Microsoft Power Platform

Drive business growth by building your own low-code business tools – with no developmental expertise required

Summary:

Microsoft Power Platform puts organisations in charge with a suite of easy-to-use tools that enables businesses to build apps, automate workflows, analyse data and create intelligent chat experiences. 

Designed for both IT professionals and everyday users, the platform is a hands-on solution that helps businesses to make targeted improvements while avoiding the costs and delays associated with software development. 


A powerful toolkit to keep your business moving forward 

Microsoft Power Platform helps organisations to improve their processes by giving their teams the ability to develop their own low-code business tools without the need for specialist IT skills. 

Its five tailor-made tools can create applications, automate repetitive tasks and create intelligent agents, within a governed, enterprise-grade environment that grows alongside their business. 

What are the benefits of Microsoft Power Platform? 

Everyone can be an innovator – Empowers teams to turn their smart ideas into operational reality faster by using Power Platform to create bespoke business solutions themselves, freeing your IT experts to focus on strategic priorities. 

Reduce costs while improving operational efficiency – Optimises your digital transformation spend by delivering business-critical solutions at an optimal level of complexity, preventing unnecessary development effort and improving time-to-value across your portfolio. 

Create one connected view of your business – Breaks down data silos, connects systems and gets business tools working together right across organisations, helping them to make decisions based on consistent, real-time data instead of fragmented insights. 

Scale without losing control – Low-code investments will remain secure, auditable and manageable, no matter how widely they’re used, thanks to Power Platform’s enterprise-grade security, governance and compliance controls.  

Accelerates innovation with AI – AI-powered assistance comes as part of the package, thanks to Microsoft Copilot, helping users to build apps faster, automate complex workflows and reduce repetitive manual tasks. 

Maximises the value of Microsoft investment – Every solution a team builds is seamlessly integrated with other Microsoft products, including  Microsoft Fabric, Azure and Dynamics 365, giving organisations more return on their investment.  

How we can help 

We’re a trusted Microsoft Power Platform partner, delivering the solution by working in partnership with your teams to shape the solution around your business needs and priorities.  

We focus on the outcomes you want to achieve, the organisational changes required and the practical considerations involved in delivering a business-critical system. 

As experienced Power Platform implementation partners, we help you reduce risk and accelerate time to value, whether you’re planning a single implementation or rolling it out across multiple countries.  

Our approach to delivering Microsoft Power Platform typically involves:

  • It’s not easy to know where to start with implementing a solution like Microsoft Power Platform, and, with so many possibilities and use cases, organisations are at risk of investing time in implementing it in areas that deliver little real value. 

    That’s why we run structured envisioning workshops that map your current processes, your surface inefficiencies and will identify how to use Power Platform in a manner which is most likely to deliver meaningful impact.  

    Our deep cross-industry experience and understanding of how the solution works in practice will enable us to draw up a clear, prioritised roadmap which will highlight the right opportunities, sequenced in the right order and with the business case to back them. 

    This will give you a clear understanding of what to expect and the peace of mind that the platform will be implemented according to your business’s individual needs. 

  • We will work alongside your teams to take Power Platform from concept to reality, by building apps, automating workflows and connecting data in ways that genuinely change how your organisation operates. 

    This process is hands-on and collaborative, and we will introduce and explain best practices and demonstrate what is possible along the way, answering queries and addressing specific concerns. 

    The result will be a solution that is tailor-made for you and your teams so that they are confident in what’s been created and how to use it. 

    It will be a solution that fits your organisation, not a generic template retrofitted to your needs. 

  • It’s one thing creating and installing a game-changing solution, but quite another ensuring everyone who will get to use it knows how to use it safely and effectively. 

    We will help you to establish the governance framework and operating model necessary to give business users the tools and freedom to automate their own processes, while giving IT the necessary controls, security standards and oversight they need.  

    We help you define who can build what, how solutions are reviewed and approved, and how your Power Platform environment is structured to stay compliant, manageable, and ready to grow.  

  • Everyone understands the need to move on from legacy systems that have come to the end of their usefulness, but nobody wants a transition process that is disruptive or unnecessary. 

    We can help with this. Not only will we explain why switching to Microsoft Power Platform will represents an upgrade in your existing system, we can help manage the transition without disrupting the operations that depend on the existing technology. 

    We will guide your through the process to ensure continuity, not chaos, bringing the technical and commercial expertise necessary to make modernisation straightforward, not disruptive. 

  • Nobody can reap the benefits of Microsoft Power Platforms if they don’t understand it, and technology can only deliver value when people actually use it. 

