{"id":107548,"date":"2023-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:09:20","slug":"microsoft-power-platform-celebrates-1000-certified-connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2023\/05\/11\/microsoft-power-platform-celebrates-1000-certified-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Power Platform celebrates 1,000 certified connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Microsoft Power Platform, connectors are the highways that allow information to travel to and from all the services in our customers’ technology ecosystem. By bundling application programming interface (API) connectivity with sets of prebuilt actions and triggers, connectors become building blocks for low-code development that allow developers to build richer apps and workflows. Once built, developers can spend more time on the high-value development activities that make solutions unique and less time on foundational necessities like API development and integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I want to acknowledge and celebrate the community of developers, partners, and publishers who have helped us reach an exciting milestone\u20141,000 certified connectors. That is 1,000 highways our customers can use to connect apps, services, and data sources in the cloud\u2014immediately useable out-of-the-box in Microsoft Power Platform. Thanks to the continued dedication and passion from our low-code community, it has never been easier to accelerate the development of solutions that enhance productivity and streamline business processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Certified connectors<\/h2>

View our current catalog of certified connectors.<\/p>

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A collection that continues to grow at an accelerated rate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seven years ago, we began building connectors in-house, focusing predominantly on products within the Microsoft ecosystem and a few key third-party products with broad market applicability. It didn\u2019t take long to find that our customers\u2019 appetite for connectors was greater than we had originally imagined, and far greater than we could keep up with alone. The number of new services was ever expanding, customers began tailoring their low-code platform for industry specific use cases, and niche markets required connectors for highly specialized applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, we were able to lean on our broader community and developed a certification program for partners and publishers to work together with our internal teams to build, test, contribute, and publish new connectors. This enabled our ecosystem to skyrocket to 1,000 certified connectors, the last 300 of which came in the last year alone. Combined, they deliver more than 12,000 actions available to developers for building new solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating our ecosystem of connectors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For those less familiar with our connectors, the Microsoft Power Platform certified connector ecosystem<\/a> services Power Apps, Power Automate, and Azure Logic Apps by default and is starting to expand its reach into other services, like Microsoft Viva Sales and Microsoft Teams. Our connectors can also connect to on-premises systems via gateways<\/a> to enable on-premise applications equally. \u201cCertified\u201d refers to the immediately available out-of-the-box connectors available for users by default (contrasting the \u201ccustom connectors,\u201d which are available on a per-environment basis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the certified connectors, there are three main types: first-party, verified publisher, and independent publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n