Copilot helps you plan out solutions to business problems
Important
Some of the functionality described in this release plan has not been released. Delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy). Learn more: What's new and planned
Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
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Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | - | Sep 2025 |
Business value
There can be a lot of legwork involved in detailing solutions to a business problem before you start to create apps, flows, and other objects that will solve your users' needs. Copilot is well versed in common solution architecture patterns and can take advantage of other sources such as images to add to the context of the problem. Copilot can help you create user roles, define role-specific requirements, and suggest data schema, apps, and other objects that would come together as a solution to the proposed business problem. You can collaborate with Copilot, iterating over user roles, requirements, schema, and objects to ensure the final solution is a great start for the business.
Feature details
Creating solutions to address business needs involves more than just developing an app. Solutions are a collection of objects from across the Power Platform that store data, provide end-user apps, and automate workflows. Regardless of the technology used to solve a business problem, the first step to success is defining your solution architecture to support various user roles and their requirements. This ensures you can build a solution that benefits your business. Copilot can now assist with detailing the scenario and requirement definitions, such as user roles, user requirements, data schemas to support data, and creating an overall solution architecture through proposed objects.
- Scenario and requirement definition: Begin with a description of your business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution.
- Data modelling: Once aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram.
- Solution architecture: Copilot will recommend the types of apps and automation that will fit the requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include canvas and model-driven apps, as well as cloud flows in Power Automate.
During the early phase of the public preview, these Copilot skills are off by default. To access these features, simply turn on the Try the new Power Apps experience toggle on the Power Apps home page. This will allow you to create and manage your plans.