Power Platform Potpourri

4 min readMar 27, 2022

Here’s plenty of good material for all you Microsoft Power Addicts out there. In no specific order.

GREAT READS

Digitally Transform Your Enterprise with Power Automate: Leveraging Robotic Process Automation to Modernize Legacy Processes:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/digitally-transform-your-enterprise-with-power-automate-leveraging-robotic-process-automation-to-modernize-legacy-processes/

One of the highlights there is the use of AI BUILDER .

Dataverse

Formerly known as Common Data Service (CDS), the Dataverse features a common data model — and this model is an important ingredient of the Power Platform.

It comes with the Common Data Model.

QUALITY ASSURANCE WITH POWER PLATFORM

Testing Power Platform apps end to end:

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-test-studio-to-build-end-to-end-tests-and-maintain-your-app-quality/

SAP SUPPORT

The SAP support for the Power Platform received some note worthy improvements.
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/digitally-transform-your-enterprise-with-power-automate-our-journey-to-enable-your-digital-transformation-part-1/
One of the important new connectors we have in public preview is the SAP ERP connector. SAP’s ERP software handles enterprise business applications like accounting, sales, payroll, finance, production, human resources, etc. With the SAP ERP connector you can connect your flows to an SAP ERP system — either SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA. With this connector, you can automate business processes over data in SAP.

Designing a role based user interface in Power Apps

https://matthewdevaney.com/designing-a-role-based-user-interface-in-power-apps/

Use Power Automate to maintain Top Parent Account in account hierarchies

https://jonasr.app/2020/12/top-parent/

Automate document processing with Power Automate

We are excited to announce the introduction of a new document automation solution. This is a standard end-to-end solution allowing to manage documents received in emails, use AI Builder form processing to extract data from those documents, allow users to review and approve data through a central manual validation application:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-document-processing-with-power-automate/

Application Lifecycle with Power Automate

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/overview-alm

Export data into Excel documents using Power Automate

https://youtu.be/Kupz71dWYyY

Data Operations

https://youtu.be/uL5IfAMvW98

Map and filter arrays and more.

HR Platform Integration

How Power Platform integration works using a HR platform, for better end-to-end workflows!

https://4ward.cc/RecRight

Hackathon Package for Power Platform

https://twitter.com/ManuelaPichler_/status/1455988673967796225?t=CN24VCOF4zDZR9_j89es7A&s=19

Need something to foster adoption? And a Hackathon would be nice? This solution is for you.

Complete new pricing

This is big news, Ignite November 2021 material.

Here is the Twitter feed that goes with it.

And:

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/low-code-with-low-risk-announcing-pay-as-you-go-for-power-apps-public-preview/

Using pay-as-you-go and pre-pay together

Pay-as-you-go is configured on an environment-by-environment basis, so you have the flexibility to adopt it wherever it makes sense for your organization and stick with the pre-paid model where it doesn’t. In the example below the customer has chosen to use pay-as-you-go for their HR team and the Finance team’s environments, but not for their Marketing team’s environments.

Furthermore, within a pay-as-you-go environment it is possible to disable the Power Apps per app pay-as-you-go meter for specific apps. Any unlicensed users will be blocked from accessing those apps.

More API calls allowed than ever!

https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/revised-power-platform-request-limits/

We are dramatically raising the Power platform daily request volume throttles that have existed for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Dynamics 365 users. For example, the Power Automate per user plan is jumping from 5,000 requests per user per day to 40,000 requests per user per day. This is designed to be more than sufficient for the vast majority of customer scenarios.

Power Platform + establishing a COE

Power CAT tools and guidance on building an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) in your organization! Automation CoE Starter Kit (Private preview) — https://lnkd.in/gPd7tPqn

Automation CoE Admin whitepaper — https://lnkd.in/gY8kbsWX

Automation CoE Guidance Documentation — https://lnkd.in/gsnZWY9J Power CAT Video on Automation CoE best practices- https://lnkd.in/gk3G4jYU

Already love and use the Power Platform CoE guidance and Power Platform CoE Kit? Fret not, the above tools and guidance compliment you exisitng investments and add Automation CoE specific assets to them. Is there a blog that ties all of this together? Of-course — https://lnkd.in/gzz2ye8g

Src:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sgpant_powerautomate-rpacoe-automatecoe-activity-6876313659073814528-hqtp