Microsoft Power Platform is a line of

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, app development, and app connectivity

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s. Microsoft developed the Power Fx

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for expressing logic across the Power Platform. It also provides integrations with

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and Teams.

Products

The Power Platform family of products includes: *

Power BI Power BI is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform. Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors t ...

, software for visualizing data with different kinds of charts. It competes with tools like

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. * Power Apps, graphical software for writing

custom business applications. (Known as PowerApps until 2019). *

Power Automate Microsoft Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow until November 2019, is an iPaaS platform by Microsoft for automation of recurring tasks. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform line of products together with products such as Power ...

, a toolkit similar to

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and

Zapier Zapier is a product that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. The company is fully remote. As of 2021, it connects to more than 4,000 apps, with free and paid plans. Overview Zapier provides workflo ...

for implementing business workflow products. (Formerly Microsoft Flow). * Power Automate Desktop (PAD),

robotic process automation Robotic process automation (RPA) is a form of business process automation technology based on metaphorical software robots (bots) or on artificial intelligence (AI)/digital workers. It is sometimes referred to as ''software robotics'' (not to be ...

(RPA) software for automating graphical user interfaces (via the acquisition of Softomotive in May 2020). This product uses a Robin Script based language to achieve RPA. * Power Virtual Agents, software for writing

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Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse, formerly called Microsoft Common Data Service, is a

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-based storage and data management

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used along with other Microsoft products such as Power Apps and

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applications. One example of use could be to use Dataverse as a form of

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together with Microsoft Power Apps. Dataverse is based on Microsoft's

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as its

common data model A common data model (CDM) can refer to any standardised data model which allows for data and information exchange between different applications and data sources. Common data models aim to standardise logical infrastructure so that related applicat ...

and is built on Microsoft Azure SQL.Microsoft Dataverse – An underappreciated gem - Calculate Data
/ref> In November 2020, Microsoft's Common Data Service was rebranded into Dataverse.

References

Power Automate

External links

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Products

Microsoft Dataverse

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References

Further reading

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