Microsoft''s Power Platform allows users and organizations to act on the data to digitally transform their businesses by analysing data with Power BI, creating solutions with Power Apps, automating processes with Power Automate, and creating virtual agents.
At Build 2022, the latest addition to the Power Platform, Power Pages, was announced.
Power Pages is a low-key, development, and hosting platform that is perfect for developing business-focused websites.
Power Platform "new" announcements
Here''s a look at all of the new technologies and announcements for Microsoft Ignite 2022:
Power Automate has added a new AI feature that deciphers natural vocabulary for users to describe what they want to automate, and AI will select what you want to automate according to your own verbal description. Note that not all features are yet available:
Power Pages
Power Pages is being upgraded by Microsoft to provide additional templates as well as an enhanced design studio. Here''s a list of all the features that will be available on Power Pages:
Design Studiohelpsmakers to design multi-step forms in a seamless and effortless way, without code, all within the Design Studio. Makers will also be able to add custom cascading style sheets (CSS), preview site pages on different screen sizes and control when changes go live when publishing sites.
Templates Hubenables 16 new template options. Instead of starting from scratch, users can easily customize the look and feel, model data and extend functionality to solve common industry-specific use cases, including building permits, after-school registrations and meeting scheduling, and extend to Dynamics 365 customer and partner scenarios.
Learn Hubnow includes a tutorials section with videos, documents and resources to guide users through site experiences.
Pro-developer toolshave been updated to empower makers to use best-in-class Visual Studio (VS) Code Web to edit source code for page content (HTML and Liquid), page styles (CSS) and page scripts (JavaScript).
Security and governanceupdates include turn-key integration with Azure Web Application Firewall, content delivery network (CDN) support with Azure Front Door, support for custom domains and added support for new Microsoft Dataverse data types for makers and professional developers.
When changes go live when publishing sites, Design Studio assists designers in drafting multi-step forms in a smooth and effortless way, without code.
Templates Hub has 16 new template options. Instead of starting from scratch, users may easily customize the look and feel, model data, and expand functionality to address common industry specific use cases, including building permits, after-school registrations, and meeting scheduling, as well as customizing Dynamics 365 customer and partner scenarios.
Learn Hubnow is providing a series of tutorials that will enthuse users through web experiences.
Pro-developer tools have been created to enable developers to use the best-in-class Visual Studio (VS) Code Web to edit source code for page content (HTML and Liquid), page styles (CSS) and page scripts (JavaScript).
Updates on security and governance include a turn-key integration with Azure Web Application Firewall, content delivery network (CDN) support with Azure Front Door, custom domain support, and added support for new Microsoft Dataverse data types for developers and professionals.
All within the Design Studio, designers will be able to create multi-step forms in a seamless and effortless manner, without code. Makers will also be able to add custom cascading style sheets (CSS), preview site pages on different screen sizes and control when changes go live when publishing sites.
Templates Hub has 16 new template options. Rather than starting from scratch, users may easily customize the look and feel, model data, and extend functionality to solve common industry-specific use cases, including building permits, after-school registrations and meeting scheduling, and extend to Dynamics 365 customer and partner scenarios.
Learn Hubnow has a website page with videos, documents, and resources to assist users through site interactions.
Pro-developer tools have been updated to enable makers to utilize the best-in-class Visual Studio (VS) Code Web to create source code for page content (HTML and Liquid), page styles (CSS) and page scripts (JavaScript).
Security and governanceupdates include a turn-key integration with Azure Web Application Firewall, content delivery network (CDN) support with Azure Front Door, custom domain customization, and additional support for new Microsoft Dataverse data types for makers and professional developers.
Licensing modelsimplifies the model from daily sign ins and page views to monthly authenticated and anonymous users. Power Pages will be available through pre-paid, capacity-based subscriptions and pay-as-you-go meters.
Licensing models simplify the model from daily sign ins and page views to monthly authenticated and anonymous users. Power Pages will be available via pre-paid, capacity-based subscriptions, and pay-as-you-go meters.
Licensing models simplify the model from daily sign ins and page views to monthly authenticated and anonymous users. Power Pages will be available through pre-paid, capacity-based subscriptions and pay-as-you-go meters.
As these features remain "in preview," it''s difficult to anticipate when Microsoft will make them available. Instead of presenting a list of features "coming soon," Microsoft would prefer that you contact the Microsoft Media and Analyst Events Team.
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