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Ensure Power Platform success in your organization through a Center of Excellence 

Microsoft Power Platform provides a low-code platform for reporting, workflow, automation, and form development. With applications like Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps, the platform can be used to analyze data, automate operations, and develop apps. As the use of Microsoft Power Platform increases, organizations need a mechanism to scale solutions, support makers, and

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Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Augmented BI Platforms, Q3 2021 

We are excited to announce that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Augmented BI Platforms, Q3 2021. Microsoft received the highest score of any vendor in both the strategy and current offering categories. Further, Forrester noted in the report, “It is hard not to consider Power BI as your top

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Supporting our customers and partners as they return to the workplace—one year later 

A year ago, as we were holding our first all-digital event for our partner community, we introduced the Microsoft Power Platform Return to the Workplace solution template to help our customers safely prepare and manage the return to physical workspaces as they supported their employees whilst navigating the challenging, changing, and unique circumstances brought on

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2021 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available 

On July 14, 2021, we published the 2021 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that are planned to be released between October 2021 and March 2022. This second release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements, demonstrating our continued investment to

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New Power Platform features reinforce end-to-end security, management, monitoring, and compliance 

As the pace of digital transformation continues to accelerate, the demand for more applications and automation is at the center of that change. Increasingly, more organizations are adopting low-code tooling to enable anyone to build solutions tailored to meet their business needs. However, along with the benefit of building solutions faster, the risk of accidental

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New Microsoft Mechanics episode demonstrates pro developer advancements with Power Platform 

During this year’s developer event, Microsoft Build, we announced and demonstrated several key updates and features for pro developer capabilities for Microsoft Power Platform. While Microsoft Power Platform is a leading low-code development platform, it also offers rich capabilities which make it an exceptional development platform for experienced developers. With greater focus on digitization, there

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Accelerating vaccine distribution through public sector partnerships 

Since COVID-19 vaccinations started in earnest earlier this year, at least 164 million people in the US and 1.7 billion people globally have received at least one dose of a vaccine. 1,2 This rapid pace of vaccinations is the result of many factors—high demand, increasing supply, and efficient distribution management. For that last factor, technology

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Accelerate time to insight with Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse 

In conversations with the community, many have asked for a single, end-to-end way to work with data in Microsoft Dataverse, from running AI and machine learning, integrating with external datasets, and slicing and dicing large volumes of Dataverse data. Now, instead of using multiple tools to get the job done, you can accelerate time-to-insight with

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Reduce process bottlenecks with process advisor for Power Automate, now generally available 

As companies strive to be more nimble and focus productivity on innovation, workplace automation is taking center stage. With the right tools, like Microsoft Power Automate, everyone can reduce time-consuming tasks to focus on what matters most. In fact, the month after Microsoft Ignite, where we announced Power Automate Desktop was available at no additional cost

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Enabling intelligent experiences with Power BI for developers, data scientists, and data engineers 

Since our launch over five years ago, Microsoft Power BI has been enthusiastically adopted by developers across the spectrum. Today we have over three million active developers on Power BI—who harness the power of data, provide actionable insights, and deliver cloud-native intelligent experiences. Today, over 15,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise customers use Power BI’s embedded