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.
- 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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