AI agents and business teams together are redefining how modern systems are built

As I told Daniel, we’re seeing a dramatic expansion in what’s possible to build, driven by AI and agents. At the same time, we’re seeing an equally dramatic expansion in who needs to be involved. Companies that want AI to meaningfully change how they operate need the people who are doing the work every day, those who understand finance, human resources (HR), supply chain, and customer service, to be able to shape the systems they rely on. This is an imperative for success.

If more people need to shape systems, the software itself needs to change. Systems designed to require a human to click through every step bottleneck participation. Agents help shift that dynamic. They can monitor, reason, and act—with humans providing intent, oversight, and judgment. Daniel and I talked through practical examples, like refunds and fraud detection in retail where traditionally slow, manual processes can now be rethought. When agents work alongside apps and automation, they can radically accelerate how fast teams build and help them reduce costs. They also give business teams a more direct hand in improving customer experiences.

But my conversation with Daniel wasn’t about handing off everything to AI. Adopting an agent‑first means teams can spend less time wiring together steps and more time defining what should happen, where human input is required, and how outcomes can be governed.

One thing I emphasized to Daniel is that trust and governance are foundational. Systems must be observable, auditable, and adjustable. Agents need boundaries and humans need visibility into what’s happening. Black boxes that fire and forget aren’t the answer. That’s why we’re focused on higher‑level abstraction, not throwing a prompt over the fence and hoping for magic. Great systems start with planning, architecture, data modeling, and policy. We’re building experiences that help people with deep process expertise think like software architects, with AI supporting their work, not replacing human judgment.

Applications stay and they take on a different role, becoming shared spaces for human-and-agent collaboration and oversight. As I said to Daniel, the future interface is about delivering the right information to the right place at the right time.

The broader point Daniel and I kept coming back to is this: the future of enterprise software is not a single killer agent or a clever prompt. It’s a managed environment where intent turns into action—safely, repeatedly, and at scale.

That’s the shift we’re building for. And it’s the shift enterprises need to start planning for now.

Watch my full conversation with Daniel Newman from Futurum to hear us unpack what agent‑first development really means for enterprises.

What’s next for agent-first development

• Turn great ideas into impactful solutions with Microsoft Power Platform
• Learn to transform your business with modern, AI-first applications in Microsoft Power Apps
• Optimize business processes with an end-to-end automation solution built for enterprise with Microsoft Power Automate

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Here are the key announcements:

• Introducing the new Power Apps—a completely new developer experience at vibe.powerapps.com that combines the speed and simplicity of vibe coding together with the enterprise scalability of Microsoft Power Platform. Makers of all skill levels, from business users to pro developers, can now collaborate with a team of agents that work together to define requirements, create a data model, and now code a full-stack application in minutes.

• Apps, agents, and Microsoft 365 Copilot now work seamlessly together, creating a unified AI-assisted experience across business and productivity applications. With Microsoft 365 Copilot in Power Apps, users can bring the full power of Copilot (including its agents like Researcher and Analyst) right in context in their apps, working over business data and the Microsoft Graph. With the new Power Apps Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, agents can now use app skills like intelligent form filling—making it possible to automate work and interact with business processes well beyond the application. And, an upgraded agent feed keeps users in command of the work those agents are up to.

• Power Platform’s premium capabilities for managing governance, security, operations, and availability continue to expand. The managed platform now features new inventory and usage reporting, helping administrators get instant visibility across apps, automations, and agents. And these benefits are no longer restricted to apps built on the platform—developers can now deploy to Power Platform from any development environment, enriching their apps with Microsoft Entra authentication and authorization, plus governed access to more than 1,400 connectors. These apps natively integrate with inventory, data loss prevention policies, sharing limits, deployment pipelines, and health metrics. With the ability to host and govern code apps on Power Platform, developers can quickly build and deploy line-of-business (LOB) apps while administrators manage everything seamlessly.

With these innovations, and many new related updates in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft is paving the way for makers and organizations to rethink how business applications are built, deployed, and managed.

For makers, this means turning ideas into apps faster than ever before using natural language, collaborative agents, and built-in intelligence to accelerate development. For organizations, it delivers a unified, secure platform where AI-generated, low-code built, or coded apps can all be governed and scaled with confidence.

By fusing AI-powered creation, agentic collaboration, and enterprise-grade management, Microsoft is paving the path for the next generation of app makers, empowering them to build the apps of the future, today.

The app development platform for Frontier Firms

Power Apps is the leading low-code platform, recognized by analysts and trusted by customers worldwide. With every release, we’re helping organizations move from idea to impact faster and more confidently.

We’ve previously introduced plans to guide makers from concept to production, along with built-in AI assistance that helps with tasks like filling forms, visualizing data, and generating summaries and insights. These enhancements make it easier for makers to build apps that grow more valuable over time—continuously improving as solutions evolve and adapt.

Now, we are introducing a reimagined agentic experience for building full-stack apps on an enterprise-grade platform. Power Apps doesn’t just know what you want to build, it understands why. Makers describe what they need in natural language, and a team of agents gets to work—using specialized skills to outline detailed user stories and requirements, propose an optimized data model, and write the full-stack code for a modern, business-ready app. Apps can include APIs, forms, and user interface components. They are refined through ongoing conversation with the agents as well as point-and-click interactions in real time.

Backed by Microsoft Dataverse and enterprise-grade governance and security, Power Apps lets you go beyond prototypes. Build full-scale solutions that are secure, scalable, and ready to deploy, all from a single, unified platform.

Seamless collaboration between people and AI

Human-agent collaboration is at the heart of the Frontier Firm vision, combining human creativity with AI capabilities to boost business efficiency and productivity. This collaboration works seamlessly across productivity apps, business software, and AI-powered experiences. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re taking it a step further.

App capabilities are now available to agents. Powered by the Power Apps MCP Server, agents can now use app capabilities such as form completion, data exploration, visualization, or even requesting human input when needed. Wherever users work, they can invoke agents to perform these actions, just as they would within the app itself.

For example, while reading an email in Outlook, users can ask Copilot to update a record in Power Apps based on the thread without having to navigate to the app or manually enter data.

For organizations, agents equipped with app capabilities can also operate autonomously to boost productivity. Instead of users manually entering data one form at a time, an autonomous agent can identify the right information and complete forms when needed. For example, when an Outlook message containing customer updates arrives, it can trigger an agent to process those updates using the form-fill capability. And when a task can’t be completed automatically, the agent can request human input, flagging the necessary action in the evolved agent feed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot now fully extends into your apps. Context flows from productivity tools into business applications, allowing for questions, summaries, and actions while drawing on both app data and Microsoft Graph. First-party agents like Researcher and Analyst, along with custom agents, are available in a single interface. For example, you can analyze app data and Microsoft 365 content, then draft a PowerPoint presentation from the results—without switching tools. Starting December 10, 2025 customers will have the opportunity to preview the unified Copilot chat experience in the model-driven apps in early release environments.

Agent feed provides a shared space for humans and agents to collaborate. It supports smooth handoffs, prioritizes actions by urgency, and supports richer experiences for users giving organizations visibility, control, and lower operational effort.

Together, these advancements make it easy for Power Apps customers to shift more of the repetitive work of business apps to agents while reimagining new app experiences that are intelligent and highly productive.

