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Adrian Bridgwater –<\/a> Microsoft has always had to straddle an arguably difficult position in the software trade. The company has always needed to appear technically intricate, granular and powerful in the eyes of hard-core software developers. At the same time, the company has always had to present its software to market with a user-friendly \u2018anyone can use it\u2019 out-of-the-box style and approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a little of that duality in the firm\u2019s latest power play, which is a combination pack of technologies wrapped up under the Microsoft Power Platform<\/strong> brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is all about presenting a selection of heavyweight backend technologies to hard-core developers and data scientists, but also to would-be so-called citizen developers who are typically businesspeople with an interest in getting applications and data to work the way they want them to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Power Platform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The component parts of the Microsoft Power Platform<\/strong><\/a> have all previously existed as more distinct entities. This is essentially a coming together of Microsoft Power BI,<\/strong> Microsoft PowerApps<\/strong> and Microsoft Flow<\/strong> as a more unified offering available on top of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Read more:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RB Note: <\/strong>Self-serve BI is what people need. The number one complaint I hear from users is the confinement of “canned” reporting built into most applications that either will not display data in a dynamic enough format or if it will you need a Computer Science degree to produce anything actionable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrian Bridgwater – Microsoft has always had to straddle an arguably difficult position in the software trade. The company has always needed to appear technically intricate, granular and powerful in the eyes of hard-core software developers. 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