Turning a startup into a giant enterprise is something that only a few people succeed at. The challenges have been evolving for the entrepreneurs, starting from branding to marketing - hurdles are there in every step. Moderns technologies while easing things up, we, in Bangladesh - often times lag in adopting them.
Microsoft - this giant corporation has gifted the world amazing tools like Excel - Powerpoint, but how much do we know about the rest of the services? What about our literacy on Dynamics 365, Power Bi or Power Automate?
Microsft Power Platform comes up with 3 amazing tools (i) Power Automate (ii) Power Apps (iii) Power BI - and all of them can boost your business with a huge contrast from not-so-techy local competitors you have. Cherry on top - these are low code - no code platforms which hardly require you to have coding knowledge. So - welcome aboard! Time to press the 4th gear!
Power Automate: Previously known as MS Flow , this tool gives you the experience of having a bot in your business software tools. Here are some template automated tasks from “Event & Calendar” category.
Image: Microsoft Power Automate Templates - “Event & Calendar”
If you put your brand videos on youtube , you need to share them on social media, right ? But Power Automate does them for you - sharing your video on Facebook , Twitter , LInkedIn and it can sync with your Instagram as well - saving a bunch of time.
There are 300 connectors in Power Automate by now - which means you can sync with 300 services on the internet starting from Google, Facebook, Github to Blockchain , Twitter or Wordpress.There are some common customizable templates to work with and if you find your suitable one is not there , go and make your own - and trust me you will find it way too easy.
Power App : Congratulations app developer ! Create your own low code - no code mobile application for your business.
Microsoft excel or Google Spreadsheet is used in the startups - but the mobile version of them isn't quite comfortable one as we have to touch the cells cautiously - this problem is solved via Power App where you would a have a mobile app taking input of some fields of data, then they would add a row in excel sheet and data would be placed in proper cell. Whoa! Easy and Simple!
You can create backend apps for your enterprise, chatbots and what not. So try Power App right now.
Image : ChatBot with Microsoft Power App
Power Bi :
Excel is an amazing tool that has quickened our data management in the domain of business analytics. What if I present you a more powerful yet simpler tool to do all these with added benefits. Power Bi is what makes you look smarter with your data. You can avail designated dashboard for different departments with various sets of data enjoying precise control over every piece of information you share.
Image : PowerBi Dashboard (Source:https://powerbi.microsoft.com/fr-fr/blog/analyze-your-office365mon-data-in-power-bi)
So what are you waiting for ? Jump on these solutions to advance your startup - look sharper, look smarter!