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Why Power Platform
Turn business intent into impact
Bring apps, agents, data, and automation together to build smarter, secure solutions.
- Empower teams to move from idea to impact with clarity, speed, and control. Describe the outcome, and Power Platform uses AI to guide the development of apps and workflows, connect to your data, and stay governed and secure.
- When data is unified and governed, apps lead with relevance, agents act with awareness, and automation runs reliably. Microsoft Dataverse delivers the secure, shared foundation that makes this possible.
- Get the security and governance you need to adopt AI with confidence. IT maintains oversight across every solution, while developers and makers build faster within approved guardrails, ensuring solutions scale consistently and securely across the business.
- Build the way you want—from low-code to pro-code—with AI-assistance and code-first extensibility. Over 1,500 connectors work across the services and systems where your business already runs, providing a foundation that lets solutions grow without costly rebuilds. You’ll unify data and processes across apps, use agents to recommend next best actions, and automate end-to-end workflows to remove friction.
Use cases
What can you do with Power Platform?
Move faster with better results by unifying apps, agents, and Microsoft Copilot to coordinate tasks and automate work—across daily tasks to core business processes.
Products
Powerful alone, better together
When teams build apps, agents, and automations on a shared foundation, they can streamline work, accelerate outcomes, and scale with confidence.
Power Platform
Create apps and workflows across your organization with low-code tools.
Microsoft Power Apps
Build intelligent, custom business apps fast with enterprise-ready controls.
Microsoft Power Automate
Boost productivity by automating repetitive work and workflows across your organization.
Microsoft Power BI
Make better decisions with real-time insights and scalable reporting.
Microsoft Power Pages
Create data-driven websites fast, using trusted data and governance to keep experiences secure.
Microsoft Dataverse
Unify and govern enterprise data so your apps, automation, and AI run securely at scale.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Build and manage agents at scale with built-in security, compliance, and administrative oversight.
Get faster, more reliable results with interconnected solutions on a single platform
Explore proven solution patterns that combine apps, agents, and automation to solve real business needs.
Streamline business processes with apps and agents that work together
Create custom apps with Power Apps and automate the work behind them with Power Automate.
Embed agents into apps to expedite work
Create agents with Copilot Studio that guide users and answer questions directly in apps built in Power Apps.
Move work forward automatically
Connect structured workflows to your intelligent agents in a composable system. They work together to modernize automation.
Scale solutions without costly rework across the Microsoft Cloud
Extend Power Platform solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365—and to other systems—using prebuilt connectors.
Build pro-code, AI, and scalable services
Connect Power Platform to Azure services and data. Build custom APIs and scale with enterprise-grade security.
Extend Microsoft Dynamics 365 with apps, automation, and AI
Dynamics 365 runs your operations. Power Platform customizes, automates, and enhances them with AI.
Reports and research
Explore industry research and insights
Analysts and customers trust Power Platform to securely scale, innovate, and deliver measurable business impact.
Learn why Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms.1
Discover why Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™ for Low-Code Platforms for Professional Developers.2
Learn how AI-driven Frontier Firms achieve greater business impact in this global IDC study commissioned by Microsoft.3
See how customers rate Microsoft Power Platform in Gartner Peer Insights™ based on verified enterprise reviews.4
Customer stories
How customers are innovating with Power Platform
Resources
More about Power Platform
Contact us
Learn more about our products, discuss use cases, or get pricing information.
Frequently asked questions
- Power Platform is designed for a broad range of users, including professional developers, IT professionals, and business users and makers. Teams can begin with low‑code tools to address their immediate needs, while IT defines environments, enforces security, maintains visibility, and upholds governance standards. This approach enables innovation while allowing solutions to scale across departments—without sacrificing compliance, reliability, or operational control.
- Power Platform offers flexible licensing based on users, apps, and usage scenarios. For enterprise adoption, advanced scenarios—such as premium connectors, Dataverse access, or enterprise scale apps and automation—require standalone licenses, so premium licensing is recommended.
- Microsoft 365 is not required to get started with Power Platform, but the platform integrates deeply with it. Organizations can use Power Platform on its own or alongside Microsoft 365 to build apps, automate workflows, and deploy AI-powered agents. When used together, teams can take advantage of the combined solution’s existing identity, data, and collaboration services while maintaining centralized security and governance.
- Power Platform includes enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance controls designed for IT-led deployments. Teams can centrally manage environments, data access, data loss prevention (DLP) policies, identity, monitoring, and auditability across apps, automation, and agents. This enables innovation safely, within approved guardrails, while helping organizations meet their security, regulatory, and operational requirements at scale.
- Many teams build and deploy their initial Power Platform solutions in days or weeks, rather than in months. Prebuilt connectors, templates, and AI assistance accelerate development efforts. Enterprise application lifecycle management (ALM) practices deliver support versioning, testing, and controlled releases for production-grade deployments. This allows IT teams to move quickly from pilot to production and scale solutions confidently across environments and business units.
- Yes. Power Platform is used by large, complex organizations to run mission‑critical workloads at enterprise scale. The solution supports standardized architectures, offers performance and reliability guidance, and provides deep integration with Azure services. IT teams can design for security, compliance, availability, and growth while maintaining centralized governance and operational control—even as solutions expand across departments and production environments.
- Power Platform lets teams build apps and agents together using shared data, workflows, and governance controls. Apps handle structured tasks, workflows, and business processes, while agents assist with reasoning, automation, and user interactions. Together, they operate as a unified solution within a single platform, allowing organizations to deliver intelligent experiences while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency.
- IT teams typically start working with Power Platform by defining and establishing their environments, governance policies, and adoption guidance aligned to their organization’s standards. Microsoft provides proven best practices, reference architectures, and implementation resources to help organizations roll out Power Platform with confidence. We work with our customers to help them enable innovation while maintaining control as their solutions move from pilot to production.
- [1]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low‑Code Application Platforms, Olkesandr Matvitskyy, Akash Jain, Kyle Davis, and Adrian Leow, 28 July 2025.
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Forrester does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology buyers to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designations. - [3]International Data Corporation (IDC), Bridging the AI divide: How Frontier Firms are transforming business, a global study commissioned by Microsoft.
The study reflects the aggregated findings of surveyed organizations and does not constitute an endorsement of any product or service. - [4]Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content.
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