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Attend the weekly Power Platform Partner Community Call to: Gain in-depth knowledge on the latest Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio & Power Pages technical and partner programmatic updates Learn about opportunities and resources for training and certification Interact, learn, and share with peers and Microsoft SMEs How to Join: Calls take place every Thursday at 8am Pacific Time Download or use the following link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite Don't miss this opportunity to hear the latest Power Platform Technical news from Engineering!Announcing the new Power Pages Partner Growth Plan!
We are excited to announce the new Power Pages Partner Growth Plan is now available to our partners! This plan is designed to nurture an ecosystem of partners to build and grow their Power Pages capabilities, showcase their expertise, solve customer challenges and grow product use and adoption. The plan comprises of three tiers which builds on your Power Pages understandings and expertise. As each tier's requirements are completed, you will unlock a subset of benefits that help you gain exposure to customers and further your Power Pages skillset. Learn more about the plan and how to get started by viewing the attached overview. Questions? Don't hesitate to contact us at email address removed for privacy reasons If you believe you have met all requirements, beginning with the Base tier, and would like to nominate your organization for consideration, please complete the following survey at: https://aka.ms/PowerPagesPartnerTech Talks Presents: Enterprise Application Templates | Thursday, July 20th 8am PT
Join us on Thursday, July 20th at 8am Pacific time as Jon Gilman, Director, Power Platform Enterprise Solutions and Kavishi Agarwal, Principal Product Manager, Power Apps, share the new Enterprise Application Templates for Power Platform. These new templates are not training tools for beginners — they are designed to be accelerators for rapid transformation in production. They connect to enterprise systems like SAP and Microsoft Dataverse, showcase great user experiences, and are directly based on apps that are already successfully deployed inside Microsoft and other global customers. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereIntelligent Automation Specialization now live!
Today, we have announced a new specialization for Business Applications – Intelligent Automation. This new specialization allows partners to differentiate their business by demonstrating expert capabilities delivering end-to-end business process transformation for customers with Power Automate. Aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program, specializations are a way for partners to further differentiate their deep technical expertise across a set of priority scenarios with high customer demand. They build upon Solutions Partner designations and other certifications to set you apart from the competition and empower customers to confidently identify your ability to deliver results. Intelligent Automation specialization CIOs are looking for partners they can trust to help them identify which processes to prioritize for transformation and to deliver efficient, effective, and secure end-to-end process automation with Power Automate. This specialization allows partners with an active Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) or Business Applications designation to validate your organization’s capabilities in enabling end-to-end business process transformation. Earning a specialization serves to validate your skills, assuring customers that you can meet their specific needs. In areas with high demand, it can also be a key differentiator in helping customers identify your solutions as the right fit. Specializations come with prioritization in the commercial marketplace and evaluation for active cooperative selling opportunities with Microsoft field sellers. You can further communicate your expertise with a customer-facing badge to display on your business profile in the Microsoft AppSource partner gallery. Upon earning a specialization, you will also gain access to incremental product benefits to further accelerate your business. Take Action: Visit your dashboard in Partner Center to view the requirements of each specialization against your relative achievement. As soon as you have met the requirements, you will be automatically enrolled.Tech Talks Presents: A Power Automate two-part call - Hosted Machines and Actions SDK | July 6th
Join us on Thursday, July 6th at 8am Pacific time for a Power Automate two-part call presented by Ken Seong Tan, Sr. Product Manager and James Papadimitriou, Sr Product Manager. Power Automate Hosted Machines Join us for a live session on Power Automate hosted RPA, where we will empower RPA users to build, test, and run automation at scale without the need for your own infrastructure. Using Microsoft hosted infrastructure running in Azure, Power Automate hosted RPA empowers our customers to run RPA quickly and at scale while freeing up resources and reducing costs. We will walkthrough the two support scenarios: Individual hosted machines: enable developers to build or test automation and business users to run automation. Hosted machine groups: automatically scale workloads to optimize unattended automation in production, delivering improved business process continuity and governance at scale. Actions SDK Now developers can build, use, and manage custom actions in Power Automate for desktop through a publicly available SDK. The actions SDK will help organizations accelerate development by allowing a repository of custom actions that can integrate to homegrown applications and common workflows. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/Build2023/PowerAutomate/ActionsSDK-Docs. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Copilot in Power Pages | June 29th
Join us on Thursday, June 29th at 8am Pacific time as Priya Vaidyanathan, Principal PM Program Manager shares Copilot in Power Pages. Copilot in Power Pages is the latest in Power Platform AI innovation, allowing makers to use natural language input to generate text copy, build business data-centric forms, create web page layouts, activate chatbots, and enable site design themes in seconds for rapid visual setup and customization. Now available for public preview. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereNew application templates for Power Platform!
