
Microsoft Power Platform works in the cloud and consists of 5 key products for building business solutions: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. It is an intuitive platform of low-code tools that enable organizations to analyze data, automate processes, create custom solutions, and develop virtual agents. In other words: Analyze, Act, Automate and Help.
The current environment demands to be more efficient and productive through technology. With Power Platform you can provide users with tools and data to interact and obtain information, while allowing them to automate those minor tasks that do not add real value to productivity and results.
Power Platform components can be used independently or can be used as the interwinding means for connecting\utilizing other custom\standalone apps or Microsoft apps based on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and\or Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Diagram given below gives an overview of how the connectivity of these components highlighting their specific purposes to Analyse, Automate and Act:

Components of Power Platform
Power BI
Power BI is the Power Platform’s “Analyze” tool. Enterprise teams can use it to discover useful, intelligent and timely insights from diverse data sets to help make informed business decisions. The tool captures real-time data from other tools in the Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents and Power Automate.
Power Apps
Power Apps is a suite of low-code tools to build custom business apps. Using Power Apps as part of the Power Platform, any business or non-technical user can quickly and easily do the following:
- Build professional apps to address specific business challenges.
- Create automated workflows to streamline manual processes.
- Embed dashboards into apps to enable insight-generation and optimization.
Power Pages
Power Pages provides a simple way to build low-code, secure business websites. With its ready-made templates, data forms, lists and sample data, any business user can create a professional website that delivers engaging site experiences.
Power Pages also includes tools for professionals like website developers. These tools, such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub and Azure DevOps, add deeper functionalities and more advanced capabilities into websites.
Power Automate
Power Automate is a no-code automation tool set to automate business processes and streamline repetitive tasks. It features drag-and-drop tools, as well as prebuilt connectors, templates and an AI assistant for fast, secure automation. Connectors simplify processes across the business and expand the functionality of all Power Platform low-code solutions.
Power Virtual Agent
Power Virtual Agents is a tool set to build intelligent chatbots that can engage conversationally with a firm’s customers and employees. No coding is required to build chatbots. They can also be deployed across multiple digital channels, including websites, mobile apps, social media, Microsoft Teams and any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework.