Course Outline
🔹 Module 1 – Introduction to Microsoft Power Platform
- Overview of the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Dataverse)
- Common use cases in industrial and engineering companies
- Low-Code / No-Code concept and its corporate advantages
- Licensing, environment structure, and governance
🔹 Module 2 – Power Apps Fundamentals
- App types (Canvas vs. Model-Driven)
- Structure of a Canvas app: screens, components, controls, and layout
- Common data sources: SharePoint, Excel, SQL Server, Dataverse
- Connecting to existing data lists and libraries
- Data validation and conditional logic
Hands-on exercises:
- Creating an inventory management app with entries, outputs, and critical level alerts
- Creating an equipment control and calibration app with expiration dates and status tracking
🔹 Module 3 – Automation with Power Automate
- Types of flows: automated, instant, scheduled
- Triggers and actions: how to start flows and connect tools
- Integration with Power Apps (buttons and trigger forms)
- Conditions, approvals, notifications, and automated records
- Best practices for creating reusable flows
Hands-on exercises:
- Automating the test request process (ST) with approval steps
- Creating automatic alerts for equipment pending calibration
- Automatic logging of stock movements
🔹 Module 4 – Guided Development: Company Projects
- Quick requirements gathering with participants
- Collaborative design of real company screens and flows
- Building functional prototypes with instructor supervision
- Validation, adjustments, and simulated tests
🔹 Module 5 – Best Practices, Governance, and Maintenance
- Organizing environments (Development, Testing, Production)
- Managing permissions and data security
- Documentation and versioning of apps and flows
- Best practices for maintenance and scalability
- Planning solution evolution after the course
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of business process workflows
- Experience with Microsoft 365 tools (e.g., SharePoint, Excel)
Audience
- Process owners and analysts in industrial and engineering companies
- IT support staff and citizen developers
- Managers looking to automate and digitize workflows
Delivery Options
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- Practical hands-on exercises containing data / scenarios recognisable to the learners
- Training scheduled on a date of your choice
- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
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I thought the trainer was really engaging and was very quick on his feet to answer questions that were related to our work and really tailored the teaching towards our needs and went above and beyond to meet them. I could not recommend Shaun enough!