Last week, we unveiled the public preview of new application templates for Power Platform. This offers a game-changing opportunity for partners to deliver end-to-end solutions, simplifying and automating core enterprise processes with low-code applications. The preliminary launch focuses on Finance and Human Resources templates, revolutionizing how partners deliver initial value quickly. Discover more about these innovative templates and unlock new possibilities for your business here.Tech Talks Presents: Generative Answers in Power Virtual Agent | June 15th
Join us on Thursday, June 15th at 8am Pacific time as Dewain Robinson, Principal Program Manager shares the latest updates with Generative Answers in Power Virtual Agents. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Announcing Public Preview of canvas built-in offline
Join us on Thursday, June 8th at 8am Pacific Time as Tristan Dehove, Senior Product Manager, shares the public preview of canvas built-in offline. Do you want to learn how you can easily enable your Dataverse-centric canvas Power Apps for offline scenarios with simple switches and a simple canvas control. There is no need to use Power Fx SaveData/LoadData functions or manage offline data with complex collection schemes. Just build your app with normal Power Fx formulas and the offline feature handles all the complexity for you. We hope you'll join us to learn more! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Power Platform Prompt Library | June 1st
Are you wanting to leverage some of the new generative AI capabilities in the Power Platform but you’re not quite sure how to get started? Join April Dunnam, Principal Cloud Advocate on Thursday, June 1st at 8am PT, as she shares the new Power Platform Prompt Library and how it can help you get ideas for how to use generative AI in the Power Platform. Plus, you’ll learn how to contribute to the repo and share your favorite prompts. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereFREE European Power Platform Conference Passes for Partners and Customers | June 20-22, 2023
Customer Pass Requests: Nominate a customer for a chance to receive up to two (2) complimentary 3-day customer passes for the upcoming European Power Platform Conference. Nominate your customer for a free pass here Ticket value: €1150/+ VAT Requirements: Customer must have a Q4 Power Platform opportunity. (If the opportunity is for Q5, we need size and good explanation) Deal size 300K+ Customer has a high renewal risk Restrictions: This is a conference pass only - workshops/hotel/flights and other expenses are not included. Please limit submissions to one per customer. Multiple submissions permitted. Each submission does not guarantee a free pass. The submitter will receive an email if successful. Each partner may request multiple codes for their customers who meet the criteria Partner Pass Requests: Ticket value: €1150/+ VAT Restrictions: T&E will need to be covered by the recipient/partner Limit 1 code per partner organization A submission does not guarantee a free pass We will reserve approval until your customer has registered/utilized the code provided to them Request Partner pass here Learn more: https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-power-platform-conference Privacy Statement: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839Business Applications Partner Alert
Microsoft Build May 23-25 Summary Event Overview Microsoft Power Platform will be featured prominently at Microsoft Build – Microsoft’s flagship developer event kicking off on May 23. Microsoft will be landing key news through a set of executive-delivered keynotes as well as breakout sessions, discussion opportunities, demonstrations, hands-on labs and expert meet ups. The list of announcements and disclosures below highlights Microsoft’s competitive differentiation and market momentum across Power Platform—advancements that will allow every organization to innovate with collaborative applications and low code. And if you haven’t already registered, there is still time to register for the event. Product Announcements For an overview of the top highlights, review Charles Lamanna’s blog post The future of app development with Power Platform. Power Platform catalog in Managed Environments To further enhance developer productivity in the Power Platform, Managed Environments now comes with the ability to have a catalog of your enterprise-approved templates and components. Professional developers can publish artifacts such as apps, flows, and bots for their organization to use in their own solutions using the PAC CLI and GitHub actions. With every new component in the catalog, the benefits