Release plans for the 2 wave of Power Platform in 2021

30/07/2021
by Admin Admin


In July, Microsoft posted plans for a wave 2 release for the Microsoft Power Platform. They list the list of features expected to be released between October 21' and March 22'. With this wave, many enhancements are proposed that reflect the ongoing efforts to transform our customers and partners.

Highlights from Microsoft Power Platform

  • Power BI invests in the core areas that define data culture. Namely, the provision of information using artificial intelligence, the ability to built-in business intelligence and the satisfaction of the most unusual needs of the enterprise. Power BI Pro invests in developers with new reporting tools. The customer experience is moving forward in the Power BI service and mobile app. For example, improved Excel export, ease of creation from Microsoft Dataverse and Dynamics 365. Power BI integration in Microsoft Teams also continues to evolve. Whereas Power BI Premium focuses on auto-scaling and pay-as-you-go pricing to scale beyond resource capacity without sacrificing performance. Experience working with big data using high-performance reports for example for Azure Synapse Analytics.

  • Power Apps provides an improvement for developers of varying skill levels. The skill level is improving, as is the usability of applications created online and on mobile devices. Power Apps launches as a unified modern Power Apps designer for building apps. For example, it is now possible to take advantage of intelligent authoring. The creator can also make app settings for offline use. Power Apps portals are focused on improving the portal platform and the ability to support developers. In addition, there are several new features with a focus on development support. For example, portals for Power Apps Component Infrastructure are supported. A very important ability to support continuous integration and deployment when using the Power Apps CLI. Also took the first steps towards the history of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for developers and vendors and ISVs.

  • Power Automate invests in cloud streaming with templates for Microsoft Teams and integrations to promote solutions that have team streams. Document Automation is a complete document processing solution for extracting data from documents is another new feature. Power Automate Desktop provides more WinAutomation actions for desktop threads and new RPA-enabled scripts. So it will be possible to use Dataverse and over 475 API connectors directly from desktop streams.

  • Power Virtual Agents brings development improvements. For example - developing the integration of Power Apps portals, also preventing data loss in the exchange of messages about updates of bots in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is building on the Power Automate integration for improved error handling and bot management.

  • AI Builder focuses on providing features that are related to intelligent document processing. These new capabilities include extracting a broader set of different types of content in documents. The Power Apps formula bar will support the integration of AI prayers.

Article publication source:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/