Governance and scale for the modern app ecosystem

With the rapid growth of vibecoded apps, agents, and automations, organizations need simple, transparent, and reliable governance—Power Platform provides that managed platform for all apps. Developers can build apps using Microsoft tools like App Builder and Power Apps or their preferred third-party solutions, then deploy them all on a single managed platform. Admins can rely on Power Platform admin center (PPAC) for comprehensive security, availability, and operational oversight across all apps, automations, and agents at a massive scale. The managed platform is continually improving to make governance more efficient and effective. 

The new inventory view in PPAC gives tenant administrators a comprehensive view of their apps and agents across their organization. This makes it easy to quickly understand what’s happening in their environment, identify top innovators by tracking who creates the most agents and apps, detect nonapproved resource regions to ensure compliance, rank environments by resources to prioritize governance and security efforts, find and reassign resources owned by departing users to maintain continuity, or even locate agents referenced in support tickets to speed up responses.

New usage insights spotlight high-impact resources and makers, helping organizations identify what’s driving value and where to focus investment. With insights directly in PPAC where admins already manage and govern their ecosystem, they will be able to drill down into the usage of apps, automations, and agents to identify the top usage-driving apps. This makes it easier to engage with makers, review the ownership rules, ensure business continuity, and report the impact to leadership.

The improved advisor now acts as an agentic Center of Excellence (CoE), proactively guiding admins with recommendations to strengthen security and governance.

Code apps hosted in Power Apps give developers the flexibility of custom code combined with the reliability of the platform. Customers can rapidly build enterprise-grade solutions with built-in security and seamless integration across more than 1,400 data connectors, without managing cloud infrastructure. Full control over performance, governance, and lifecycle management ensures mission-critical applications can scale, evolve, and stay secure.

Learn more

Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to see how the next generation of Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot is transforming app development. Explore these must-attend sessions and get hands-on with the future:

• BRK322: The future of Power Platform: AI-powered and enterprise-grade 
  Speaker: Ryan Cunningham 
• BRK323: Power Apps: Reimagine the human-agent collaboration
  Speakers: Evan Lew and Miti Joshi
• BRK324: Power Platform: Innovation across apps, automation, and portals
  Speakers: Tiffany Treacy and Marc Schweigert
• BRK275: Create apps with Microsoft 365 Copilot and App Builder
  Speakers: Clay Wesener and Emma Cooper
• BRK307: Overview of managed solutions and secure ops in Power Platform
  Speakers: Ryan Jones
• BRK321: From flows to agents: Modernizing with Copilot Studio + Power Automate
  Speakers: Jonathan Kendall and Mustapha Lazrek
• THR771: Create dynamic app experiences for personal and team productivity 
  Speakers: Anthony Uitz and Emma Cooper
• THR770: An agentic app—where human-agent collaboration happens
  Speakers: Matt Hidinger and Hemant Gaur 

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7,400 makers, developers, and partners came together to explore the future of innovation, share inspiring stories, and strengthen the bonds that make this community so special.

Behind every innovation is a maker, someone who turns an idea into something real. At PPCC 2025, makers took center stage redefining what it means to build software and shaping the future of work every day.

Building smarter with Power Platform and Copilot Studio

Building software has never been just about writing code; it’s about unlocking ideas at scale. Today, makers start with intent, designing solutions that blend human creativity and AI to make processes simpler and smarter. This shift is powering a new class of organizations, Frontier Firms, that place AI at the core of their operations and reimagine how people and technology work together to move faster, innovate more, and stay resilient.

Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio give makers the canvas to create with speed, the guardrails to build with trust, and the power of AI as their coauthor. With apps, agents, and Microsoft Copilot running on one managed platform, makers now have everything they need to make AI the foundation of everyday business.

Across the conference, our keynotes and sessions showcased how Microsoft is empowering makers to accelerate innovation. Here are the highlights driving that momentum:

Charles Lamanna’s keynote emphasized how AI and agents are transforming the maker experience, freeing them to focus on creativity, curiosity, and building what matters.

On stage, we saw demos that illustrated this vision: 

• State Farm turned a natural language onboarding prompt into a governed, Dataverse-backed Training Manager app using plans and agent-assisted build in Microsoft Power Apps.
• A leading insurance and advisory firm used Copilot Studio to orchestrate agents for compliance checks, portfolio reviews, and advisor-ready guidance, compressing hours of work into an auditable workflow. 
• A global telecommunications provider showcased generative pages and built-in agents in Power Apps powering a real-time outage command center by pulling data from Outlook and Teams into Dataverse for faster incident response. 
• A major professional services firm highlighted how Risk and Compliance teams can use the brand-new App Builder and Workflows Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot to automate regulatory alerts, while Copilot Studio built a compliance agent that aggregates knowledge from Teams and SharePoint, connects experts, and generates actionable summaries—all without heavy IT lift. 

Ryan Roslansky’s keynote covered how the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform enables productivity in the flow of work. He highlighted key integrations and agents available across Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. He also showed an example of how preparing for a customer meeting can be made more effective using bespoke agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform.

Kim Manis’ keynote demonstrated how Microsoft Fabric unifies and curates data, bringing together information from more than 100 apps—including Teams, Excel, and Copilot Studio—into OneLake. From OneLake, this data powers AI experiences such as Chat with your data in Microsoft Power BI and Fabric Data Agents in Copilot Studio.

Dan Lewis showed how Copilot Studio is driving agentic transformation. He unveiled features that empower makers and information workers to build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents directly in the flow of work. These include seamless creation, advanced analytics, automated test case evaluation (evals), flexible model choice, and granular knowledge controls to ensure answer quality. As an example, we saw how an organization is using Copilot Studio to scale AI-powered solutions across HR, finance, and operations with an agent that rewrites content for social channels to match brand voice, provides clear guidance on changes, and delivers consistent messaging at scale. 

In my closing keynote, we celebrated the achievements of this entire community and focused on how our role as makers is more important now than ever before. We saw the BWT Alpine Formula One Team constantly evolving a technology platform to enable a human driver to succeed, and how Power Platform champions like Azsure Dorton at State Farm are helping entire companies build skills and rapidly adapt. The technology acceleration of AI in Power Platform and Copilot Studio is redefining what’s possible—the maker era is here, and this community is leading the way. 

Introduction of App Builder and Workflows: Empowering makers everywhere

We introduced new Frontier agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers: App Builder and Workflows. This new capability brings AI-powered app creation to millions of information workers who work with Copilot every day.

With App Builder, you can turn ideas into working apps in minutes—just describe what you need in natural language, and Copilot helps you build it. You can preview and refine your app, over multiple edits and comments, without leaving Copilot. No complex setup and no coding required. It’s secure, integrated with Microsoft 365, and designed to make building apps as simple as sharing a document.

Workflows agent helps users automate repetitive tasks across Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Planner using simple prompts. Built directly into the Copilot agent, it allows users to create, test, and monitor automations, such as meeting summaries or task digests, with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Deep integration with Microsoft 365 ensures access to Microsoft Graph data and seamless actions across services, with future upgrades available through Copilot Studio for advanced customization.

This is an agent-first, AI-powered development that scales from a single app to thousands, without sacrificing security or compliance.

What’s next

PPCC 2025 isn’t just about technology, it is about people. Community, creativity, and collaboration continue to shape what’s possible.

Join the Power Platform Community, your hub for ongoing product updates, expert insights, and real-world stories. It’s also the perfect place to share your experience and keep the conversation going with fellow makers.

