Introduction
Power Platform has constantly been evolving since its release by adding new to improve its functionality. These new features increase security by providing more control to the admins and users and the services’ efficiency.
Let’s look at some of the recent updates and the features included in order to better understand how businesses can benefit from them.
Managed Environments for the Power Platform
Until recently, IT admins in various organizations using Power Platform would have to install the Centre of Excellence starter kit, read the documentation, and deploy governance workflows, making it a lengthy and unnecessary process.
But thanks to the introduction of Managed Environments, now admins can control Power Platform services with less effort while having more control and increased insights simultaneously. It allows organizations to of the status of licenses to Microsoft products to make them aware of license validity.
In addition, the introduction of weekly digest email provides admins with the usage of their Power Platform in their inbox with a single click. This way, Microsoft has taken a leap forward in the ease of usage of Power Platform Services.
Insight Cards
Insight cards for Power Platform introduced by Microsoft give the admin a detailed view of top makers of apps in Power Apps and flow in Power Automate. Moreover, admins can also look at the state of apps and flows, whether they are being and are dormant. This way, they will be better able to understand if there is a need to retire some of them.
App Sharing Controls
App-sharing controls allow admins to control who can use the apps created within the organization. This feature will soon be available for the flows, but it is currently limited to apps.
Inbuilt environments allow having a check on how many people can use an app before being vetted by IT or having prerequisite training for using the app. Custom onboarding experience within the product directs new app makers to the guidelines specified by the organization so that there is a proper check on app development from the beginning.
Solution Checker Tool
In addition to the custom onboarding experience, the solution checker tool, which will be made available soon in the managed environment, can be used to check over app development. It can be customized with dozens of security, performance, and reliability rules to notify you whenever there is a violation.
How Businesses Can Benefit from These Features
With all these features, it is pretty evident Microsoft is focused on providing the admins more control over things such as app development. It also enables them to have a bird’s eye view of all the things being done with Power Platform within the organization. By using all these features, organizations can now have a complete check on their employees and see how everyone is utilizing Power Platform.
Conclusion
Microsoft has been introducing new features to Power Platform since the beginning in order to keep it competitive in the market. These features ease the use of Power Platform and give organizations more control over Power Platform. It is clear that upcoming features will focus more on security and user experience.
