Microsoft Power Platform: Power Apps/Power BI/Power Automate

Explore power platform and tools: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages to build apps, automate workflows, analyze data, and create chatbots with minimal coding.

Power Platform enables zero-code and low-code solutions with drag-and-drop interfaces, empowering users of all skills to create automations and complex applications for their organization.

Harness the Power Platform to connect Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure, enabling seamless data integration across applications.

Power Platform enables citizen developers across roles to innovate and solve problems with zero to low code tools, bridging business needs and traditional IT.

Harness the Power Platform to automate business cycles with no-code tools, map current processes, build apps, and iterate to enable data-driven decision making and digital transformation.

Power Platform enhances productivity by automating repetitive tasks, enables non-technical users to build solutions, and supports data-driven decisions through integrated data sources and visualization tools.

Understand how the Dataverse acts as a centralized, secure hub that enables Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Pages to share and manage data across an organization.

Power BI, a data visualization tool in the power platform, transforms raw data into interactive reports and dashboards, enabling data-driven decisions by visualizing data from the dataverse.

Explore Power BI reports as multi-page documents that use visualizations like pies, bars, tables, and maps to analyze data from Dataverse, filter insights, and reveal business patterns.

Discover how Power BI dashboards aggregate selected visualizations from multiple reports into a high level view for quick insights at a glance, pulling from Excel, SQL, or Dataverse data sources.

Explore Power Apps, a low-code tool in the Microsoft Power Platform, to build customized, code-free applications with seamless integration to Microsoft services and third-party apps.

Discover canvas apps in Power Apps, offering control over layout, drag-and-drop design, and data source connections for customizable solutions. Canvas apps are the first go-to option for tailored interfaces.

Explore how model driven applications in Power Apps prioritize data models and business needs, automatically generating the user interface and establishing data connections by default.

Compare canvas and model-driven apps to pick the best fit: canvas offers high customization and csv, excel, SharePoint connectivity, while model-driven apps rely on Dataverse for data-focused, complex workflows.

Explore power apps use cases from onboarding portals to crm, expenses, inventory, field service, timesheets, and incident reporting, and learn to build an app from scratch updating dataverse or excel.

Explore power automate, the automation tool in the power platform, connect apps and services across platforms, and learn triggers, actions, and conditions to build and test automated workflows.

Master Power Automate by understanding triggers and actions, and see how flows automate tasks with examples like item creation triggering a chat post.

Explore Power Virtual Agents, a low-code chatbot tool in the Microsoft Power Platform, to create AI-powered, customizable bots for websites, automating conversations and real-time support.

Power Virtual Agents enables no-code AI chatbots that customize responses based on prompts or input, train with context, and integrate with Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate across channels.

Explore the resources section as your library, download templates, blueprints, guides, and data sets to practice with the Microsoft Power Platform, and enjoy a free trial link.

Sign in to the power platform using your company or university Microsoft 365 account via office.com, then access cloud-based apps and tools for collaboration and automation.

Access the Microsoft Power Platform from a Microsoft 365 account, locate Power BI, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Apps, and understand centralized data storage and admin access.

Access the Microsoft Power Platform to start free trials for Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio, with Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365 paths.

Explore how Power Platform environments and the Dataverse organize and secure your organization’s data. Learn to create isolated environments, manage access, and connect data sources for apps, flows, and dashboards.

Explore Power Apps fundamentals and core knowledge, navigate the interface and settings, and build a complete food recipes app from concept to live export.

Explore the Power Apps interface within the Power Platform, building canvas or model-driven apps connected to Dataverse or data sources like Excel and SharePoint.

Create canvas apps in Power Apps Studio, selecting phone layout, using galleries and forms with data sources, and reuse components across screens with zero-code customization.

Explore Power Apps navigation, layout, screens, components, and data connections, including Dataverse and file sources, to build a no code application with media, signatures, templates, themes, and Power Automate integration.

Build a simple food recipes canvas app using no-code basics, connecting data with a csv or templates. Learn foundational steps and how ai helps create the data in Power Apps.

Upload a CSV to create tables and headers, auto-connect data, and build a no-code Power Apps canvas app prototype for a recipe app.

Explore building and tuning a no-code Power Apps canvas app: preview, filter recipes, edit ingredients, and customize data connections via Dataverse for a functional starter.

Create a no-code recipe app in Power Apps using the canvas, co-pilot AI, and data sources; customize layout, images, and fields like recipe name, ingredients, and steps.

Build a functional recipe app in Power Apps by connecting data, editing and deleting records, enabling search and navigation, and adding screens with UI elements like progress bars and images.

Build a no-code Power Apps navigation flow with buttons that move between recipe and feedback screens, using the OnSelect navigation, test in play mode, and extend with back navigation.

Join the Power Apps hands on project part 4 to build a complete recipes app, adding screens, text, images, icons, video, and feedback collection, then export and release.

Export and share your Power Apps project by publishing, saving as, and downloading a copy (msapp), then enable offline use with dataverse and adjust screen sizes.

