Power Platform | Transformation journey with 2021 wave 1 capabilities

And here´s another lift-off – you can now read across the plans around wave 1 for Power Platform and familiarize yourself with all the steps of improvements you would recognize upcoming over the next months.

Lucky us, we could recognize a lot of improvements mapping, what is trending technology regarding earlier post from Gartner. It outlines, the team being on a great mission. Futhermore, let´s not forget about the customer feedback – as an example Power Apps here and seeing the product team improving Governance and Administration capabilities which is clearly one of my favorites this time.

Many customers still asking how to successfully onboard to a low-code platform like Power Platform and where to start their journey. My best advice is around setting up a horizon plan like above to fit your individual goals. Make sure to use repositories like this and get familiar with the CoE Starter Kit.

Additionally, you will then enjoy the new announcements around Governance, Admin- and Security improvements, such as the email exfiltration blocking using SMTP headers which will allow Admins to set up Exchange mail flow rules to monitor or block emails sent by Power Automate and/or Power Apps using the Microsoft 365 Outlook connector. Furthermore, customers been asking for more reporting capabilities will be covered, allowing them to bring their own Azure Data Lake, build custom reports with Power BI and store their data for durations as required.

Cross-Tenant Power Platform isolation with explicit direction control access of connections allowed, will ensure a more flexible and granular way of dealing with data from assembly-line, supply-chain or research in critical industries where some data should be enriched, some data explicitly protected.

And finally, for those using a Microsoft Dataverse database, I am glad to see upcoming modern and intuitive UI inside Admin Center for allowing Admins to scale their security management by managing roles for Groups of users in environments.

What about yours? What´s your favorite of Power Platform Wave 1, 2021. Let me know via Comments or Twitter. Until then happy work on a horizon planning, …