Microsoft Power Platform at a glance
The actual origins of Power Platform go back very far to the time when there was still talk of Microsoft business solutions. At that time, Microsoft entered the market with a new CRM system, which laid the foundation of today’s Power Platform. This ecosystem consists of several subcomponents that can work very closely together but also separately:
Figure 1.3 – Microsoft Power Platform
These are the components:
- Power BI: A tool for visualizing any kind of data in dashboards and reports. Power BI can also capture real-time data from the other components and makes use of the connector capabilities to access data virtually in any data source and combine this with other data to create cross-system dashboards.
- Power Apps: This allows users to create different types of apps that can be used for specific business processes. There are different types of apps, which, in turn, can be divided into the...
