Microsoft Power Platform Stories

Brian Dang, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Power Platform, 2022年8月15日

Welcome to a list of customer stories curated by the Power CAT team. These stories showcase the ingenuity of a wide breadth of organizations and users that have adopted low-code and Microsoft Power Platform along with Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365. Makers of apps, flows, reports, and chatbots have digitally transformed their business processes, and in some cases transformed organization culture, careers, and lives. We hope these serve as inspiration for you as you embark on your own Power Platform journey.

Call2Recycle manages industrywide e-bike battery recycling program with Power Pages

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2022年6月28日

As a non-profit operating for over 25 years, Call2Recycle helps consumers and over 200 battery and battery-powered product companies keep batteries out of landfills. They partnered with EFOQUS to digitize their sales, finance and operations processes using Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales. This blog post describes how they used Power Pages to extend their existing system with an external facing portal that facilitates enrollment and training of e-bike retailers.

6 people who changed careers with low-code from Power Apps

Charles Lamanna, CVP, Low Code Application Platform, 2022年5月3日

The tech sector is booming with jobs and opportunities. But for some people, the question is: how do I get in? Few people have degrees in computer science, IT, or engineering—so, coding jobs seem out of reach. However, with low-code app tools, some grit and curiosity, anyone can now realize a career in tech. This is one of the most exciting elements of Microsoft Power Platform.

Meet the developers combining Power Platform and Azure to go faster

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2022年4月29日

Software developers around the world are embracing low-code as a powerful part of their toolkit — they look at Power Platform as the next layer of abstraction that reduces repeated work, adds to their skill set, and lets them focus their coding energy on the problems that matter most. The increased level of productivity is also changing the way these developers work with their users — as fusion teams creating a much more active and rewarding environment for building impactful solutions faster than ever before. Let’s meet a few of these developers and look at examples of solutions built using Power Platform along with Azure services.

Hearing Australia – Audiologist adopts Microsoft Power Platform to transform hearing loss prevention program

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2022年3月31日

Hearing Australia is Australia’s largest provider of government-funded hearing services and have been servicing people with hearing loss in Australia for 75 years. This is an inspiring story that features Jacqui Peck, an Audiologist who taught herself Power Platform while visiting remote communities in the Australian outback. She partnered with the ICT team, as a fusion development team, to transform one of their key programs for hearing assessments. The solution was built using Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. Over 100 Community Engagement Officers and Audiologists use it each month and it has become a single source of truth for program data. This has also helped secure continued funding from a government grant.

Ardent Mills uses Microsoft Power Platform to enable a paperless state-of-the-art mill

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2022年2月9日

Ardent Mills operates in more than 40 locations that specialize in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic and gluten-free products that drive emerging nutrition and innovation across plant-based ingredients. To stay current with the increase in operations and production across their plants in several different countries, their processes need to be efficient and supported by the technological capabilities available today. Deborah Romero-Reinig, explored Power Apps and Microsoft Power Platform to improve their processes and establish reporting capabilities across their plants. Several apps are now live and the team is now working towards a digital foundation for their upcoming paperless state of the art mill.

January 2022 Power Apps community call: Creating an Audio Player and deep dive into Pay-as-you-go features

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, 2022年1月13日

This month’s Power Apps community call has two exciting topics: Creating an audio player and how to take advantage of the new Pay-as-you-go Power Apps features.

EY Nordic Tech Hub transforms annual salary review process with Microsoft Power Platform

Sameer Bhangar, Principal Program Manager, 2021年12月16日

EY is a global professional services firm with over 300,000 employees across 150 countries. With specialties in assurance, tax and transaction, and advisory, they have delivered client solutions to 1 million users worldwide. Most recently, the EY Nordic Tech Hub team transformed their annual salary review process with Microsoft Power Platform. The solution uses Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SQL, and is connected to SharePoint online. With this new technology, a process that once took four months, now takes only two.

14 year-old boy digitally transforms a child daycare facility through Microsoft Power Apps

Taiki Yoshida, Principal Program Manager, 2021年12月3日

Today, we share a story of a 14 year old boy, Kazuki from Japan who empowers others through Power Apps.

Sheryl Netley Hero Story: Finding happiness through community and certifications

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, 2021年10月22日

Certifications make for an amazing way to get started in both the Power Platform and enabling career advancements and in this blog post walks through how one person used them to change their life.