Ready for an encore? See you at Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, California from November 18 to 21, 2025 (pre-day is November 17, 2025; online from November 18 to 20, 2025). The session catalog is live—browse and favorite Power Platform sessions to see what’s coming next.

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There’s something special about bringing together people who care deeply about building and giving them time and space to deep-dive into the technology that transforms the way work happens. 

Technology and people are two key reasons I’m excited about PPCC 2025: 

• Apps, agents, and Microsoft Copilot are how we get AI right.
  AI success isn’t built on a single piece of software. Apps are the foundation—where work happens and impact is made. Agents automate and orchestrate, turning manual tasks into seamless processes. Copilot connects everything, making work smarter and more intuitive. Together, these drive AI success.  
• People come together to learn, network, and innovate.
  PPCC 2025 isn’t just an event—it’s a homecoming, a think tank, and a celebration of what we’ve built together. Whether you’re new to the movement, or have been shaping it from the start, you’re part of a community driving real impact, one solution at a time. Every new app, every agent-powered workflow, and every Copilot insight is a testament to the creativity and impact of our makers. This is how we move from ideas to innovation together. I can’t wait to see what your brilliant minds spark next.

Put together powerful technological shifts and our engaged community—and PPCC 2025 becomes the place to be. It’s the place for anyone eager to drive organizational transformation in the agentic reality.  

As organizations embrace agentic reality—where people and intelligent agents work side by side—they’re laying the foundation for what we call Frontier Firms: businesses that lead the way in harnessing AI to transform how work gets done. 

This year, it’s all coming together: Apps, agents, and Copilot 

The shift to AI-powered Frontier Firms is not just about building agents. It’s about reimagining how people collaborate with their new digital coworkers to drive real impact. That’s the movement we’re building—together.  

In Frontier Firms, AI success is grounded in three powerful pillars: 

• Apps are where work happens: your business logic, your workflows, your impact.
• Agents go beyond assistance: they automate, orchestrate, and accelerate how teams get things done, faster.
• Copilot connects everything: bringing intelligence into the flow of daily work.  

When apps, agents, and Copilot work together with people on a single managed platform, AI becomes more than a feature—it becomes the foundation of how business runs. How success happens. When you embed AI in the core of your business processes, everything changes: faster execution, deeper innovation, and confident scale. 

And at PPCC 2025, we get to talk about how Microsoft Power Platform is driving this technological shift that touches all three pillars: 

1. We’re reimagining app development: from code-first to intent-first agentic design, orchestrated by a plan at the center.
2. We’re blending human creativity with AI capabilities: agents embedded across the work spectrum, helping people move from task-doers to orchestrators or agentic teams and masters of autonomous work.
3. And we’re bringing apps, agents, and Copilot closer together: creating seamless, human-in-the-loop workflows that feel intuitive, intelligent, and connected.

This is the movement, this is the moment.

Organizations are moving critical workloads from traditional software as a service (SaaS) platforms to Power Platform, not just to save costs, but also to gain more control, accelerate time-to-value, and to stay within their existing, trusted governance frameworks. And PPCC 2025 is where you’ll see it all come together—apps, agents, and Copilot working in harmony, powered by a single managed platform.  

Learning, networking, and innovating 

Let’s be honest: the technology is incredible, but it’s the people who make it happen. The transformation to Frontier Firms happens through a community of creative, committed, and relentlessly curious makers who shape how work gets done. That’s why PPCC 2025 is packed with spaces and places designed to help you learn, network, and innovate. 

Let me highlight a few topics and spaces to join during the PPCC 2025 week to maximize learning and community networking:

• First, after the keynote make sure to also check out our Power Platform roadmap update—you’ll get an overview of all the exciting innovation in store within a single session.
• Then you can learn about how apps and agents team up in agent feed, discuss with the product team, and find out how to best leverage this space with smarter, faster human-agent collaboration.  
• You’ll get the chance to meet the team behind our managed platform. Learn how to monitor, govern, and scale apps built in code—and build unlock agent-powered productivity.  
• Every innovation starts with a question or an idea. AI-powered plans make it tangible, helping you innovate and build smarter solutions from day one.  
• Talk to the Power Automate team to dive deep into automation in the age of agents. Explore how to use Copilot to build flows, integrate AI into processes, and automate across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and beyond. We’ll also dive into how Copilot Studio and Power Automate work together to operationalize AI at scale. 

Throughout the event, you can take advantage of opportunities to network with MVPs in dedicated meetups and meet and greets and by joining the community sessions. 

Where does innovation happen at PPCC? Everywhere. In breakout sessions, chatting in the community lounge, or catching up at the watercooler, inspiration can be sparked at any moment.  

This year we’re also introducing an in-person hackathon on October 29, 2025. This is your chance to collaborate and build AI-powered agents using Copilot Studio. Open to all skill levels, the hackathon is a chance to create, compete, and showcase innovative agent-driven solutions. If you’re interested, be sure to indicate it when you register for PPCC 2025.

It’s hard to capture the energy of this community in words, so if you haven’t seen it yet, check out this recap from the PPCC 2024 event. And if you have? You already know what’s coming.

With over 100 speakers, in 150 sessions, and many hands-on experiences, workshops, and community spaces, you can cover almost the full depth of our low-code platform knowledge and community spirit. 

Join the AI shift: Your invitation to lead the transformation 

As we count down to PPCC 2025, here’s my ask: step into the movement. Be the one who helps your organization become a Frontier Firm—where apps, agents, and Copilot work together to amplify human creativity and impact. 

This transformation isn’t happening in the abstract. It’s happening now. And it needs all of us: builders, thinkers, leaders, and learners. So show up, share your story, ask the hard questions, and connect with others who are passionate about making a difference.  

The more voices we have, the stronger our community becomes—and the more impact we deliver together. 

I can’t wait to see what you build, what you learn, and how you inspire others. See you in six weeks. Bring the heat, bring your ideas, and let’s shape the future together. 

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We believe our Leader placement and Customers’ Choice distinction reflect our years-long commitment to empowering everyone—from traditional developers to business users—to build transformative, enterprise-grade solutions with speed, intelligence, and confidence. 

2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms

Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader.

Read the report

Why this matters 

Agility, governance, and impactful AI adoption are non-negotiable in today’s enterprise landscape. Under the umbrella of Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft delivers a leading, end-to-end suite for automation, agents, and AI-infused applications. 

With over 56 million monthly active users and a thriving global community, Power Platform helps organizations of all sizes accelerate innovation. Key differentiators we believe set us apart from other market players are:  

• AI is transforming work today, not tomorrow.
  With over 3 million agents built in FY25 alone,² we are witnessing firsthand the acceleration of development cycles by more empowered users. Our platform is delivering measurable results—such as 30% faster data entry in apps,³ and 60% higher success building with Microsoft Copilot in Power Apps. These results are demonstrating that AI acceleration is a current reality for both developers and business users. We are actively supporting our customers as they put AI to work every day through our robust community, investments in extensive documentation, and transparent product roadmap. We are helping our customers drive tangible business outcomes at-scale by making innovation accessible to all.
• The fully managed platform is making enterprise-grade scale and compliance, simple at any scale.
  With a foundation solidly on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Power Platform offers benefits from streamlined security, operations, and management through a single admin center. We are making it easier than ever for you to confidently innovate and scale solutions globally with less effort while maintaining rigorous standards.
• Developer capabilities within Power Platform are purposefully designed to foster seamless collaboration between business and IT users, while simultaneously giving experienced, code-first developers the power to innovate on their own terms. Power Platform has demonstrated long-term reliability and a relentless commitment to innovation. We have not only pioneered the low-code movement but now lead the agentic transformation of modern development. Throughout this evolution, we have consistently kept professional developers at the heart of our product strategy. As a result, we’ve seen more developers than ever choosing Power Platform as their foundation for building sophisticated, scalable solutions. Developers are relying on the platform to help them drive real business impact and accelerate the future of their enterprise app development.  

