{"id":3860,"date":"2019-06-20T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/introducing-the-powerapps-center-of-excellence-starter-kit\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:19:54","slug":"introducing-the-powerapps-center-of-excellence-starter-kit","status":"publish","type":"power-apps","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/introducing-the-powerapps-center-of-excellence-starter-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the PowerApps Center of Excellence Starter Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

(This blog post was updated in Jan 2020 to highlight changes and new features made available in the CoE Starter Kit)<\/em><\/p>\n

A Microsoft Power Platform\u00a0Center of Excellence (CoE)<\/strong>, as talked about in this blog post, refers to an entity that is responsible for nurturing the growth of Power Apps and Power Automate in their organization, while applying the right administrative guardrails.<\/p>\n

The responsibilities of a CoE typically fall into these four buckets:<\/p>\n

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  1. Administration & Governance<\/li>\n
  2. Nurture<\/li>\n
  3. Support<\/li>\n
  4. Operations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A CoE is designed to drive innovation and improvement, and through its central function can break down geographic and organizational silos in order to bring together like minded people with similar business goals to share knowledge and success, whilst at the same time providing standards, consistency, and governance to the organization.<\/p>\n

    For a more detailed explanation of the functions and best practices to establish a CoE \u2013 see the talk titled “Tried and tested techniques for establishing a CoE”<\/a>, that was presented at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit in June 2019. You can download the ppt here<\/a>.<\/p>\n