Azure and Power Platform scenarios
Power Platform provides tools for analyzing data, building solutions, automating processes, and creating virtual agents. Power Platform includes these products:
- Power BI. Enable your employees to generate data-driven insights.
- Power Apps. Enable anyone to build custom apps.
- Power Automate. Give everyone the ability to automate organizational processes.
- Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents). Build chatbots to engage with your customers and employees—no coding required.
This article provides summaries of solutions and architectures that use Power Platform together with Azure services.
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Solutions across Azure and Power Platform
The following articles provide detailed analysis of solutions that feature integration between Azure and Power Platform.
Power Platform (general)
| Architecture | Summary | Technology focus |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen AI with Power Platform | Learn how to use Azure Machine Learning and Power Platform to quickly create a machine learning proof of concept and a production version. | AI |
| Custom business processes | Deploy portals that use Power Apps to automate manual or paper-based processes and provide rich user experiences. Use Power BI to generate reports. | Integration |
| Modern data warehouse for small and medium businesses | Use Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Data Lake Storage to modernize legacy and on-premises data. This solution integrates easily with Power Platform. | Analytics |
| Virtual health on Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare | Develop a virtual health solution by using Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. This solution uses Power Apps to host a patient portal and store data, Power BI for reporting, and Power Automate to trigger notifications. | Web |
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Power Apps
| Architecture | Summary | Technology focus |
|---|---|---|
| Custom business processes | Deploy portals that use Power Apps to automate manual or paper-based processes and provide rich user experiences. | Integration |
| Eventual consistency between multiple Power Apps instances | Handle dependent data in a resilient way in Power Apps. | Web |
| Line of business extension | Modernize legacy systems by automating processes. Schedule calculations, connect to third-party data sources or legacy systems, and process and share data. Power Apps retrieves the data, and Power BI provides reporting. | Integration |
| Web and mobile front ends | Accelerate development by using a visual designer. Use Azure Functions for low-latency processing and Power Apps and Power Automate for out-of-the-box connectors. | Integration |
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Power Automate
| Architecture | Summary | Technology focus |
|---|---|---|
| Extract text from objects using Power Automate and AI Builder | Use AI Builder and Azure Form Recognizer in a Power Automate workflow to extract text from images. The text can be used for indexing and retrieval. | AI |
| Power Automate deployment at scale | Learn how to use a hub-and-spoke architectural model to deploy Power Automate parent and child flows. | Integration |
| Web and mobile front ends | Accelerate development by using a visual designer. Use Azure Functions for low-latency processing and Power Apps and Power Automate for out-of-the-box connectors. | Integration |
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Power BI
| Architecture | Summary | Technology focus |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical insights with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare | Gather insights from clinical and medical data by using Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Power BI reports provide insights on healthcare metrics. | Web |
| Data analysis for regulated industries | Learn about an architecture that you can use for data analysis workloads in regulated industries. The architecture includes ETL/ELT and Power BI. | Analytics |
| Forecast energy and power demand | Forecast spikes in demand for energy products and services by using Azure Machine Learning and Power BI. | AI |
| HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-compliant health data AI | Store, manage, and analyze HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-compliant health data and medical records with a high level of built-in security. Power BI provides data visualization. | Serverless |
| Intelligent apps using Azure Database for MySQL | Use Azure Database for MySQL to develop sophisticated machine learning and visualization apps that provide analytics and information that you can act on. Power BI provides visualization and data analysis. | Databases |
| Intelligent apps using Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Use Azure Database for PostgreSQL to develop sophisticated machine learning and visualization apps that provide analytics and information that you can act on. Power BI provides visualization and data analysis. | Databases |
| IoT using Azure Cosmos DB | Scale instantly and elastically to accommodate diverse and unpredictable IoT workloads without sacrificing ingestion or query performance. Use Power BI to analyze warehoused data. | IoT |
| Line of business extension | Modernize legacy systems by automating processes. Schedule calculations, connect to third-party data sources or legacy systems, and process and share data by using Power BI. | Integration |
| Loan charge-off prediction with HDInsight Spark | Learn how lending institutions can use Azure HDInsight and machine learning to predict the likelihood of loans getting charged off. Power BI provides a visualization dashboard. | Databases |
| Loan credit risk and default modeling | Learn how SQL Server 2016 R Services can help lenders issue fewer unprofitable loans by predicting borrower credit risk and default probability. Power BI provides a dashboard to help lenders make decisions based on the predictions. | Databases |
| Medical data storage solutions | Store healthcare data effectively and affordably with cloud-based solutions from Azure. Manage medical records with the highest level of built-in security. Power BI provides data analysis. | Storage |
| Modern analytics architecture with Azure Databricks | Create a modern analytics architecture that uses Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage, Power BI, and other Azure services. Unify data, analytics, and AI workloads at any scale. | Analytics |
| Predict length of stay and patient flow | Predict capacity and patient flow for your healthcare facility so that you can enhance the quality of care and improve operational efficiency. Power BI provides a dashboard to help you make decisions based on the predictions. | AI |
| Predict the length of stay in hospitals | Predict length of stay for hospital admissions to enhance care quality and operational workload efficiency and reduce re-admissions. Power BI provides data visualization. | Analytics |
| Predictive insights with vehicle telematics | Learn how car dealerships, manufacturers, and insurance companies can use Azure to gain predictive insights on vehicle health and driving habits. Power BI provides data visualizations for reporting. | AI |
| Project 15 Open Platform | Use Internet of Things technologies with the Project 15 Open Platform to accelerate innovation in species tracking, ecosystem monitoring, and other areas. Power BI provides visualization. | IoT |
| Quality assurance | Build a quality assurance system that collects data and improves productivity by identifying potential problems in a manufacturing pipeline before they occur. Use Power BI to visualize real-time operational dashboards. | AI |
| Serverless computing solution for LOB apps | Build and run customer onboarding applications without managing or maintaining infrastructure. Improve developer productivity with this serverless architecture. Power BI is used to store customer information. | Serverless |
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