Gartner predicts that by 2028, “Agentic AI will be implemented via enterprise LCAPs in four out of five businesses globally.”⁴ With where we are and where we’re headed with our roadmap, we’re convinced that Power Platform delivers the tools for enterprises to scale their AI strategy with all kinds of developers. 

Join us October 28 to 30, 2025 at the Microsoft Power Platform Community Conference to experience firsthand the energy of our innovation and the strength of our community, and let’s explore some of the reasons customers around the globe are choosing Power Platform as their trusted platform for transformation. 

Accelerate AI impact 

Power Platform is designed to empower all kinds of developers. Business users new to app development or seasoned professionals alike can build impactful solutions with speed and confidence.  

When it comes to accelerating development with AI, innovations like plans in Power Apps and generative pages are redefining what building an enterprise solution looks like. Plans are quickly becoming the standard for designing and orchestrating solutions to complex business problems. Generative pages simplifies app creation by reducing boilerplate or repetitive work and accelerating delivery through an intuitive “vibe-coding” experience—all backed by the reliability of Power Platform. Whether you are a business professional, technical specialist, or seasoned developer—you can effectively utilize the single platform that meets you where you are, adapts to your pace and your unique skill set, and opens the path for you to achieve your ambitions.  

“We’ve been working with the plans, and this has so much potential. You really see how it’s going to increase our speed to market and grow our footprint when it comes to our global team across the world.” 

Giada Binelli, Global Product Owner Low Code and Cognitive Services, The HEINEKEN Company

With agents integrated into apps from the ground up, Power Platform allows organizations to quickly bring impactful innovations to users. Our agentic assistance in apps is preferred by 85% of users over non-assisted data exploration or data entry.⁴ And the new agent feed creates a true hub for human-agent collaboration.

We’re proud to lead this product evolution in the full breadth of development happening on Power Platform. Microsoft is committed to harnessing the potential of AI in the development lifecycle and in user experiences. We are delivering agentic assistance through built-in functionalities, providing a fast gateway to impactful AI outcomes. 

Scale, governance, and confidence 

With a fully managed platform, organizations gain advanced lifecycle management, governance, compliance, and security capabilities. Our recent investments in Microsoft Copilot Studio and AI orchestration ensure large language model responses are managed securely and responsibly, empowering organizations to confidently embrace AI-powered development. The platform’s strong foundation mitigates risk and helps IT and business users maintain control and accelerate innovation across the enterprise—without compromising trust or oversight. 

“The managed platform capabilities on Power Platform have greatly simplified and improved our ability to govern at scale. It’s the best way to manage at a global level.”

Giada Binelli, Global Product Owner Low Code and Cognitive Services, The HEINEKEN Company

Built for developers 

We’re redefining application and technology development in the age of AI and helping enterprises chart their path to becoming Frontier Firms. We recognize the critical role traditional developers play in this transformation—that is why we continue to expand and add robust capabilities to support them in building sophisticated, scalable solutions.  

With native integration of advanced coding tools, extensibility through custom connectors, and seamless integration with Microsoft Azure services, developers have more power to leverage their existing skills to build complex enterprise-grade applications. 

Power Platform is not low-code—it’s low-code, code-first, agentic, generative, and fully governed innovation. It empowers modern developers to build sophisticated, impactful, enterprise-grade solutions that they can scale.  

We are helping our customers move from simply building artifacts, to solving problems and driving business outcomes. The rapid growth of our developer community and adoption of advanced features underscores the trust developers are placing in Power Platform to deliver mission-critical applications. 

Real customer success, real business impact 

Small startups and multinational enterprises alike drive innovation and operational efficiency with Power Platform. The following examples show how they leverage the platform’s abilities and deliver tangible business outcomes: cost savings, operational efficiency, and scalable innovation. 

• Deutsche Bahn Group licensed every employee with a Power Platform license. “It’s very easy to make your own app, and very fast,” says Thomas Czierpke, Head of Adoption and Change Management.
• Pacific Gas & Electric built over 300 complex solutions, saving over USD75 million annually. Their AI-powered chatbot alone saves USD1.1 million per year in helpdesk support.
• Cineplex automated customer service workflows reclaimed 30,000 hours and over USD1 million in just two years.
• Rabobank runs more than 2,500 Power Platform solutions across 38 countries. One of their key business processes that took three weeks now takes just three minutes.

Start your shift to the new way of working 

Whether you’re building mission-critical apps or automating everyday tasks, Power Platform is the right choice. It’s a complete suite of tools designed for innovating at scale and for driving your organizational shift toward the Frontier Firm, where people collaborate with agents, apps, and Microsoft Copilot to achieve greater productivity. 

Read the full Magic Quadrant™ report to see why Gartner named Microsoft a Leader and then join us at Microsoft Power Platform Community Conference to experience the community innovation firsthand.  

Let’s build what’s next—together.

Disclaimer: 

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² Microsoft Fiscal Year 2025 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call.

³ Internal Microsoft testing conducted in November 2024 on sample of 22 subjects.

⁴ Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, July 28, 2025, Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Akash Jain, Kyle Davis, Adrian Leow.

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We first demonstrated this new vision at Microsoft Build 2025 and have been working closely with a select group of Early Access Preview users to hone the capability. We’ve now expanded Preview access to all users across North America and will soon enable the rest of our global regions.

This rounds out an entirely new, end-to-end app development experience that is agent-first at every step. Power Apps makers can start with a plan, collaborating with a team of agents to shape user stories, requirements, processes, data, and solution architecture. That collaboration continues as they craft and customize fully featured user experiences. Generative pages break free from the rigidity of traditional low-code tools—under the hood, they are built with code written directly by agents, based on multiple rounds of maker input and feedback.

Agent-first app development represents a major shift. Traditional low-code tools (including the Power Apps canvas) relied on complex abstraction layers to enable drag-and-drop configuration of pre-built components. While this unlocked productivity for those who preferred not to write code, it also came with limitations on what could be customized.

By generating pages directly in code, we unlock far greater potential for creativity and customization. By bringing this capability to the mature, enterprise-grade Power Apps platform—trusted by millions for mission-critical business apps—we’re making it practical for organizations to adopt at scale. Other tools for agent-based code generation are emerging, but while they may quickly produce visually appealing prototypes, they often lack the robustness and secure integration needed for enterprise systems.

Power Apps brings the best of both worlds together. The market-leading enterprise low-code platform—with world-class managed governance, security, availability, and operations—now also has the speed and agility of agent-first app generation.

AI-powered app creation with full control

With generative pages, you can get from a simple prompt to a fully customized app experience in seconds. Just describe the app you want, optionally upload a whiteboard sketch, choose your Dataverse tables, and a production-ready, fully customized app is instantly generated with no coding required. This builds on the strengths of low-code development, ushering in a new era of app development built on Microsoft’s reliable, scalable platform.

