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Automation & Power Platform

Automate workflows, build custom applications, and integrate systems with Power Platform. Reduce manual work without creating ungoverned shadow IT.

Automation and Power Platform services

Manual Processes Are Holding You Back

Your teams spend hours on tasks that should take minutes. Approvals sit in inboxes, data gets re-keyed between systems, and spreadsheets hold together processes that should be automated.

Email-Based Approvals

Approval requests live in email threads. Things get lost, delayed, or approved by the wrong person. There's no audit trail.

Spreadsheet Workflows

Critical processes run on spreadsheets passed between people. Data gets corrupted, versions conflict, and nobody knows what's current.

System Silos

Data lives in multiple systems that don't talk to each other. Staff manually copy information between applications.

Shadow IT Risk

Teams have built their own solutions—Access databases, personal Power Apps. IT doesn't know what exists, and security is questionable.

Custom Development Backlog

Every business request goes to IT and joins a queue. Simple applications take months to deliver, if they get prioritised at all.

The Cost of Getting It Wrong

  • Hours lost daily to manual tasks
  • Errors from manual data entry
  • Compliance risks from ungoverned solutions
  • Frustrated staff doing repetitive work
  • Slow response to business needs

Power Platform Components

A suite of low-code tools that work together to automate, build, and analyse—all integrated with Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Power Apps

Build custom applications

Create mobile and web apps without traditional coding. Canvas apps for pixel-perfect UI, model-driven apps for complex business processes.

Common Use Cases

Inspection formsAsset managementEmployee onboardingRequest systems

Power Automate

Automate workflows

Replace manual, repetitive tasks with automated processes. Cloud flows, desktop flows (RPA), and business process flows.

Common Use Cases

Approval workflowsDocument generationData syncLegacy integration

Power Pages

External-facing portals

Build secure, external-facing websites that interact with your business data. Enable customers and partners to self-serve.

Common Use Cases

Customer portalsPartner registrationService requestsGrant applications

Copilot Studio

Intelligent chatbots

Build virtual agents that answer questions and automate conversations. Integrate with generative AI for intelligent responses.

Common Use Cases

IT help deskHR FAQsCustomer serviceKnowledge assistants

Dataverse - The Foundation

Secure, scalable data platform underlying Power Platform. Provides relational data storage with role-based security, business rules, calculated fields, and seamless integration with Dynamics 365.

What Can You Automate?

From simple approval workflows to complex business processes—here's what organisations are building with Power Platform.

Approval Workflows

Replace email-based approvals with tracked, auditable workflows. Leave requests, expenses, document approvals with full history.

Data Collection Apps

Replace paper forms and spreadsheets with mobile-friendly apps. Inspections, audits, surveys—data captured correctly first time.

System Integration

Connect systems that don't talk to each other. Sync data between applications, eliminate manual re-keying, reduce errors.

Employee Self-Service

Empower employees to complete tasks without IT. Onboarding, training tracking, asset requests—all in one place.

Customer Portals

Give customers and partners self-service access. Submit requests, track status, access documents—reduce support load.

Intelligent Assistants

Deploy chatbots that answer common questions. IT support, HR policies, process guidance—24/7 availability.

How We Deliver Automation

We implement Power Platform with governance built in—enabling business teams to solve problems quickly while IT maintains control and visibility.

1

Discover

Identify high-value automation candidates, map current processes, assess existing usage, prioritise by impact and complexity.

2

Design

Design application and workflow architecture, plan integrations, define governance and security model.

3

Build

Develop Power Apps, build Power Automate workflows, configure connectors, implement security and DLP policies.

4

Enable

Train users and citizen developers, establish Center of Excellence, configure monitoring, transition to operations.

Integration & Connectivity

Power Platform connects to hundreds of applications and services—from Microsoft 365 to third-party systems and custom APIs.

Power Platform

Power AppsPower AutomatePower PagesCopilot StudioDataverse

Microsoft 365 Connectors

SharePointOutlookTeamsOneDrivePlanner

Business Connectors

Dynamics 365SalesforceSAPServiceNowCustom APIs

AI & Copilot

AI BuilderDocument ProcessingText ClassificationCopilot Assistance

Governance

DLP PoliciesEnvironment StrategyCoE Starter KitALM & DevOps