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Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform

  • Overview of the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse
  • Typical use cases within industrial and engineering organizations
  • Low-Code and No-Code concepts and their strategic advantages for businesses
  • Licensing models, environment structure, and governance frameworks

Power Apps Fundamentals

  • Differentiating app types: Canvas versus Model-Driven
  • Anatomy of a Canvas app: screens, components, controls, and layout design
  • Common data sources such as SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, and Dataverse
  • Methods for connecting to existing data lists and libraries
  • Implementing data validation and conditional logic

Hands-on exercises include:

  • Building an inventory management app featuring entries, outputs, and critical level alerts
  • Developing an equipment control and calibration app with expiration dates and status tracking

Automation with Power Automate

  • Flow types: automated, instant, and scheduled
  • Triggers and actions: initiating flows and connecting various tools
  • Integrating with Power Apps via buttons and trigger forms
  • Managing conditions, approvals, notifications, and automated records
  • Best practices for developing reusable flows

Hands-on exercises include:

  • Automating the test request process (ST) with integrated approval steps
  • Setting up automatic alerts for equipment pending calibration
  • Implementing automatic logging for stock movements

Guided Development: Company Projects

  • Rapid requirements gathering sessions with participants
  • Collaborative design of practical company screens and flows
  • Construction of functional prototypes under instructor supervision
  • Conducting validation, adjustments, and simulated testing

Best Practices, Governance, and Maintenance

  • Structuring environments for Development, Testing, and Production
  • Administering permissions and ensuring data security
  • Documenting and versioning applications and flows
  • Best practices for ongoing maintenance and scalability
  • Planning the evolution of solutions post-training

Requirements

  • Familiarity with business process workflows
  • Practical experience with Microsoft 365 tools (such as SharePoint and Excel)

Audience

  • Process owners and analysts working in industrial and engineering sectors
  • IT support staff and citizen developers
  • Managers seeking to automate and digitize their organizational workflows
 21 Hours

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