Microsoft Power Platform Training in Gaia

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia guides users from beginner to intermediate levels in mastering the Microsoft Power Platform. Participants will create custom apps, automate workflows, and apply governance best practices using Power Apps and Power Automate within a hands-on lab environment.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is tailored for intermediate-level IT professionals aiming to leverage Power Platform to effectively automate processes and gain deeper data insights.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop and customise applications using Power Apps.
• Manage and analyse data with DataVerse and Power BI.
• Automate complex processes with Power Automate.
• Design and deploy intelligent chatbots using Power Virtual Agents.
• Integrate and optimise workflows across the Power Platform suite.

This instructor-led, live training held in Gaia is tailored for: business professionals and key users aiming to build basic Copilot agents.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Comprehend the core concept of Copilot agents
• Develop an agent utilizing custom knowledge sources
• Incorporate basic actions and validate the agent's functionality
• Distribute the agent to team members

This instructor-led live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at business analysts who wish to automate workflows and tasks with Microsoft Flow / Power Automate.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create business applications without needing any developer experience.
• Manage and analyze flows for business solutions.
• Create flows, define triggers, add actions, and set conditions.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is designed for business professionals, managers, developers, and data analysts who wish to adopt, implement, integrate, and manage the components and features of the Microsoft Power Platform within their organisations.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop simple applications using Power Apps to create custom solutions tailored to everyday business requirements.
• Automate workflow processes via Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) to reduce manual and repetitive tasks.
• Generate insightful business analytics by creating data reports and dashboards with Power BI.
• Construct chatbots using Power Virtual Agents to automate and address common customer inquiries and issues.

This course provides a foundational understanding of Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate, and Power Apps, along with a high-level overview of Power BI. The curriculum is structured around a real-world scenario I previously managed manually for a past employer: constructing a Power App via Microsoft Power Apps to monitor tasks associated with new house constructions (utilizing SharePoint for data storage). We then leverage Power Virtual Agents to demonstrate how users can enable bots within Microsoft Teams to guide them to documents located across various SharePoint sites, such as loan agreements, budgets, and sales contracts. I believe these bots have significant potential for HR and IT teams, particularly in managing repetitive inquiries. Furthermore, I illustrate how to configure simple flows in Power Automate to save attachments from specific senders (in this example, inspection reports organized by the bank) and to set up additional flows that save data from Microsoft Forms back to SharePoint. We also explore building fully automated workflows using the approvals app within Microsoft Teams. Once the app, bot, and flow are established, the final phase involves creating a straightforward Power BI report. We use Power Automate to dispatch a snapshot of the table containing the most recent completed tasks every two weeks to a designated recipient (the bank, in this case). This report requests a drawdown, including the task completion dates and corresponding budget amounts—all data gathered within the app. Please note that this course is designed at a high level. I recommend learners use ChatGPT for more technical aspects, such as coding or formula creation in Power Apps. However, the course does cover how to effectively utilize ChatGPT to assist with Power Apps formulas.