Imagine accelerating your business innovation and solving complex challenges faster than ever before.
That’s the power of AI and low-code platforms. These tools are revolutionising how companies operate, making it quicker to innovate with technology.
The Microsoft Power Platform is leading this transformation, offering businesses of all sizes the capabilities to turn ideas into reality more easily.
But why are these tools so crucial now? Let’s examine the challenges businesses face and how AI and low-code can help overcome them.
The Innovation Challenge
As organisations look to grow and scale, they need new solutions but don’t always have enough technical experts. It’s like trying to construct a house. Without enough builders, it just won’t get done.
However, finding and hiring developers can be arduous and expensive. That’s why businesses need tools everyone can use.
When more people can create solutions, it takes the pressure off technical teams and speeds things up. This way, your organisation can keep up with changes and stay ahead, even if you don’t have a vast technical department.
Power Platform: Your Innovation Accelerator
The Microsoft Power Platform can help you solve these challenges by filling gaps in current systems and improving processes without extensive IT resources. This is possible because it makes development accessible to a wider range of people with different skill sets, empowering them to propose solutions that drive creativity.
The tangible benefits of the Power Platform include:
- Build custom apps that solve your unique business challenges without needing expert coding skills.
- Automate workflows that address process gaps to save time and minimise the need for inefficient workarounds.
- Gain insights to transform data across your core systems into clear, actionable insights for better decision-making.
- Streamline with Copilots to accelerate work with intelligent assistants that learn your processes, automate routine tasks, and provide insights, saving time and reducing errors.
- Dynamic Websites by creating secure, data-driven web pages that simplify processes, engage customers, and integrate seamlessly with your systems – without complex coding.
Let’s explore how ServerSys uses the Power Platform to tackle two common challenges. By focusing on app modernisation and extending line of business systems, you’ll see how these tools can transform operations.
Modernising Apps with Low-Code
Legacy applications can restrict business growth, creating integration challenges and consuming excessive resources.
Here’s how Power Platform can drive digital transformation by modernising your infrastructure with new applications:
Rapid Development: Power Apps enable you to quickly create and deploy custom applications to slash dev time and costs. Its intuitive interface and pre-built templates accelerate modernisation without breaking the bank.
Team Empowerment: Clear your app backlog faster with user-friendly tools that empower a broader range of team members to participate using their knowledge, which reduces reliance in IT teams.
Enhanced Efficiency: Use AI tools like Copilot to create mobile-friendly apps that let people collaborate smoothly. This means you can update your old systems more quickly and with less stress.
Technical Debt Reduction: Replace costly “quick fixes” with sustainable solutions. Power Platform helps you build robust applications, simplifying data integration and governance.
The impact is clear. According to Forrester Research, organisations save up to 85% of total development time with the Power Platform in the first three years.
In addition to innovating with new apps, the Power Platform can also extend the life of your existing systems.
Extending Line of Business Systems
Many companies use Line of Business (LOB) systems which are core pillars of their IT infrastructure. These systems help run your business, but they often create some problems:
- They don’t always work well with other systems.
- It’s hard to develop them or add new features.
- They cost a lot of money to keep running.
Sometimes, these systems can’t do everything you need, but replacing them isn’t viable. This is where Power Platform can help by extending your LOB systems. Here’s how:
- Bridging the gaps: Power Platform can do things your LOB systems can’t. This means less manual work and fewer problems.
- Connecting information: Power Platform uses connectors to integrate data from various systems, enabling real-time information flow and comprehensive insights for informed decision-making.
- Working everywhere: Your solutions can be used on desktops, mobile devices, and collaboration tools like Outlook and Teams.
Instead of implementing costly new systems, Power Platform products can make your existing technology more useful. Companies using Power Platform with their LOB systems can quickly see significant improvements. Forrester Research found that employees can save up to 25% of their time with Power Platform solutions.
As well as connecting data and reducing manual workarounds, the Power Platform helps prevent shadow IT issues. By giving teams the tools to create solutions within a controlled environment, it reduces the risk of unsanctioned applications and ensures solutions comply with your security and governance policies.
AI-Powered Innovation
Power Platform integrates cutting-edge AI capabilities, transforming how you can innovate and operate. At the forefront is Microsoft Copilot, an AI-powered assistant integrated across the Power Platform suite.
Copilot uses natural language processing, allowing users to interact with systems using everyday language. This dramatically reduces the learning curve and makes powerful tools accessible to everyone. As a result, end-users can build apps, create automations and analyse data more intuitively than ever.
The impact of AI in the Power Platform is substantial. Microsoft reports a 60% higher success rate when Power Apps are built with Copilot. This acceleration in development and deployment increases agility to adapt to changing needs.
AI doesn’t just help with making apps. With Copilot, Power Automate flows are built twice as fast. AI can do repetitive jobs automatically and help people gain actionable data insights. This makes organisations work smarter and come up with new ideas faster.
Anyone can use these AI tools, not just experts. This means the more people use AI within a business, the quicker they help their organisation grow and change.
5 Tips to Get Started
- Identify a simple process to automate with Power Automate.
- Create a basic app using Power Apps for a common task.
- Explore Copilot features in the Power Platform to enhance your projects.
- Assess your current workflows to identify areas for AI improvement.
- Join the Power Platform community to learn from others’ experiences.
We recommend starting small, learn as you go, and gradually expand your use of these powerful tools.
Partner with ServerSys for Success
AI and intuitive low-code tools in the Microsoft Power Platform can transform your business operations. They boost efficiency and spark innovation to keep organisations strong in today’s digital world.
Want to use low code and AI tools to make your work easier? ServerSys can help! Our experts can help you implement these tools and make the most of them.
Reach out to ServerSys today to discuss how we can help your business grow with the Power Platform.
