Power Platform in Business Analysis

Power Platform in Business Analysis

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

67 reviews

Beginner level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule

3 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

84%

Most learners liked this course

What you'll learn

Gain insight into the business value of Power Platform.
Identify and describe the core components of Power Platform.
Demonstrate the capabilities and business value of Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents.

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28 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

In this course, you will learn the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform. You will create simple Power Apps, connect data with Microsoft Dataverse, build a Power BI Dashboard, automate a process with Power Automate, and build a chatbot with Power Virtual Agents.

After completing this course, you’ll be able to: • Describe the business value of Power Platform • Identify the core components of Power Platform • Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI • Describe the capabilities of Power Apps • Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents This is a great way to prepare for the Microsoft PL-900 exam. By passing the PL-900 exam, you’ll earn the Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals Certificate.

In this module you will learn about the components of Microsoft Power Platform, the business value for customers, and security of the technology.

What's included

11 videos16 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin

11 videos Total 45 minutes

Introduction to Power Platform in Business Analysis 4 minutes
Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 3 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Platform? 6 minutes
Data connectors 4 minutes
Pulling it all together 3 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse 4 minutes
Understand relationships 3 minutes
Environments in Dataverse 4 minutes
What is Microsoft Power Apps? 4 minutes
What Power Apps can do for you 5 minutes
Introduction to Power Platform: Module summary 5 minutes

16 readings Total 85 minutes

Exam PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals 5 minutes
Course syllabus: Power Platform in Business Analysis 5 minutes
How to be successful in this course 5 minutes
Power BI for Mac users 10 minutes
Custom connectors 5 minutes
Data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and accessibility 5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Microsoft Power Platform: Additional resources 5 minutes
Overview of Dataverse 5 minutes
Business rules 5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Microsoft Dataverse: Additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study: Heathrow Airport 5 minutes
Power Apps: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Power Apps: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the Introduction to Power Platform: Graded assessment 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 84 minutes

Knowledge check: Microsoft Power Platform 18 minutes
Knowledge check: Microsoft Dataverse 18 minutes
Knowledge check: Power Apps 18 minutes
Module Quiz: Power Platform 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

Meet and greet 5 minutes

1 plugin Total 5 minutes

Power Apps in action 5 minutes

Power Apps allows businesses to create custom solutions for everyday problems. In this module, you will learn how to build and customize a canvas app from scratch, and to leverage Power Apps to create model-driven apps.

What's included

10 videos13 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt

10 videos Total 46 minutes

Introduction and learn basic elements 5 minutes
Build a canvas app: Create your account and install 4 minutes
Customize the app 7 minutes
Get started with functions and share an app 7 minutes
Introduction to model-driven apps 3 minutes
Design of model-driven apps 4 minutes
Business logic 3 minutes
Creating model-driven apps 8 minutes
Control security and share model-driven apps 4 minutes
Custom solutions: Module summary 3 minutes

13 readings Total 140 minutes

Generate and Explore the app 5 minutes
Exercise: Build your first canvas app 30 minutes
Practice using functions in Power Apps 5 minutes
Exercise: Practice using functions in Power Apps 30 minutes
Canvas app lesson summary 5 minutes
Canvas app additional resources 5 minutes
Building blocks of model-driven apps 5 minutes
Prepare to create a model-driven app 5 minutes
Exercise: Create a model-driven app 30 minutes
Types of predefined security roles 5 minutes
Model-driven app: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Model-driven app: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the custom solutions graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 84 minutes

Exercise review: Build your first canvas app 6 minutes
Exercise review: Using functions in Power Apps 6 minutes
Knowledge check: How to build a canvas app 18 minutes
Exercise Review: Create a model-driven app 6 minutes
Knowledge check: Model-driven app 18 minutes
Module Quiz: Create custom solutions for everyday problems 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

What canvas app would you like to build next? 5 minutes

Learn how you can use Power Automate to create repeatable business process flows that when triggered leap into action and perform the process for them.

What's included

11 videos9 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt1 plugin

11 videos Total 50 minutes

Introduction to Power Automate 6 minutes
Overview of Power Automate 5 minutes
Introduction and creating a flow from a template 6 minutes
Build recurring flows 4 minutes
Build an approval request: solution walk-through 4 minutes
Customize an approval request 3 minutes
Business process flows 4 minutes
Adding conditions to a business process flow 5 minutes
Adding a business flow to a model driven app 4 minutes
Edit a business process flow 3 minutes
Build an automated solution:Module summary 5 minutes

9 readings Total 95 minutes

Customer case study: TruGreen 5 minutes
Power Automate: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Power Automate: Additional resources 5 minutes
Build a button flow 5 minutes
Exercise: Build an approval request 30 minutes
Exercise: Build a business process flow 30 minutes
Automated solution: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Automated solution: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the automated solution: Graded assessment 5 minutes

5 assignments Total 78 minutes

Knowledge check: Power Automate 18 minutes
Exercise review: Build an approval request 6 minutes
Exercise review: Build a business process flow 6 minutes
Knowledge check: Automated solution 18 minutes
Module Quiz: Build an automated solution 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

How can you use business process flows to create efficiencies? 5 minutes

1 plugin Total 5 minutes

Power Automate in action 5 minutes

Power BI helps business users and developers alike to easily analyze, visualize, and collaborate on data. This module will teach you how to do all of that without effecting your underlying dataset.

What's included

11 videos16 readings6 assignments1 discussion prompt2 plugins

11 videos Total 54 minutes

What is Power BI? 3 minutes
Power BI concepts 5 minutes
Power BI Reports and Dashboards 7 minutes
Data modeling and visualizations 4 minutes
Clean data 6 minutes
Work with Aggregates 7 minutes
Security and administration in Power BI 3 minutes
Introduction and Connect to data 4 minutes
Visualize data 4 minutes
Build a dashboard and collaborate and share 6 minutes
How to build a simple dashboard: Module summary 6 minutes

16 readings Total 140 minutes

Power BI for Mac Users 10 minutes
Install a template app 5 minutes
Types of visualizations in Power BI 5 minutes
Custom visuals 5 minutes
Exercise: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users) 30 minutes
Exemplar: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users) 10 minutes
Power BI: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Additional resources 5 minutes
Customer case study – Miami Heat 5 minutes
Power BI: Security: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Power BI: Security additional resources 5 minutes
Transform data (Optional for MAC users) 5 minutes
Exercise: Build a dashboard 30 minutes
Build a dashboard: Lesson summary 5 minutes
Build a dashboard: Additional resources 5 minutes
About the graded assessment 5 minutes

6 assignments Total 87 minutes

Exercise review: Data modeling and visualizations (Optional for MAC Users) 6 minutes
Knowledge check: Working with data in Power BI 18 minutes
Knowledge check: Power BI: Security, administration 9 minutes
Exercise review: Build a dashboard 6 minutes
Knowledge check: How to build a simple dashboard 18 minutes
Module Quiz: Power BI 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 5 minutes

How will you use dashboards to create a data-driven organization? 5 minutes

2 plugins Total 9 minutes

Miami Heat's amazing transformation with Power BI 3 minutes
Power BI in action 6 minutes

Learn how Power Virtual Agents, will help you publish bots to engage with your customers on multiple platforms or channels. These can include live websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms like Microsoft Teams and Facebook, etc.