Learn how to automate tasks and flows from scratch with Power Automate, saving time and effort while exploring triggers, actions, notifications, automated workflows, and scheduled workflows, with hands-on step-by-step examples.

Explore the Power Automate interface, from the home page to creating flows with triggers and actions, using no-code prompts, templates, and AI hub for prompt engineering.

Explore automated cloud flows, instant flows, scheduled flows, and desktop flows in Power Automate. Understand triggers and actions, templates, and licensing considerations for building automations.

Create your first automated cloud flow in Power Automate by configuring triggers and actions, exploring the canvas and both new and old designers.

Create your first Power Automate flow that triggers on incoming emails, configures connections, selects parameters like attachments and inbox folder, and sends mobile or email notifications, with testing and edits.

Review your Power Automate flow in my flows to view connections, owners, flow details, process mining, and the 28-day run history showing if it succeeded or failed, with modification options.

Export your first Power Automate flow using export settings to package it as a zip, take it with you, and upload it to another organization.

Create an automated Power Automate flow that emails a notification when a new file is added to a OneDrive folder, via a zero-code, testable setup.

Create parallel actions in Power Automate, allowing a trigger to fire multiple tasks simultaneously, such as email and SMS notifications when a file is created.

Explore how to embed artificial intelligence in Power Automate workflows with zero-code prompts, using Copilot to add actions and notifications, while navigating prompt engineering.

Create flows in Power Automate with a manual trigger and user inputs, then send email notifications such as a customer reminder, on demand.

Set up a scheduled cloud flow with recurrence to run every two days and send email reminders, test it, fix broken connections, and note premium account and trial version limitations.

Discover Power BI, a data visualization tool for data science and sales analytics, enabling you to set up data, navigate the interface, and build interactive, multi-page reports with connected visualizations.

Explore the Power BI interface within the Power Platform, navigate the layout, and start building reports and dashboards by connecting data and creating untitled reports with visuals.

Learn to set up Power BI data sources by linking Excel or CSV data, pasting or manually entering data, and using premium accounts with online connections to published semantic models.

Learn to prepare a data set for Power BI by manually adding data, cleaning headers, and organizing regional sales, critic scores, and total sales for clear, actionable visuals.

Learn how to create your first Power BI report by loading a data source, selecting data, and configuring tiles, visuals, and filters with no-code/low-code tools.

Build your Power BI report by editing visuals and mapping game sales data across pages. Use drill through, formatting, and data models to analyze sales by game, title, and region.

Build a Power BI report step by step, adding visuals and KPIs. Explore paginated reports, KPI targets, and narrative insights using console and game title data.

Learn to enhance Power BI reports by adding shapes and buttons, enabling actions like drill-through, page navigation, and web URLs to link external resources.

Export and share Power BI reports with options to download to desktop, publish to web, or embed. Export to pdf or PowerPoint, and download for mobile or Power BI apps.

Learn how to use Power Pages to build beautiful websites from scratch, implement navigation, and add dynamic features to collect customer information and update databases within this module.

Explore Power Pages within the Power Platform to build external facing websites with Copilot AI, using templates or from-scratch layouts, and manage via environments, template gallery, and admin center.

Learn to set up a travel website in Power Pages using templates and Copilot, add pages like home, about us, contact, FAQs, and gallery, and edit with the design studio.

Edit your website visuals in Power Pages by manipulating pages, headers, and layouts, and applying styling, colors, and themes with drag-and-drop, images, videos, buttons, and Power BI visuals.

Power Pages enables forms to collect user information by linking to a back-end data table, including creating a new table and submitting to create a record with a confirmation message.

Prepare your Power Pages site for go-live by following setup and go-live checklists, converting from trial to production, enabling security and performance with CDN, Copilot, and generative AI site search.

Learn to create powerful bots with Power Virtual Agents to handle day-to-day activities, respond to queries and tasks, and take actions on autopilot using artificial intelligence integration.

Discover how to access and build virtual agents in the Power Platform using Copilot Studio, configure templates and libraries, and manage admin versus main account logins for bot creation.

Explore methods to build a virtual agent or copilot in Power Platform, including AI‑driven new copilot, copilot action with connectors, conversational topics, flows with Power Automate, and templates.

Create your first virtual agent by selecting a prebuilt template, naming it, and setting its travel-safety context; add websites as knowledge sources to train its copilot-style answers.

Explore how to customize a ready-made Safety Bud virtual agent using templates, copilot, topics, and actions, then publish and deploy it across channels with Power BI analytics and Power Automate.

Create a food buddy virtual agent from scratch in Microsoft Power Platform, configuring copilot topics, knowledge sources, and generative answers to generate step-by-step Italian recipes like spaghetti alla carbonara.

Create a virtual agent with prompt engineering in the Power Platform, defining action name and description, testing prompts, and publishing to Copilot for Microsoft 365 integration (Teams).

Publish your virtual agent to a demo website by turning authentication off, choosing a custom website, and embedding the code to test on a live site.