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Harness the Power of SharePoint Online and Power Platforms to Create Powerful Business Solutions

Did you know that according to Microsoft, over 200,000 million users leverage SharePoint? In today’s digital world, efficient collaboration and effective document management are essential for business success — and SharePoint provides everything you need. SharePoint offers a wide range of features and capabilities designed to improve teamwork, productivity, and organizational efficiency. As part of Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online enables numerous businesses to manage digital information with ease. Once you integrate Microsoft Power Platform — a low-code, robust platform comprising Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI — with SharePoint Online, you can take business efficiency and productivity to the next level by crafting powerful solutions to meet numerous business requirements.

Why Utilize SharePoint Online in Your Business?

One major reason why SharePoint Online is a preferred choice among organizations is because of the array of advantages it offers. SharePoint Online provides a centralized space to manage documents, collaborate with teams in an organization, keep track of projects, and share information so easily. SharePoint Online also allows teams to collaborate without any hassle.

Benefits of Using SharePoint

Streamlined Collaboration

SharePoint's collaborative features, such as co-authoring, version history, and real-time document editing, provide teams the opportunity to work together seamlessly; this boosts productivity and innovation.

Efficient Document Management

With SharePoint, you can store, organize, and manage your documents in one place. Version control, document check-in/check-out, metadata tagging, search, and more make it easy to locate and collaborate on your documents.

Increased Productivity

SharePoint’s user-friendly design and integration with popular Microsoft products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint improve user productivity.

Robust Security

SharePoint takes strong security measures to protect sensitive data. With precise permission management, you can set specific levels of access for single users or groups of users. Comprehensive encryption support, data loss prevention, and auditing ensure strong data security and compliance.

Customization and Extensibility

SharePoint can be customized to fit your organization's needs. It offers various ways to achieve this, such as making your own lists, libraries, or workflows. Additionally, developers can create their own apps, web components, and integrations with SharePoint's built-in extensibility.

So, What Is Microsoft Power Platform?

Imagine a platform that consists of robust applications that allow you to craft powerful end-to-end business solutions, automate processes, analyze data, and so much more? In short, Power Platform brings three applications — Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI — to analyze, act, and automate data, allowing its users to create business solutions seamlessly! Let’s discuss each primary application in Power Platform in detail and how users can propel businesses forward by integrating them with SharePoint Online.

Why Utilize SharePoint Online in Your Business?

Microsoft Power Apps enable users to develop custom applications using many features of the Microsoft platform, without worrying about acquiring coding knowledge. By utilizing Power Apps, you can not only create custom apps for your business but also connect them to your business data stored in an underlying data platform, such as SharePoint Online. With the help of SharePoint Online, users can easily build custom forms and applications that smoothly connect with SharePoint lists and libraries — leading to successful automation of business processes, maintaining high-level security, creating bespoke solutions to solve business challenges, and so much more.

Build Custom Apps Using Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps enable users to develop custom applications using many features of the Microsoft platform, without worrying about acquiring coding knowledge. By utilizing Power Apps, you can not only create custom apps for your business but also connect them to your business data stored in an underlying data platform, such as SharePoint Online. With the help of SharePoint Online, users can easily build custom forms and applications that smoothly connect with SharePoint lists and libraries — leading to successful automation of business processes, maintaining high-level security, creating bespoke solutions to solve business challenges, and so much more.

Streamline and Automate Workflows Using Power Automate

Formerly known as Microsoft Flow, Power Automate empowers users to effortlessly create and automate workflows, by smoothly connecting to other data sources, such as Office 365. When running a business, you understand the importance of automating many business processes and functions to better allocate resources and boost productivity. With SharePoint Online, you can easily create workflows to automate tasks, such as document approval, document review, task assignment, and more. You can streamline your everyday work tasks without worries and elevate productivity across teams through the dynamic connection between Power Automate and SharePoint Online.

Analyze Data and Gain Valuable Insights Using Microsoft Power BI

Contemplating how to make important strategic decisions when running your business? Then look no further than Power BI, a resourceful business intelligence tool enabling organizations to analyze, visualize, and share data through user-friendly dashboards and reports. By integrating Power BI with SharePoint Online, you can gain valuable data-driven insights from data stored in SharePoint Online or other business application platforms, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365. You can access a large array of visualizations, analyze business metrics with the dashboard feature, easily create and share important reports across your teams, spend fewer funds, and more. Microsoft Power Platform can be utilized as a robust suite of applications to amplify your businesses to create end-to-end solutions, automate processes, and gain valuable insights. Power Platform comprises several primary applications: Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI. With Power Apps, you can build custom apps without any coding knowledge and seamlessly connect them to SharePoint Online to automate business processes and create effective, bespoke solutions. Power Automate allows the streamlined automation of workflows with the integration of SharePoint Online to automate various tasks. Power BI, a powerful business intelligence tool, can be used for data analysis and visualization, and with SharePoint Online, it provides valuable insights from data stored on various platforms.

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Dilum Fernando

Lead Consultant (SharePoint / Power Platform)

Lead Consultant (SharePoint / Power Platform) Dilum is an engineering professional with over 15 years of experience working in the technology industry. He is a well-experienced SharePoint Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Dilum is skilled in SharePoint Designer, C++, Windows Server, Java, and Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET). He also holds an MBA in Business Administration and Management.