[FREE] Introduction to the Microsoft Power Platform

Discover what the Power Platform is and the business value it brings to your company. Explore its benefits and practical applications for your business.

Explore the Power Platform, a low-code suite including Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse to build apps, visualize data, automate processes, and create chatbots.

discover strong demand and lucrative salaries in power platform careers, with remote options, and explore versatility and creativity in building solutions using power apps, power automate, and power bi.

Discover rapid solution development without professional developers, in two weeks instead of two months, plus collaboration and data insights with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse.

Explore how Dataverse, a Microsoft database, tightly integrates with Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate, and differentiate standard versus custom tables for data modeling.

Data connectors bridge data sources—spreadsheets, databases, and web apps—with power platform tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, creating a seamless data pathway.

Explore the AI builder in the Power Platform, using ready-made and custom models to automate invoice processing and text sentiment analysis with PowerApps and Power Automate.

Build custom apps without coding by connecting to Excel, Dataverse, and SharePoint with Power Apps, a low-code platform, offering canvas or model-driven options and Power Fx for deployment across teams.

Power Apps require no professional coding, saving time and costs with rapid development via Copilot Studio and AI features, plus seamless integration with SharePoint, Dataverse, Power BI, Excel, and Azure.

Explore the Power Apps Studio interface, navigate create options, start from blank or data sources, and use templates and AI hub to build apps.

Learn to create a model-driven app powered by Dataverse, embed a canvas page, and customize tables, views, and forms with a drag-and-drop interface, then save and publish.

Explore how Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages work together to replace paper-based inventory with mobile entry, alerts, analytics, a chatbot, and a website.

Use power ups to replace paper-based systems and enable mobile inventory input, then create a new Power Apps table with product ID, name, quantity, price, and category.

Create a blank canvas app for phone, then navigate the canvas app studio interface to manage data sources, screens, themes, settings, and formulas.

Build a power app with a home screen and gallery connected to an inventory tracking table, enabling view, edit, and new form with navigation and a success timer.

Connect your first gallery to data and enable viewing on a second screen, mastering the action step before moving on to Power Automate.

Learn what Power Automate is and why it helps, explore the Power Automate suite, and build a flow that notifies you when you receive a negative email.

Explore the different flows in Power Automate, including automated cloud flows, instant cloud flows, scheduled cloud flows, desktop flows, and Process Advisor, with practical examples.

Power Automate automates repetitive tasks to save time and money, with a vast array of data connectors and seamless Microsoft tool integration.

Explore the Power Automate Studio interface and copilot, describing automation in natural language, and create automated, instant, and scheduled flows using templates and connectors.

Learn how to sign up for a free Power Automate trial using the link or search, enter your work or school email, and access your Power Automate environment.

Create an automated cloud flow in Power Automate to email inventory alerts when a new item is added to the Dataverse inventory table, including name, price, and quantity.

Create a flow in Power Automate that notifies you when you receive a negative email, using templates in the email section and testing your flow.

Explore Power BI fundamentals, including what it is, why it's useful, desktop vs service, reports vs dashboards, and a first report connected to the Dataverse.

Power BI turns large data into interactive reports and dashboards, using three core elements: Power BI Desktop, Power BI service, and Power BI mobile app, with tiles for visualizations.

Power BI creates visualizations that drive data-driven decision making for stakeholders. Seamless collaboration, easy report sharing, and tight integration with Microsoft tools across the Power Platform enable confident, data-driven insights.

Compare Power BI desktop and Power BI service, showing desktop as a data modeling tool with Python compatibility and many data sources, while service enables web access, collaboration, and sharing.

Discover the distinction between Power BI reports and dashboards: reports offer detailed, multi-screen data presentations, while dashboards provide single-screen, summarized visualizations, fed by data sets like Excel and SQL.

Sign up for a Power BI trial by clicking try free, sign in with a Microsoft account, and create a Microsoft Fabric account to use Power BI on desktop.

Create a simple Power BI report with a live connection to the Dataverse, using tiles and visuals to explore data within the Microsoft Power Platform.

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