The agentic AI generates code for your app page that you can review, customize, and refine—keeping you in full control. Built on open standards, your apps remain portable, extensible, and future-proof.

Generative pages brings together the best of both worlds: seamless AI-assisted app creation paired with full transparency and control over the data, logic, and security layers. This empowers both business users and pro developers to build enterprise-grade applications confidently. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, you can move fluidly between no-code and pro-code experiences when using Power Apps:

• No-code to pro-code: Start building by describing what you want in natural language, add elements with code, or build with drag-and-drop components if you choose to—all in the same app.
• Full transparency: View the React code behind your app, giving you complete visibility and control.
• Iterative design: Easily update your app by simply saying what you want—like “add a search bar,” “switch to dark mode,” or “make this mobile friendly.” You can even roll back to previous versions with a single click.

Real customers, real impact

Organizations are already using Power Apps to solve real business challenges. We are seeing firsthand how customers across industries are using generative pages to work in ways that are truly inspiring.

• Time tracking, transformed: A global manufacturer finally said goodbye to manual spreadsheets. With generative pages, they quickly built a drag-and-drop time reporting app, complete with analytics and automated reporting, all in record time.
• Modernizing the old, effortlessly: A financial services firm reimagined a 25-year-old desktop tool as a modern web app for investment simulations. No massive rewrite, just a fresh start with generative pages.
• Student support, enhanced: At a major university, a team built an advising app to help first-year students stay on track, book appointments, and monitor their progress. It’s making a real difference for students who need it most.
• Game day, simplified: A youth sports league used generative pages to create a team manager app. Now, the league schedules, stats, and game-day logistics are all in one place—easy for coaches, parents, and players alike.
• Equipment tracking, streamlined: One retail chain shared how they now track equipment for stores in real time. The result? Less loss, faster audits, and a lot less hassle for their teams.

These are just a few of the ways customers are unlocking new potential, but the common thread is clear: Teams move faster, modernize with confidence, and keep their focus on what matters most, with Power Apps.

Enterprise-grade, AI-native

With generative pages, we’re bringing the power of AI-native app creation to enterprises, backed by the security, governance, and global scale you expect from Microsoft. Power Apps stands apart because it was built for the enterprise from day one. Here’s how:

• Robust security and governance: Microsoft Power Platform delivers built-in security, monitoring, and governance. Your apps inherit the same enterprise-grade protections that govern the rest of your Microsoft ecosystem. Every app has Microsoft Entra ID authentication, role-based access, monitoring, and auditing. Data loss prevention (DLP) policies, environmental boundaries, and application lifecycle management (ALM) pipelines—all functionalities used to secure scalable deployment.
• Open, transparent code: Unlike platforms that generate opaque or proprietary code, Power Apps uses open React and TypeScript—no black boxes, no lock-in.
• Easy Dataverse integration: Built on Microsoft Azure and trusted by enterprises around the world, Dataverse is a battle-tested platform managing petabytes of sensitive customer data with enterprise-grade security and scalability. It’s designed to handle the most demanding workloads and is deeply integrated with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Azure—giving your apps seamless access to a rich ecosystem of data and services. You can connect to your data instantly and simply choose the tables you need—no complex data modeling required.
• Rich, interactive user interface (UI): Generative pages support rich UI elements like drag-and-drop, file upload, charts, dark mode theming, and even text-to-speech. These features used to take days or weeks with traditional low-code tools. Now, your ideal UI is only a prompt away.

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The future of software development is AI-assisted, agent-powered, and fast. But speed without security is a risk. Flexibility without governance? That’s chaos.

Generative pages in preview mark a new chapter for Microsoft Power Apps and for enterprise app development. With AI-powered, native creation, open code, and built-in security and governance, every team can go from great idea to amazing app in minutes—no coding, no compromise—all backed by the trust and control of enterprise infrastructure. This is what makes Power Platform the right choice for organizations that need to move fast without breaking things.

To get started, simply add a page in any model-driven Power App—including those created from plans—and describe what you want to build, or explore our tutorials on the Learn page.  

Already using generative pages? We’d love to know about your experiences—your opinion is a key factor in how our team works to shape the future of AI-native app development. 

We can’t wait to see what you build. 

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Today, we’re announcing three major updates that bring this vision to life:

• Plans in Power Apps are now generally available, giving developers a team of specialized agents that help them to go from business idea to end-to-end solution in record time.
• New agent feed in Power Apps enters public preview, delivering an intuitive new experience for business users to manage and collaborate with agents inside their apps, making apps the hub of human-agent collaboration.
• The managed platform is expanding the world-class governance, security, and operational control that supports millions of users today. And now, developers can deploy code-first apps built using tools, such as Cursor or VS code to Microsoft Power Platform to take advantage of the built-in security, management, governance, and deployment capabilities.

Together, these capabilities form a unified development experience that accelerates app creation, supercharges productivity, and governs agentic experiences. Let’s dive into what these updates mean for developers and business users, and how to start building with AI from day one. 

Start with a plan 

Introduced at Microsoft Ignite 2024, plans are now generally available in Power Apps. Developers can now work with a team of agents to define requirements, map processes, create data models, and architect multiple components of a solution to work together. Whether you’re expanding on existing assets or starting a fully new solution, plans bring it all together, guiding you from problem statement to working code.  

Early adopters like Heineken or EY are already seeing the potential of accelerating their development cycles and uncovering new efficiencies. Based on the success of customers we are now rolling out plans to more regions and languages.  

We’ve been working with the plans, and this has so much potential. You really see how it’s going to increase our speed to market and grow our footprint when it comes to our global team across the world.  

—Giada Binelli, Global Product Owner for low-code platforms, The HEINEKEN Company

From business requirements to agentic solutions 

The new process mapping agent, now available in public preview, helps transform solution requirements and user personas into comprehensive process maps that anchor the plans. This visual blueprint provides an end-to-end view of the process, data, and solution architecture to optimize it—detailing how each component addresses specific business challenges. Developers can drill down into each step for nuanced improvements and get suggestions on how to best combine apps, agents, and flows to further fine-tune your processes. 

Developers can now jumpstart plans using existing solutions by easily adding already-built apps and tables into their plans. This capability allows developers to integrate prior work into a cohesive, interconnected solution that unlocks new value and can be further optimized as the plan evolves. 

Additionally, suggested solutions will also include reports, portals, and Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. This expansion allows developers to architect a comprehensive, intelligent solution upfront, before diving into creation of individual artifacts. 

With a single click, developers can jump into the right authoring tool to refine and deploy their apps and agents—carrying over the requirements and data they defined in the plan. That context powers the generation of the initial app or agent, accelerating the time it takes to build individual solution elements and keeping personas and business logic front and center. 

Generate AI-tailored experiences 

Power Apps is also introducing generated pages, empowering developers to create fully customized user experiences in native React code. Simply describe what you want an app or page to do, easily add Microsoft Dataverse tables, attach a whiteboard sketch, and iteratively refine the design and functionality of the app page using natural language. Developers can also add rich interactions like drag and drop, file upload, and on-hover animations to an app in just a few minutes. Sign up for the Early Access Program to be among the first to try generated pages.

