Hello Power Platform…

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HELLO POWER PLATFORM…

HELLO POWER PLATFORM…


HELLO POWER PLATFORM…

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You might already have a hefty chunk of experience with this insane tool, but I’m going to assume you don’t yet know what it is!

Here you’ll find a bank of resources that’ll help you get started on or accelerate your Power Platform journey!

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POWER APPS ﹒COMMUNITY﹒AI BUILDER﹒POWER QUERY﹒STUDENTS﹒POWER PAGES﹒PNP﹒POWER ADDICTS﹒CLI ﹒

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Some terminology to ponder…

Check out the key words below you’ll undoubtedly become very familiar with on your Power Platform journey! To get you stuck in at the deep end, I’m going to explain what each of these are or mean, to get you moving a little faster! 🙂

The lineup.

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  • Power Apps

    Possibly my favourite element of the Power Platform… where you get to build awesome low code applications using either a drag n’ drop style Canvas editor, or a data model driven creator experience!


    Coming Soon…

  • Power Automate

    Maybe my second favourite, and one that works beautifully with Power Apps, Power Automate allows you to build automation solutions using low code triggers, actions and formulas.


    Coming Soon…

  • Power BI

    Built your solution for users to interact with business data in an application interface? Now need to analyse the data being produced by your users? Power BI is your tool!


    Coming Soon…

  • Power Virtual Agents

    One that even works embedded on your public website (which could be build using Power Pages 😉)… Power Virtual Agents is your next best tool for building awesome business chat bots!


    Coming Soon…

  • Power Pages (Preview)

    A new one! Power Pages is the latest member of the Power Platform family and lets you create high quality websites driven by your business data and your chosen website design!


    Coming Soon…

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Some additional elements…


  • Power Fx

    Power Fx is a low-code language utilised in many areas of the Power Platform. Expressed in human friendly text, it’s similar to the language used by Excel for writing formulas. Mainly used in Canvas Apps, this’ll be an important one to get to grips with for anyone working with Power Platform, especially Power Apps.


  • Connectors

    Power Platform allows us to build solutions utilising a huge number of different data sources which we can make use of with connectors. Connectors allow us to create a connection to our data from Power Platform, whether it be Power Apps, Power Automate… even Power BI!


  • AI Builder

    AI Builder is a Power Platform feature allowing makers to automate processes and build applications using AI and predictive outcomes for improved business performance. AI Builder provides AI models designed to optimise business processes and integrates directly into Power Apps and Power Automate. You can either build a custom model or use prebuilt models provided by Microsoft!


  • Power Query

    This one isn’t completely specific to Power Platform and also features in Excel, but is a tool that allows you to access data stored in hundreds of sources and reshape it and transform it to suit the needs of the solution you’re building… oh and yup…. it’s low code 😉


  • Dataverse

    The backbone of some fantastic Power Platform solutions. Dataverse is the data service built into Power Platform, but provides so much more than a database including features such as inbuilt security, auditing, data loss prevention and more.

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#CommunityRocks

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POWER PLATFORM COMMUNITY

In case you haven’t already guessed what I’m talking about here… yes… we’re basically a huge community of people that LOVE what we do, and LOVE Power Platform.

Learn more about the Power Platform community, and how you can get involved below!

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Enjoying this so far…? We’re not nearly done yet… 👀😉

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Careers? Yup, there’s a few! 💼

So not only is the Power Platform this awesome tool we can use to improve our business processes, and well, just build awesome fun low code software… it actually provides careers for a huge number of people… which is growing FAST.

Whether you’re new to Power Platform and want to look into the distance, or you’ve started and you’re looking at work opportunities, or perhaps you’ve started working… here’s a couple of roles out of a whole ton of them!


  • Junior Data Analyst

    One more focused on understanding data fundamentals as a first point with a little more use of tools such as Power BI, this role is a great entry into a career in Business Applications and Low Code. There’s loads of roles directly working on Data which can get pretty senior and not go into app development so much, as well as a much more junior end including apprenticeships available for starting out in this kind of role.

    If you’re looking for a career change and are interested in Microsoft Power Platform or Data as a topic, or perhaps you’re looking at next steps after school or college, check out the Microsoft Apprenticeships and/or internship programs!


  • Junior Power Platform Developer

    Starting to look at building solutions, you might be working with basic SharePoint Power Apps in this kind of role or you could be responsible for building simple data dashboards as part of solutions. This role is a great step forward into the industry and lets you get some great experience building before you get working on more complex solutions, or delivery to clients!

    For this role, you’d probably want to look at taking the PL-900 certification, and potentially also the PL-100 exam if you’re looking to push to the next step.


  • Power Platform and Dynamics 365 Developer

    Perhaps you’ve got a bit of experience with building Power Platform solutions. Maybe you’ve got a good understanding of Dataverse, development best practices such as implemeting ALM practices into your development, and you have an understanding of each part of the Power Platform to build a solution to meet specific business requirements.

    This role might see you taking your PL-100 exam, and to push to the next stage in your career you might want to look at PL-200.


  • Power Platform and/or Dynamics 365 Consultant

    This one opens up a completely new door. You might have done little bits of client work before in a developer role perhaps… In this role you’ll find yourself potentially conducting pre-sales with customers and gathering technical requirements and wants to advise customers on the best way to solve business problems.

    You’ll be involved in the solution design and implementation required to solve those captured business problems and you’ll be working on delivering projects to clients of various sizes and needs.

    For this role you’ll probably want to have the following three certifications at a minimum or some previous experience:

    PL-900, PL-100, PL-200


  • Microsoft Principal Productivity Consultant

    This is a more senior role in consultancy and will potentially see you taking more advanced certifications matching the level of work and capacity of work you’re bound to be delivering to clients.

    Internal or external, but the majority most likely being customer based work, this role will see you conducting pre-sales with customers, advising them on the appropriate tools to solve their business problems, designing solutions to solve those business problems and carrying out more advanced implementations through more complex solutions that might include increased complexity elements such as integrations, granular security and more.

    You’ll also find yourself working over a number of technical products such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Dynamics and potentially Azure.

    For this role you might look at the following certifications:

    PL-900, PL-100, PL-200, PL-400… and possibly PL-600


  • Microsoft Productivity Technical Architect

    A pretty senior role, that’ll see you sometimes carrying out the similar responsibilities of a principal consultant perhaps, but with the slight twist to perhaps managing a few more things at once including sometimes a team of consultants with yourself working more on pre-sales, and solution architecture and design with consultants working more on the development and implementation of solutions.

    This role will see you needing the following certifications or extensive experience most likely…

    PL-900, PL-100, PL-200, PL-400, PL-600


  • Power Platform Practice Lead

    This is a more managerial role that might require slightly less technical knowledge. You’ll find yourself having a strong understanding of the requirements for delivery of a project to clients, but you’ll be guiding a team of developers, consultants and architects in doing this and potentially assigning work as appropriate to the available resource.

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Want to stay up to date?

Check out the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans to find out what’s new with the Platform and stay up to date with features being released.

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BECOME A MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL 👀


BECOME A MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL 👀

Getting Certified.

One of the key parts to getting seen when it comes to careers around Power Platform is getting certified. It’s an indicator of your technical ability… but it doesn’t mean everything.

Getting certified is definitely a key part of proving your ability when it comes to various roles, but there are also a number of other factors taken into consideration such as experience, ability to work with clients, community work and more!

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