Building Solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform

Chapter 1. Rapid Innovation with the Power Platform

I once solved a critical issue with a business process by pulling a single all-nighter with the Power Platform. I was working for an organization that had one or more off-the-shelf products at its disposal with the ability to capture its workforce’s skill sets, but those products didn’t meet the business’s specific needs and had limitations that the business couldn’t work around. Over the years, the organization had lost track of employees’ unique skills, and it was spending time, money, and effort searching for candidates who could fill niche customer needs while not knowing that it had those skills in-house. The business managed to go on without finding or building a solution to solve the problem until a potential customer asked for very specific information about the team’s experience and the organization could not easily provide it. It was that moment that would spark a change, and that’s when I began working on a solution using the Power Platform.

The potential customer asked the business several questions that should’ve been easy to answer. How many of your employees have experience with the JavaScript framework that we’re using? What is the mix of senior versus junior? How many years of experience do they have? At that point, the sales team members who were working toward landing that business began to scramble. They reached out to human resources, directors, and staff that they were aware of with the skill or a related ...