Apps are the new frontier for human-agent collaboration

People are increasingly collaborating on key business functions with agents, and these users need new workspaces to work with those digital coworkers. Now, applications built in Power Apps support human-agent collaboration with agent feed, where business users can: 

• See agent actions (public preview)
  A comprehensive activity feed that surfaces what agents are doing on their behalf, wherever they are in the app. 
• Get real-time guidance (Early Access Program)
  Receive prompts and recommendations on when and how to step in to unblock or reassign tasks on the spot. 
• Automate work with intelligent actions (Early Access Program)
  Configure and automate workflows from within the templates, without ever leaving the interface. 

On the homepage, as well as in continuously visible left-hand pane feed, users gain a unified view of every agent assigned to their app and how they are performing. The agent feed dynamically highlights completed tasks, surfaces in-app prompts when agents need help, and recommends the next best action—whether that’s unblocking or reassigning work. Users are guided in real time with contextual suggestions, helping them focus their attention on the highest-value tasks and accelerating decision making.

Enterprise-grade managed platform for all your solutions 

Microsoft Power Platform delivers true enterprise scale. In November 2024, we announced major updates to our managed capabilities—spanning Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio, with new capabilities for managed governance, managed security and managed operations. By March we expanded these further with managed availability, an enhanced tool to give admins visibility and control over agents. 

Enterprises running solutions on Microsoft Power Platform can now take advantage of new monitoring updates. Improved visibility into how apps, flows, and agents are used help them to better manage adoption, troubleshoot, and optimize. Additionally, the security score can be customized to suit organizational needs to strengthen defenses. 

This fully managed platform gives enterprise teams the control and insights they need to confidently scale solutions. 

Bring code-first apps to a fully managed platform

Now, developers joining our Early Access Program will be able to bring their code-built apps from Cursor or Visual Studio Code into the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem, unlocking the same enterprise-grade reliability and operational excellence across all development approaches. This is a significant step forward in our journey to support all developers and all solutions, backed by enterprise-grade governance, security, operations, and availability. If you are interested in the potential to participate in an early access preview, please sign up. 

Embrace the future of intelligent app development with Power Apps 

With the latest advancements in Power Apps, you’re equipped to transform ideas into intelligent, collaborative solutions faster than ever. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a business user, these tools empower you to gain an AI advantage and streamline processes to enhance productivity. 

Experience the future of app development—explore the new features, join our Early Access Program, and start building intelligent apps today. 

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• Experience plans in Power Apps.
• Join the Early Access Program.
• View product roadmap for all new capabilities.

Join us for the sessions during Microsoft Build 2025

• Build and deploy AI apps faster with low code and DevOps 
• Collaborate with a team of agents to build intelligent solutions 
• Build agent-first solutions with Power Platform and Copilot Studio 
• GenAI for Enterprise: Intelligent Apps and Agents with Dataverse & MCP 
• Extend your Copilot Agent in Power Apps with Copilot Studio and new SDK’s 
• Enhancing Agent Management Controls for AI-Ready Enterprises 

And don’t forget to follow news in Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power Pages, and Microsoft Copilot Studio, as well as all the important updates to our managed platform.

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We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms for Professional Developers, Q2 2025, ranked top for our strength of strategy and current offering.

Forrester Wave^TM report’s author, Forrester’s analyst John Bratincevic writes in the report:

“Microsoft’s superior roadmap balances innovation with core product and commercial improvement.” ^[ii]

We believe this recognition underscores our long-term drive to empower developers, advance AI-driven innovation, and enable organizations to accelerate their digital transformation. This is also a shared milestone with the global community of developers, partners, and customers who trust us to help them innovate, adapt, and thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Key strengths that we believe contributed to our placement as a leader and our continued market momentum:

• A clear vision matched by strong innovation and implementation of AI across the portfolio
• Proven ability to support and deliver on high-scale use cases and mission critical applications
• A comprehensive, enterprise-grade managed platform that empowers organizations to drive impact at scale

The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms For Professional Developers

Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader.

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The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms For Professional Developers

Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader.

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A visionary strategy backed by unmatched innovation

Our bold investment and deep integration of AI in developer experience drives our strategy and execution. Microsoft has long believed that AI is foundational to the next era of software development. Over the past year, Power Platform has deeply integrated AI and agentic capabilities into the experience for developers and end users alike. Today, professional developers and teams can use AI-powered tools to plan and build sophisticated solutions—supported by straightforward deployment, robust management capabilities, and enterprise-grade governance. Whether you’re building agents from apps or designing workflows visually, Power Platform makes it fast and intuitive to create intelligent apps at scale.

Power Platform is the most widely adopted low-code platform in the market today with 56 million monthly active users^[iii]. With AI reshaping how applications are conceived, Forrester previously commented that they believe low-code platforms are evolving into AppGen platforms where solutions are generated, adapted, and managed by AI,^[iv] and in this report Bratincevic mentions:

‘Microsoft’s vision is exemplary, with an unflinching focus on AI-infused use cases and AppGen’s potential to disrupt both software development and the core economics of enterprise applications.” ^[v]

This recognition affirms our commitment to advancing the modern development ecosystem to support both traditional code-first developers and business users alike to create transformative solutions.

Made for high-scale, mission-critical use cases

Around the world, organizations are building and scaling mission-critical solutions with Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Just a few examples paint a clear picture: Pacific Gas & Electric saves millions each year, Nsure.com enables consumers to compare quotes in minutes, Cineplex has reclaimed 30,000 hours a year with Power Platform and agents and T-Mobile has been developing enterprise-wide solutions on Power Platform for years. All these companies – and many more – trust Microsoft Power Apps and Power Platform to deliver the tools and capabilities required to innovate at massive scale—safely and securely.

Rabobank, for example, adopted Power Platform as part of a broad digitization strategy to streamline all internal application development and business process automation needs for 40,000 employees in 38 countries. Today, they run more than 2,500 Power Apps and Power Automate solutions. One of their solutions supports the company re-org process and reduced processing time from three weeks to three minutes. Additionally, they use Microsoft Copilot Studio for a personalized customer support experience, automating 40-50% of customer calls – equivalent to 60,000 to 80,000 calls per month.

It’s rewarding to see and hear directly from our customers how our platform’s management and governance capabilities set us apart—and it’s rewarding to see those strengths recognized by analysts:

“Microsoft is the obvious choice for Microsoft shops and a leading option for firms that want an enterprise-grade platform that can reasonably serve the needs of both professional and citizen developers,” writes John Bratincevic of Forrester in the report. ^[vi]  

Backed by enterprise-grade governance

We’re excited to hear when customers tell us how our platform’s management and governance capabilities set us apart. From governing thousands of developers to automating complex business processes, modern enterprises need platforms that support collaboration across teams—without compromising on governance, security, or scalability.

Power Platform meets this need with a fully managed, enterprise-ready platform that gives organizations complete visibility and control over their digital ecosystems. In the Forrester Wave^TM we have received top scores for use case and governance and guardrails capabilities, as well as security practices and certifications. ^[vii]

Thousands of customers, including Deutsche Bahn, Lerøy, and Lumen, use the platform to the testament of this ranking – they manage tens of thousands of assets and environments on Power Platform with ease. We believe the comprehensive tooling for managed security, governance, operations, and recently announced managed availability is a unique offering that makes building, scaling, and deploying on Power Platform a clear choice for enterprises – and the findings in this Forrester Wave^TM support that.

