Power Platform
You can connect Business Central to Microsoft Power Platform. A Dynamics 365 Business Connector is available for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Logic Apps services with the name Business Central. Power App and Power Automate connectors are available as premium connectors.
The end-to-end solution that Business Central and Power Platform provides significantly simplifies processes, reduces cumbersome administrative tasks, and frees up employee capacity to focus on truly impactful activities.
The Power Platform enables business users to Analyze, Act, and Automate in ways that can make a big impact across the business.
- Analyze Any business user, from the CEO to frontline workers, can make sense of data through interactive, real-time dashboards and unlock the insights needed to drive business forward
- Act…which provides informed actions to create intelligent business processes via PowerApps without writing code
- Automate and then leverage Flow to automate workflows between apps and services.
Microsoft Power Platform is made up of four key products
Power Apps provides a rapid low code development environment for building custom apps for business needs. It has services, connectors, and a scalable data service and app platform (Microsoft Dataverse) to allow simple integration and interaction with existing data. Power Apps enables the creation of web and mobile applications that run on all devices.
People use apps in their daily life, and the business context should be no exception. Most out of the box solutions don’t meet all business needs or integrate effortlessly with other business programs. Power Apps eases users into app development with a simple interface so that every business user or pro developer can build custom apps.
Power Automate lets users create automated workflows between applications and services. It helps automate repetitive business processes such as communication, data collections, and decision approvals. Stop wasting important productive hours on repetitive tasks like drafting the same email for a weekly update or setting up approval processes. Power Automate empowers process automation, for the individual user and for the entire organization. The simple interface of Power Automate allows you to automate work tasks more efficiently.
Power BI works with model-driven apps in Microsoft Dataverse to provide a self-service analytics solution. The Power BI service automatically refreshes the data displayed. With Power BI Desktop or Office Excel Power Query for authoring reports and Power BI for sharing dashboards and refreshing data from model-driven apps or Dynamics 365 apps, such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service. Integrating Power BI with Dataverse provides the personnel in your organization a powerful way to work with data.
Power Virtual Agents are adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, at your service. They can solve common customer issues automatically, freeing up staff to focus on complex requests and high-value interactions. You can easily create your own virtual agents, powerful chatbots, without the need for developers or data scientists, by using a guided, no-code graphical interface. Integrate Power Virtual Agents with the products and services you use every day using hundreds of prebuilt connectors, by building custom workflows using Power Automate, or creating complex scenarios with Microsoft Bot Framework. Monitor and continuously improve chatbot performance using AI- and data-driven insights available in an easy-to-read dashboard.