Content type: Announcements
Return to the workplace with confidence with the Power Platform
There is no standard handbook for reopening a business during a global pandemic. Each organization faces the daunting task of minimizing risk in conference rooms, factory floors, storefronts, and more to ensure the safety of every employee and customer.
Imagine, build, and deploy solutions with Microsoft Power Platform
Currently, 97 percent of the Fortune 500 uses the Microsoft Power Platform in many remarkable ways. Today, I want to share a solution developed by GSK, which is part of the global Fortune 500 and one of the world’s leading healthcare companies.
Rapid application development with Microsoft Power Platform & Azure
On the kickoff of Build, we have an incredible 31 sessions covering Power Platform and Azure. This volume of sessions at a professional developer conference is a turning point for the Power Platform, so I wanted to take a moment and reflect on this growing fusion of low-code and code-first development.
Power Virtual Agents & Bot Framework – enabling everyone to build intelligent chatbots
Power Virtual Agents is Microsoft’s intuitive, graphical, fully-hosted chatbot development platform that empowers everyone – from subject matter experts to professional developers – to easily create and maintain chatbots.
Microsoft acquires Softomotive to expand low-code robotic process automation capabilities in Microsoft Power Automate
Today, we are announcing the acquisition of Softomotive, a world-leading provider of robotic process automation (RPA) with over 15 years of experience and the creator of WinAutomation.
Announcing Power Platform and Teams updates to help customers adapt to remote work
Modernizing critical business processes and enabling new ways of working The COVID-19 pandemic upended the operations of companies around the world, forcing many to shift to remote work, often for the first time. Individuals had to quickly adapt to new ways of working, and business leaders have worked to prioritize the well-being of their employees.
Emergency Response solution: A Microsoft Power Platform solution for healthcare emergency response
As the COVID-19 crisis escalated earlier this month, we released a Microsoft Power Platform solution for managing communications across an organization. Thousands of customers have since employed that solution, and many have reached out to ask for additional help in their response to the global pandemic.
Microsoft Power Automate adds robotic process automation in April
In case you missed our announcement at Ignite 2019, we launched the preview of UI flows, the new robotic process automation (RPA) capability in Microsoft Power Automate. Today we’re announcing that UI flows will be generally available worldwide on April 2. Power Automate already helps hundreds of thousands of organizations automate millions of processes every day.
2020 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available
Today, we published the 2020 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between April and September 2020. The new features and enhancements demonstrate our continued investment to power digital transformation for our customers and partners.
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform timeline for the 2020 release wave 1
Key dates for the upcoming release wave As the business environment rapidly changes, we’re dedicated to proactively delivering new capabilities to enable our customers and partners to drive toward strong business outcomes. We deliver these capabilities through two release waves per year.