MS Power Platform
Overview and Key Features:
Microsoft Power Platform is composed of two key products and other services: Power Apps and Power Automate.
- Power Apps: Microsoft Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.
- Power Automate: Microsoft Power Automate is used to automate repetitive business processes. Beyond simple workflows, Power Automate can send reminders on past due tasks, move business data between systems on a schedule, talk to more than 600 data sources or any publicly available API, and can even automate tasks on your local computer like computing data in Excel.
Getting Started:
Power Apps and Power Automate are available to all full-time staff and faculty.
Once you receive confirmation, log in to your online Outlook/UTmail+ account and click on the waffle in the top left corner. Click on “All apps”. Select the Power Apps or Power Automate tool.
If you don’t see Power Apps and Power Automate under your M365 apps launcher, please check your eligibility Microsoft 365 Licensing – Toolkits for staff, faculty, students and other community members and ask your local IT helpdesk to submit a Microsoft 365 License Exception Request.
Get Started with Power Platform environments (FAQ and best practices)
Get Help:
- Knowledge Base (IT Service Centre)
- Access the Enterprise Service Centre (ESC) to open an incident ticket
- Power Platform Training (LinkedIn Learning)
Overview of Microsoft Power Platform (Microsoft)
Support Level: License provisioning and Governance only.