are cumulative to the entire organization – increasingly reducing time and cost for each new solution. Power Platform developer hub The developer hub in Power Platform is a new hub that helps code-first developers quickly learn and onboard to Power Platform. It offers a single starting point to establish a developer environment using videos and guided walk-throughs so a developer can watch the process and then try for themselves to get started building their own apps faster. Power Pages: Copilot in Power Pages (public preview) Copilot in Power Pages is the latest in Power Platform AI innovation, allowing makers to use natural language input to generate text copy, build business data-centric forms, create web page layouts, activate chatbots, and enable site design themes in seconds for rapid visual setup and customization. Now available for public preview. Instead of spending hours crafting and coding websites, use natural language and intelligent suggestions to speed up your website building process. Start building today with Copilot in Power Pages and help your organization increase productivity and rapidly build websites your customers will love, at-scale, all securely managed on Microsoft Power Platform. Power Virtual Agents: Generative Actions (limited technology preview) Using the generative actions capability, Power Virtual Agents can automate bot responses with action. Rather than manually building every action for the bot, bot makers can expose their tools to the bot (like tenant APIs, enterprise specific Power Automate Flows or more), which PVA can automatically chain together to produce responses and even ask users for additional information. With the generative actions tracing canvas, builders can monitor the bot's process and question generation. Power Virtual Agents: CLU (Azure Bring your own custom language model) (public preview) With the public preview of Azure conversational language understanding (CLU) integration with Power Virtual Agents, developers can bring their own custom language models to their bots allowing builders to go beyond Power Virtual Agents out of the box natural language model and build or reuse CLU models they have trained previously. This integration allows developers to create and map CLU intents and entities to Power Virtual Agents topics and be used alongside Power Virtual Agents prebuilt entities for all supported languages, with support of dialogue triggering, interruptions, “did you mean” and slot filling. Power Virtual Agents: Generative Answers – New enhancements (public preview) Power Virtual Agents generative answers capabilities (Also known as conversation boosters) expands to include multiple knowledge sources – external sites, documents, internal Sharepoint sites, or a combination of these – and instantly have rich, multi-turn conversations over that knowledge, available in Public Preview. This also includes a new generative answers node which allows more granular use of generative answers by topic, vs all up fallback. If you have an Azure OpenAI Service instance for your company data, you can hook it up for PVA to use with a few clicks, allowing your bots full access to those capabilities. Invite customers to try out generative answers now with a simple demo bot (aka.ms/pvademo) - just add in your company website and start chatting. Power Automate: Actions SDK (public preview) Now developers can build, use, and manage custom actions in Power Automate for desktop through a publicly available SDK. The actions SDK will help organizations accelerate development by allowing a repository of custom actions that can integrate to homegrown applications and common workflows. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/Build2023/PowerAutomate/ActionsSDK-Docs Power Automate: Copilot (public preview) Alongside a new cloud flow designer is the public preview of Copilot in Power Automate. Building off the foundations of the describe it to design it feature which uses natural language to accelerate creation of automation, these two unified experiences enable developers to work smarter – not harder – with the power of AI. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/Build2023/PowerAutomate/Copilot-Docs Power Automate: Work queues (public preview) Work queues are an essential part of digital workforce management, which involves managing and optimizing the use of digital workers, such as software robots, and distributing prioritized work effectively across automations and available resources. Work queues help prioritize work items, with the highest-priority items being completed first, regardless of whether they're processed by digital workers, human workers, or through integrations. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/Build2023/PowerAutomate/WorkQueues-Docs Power Automate: Hosted machines (generally available) Earlier this year we announced the preview of hosted machines and general availability of hosted machine groups with the hosted RPA add-on for Power Automate. Now, hosted machines is generally available. This groundbreaking approach to running RPA bots at scale takes the weight off IT for setting up and managing virtual machines by letting Microsoft do the work for you with hosted infrastructure. To learn more, visit https://aka.ms/Build2023/PowerAutomate/HostedMachines-Docs Power Apps: Copilot enhancements Copilot in Power Apps can now build complex multi-screen apps and turn unstructured inputs into structured data. These advancements include the ability to use Copilot to add and edit any screen or mainline control to an app; the ability to understand unstructured Excel files as inputs and turn them into structured data; and the ability for developers to add an advanced Copilot control to model apps for end users that can reason over all the data in their application. While makers have already seen the power of Copilot in creating and editing tables, this new iteration can interpret unstructured data and create complex multi-screen applications through the power of natural language. Dataverse: Excel to App Excel to App enables citizen developers to build an app on their Excel data, by dragging and dropping or copying a link to their Excel spreadsheet into Dataverse. From there, Copilot in Power Apps generates a Dataverse table for makers and a Canvas app on top of their data, which makers can immediately start to customize. Call to Action Register for Microsoft Build Read the Charles Lamanna’s Blog post - The future of app development with Power Platform Review the Product Blogs for announcements in each area: Power Apps: Power Apps is putting the code back in low-code by supercharging productivity for professional developers with next-generation AI Power Automate: New ways to develop and orchestrate automation with Power Automate Power Pages: Revolutionize business websites with next-gen AI in Power Pages Power Virtual Agents: Reinvent your AI assistants with generative answers, actions and more in Power Virtual Agents Dataverse: Securely Hyperscale Low Code Apps with ease using Microsoft Dataverse Join the new Microsoft Partner Community platform to stay connectedTech Talks Presents: Power Platform - what's new and what's coming | May 18th
Join us on Thursday, May 18th at 8am Pacific Time as Ken Auguillard, Principal Program Manager, shares what's new and what's coming in Power Platform governance, security, compliance, and risk management. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: New Power Platform Adoption Assessment | May 11th
Join us on Thursday, May 11th at 8am PT as Steve Jeffery, Principal Program Manager-Power CAT, shares the new Power Platform Adoption Assessment. This assessment is designed to identify opportunities to optimize and streamline efforts, share best practices and other recommendations for how an organization can adopt low code. Assessments | Power Platform Adoption Assessment (microsoft.com) We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereTech Talks Presents: Power Platform In a Day program updates | May 4th
Join us on Thursday, May 4th at 8am PT as Nikolina Kvesic, Senior Program Manager gives a general overview of the In a Day program, new updates, and featured partner showcase/success stories. We hope you'll join us! Call to Action: Click on the link to save the calendar invite: https://aka.ms/TechTalksInvite View past recordings (sign in required): https://aka.ms/TechTalksRecording Get started with the adoption tools hereNew Power Platform In a Day Train the Trainer events!
Are you a Microsoft partner who is interested in delivering a Power Platform In a Day customer workshop? If so, we are happy to announce eight (8) new virtual Train the Trainer sessions have been scheduled for the following workshops: Dashboard in a Day – June 2 (CST -6), June 9 (CEST +1) App in a Day – June 7 (CST -6), June 13 (CEST +1) RPA in a Day – May 25 (CST -6), June 1 (CEST +1) PVA in a Day – June 26 (CST -6), June 29 (CEST +1) CTA→: If you are a Microsoft partner and interested in delivering an upcoming customer event, please complete this form to secure your spot in the Train the Trainer event. For more information on how you can get introduced to new customers and build your brand by delivering these workshops, please visit https://aka.ms/XIADPartnerOpportunity or contact the program team directly at xiadevents@microsoft.com