    As a result, we place education and adoption at the heart of every implementation, and we believe that no implementation is complete until the solution becomes a lasting, self-sustaining part of how organisation works. 

    We will run training programmes, ranging from introductory workshops and classroom sessions to advanced technical training and one-to-one coaching, ensuring that everyone is up to speed. 

    And we mean everyone, whether they’re a business user taking their first steps with the technology to developers extending the platform's capabilities and all the way to IT teams themselves. 

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Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of low-code tools from Microsoft that enables organisations to build custom applications, automate workflows, analyse data and create intelligent chat experiences - with AI embedded at the heart of every product. 

  • Power Platform is designed for organisations of all sizes where the demand for digital solutions outpaces the capacity of traditional developers to provide them quickly or to a tight budget.  

    It's idea for business owners who want to solve their own operational challenges or make targeted improvements in specific business processes. It also supportsIT teams who want to accelerate their software delivery and leaders looking to benefit from fast and cost-effective digital transformation. 

  • Power Platform and Dynamics 365 are both built on the same underlying infrastructure and data layer, so they work together naturally, rather than needing to be integrated. 

    Businesses can extend and enhance their ERP and CRM capabilities across their entire organisation, whether its finance, sales, customer service or operations, by plugging the Power Platform products into Dynamics 365 and then adapting them so that they work more in line with their needs. 

  • AI is an integral part of Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot is available across the entire platform, helping users to build apps and flows through natural language prompts and generating insights from data in Power BI. 

    It also enables the intelligent agents in Copilot Studio and provides the centralised hub for admins to monitor and configure AI usage across the organisation. 

  • The implementation costs vary widely, depending on a business’s size and the complexity of their operation, and how many of the five products an organisation is looking for. We can help you define a transparent cost range based on your business needs, helping you plan with confidence from the outset. 

Customers

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Customer cases
Beosound A9 5th Gen 0003 (1) B&O's transformation: Driving innovation, efficiency, and luxury experiences

With Columbus as a strategic advisor and implementation partner, B&O has set out on an extensive digital transformation project, taking an integrated approach to innovation, internal processes, and customer experience across all channels.

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Tooled-Up Customer ref Tooled-Up: Utilising Microsoft Power Platform to improve operational efficiency

For over 10 years, Tooled-Up has been a customer of Columbus. In that time, we’ve helped the business drive several improvements across its operations by utilising Microsoft Power Platform

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Redaktører DBA Guide 3 Delivering Advanced CRM Solution to Schibsted Denmark in Record Time

Working with Schibsted Danmark, Columbus implemented Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Finance within six months.

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Randers-1 Randers Tegl getting mobile functions to the frontline fast with Microsoft PowerApps

With PowerApps, Columbus laid the technical foundations for a solution that makes it easier to build new applications and mobile functions – and synchronize data with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.

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Proven expertise tailored to your industry

  • When your margins rely on faster decisions, tighter supply chain management and complex regulatory compliance, effective business improvements are key to success. Working together or on their own, Power Platform’s five products can make the difference, from customised Power Apps giving real-time visibility into inventory to Power Automate improving productivity – and many more besides. 

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  • Shifting consumer expectations, the continued growth of online and omnichannel shopping and intense margins pressure mean retailers can no longer rely on legacy systems – or afford to wait too long for updates. 

    Power Platform can help, by empowering retailers to modernise operations and drive measurable impact, from inventory tracking to frontline empowerment without the need for months of development or a dedicated technical team. 

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  • Microsoft Power Platform is well suited to the demands of the life sciences sector, with Power BI surfacing data-driven insights and Power Automate supporting productivity goals through increased automation for more complex products. 

    At every stage of the process, there’s a tool in the Power Platform toolkit that can help, all within a platform built to enterprise-grade security and compliance standards and fully integrated with the full range of Microsoft products. 

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  • Thin margins, volatile commodity costs, short product shelf lives and multi-site manufacturing operations mean manual processes and disconnected systems are operational liability in the food and drink sector. 

    Microsoft Power Platform can help reduce this risk and boost profit, by helping organisations to build targeted solutions to complex operational challenges quickly and cost-efficiently, representing a significant and immediate commercial advantage. 

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Key takeaways:

  • Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of five low-code products - Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Copilot Studio - that together enable organisations to make targeted improvements without extensive development resource.  
  • By connecting to more than 1,000 pre-built data sources and integrating natively with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure, Power Platform bridges existing systems and eliminates the information silos that slow down decision-making and create unnecessary manual work.  
  • AI is embedded across every product – especially Copilot Studio – meaning users can build solutions faster, automate complex workflows and deploy intelligent agents to handle queries.  

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Fredrik Persson

Vice President CXE Sweden

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