Microsoft Power Platform empowers organizations to automate business processes, develop their own rich app experiences, and connect with customers better and faster. In this course, students will learn to perform discovery, capture requirements, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, translate requirements, and configure Microsoft Power Platform solutions and apps. They will supplement their learnings with hands-on labs to create application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. Microsoft Power Platform is comprised of four key products: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. In this course, we will cover these four applications in depth, with additional focus on Microsoft Dataverse, AI Builder, connectors, and portals.
Objectives
Work with an organization to gather requirements and implement Microsoft Power Platform solutions
Build model-driven, canvas, and portal apps
Create Power Automate flows
Design a simple chatbot using Power Virtual Agents
Analyze data using Power BI visualizations and dashboards
Prerequisites
Experience as an IT professional or student
Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform and its key components
Knowledge of Microsoft Dataverse (or general data modeling) and security concepts
Intended Audience
A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations.
Topics
Introduction to the Power Platform
Work with Dataverse
Make model-driven apps with Power Apps
Make canvas apps with Power Apps
Make portals with Power Apps
Introduction to Automation
Build Power Automate cloud flows
Build Power Automate desktop flows
Build business process flows
Build chatbots with Power Virtual Agents
Analyze data with Power Bi
Putting it all Together