Why Microsoft's 'Power Platform' is one of its biggest bets for 2019 and beyond

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Why Microsoft's 'Power Platform' is one of its biggest bets for 2019 and beyond

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For the past few years, Microsoft has been developing and rolling out pieces of what it now calls its "Power Platform" in relative isolation. Power BI, its business analytics platform; Flow, its workflow-automation engine; and PowerApps, its associated app-development platform -- together known as the Power Platform -- has been mostly the domain of Dynamics 365 users. This is about to change, starting this year. Microsoft is planning a big push to make the Power Platform its unified extensibility framework across not just Dynamics ERP/CRM, but also Microsoft 365 -- its Windows 10, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security subscription bundle. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella explained the latest Power Platform positioning to a select group of journalists and analysts earlier this week on its Redmond campus. (I read his remarks for $10, the cost of obtaining a transcript available through a one-time payment for The Stratechery newsletter.) MARY JO FOLEY READ MORE