Microsoft Power Platform can empower your workers to analyze data, build custom solutions, automate processes, and create virtual agents, with simple coding skills. But it requires strong governance to mitigate app sprawl and data security challenges.
With Power Platform, your IT and business teams can develop personalized and tailored low-code and no-code apps that enhance employee experience and drive productivity. It helps you solve business problems, improve employee experience, and reduce dependency on IT. Here are some ways Power Platform can benefit your company.
- Your employees know more. Today’s employees are better-informed about the types of tools that can increase their productivity. Being able to use their own experience and knowledge to improve their own digital experience improves both productivity and job satisfaction. 89% of companies say deploying low-code tools have enabled efficiency improvements.
- Productivity gains. 66% of workers say automation of repetitive tasks has increased their productivity . Power Platform gives you automated workflows and custom apps that streamline operations. By automating routine processes, employees can focus on higher-value activities, reducing the time spent on mundane tasks and improving overall efficiency.
- Enhanced collaboration. Power Platform integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft tools like Teams and 365 to help data flow smoothly between systems, reducing data silos and enhancing collaboration throughout your company. By centralizing data and giving you a unified platform for teamwork, you improve your employees’ efficiency and effectiveness.
- Improved decision-making. Power Platform includes Power BI which offers powerful data visualization and business intelligence capabilities and enhances data insights. These real-time insights and interactive reports can help decision-makers quickly understand data, make better-informed decisions, and identify areas for improvement.
- Making better use of your IT department. By empowering non-technical users throughout your organization to develop apps, your IT department can be freed up to focus on complex and strategic IT initiatives that add value to your business. 80% of companies say in-house app developers give IT departments greater breathing room.
Governance is essential
Power Platform unlocks many productivity gains for your company, but it needs strict governance to ensure app development doesn’t get out of hand. Uncontrolled app development can grow into a problem similar to Shadow IT, and create a fragmented landscape of applications and workflows that nobody has full control over.
Similarly, strong app development governance reduces the risk of data security breaches and mishandling of sensitive information, along with compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA by defining data access controls and usage.
Orange Business works with you to develop Power Platform projects that enhance workflows, drive EX, and make your employees more productive, all underpinned by robust governance. Our European Center of Excellence teams offer expert advice on maximizing Power Platform. Orange Business can help you pave the way forward to Power Platform productivity and possibilities with minimized risk.
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