Shape the future of your organization with Microsoft Power Platform

Microsoft is redefining how the world builds solutions and empowers people to turn ideas into impact with Power Platform, which has now 56 million monthly active users, growing 27% year-over-year. Organizations spanning small businesses to global enterprises choose Power Platform as the foundation of their digital transformation.

Developers, makers, and business users are leading the way by building apps fast, automating processes autonomously, and driving innovation at scale with the power of AI and low-code.

Explore the full Forrester Wave^TM report to see why Microsoft is a leader in low-code platforms for professional developers. Join us at Microsoft Build to dive deeper into our vision for intelligent application development and discover the next wave of platform innovation.

Let’s build what’s next – together!

[i][ii][v][vi][vii] The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms For Professional Developers, Forrester Research, Inc., May 8, 2025. Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

[iii] Microsoft Fiscal Year 2025 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call, April 30, 2025

[iv] The Rise Of Application Generation Platforms, John Bratincevic, Diego Lo Giudice, May 7, 2024

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All of these announcements are entering preview by December 2024: 

• Plan designer is ready for preview. In September 2024, we opened early access for select users to a new AI-powered workspace for turning requirements into a robust Microsoft Power Platform solution—including user stories, data model, apps, and automations. In the next weeks, we’re expanding access to a full preview. Designing a solution plan with Microsoft Copilot will make it easier than ever to upgrade existing apps and processes into intelligent applications.   

• Makers can generate custom AI agents directly from Power Apps using the knowledge, logic, and actions built into existing apps to jumpstart the building of a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent. These custom agents will get work done on behalf of employees, which can reduce repetitive work, supercharge individual productivity, and drive overall business efficiency.¹ Makers will also be able to tune the out-of-the-box agents in Power Apps with custom knowledge and actions using Copilot Studio.

• Introducing managed security and managed operations in Power Platform. Just as we have simplified governance with managed environments, we are now making it easier than ever for organizations to apply advanced security to their Power Platform solutions and manage mission-critical workloads at scale. A completely redesigned admin experience now features focused capabilities for managing security, deploying solutions, monitoring telemetry, and more. 

Together, these advancements represent a major disruption to the traditional “build versus buy” tradeoff of business apps. By generating intelligent applications on a fully managed platform, technology leaders can get the best of both worlds—solutions that are purpose-built for exactly their needs but without the long-term costs of maintaining full stack projects. Forrester’s John Bratincevic argues that this is the beginning of a substantial shift.

“AI-powered enterprises will “build” software instead of “buy” it—and many applications in enterprise portfolios will consolidate onto low-code AppGen platforms.”

John Bratincevic, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Let’s dig into the details of how Power Platform is leading the AppGen transition with new capabilities rolling out now.

Build enterprise solutions, start with a plan 

In September 2024, we opened early access to a new Copilot-powered workspace in Power Apps that enables makers to design and generate a robust solution to nearly any business problem. With highly positive feedback from customers, we’re excited to bring the plan designer capabilities to preview.

Now developers will be able to start working on a business problem in an iterative process with Copilot, and keep better connection between the business requirements and the solution they are building.

The entire process of building a plan and generating solution components is iterative and collaborative. At any point makers can make changes to defined user roles, requirements, data model, or the proposed user experiences. The plan will live alongside the solution, changing with it and ensuring the understanding of the problem and requirements persist.  

The new plan designer experience will make a powerful tool for creating well-structured, adaptable, and collaborative solutions using Power Apps and Power Platform. 

Generate custom AI agents from existing app capabilities  

Makers can now easily generate agents from existing apps using the logic, knowledge, and actions built into those apps. Makers can leverage Copilot Studio capabilities directly in Power Apps to build custom agents that get work done on behalf of employees. Once these agents are deployed, users can review activity, manage complex cases, and focus on higher value work.

For instance, in a reimbursement management app, a maker takes existing process—categorization, compliance check, or rejecting requests—and builds an agent to execute these tasks. Makers can start from an existing app, and agent builder will suggest actions based on the app’s construction, like activating flows or running Power Fx functions. This significantly shortens the time to get to user value and makers can continue expanding agent functionality in Copilot Studio. For example, they can add the ability to process receipt images using the pre-built prompt with GPT-4o. 

For users, the benefits are clear: instead of requiring each request to be reviewed by a person, an agent handles it. Makers can also allow users to see which rows have been recently modified by the agent and view previous agent sessions. This transparency ensures that users can intervene when necessary, maintaining visibility and control. This functionality will be available to makers starting next month.

Improved in-app agents for data entry and summaries 

In addition to generating new custom agents, we’re also improving the out-of-the-box agents that end users leverage within Power Apps to get work done more efficiently.

Data entry is one of the tasks that many people consider tedious, and it’s no surprise that the Power Apps data entry agent, which helps users fill out forms, is highly valued by customers. At Power Platform Community Conference 2024, we announced the ability to copy text and let AI suggest form inputs from the clipboard. In a study with information workers, this Copilot assistance enabled 29% faster form filling, with 95% preferring it over manual entry.² Now, users in model-driven apps can also directly add an email or file and get field suggestions from them. The new context control lets users see what data is used to predict fields, giving them more control. In canvas apps, entering long text input with Copilot now allows for custom prompts and presents multiple options to choose from—just like people are used to from Microsoft Word.

Quickly find what you need and understand a summary of complex records. Searching, sorting, and filtering of records using natural language with the help of the Power Apps data exploration agent is now available to all users in preview. And to give users easy insights, makers can add custom AI summaries to apps with a summary card—the performance of which they can review in the monitoring page.   

Copilot chat in apps can also now be customized—starting from the app designer, makers can open Copilot Studio, provision an agent responsible for the app chat experience and add new topics, knowledge grounding, domain-specific glossaries, and actions. A customized chat agent is then ready to help users with more relevant and helpful answers. 

Introducing managed security and managed operations 

In 2022, we introduced managed environments, a suite of governance capabilities that brought more visibility and control to administrators of Power Platform. We see every day how these capabilities allow IT teams to efficiently govern hundreds of thousands of assets, making well-governed use of Power Platform available to millions of users around the world, including for customers like Deutsche Bahn, Lerøy, and Lumen. 

Today, we take another step forward. We know that large-scale app modernization and the transition of existing business processes onto intelligent solutions in Power Platform and Dynamics 365 will require even more than great governance. That’s why we’re introducing two additional, closely related capabilities: managed security and managed operations. This means that Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Dynamics 365 are now delivered on a fully managed platform. 

• Managed governance helps organize and administer professional and citizen development with more visibility, more control, and less effort on the part of central teams.  

• [New] Managed security makes it easier than ever before to apply advanced threat protections across the platform, helping security professionals assess and improve the security footprint of their business applications. Managed security includes industry-leading capabilities for proactive threat detection, access management, compliance, and more. Learn more in the Power Platform security and governance blog. 

• [New] Managed operations makes it easier for advanced development teams to deploy and operate mission critical applications to maximize an organization’s productivity. This suite of capabilities is designed to safeguard and tune your production workloads with the ability to safely deploy updates, detect service degradations, and provide recommendations to improve production health. Learn more about managed operations.  

All managed capabilities are benefits of existing licenses and surface directly in existing products. This includes the Power Platform admin center (PPAC), which has now been completely re-imagined around a set of new highly productive workspaces for specific tasks—including reviewing inventory in managed environments, configuring and monitoring managed security, and leveraging managed operations capabilities for deployment and oversight.

