{"id":217,"date":"2025-04-07T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:08:15","slug":"microsoft-365-co-pilot-power-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/office-365\/microsoft-365-co-pilot-power-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot Power Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps-1024x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" style=\"width:684px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps-1024x263.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps-768x198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps-1536x395.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/power-apps.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To help you get the best from your Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot Business subscription we thought it would be helpful to introduce the Power Platform and provide some brief information on how each part of the platform can help you to be more effective in how you run your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you may ask what is the Power Platform in Microsoft 365?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Microsoft, Power Platform is <strong>an intuitive and collaborative platform<\/strong>. It includes a number of low-code tools to quickly automate processes and build apps and other useful solutions for various use cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide-300x9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PowerBI_scalable.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-80d41437e1a44bef3a5560e3b94de811\"><strong>Power BI Business Analytics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A collection of software services, apps and connectors that work together to bring multiple sources of your collected data to provide visually immersive and interactive insights to help you take your business decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide-300x9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:18% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PowerApps_scalable-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-227 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Power Apps Application Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Power Apps you can create a great number of applications; including data enter forms, task management tools, dashboards and more. Once created, the applications can be customised to meet your business requirements and made available across web and mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide-300x9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:19% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PowerAutomate_scalable.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Power Automate Process Automation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formally known as Microsoft Flow, Power Automate is now cloud based software allowing employees to create and automate workflows and tasks across multiple applications and services without help from developers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide-300x9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:19% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Power-Virtual-Assistant.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-229 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Power-Virtual-Assistant.png 313w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Power-Virtual-Assistant-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Power Virtual Agents Intelligent Virtual Agents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allowing users to create personalised chatbots, leveraging Dataverse and Power Platform&#8217;s wealth of pre-built connectors to create complex, branching conversations without the need for programmers thanks to a simple low-code development environment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brentdavenport.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stationary_divide-300x9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the addition of Microsoft Co-Pilot, incorporated into 365 business subscriptions, you will be able to easily utilise the above applications to help you with your business administration and plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is true that you may feel overwhelmed with the number of new apps and software currently available with your Microsoft 365 Co-Pilot Business subscription, from our our experience in this case every business can use these apps to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have paid for your subscription, we are here to help. 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