, the Power Platform enables successful businesses to maximise the analytical potential of the data they hold. With the Power Platform from Microsoft, you can accelerate analysis, reduce costs and make informed decisions to digitally transform your organisation, automate processes, and build time-saving apps. 

 

Our Power Platform services help you to understand how your data can help provide simple, easy-to-understand dashboards and reports to ensure your ability to drive improvements and make business-critical decisions based on facts and not assumptions.  

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Espria supports businesses of all sizes and sectors to develop applications and reporting structures that are simple to use and solve their most pressing business issues. We also offer Power Platform workshops to help client employees create low-code solutions and applications to empower their business. 

What is the Power Platform?

The Power Platform is a set of services created by Microsoft designed to make better use of an organisation’s data so that it can be used to gain fresh insights and make intelligent, fact-based decisions quickly. Below are the four main components of the Power Platform:

Power Business Intelligence

Understanding the business data you hold is now more critical than ever. Ensure the success of your organisation and gain competitive advantage with our suite of business analytics tools. Power BI is a multi–platform data service combining software, services and apps to help your business understand and use data in the ways that are most beneficial to you, in an easy-to-access way – via a desktop app, an online service or on mobile.

Power Apps

Power Apps are applications which can be accessed or embedded in a variety of locations and provide a user-friendly interface, helping employees easily access your business data, complete forms, raise requests and much more. With best-in-class security and easy integration across different platforms and technologies, Espria can help turn your ideas into reality with cost-effective business solutions.

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents can answer general questions or advise on support issues before passing queries over to your (human) in-house support teams for a more personalised customer experience. By providing an immediate response, Virtual Agents can increase customer satisfaction and reduce wait times while giving back valuable time for employees to focus on high-priority issues.

Power Automate

Power Automate creates automated workflows between services to provide updates, synchronise documents and collect vital data. For example, Power Automate could be used to generate financial reports on a weekly or monthly basis, backup documents on shared drives or send alerts if thresholds are exceeded.

Benefits of The Power Platform

Build apps without risks

Improve processes without compromising security and compliance.

Mobile ready

The Power Platform makes it easy to create mobile-friendly versions of your apps & dashboards.

Quick deployment

Agile deployment that quickly delivers value and constantly evolving features.

Powerful in-app intelligence

Automate manual processes to leverage data and discover actionable insights.

Drive productivity

Microsoft reports that organisations see an average of 3.2 hours a week improvement in employee productivity.

FAQ

The Power Platform is a set of services created by Microsoft designed to make better use of an organisation’s data so that it can be used to gain fresh insights and make intelligent, fact-based decisions quickly.

  • Power BI
  • Power Apps
  • Power Automate
  • Power Virtual Agents

Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a multiplatform data service combining software, services and apps to help your business understand and use data in the ways that are most beneficial to you, in an easy-to-access way – via a desktop app, an online service or on mobile. 

Power Automate creates automated workflows between services to provide updates, synchronise documents and collect vital data. For example, Power Automate could be used to generate financial reports on a weekly or monthly basis, backup documents on shared drives or send alerts if thresholds are exceeded.

Power Apps are applications which can be accessed or embedded in a variety of locations and provide a user-friendly interface, helping employees easily access your business data, complete forms, raise requests and much more.

Power Virtual Agents are chatbots which can be placed on your website and automatically solve common customer queries. By providing an immediate response, Virtual Agents can increase customer satisfaction and reduce wait times while giving back valuable time for employees to focus on high-priority issues. 

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Case Studies

IT Services

Team17 – Using Power BI to Improve Reporting & Business Decision Making

A multi-award-winning video game development company got in touch with Espria to discuss improving their reporting and utilisation of their data.

IT Services

Allvotec – Solving High Priority Issues in Minutes

Allvotec have over 30 years’ of experience in delivering value through technology, but faced an issue surrounding an SQL admin skills gap. Allvotec drafted in Espria to fill in the role of answering their highest priority issues.

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SymVolli – App Development & Database Creation

As part of its growing capability, SymVolli created an Events Management solution for one of its customers. Espria was brought in to fix broken functionality and identify further areas of improvement.

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Chloe is our Power Platform expert and can support you every step with your Apps & Data needs.