These workspaces will also now be visible in focused ways in maker experiences. For example, developers will be able to observe and improve on the active usage of their applications in the monitoring workspace. They will see apps with low app open success rates and drill down on reasons why users can’t open the app, or they can see high latencies for showing the initial screen or data and understand what’s contributing to the problem. This will help makers find and address apps that require attention for improved performance.  

Today, we’re also making an important clarification to the licensing requirements for managed environments. Managed platform capabilities are a benefit of existing premium licenses, and any environment with managed features requires the users of any of the assets in that environment to have a premium license. We’re clarifying that as long as each individual user in the environment is appropriately licensed with at least one premium license—Power Apps or Power Automate—managed features will work and customers will be compliant.

Learn all about the updates to governance, scale, security, and data management capabilities in the breakout session Enterprise Scale: The Future of Power Platform Governance + Security. 

Apps that help users with line-of-business tasks 

Power Platform boasts a massive 1,400+ connector ecosystem, many of those connecting to the line-of-business data, giving options to business leaders and teams to build functionality they are missing to run business smoothly.  

We’re happy to announce two advances for building line-of-business apps. First, the SAP OData connector is now generally available, allowing access to SAP’s modern product stack, improving productivity and innovation with Power Platform’s low-code capabilities. Professionals building solutions over SAP will also benefit from a new whitepaper dedicated to architecting of SAP extensions.

And second, new bi-directional integration between Microsoft Dataverse and Snowflake allows makers to build end-to-end apps that act directly on Snowflake data, including the ability to create Dataverse virtual tables from Snowflake data. Coming soon, Dataverse data will be accessible in Snowflake so that customer service teams using Snowflake can leverage powerful analytics over their data in Dataverse, gaining deeper insights into customer behavior and enhancing service quality.

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Power Apps solves thousands of problems for tens of thousands of customers in almost every industry. With agents working alongside users, greater productivity from AI in apps, and expanded enterprise-grade tools for management at scale, Power Apps is the place for organizations to drive tangible AI impact. 

Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2024 to see the newest announcements firsthand and understand how you can leverage them. Embrace the era of Copilot-first development and accelerate your company transformation into the age of AI with Power Apps. 

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¹ New autonomous agents scale your team like never before.

² Internal Microsoft testing conducted in November 2024 on sample of 22 subjects.

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Source: (Gartner, October 2024)1* 

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms** for the sixth year in a row. This recognition, we feel, reflects the trust of millions of users who continue to build on Microsoft Power Platform—a comprehensive low-code solution that spans application development, process automation, external websites, and intelligent copilots.  

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms

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The success stories of our customers demonstrate the tangible impact of Microsoft Power Platform in real-world scenarios. A few examples include:

• Pacific Gas & Electric, a US utility company that has built over 300 complex solutions delivering over $75 million in savings each year and are also adopting generative AI to further advance their service center chatbot, which alone saves $1.1 million each year in helpdesk support.
• Zurich Insurance Group, a Swiss insurance company, is skillfully balancing the growth of low-code development with the strong governance required in the highly regulated financial services industry sector. 
• Cineplex, one of Canada’s leading media and entertainment companies, has saved 30,000 hours (approximately 3.5 years) and over $1 million in the past two years by leveraging automation and copilots built on Microsoft Power Platform to improve overall customer service and reduce query handling time from 15 minutes to just 30 seconds.² 

These companies—and many more—are using Microsoft Power Platform to transform their operations by building solutions on a secure, scalable platform that effectively handles and streamlines AI integration, governance, security, and enterprise data connectivity, a platform that enables developers to build with natural language, visual interface, or code, and deploy powerful solutions to web, mobile, or Microsoft Teams with ease.

“[Microsoft] Power Platform enables us to carefully control the data that feeds our AI models and, through [Microsoft Azure] Active Directory and [Microsoft] Dataverse, also control who can access which data through those models”.

Thomas Bilbo, Principal, Product Owner, PG&E 

Let’s dive into the factors that we believe set our platform apart as a Leader. 

Microsoft Copilot in Power Platform is transforming how people use and create software, making Microsoft the low-code application platform (LCAP) of choice for customers who need to rapidly modernize their application estates for the age of AI. 

Makers can harness Copilot in Power Apps to turn natural language descriptions into functional solutions quickly. Copilot helps makers from the beginning, when they build a plan for their solution, and continues to assist with tasks like working with data models, adding new tables, creating relations between data, adding new screens and controls within the canvas experience, and crafting complex formulas in Microsoft Power Fx.  

“Building the prototype from scratch would have taken 6-8 hours. We were able to just describe in natural language and build in a few minutes.”

Ron Colvin​, Director of Innovation, CONA Services​ 

End-users benefit from out-of-the-box Microsoft Copilot capabilities when using apps built on Dataverse. And with Copilot streamlining actions such as drafting text inputs, filling forms, and filtering records, users are saving significant time on manual and repetitive tasks.  

To date, over 480,000 organizations have used AI-powered capabilities in Microsoft Power Platform. For instance, Nsure.com significantly improved efficiency and reduced costs by using generative AI to automate complex business processes, cutting manual processing time by 60% and associated costs by 50%.  

Confidently adopt at scale with enterprise-grade security and data governance  

Through Managed Environments, the suite of advanced governance capabilities that comes with Power Platform premium licenses, the platform provides a robust control framework for secure, scalable low-code adoption. Leading organizations like PG&E, Equinor, Shell, T-Mobile, Lumen Technologies, Zurich Insurance Group, and HSBC manage extensive developer networks and solutions globally with exceptional visibility and control.  

Since 2022, Deutsche Bahn (DB) Group has been using Managed Environments to drive innovation at scale across the world’s largest railway company. At Rabobank, more than 55% of their 40,000 employees use Microsoft Power Platform solutions. Similarly, Accenture has over 200,000 employees using applications built on Microsoft Power Apps every month. 

Each of our coworkers has a [Microsoft] Power Platform license to create, to solve problems for his or her team, or even for the whole company. It’s very easy to make your own app, and very fast.

Thomas Czierpke, Head of Adoption and Change Management, Microsoft 365, DB Group  

We continue to invest in Managed Environments as customers drive greater scale and sophistication on the platform. In the past year, we have introduced comprehensive application lifecycle management, including Git integration and source control, a proactive intelligent advisor for risk management, and advanced administration options. We’re equipping administrators and experienced developers with advanced tools, and our upcoming release plan will continue to add new functionality in application lifecycle management, enterprise-scale administration, licensing and capacity management, monitoring, security, and compliance. 

Start your low-code transformation now 

In the journey of digital and AI transformation, every maker and every developer plays a crucial role in driving innovation. It’s amazing to see 83,000 participants in our partner bootcamps and airlifts, with Microsoft Power Platform communities growing to 5.8 million monthly active users! It is all of you—our community—that make this journey so rewarding. 

We are grateful to all the organizations, customers, the community, and partners for this recognition—thank you for everything that you do! As a next step, dive into building with Power Apps Developer Plan. Learn more about our position as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms report. 

Sources

1. Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, October 16, 2024, Oleksandr Matvitskyy,  Kimihiko Iijima, Mike West, Kyle Davis, Akash Jain, Paul Vincent

2. Microsoft Fiscal Year 2024 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call 

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