Microsoft Power Platform features a collection of business tools that offer organizations the ability to make changes in their daily processes through easy applications and process automation that anyone can develop without having any coding knowledge. Companies can develop low-code/no-code business solutions such as building virtual agents, managing data visualization, and automating business processes. All this can be done with a platform that does not require expert coding knowledge to build the applications.
The agility and freedom that Microsoft Power Platform brings to citizen developers can present challenges in terms of governance and control. The low code/no-code technology for building applications, which requires minimal knowledge of coding, encourages rapid adoption which means that it is difficult for companies to monitor data, ensure compliance, and tackle security risks.
The Power Platform Center of Excellence serves as a powerful guide for businesses who wish to empower their citizen developers while making sure that the right governance models are being adhered to.
What is a Power Platform Center of Excellence?
Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) brings a centralized function that drives improvement and innovation across an organization. It is a platform where professionals from different departments aiming collective progression can break down silos and align organizational goals.
In a business organization, CoE becomes a platform where like-minded people finding solutions to similar issues can share knowledge and success stories. As all the data is gathered at a single place and reports on their usage can be generated along with the control of granting of access permissions, businesses leaders can maintain standards, ensure consistency, and execute governance throughout the organization.
To put it simply, when business teams develop applications in silos, a lot of knowledge related to unforeseen issues and their solutions surfaces. If this information is shared with other teams, it can help others in avoiding those issues and roadblocks.
Power Center of Excellence allows businesses to develop communities where people can all come together and share their experiences to help other citizen developers create no-code apps. It also helps organizations create a library of best practices and compliance standards. Users can further enhance their knowledge by training together in collaborative learning lessons.
With a success framework, businesses can track progress, direct and indirect impacts, performance, efficiency, utilization of apps, and more. Power Center of Excellence also allows businesses to develop solutions and select connectors using its optimized licensing functionality. The platform further offers governance centers that monitor costs, risks, and real-time solution utilization.
Microsoft Power Platform CoE comes with a starter kit. A starter kit is an application pattern that is integrated with services with the aim of helping people in generating a production-ready asset. It has production-ready templates and assists people in getting started. Microsoft Power Platform CoE starter kit features a collection of tools and components designed to help businesses develop a strategy to adopt low-code/no-code development through Microsoft Power Platform. The primary focus here remains on Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI.
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