Articles filed in category 'Power Platform'

  • Coding the Future: The Rise of Low-Code and AI with the Microsoft Power Platform

    By: Charles Lamanna

    Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2023 - Vol. 20 - Issue 1 - Power Platform

    Charles Lamanna argues that Microsoft Power Platform democratizes software development by combining low-code tools with AI copilots, empowering non-coders and seasoned developers alike to collaboratively create solutions. He highlights Power Platform’s components (Power Apps, Automate, BI, Pages, Virtual Agents) and the universal Power Fx language, with Dataverse enabling compliant data management. Lamanna envisions a future where AI accelerates and broadens who can innovate, reshaping collaboration across domains and industries as citizens-developers contribute to a galactic odyssey of digital transformation.

  • Power Fx: Low Code for Everyone

    By: Greg Lindhorst, Mike Stall

    Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2023 - Vol. 20 - Issue 1 - Power Platform

    Greg Lindhorst introduces Power Fx, Microsoft’s open-source, Excel-like low-code language that extends the spreadsheet model to let both novice makers and pro developers author apps, automation, and server triggers; embeddable via C# SDK and a React formula bar, it supports declarative and imperative logic, strongly-typed checks, connectors (including Dataverse and REST), safe server execution, and tooling for integration and IntelliSense—enabling democratized, maintainable business logic authoring across platforms.

  • Power Platform ❤ Code Developers

    By: David Yack

    Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2023 - Vol. 20 - Issue 1 - Power Platform

    David Yack argues that traditional code developers remain essential in the Power Platform ecosystem by leveraging familiar skills to extend a low-code environment built on Azure. He emphasizes extensibility without cliffs through APIs, connectors, PCF components, and Dataverse plugins, and highlights practical tooling (Power Platform CLI, VS Code extension) and API-first integration to bring custom logic into low-code flows. Yack also champions fusion teams that blend makers and developers to accelerate solutions, encouraging code professionals to engage, contribute connectors and plugins, and deepen their understanding of the platform.

  • The Future of Low-Code / No-Code Power Platform Development in the Age of Copilot

    By: Lewis Baybutt

    Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2023 - Vol. 20 - Issue 1 - Power Platform

    Lewis Baybutt argues that the integration of generative AI and Copilot with Microsoft’s Power Platform is transforming software development from a constrained, expert-driven practice into a broad, democratized activity. He traces the shift from traditional coding to low-code and RAD, enabled by AI-assisted design, automated flows, and data-driven apps, while highlighting the role of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and related tools in empowering citizen developers and professionals alike. The piece also stresses governance, lifecycle management, and responsible AI as essential guardrails in this nascent AI-enabled era.

  • The Rise of the Low-Code Ecosystem

    By: Chris Huntingford

    Last updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2023 - Vol. 20 - Issue 1 - Power Platform

    Chris Huntingford argues that we are entering an era of enablement driven by low-code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform, where not only professional developers but citizen developers and business technologists collaboratively solve real business problems. He traces the shift from technology-centric digital transformation to people-centric enablement, emphasizing reusable digital bricks, governance, data modeling (Dataverse), and cross-role collaboration. Through real-world examples and a multi-perspective stance, he shows how diverse roles—citizen developers, business technologists, and professionals—co-create scalable solutions, with AI and Copilot poised to further lower barriers and expand impact.