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New Power Platform Return to the Workplace capabilities enable organizations to meet global health guidelines 

4 min read
  • a man wearing glasses and smiling at the camera
    By Vice President, Microsoft Industry Clouds & Solutions Engineering
  • Nathalie D’Hers
    Corporate Vice President, Microsoft End User Services Engineering

Since introducing the Microsoft Power Platform Return to the Workplace solution a year ago, the solution has helped organizations plan, coordinate, and manage processes to reopen and stay open responsibly during the pandemic. Recently, COVID-19 vaccinations and periodic testing have become critical components of public health and safety across the world. Many businesses have had…Read more

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Microsoft Ignite recap: Power Platform news and announcements you may have missed 

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We want to extend a big thanks to everyone who joined us at Microsoft Ignite 2021. It was a jam-packed few days of sessions, news announcements, and live interactive discussions with the global community—more content than anyone could tune into live. Most of the content is now available on-demand-including session videos, transcripts, presentations, and related…Read more

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New Power Platform capabilities announced at Microsoft Ignite 

5 min read
  • Professional headshot of Charles Lamanna
    By Corporate Vice President, Low Code Application Platform

This year at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Power Platform is bringing added ease and innovation to low-code app development and automation for citizen developers, business analysts, IT admins, and professional developers. Today we are announcing a new set of capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform that includes: Enhanced collaboration for users building apps with built-in commenting, users…Read more

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Accelerate innovation with low-code applications using Power Platform 

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We used to talk about why low-code is important and why companies need to embrace it. We have moved beyond that and most organizations get it. The demand for apps is unprecedented and you aren’t able to hire enough technical talent to meet demand; without low-code you are simply not able to keep up. We…Read more

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Microsoft acquires Clear Software to enhance connectivity to systems of record 

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Organizations depend on their business applications to work seamlessly across many different systems and data stores. Customers need to know that their most critical business processes are built to optimize working across those systems and data sets no matter how complex the process becomes. Customers will benefit from stronger Microsoft Power Platform integration with outside…Read more

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Automation in Windows 11 enables users to reduce repetitive tasks and boost productivity 

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Today we are excited to share that robotic process automation (RPA) in Microsoft Power Automate is now built-in with the general availability of Windows 11. Since first introducing the availability of RPA with Power Automate for desktop for Windows 10, we have seen thousands of organizations harness the power of automation in Power Automate. The…Read more

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

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  • Arun Ulag professional headshot.
    By Corporate Vice President, Power BI

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…Read more

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

<1 min read
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    By Corporate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Business Applications Engineering

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…Read more

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

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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…Read more

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Accelerate time to insight with Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse 

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  • Sabin Nair
    By Principal Program Manager, 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…Read more

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Introducing Power Apps Ideas: AI-powered assistance now helps anyone create apps using natural language 

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The ultimate low-code app building experience is one where you describe in plain language what you want an app to do, and in an instant that app is created for you. Today we’re taking a major step toward that dream. We’ve fine-tuned one of the most advanced natural language AI models on the planet, a…Read more

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