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Introduction to the Microsoft Power Platform

  • Overview of the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse
  • Typical use cases relevant to industrial and engineering companies
  • The Low-Code / No-Code paradigm and its benefits for corporate efficiency
  • Licensing models, environment architecture, and governance frameworks

Power Apps Fundamentals

  • Differentiating between app types: Canvas vs. Model-Driven
  • Anatomy of a Canvas app: screens, components, controls, and layout design
  • Standard data sources: SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, and Dataverse
  • Establishing connections to existing data lists and libraries
  • Implementing data validation and conditional logic

Practical Exercises:

  • Developing an inventory management application with input, output, and critical level alerts
  • Building an equipment control and calibration app featuring expiration dates and status tracking

Automation using Power Automate

  • Categories of flows: automated, instant, and scheduled
  • Understanding triggers and actions to initiate flows and integrate tools
  • Seamless integration with Power Apps (via buttons and triggered forms)
  • Incorporating conditions, approval workflows, notifications, and automated record-keeping
  • Best practices for designing reusable flows

Practical Exercises:

  • Streamlining the test request process (ST) with integrated approval steps
  • Generating automatic alerts for equipment awaiting calibration
  • Automating the logging of inventory movements

Guided Development: Corporate Projects

  • Efficient requirements gathering directly with participants
  • Collaborative design of real-world company screens and workflows
  • Constructing functional prototypes under instructor supervision
  • Conducting validation, adjustments, and simulated testing

Best Practices, Governance, and Maintenance

  • Structuring environments for Development, Testing, and Production
  • Managing user permissions and ensuring data security
  • Maintaining documentation and version control for apps and flows
  • Applying best practices for ongoing maintenance and scalability
  • Planning the evolution of solutions post-training

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of business process workflows
  • Familiarity with Microsoft 365 tools (such as SharePoint and Excel)

Target Audience

  • Process owners and analysts within industrial and engineering sectors
  • IT support personnel and citizen developers
  • Managers aiming to automate and digitize operational workflows
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