Microsoft Power Platform consists of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents and some premium features including AI Builder, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages which are all backed by Microsoft Dataverse data storage and management tool. Premium features improve the scalability of companies by extending the applications that can be built on the Premium Platform. With premium capabilities organizations can make better use of corporate data, third-party systems, and systems of record to build business-critical solutions. Organizations can increase their efficiency through expanded access to low-code and no-code tools, as well as an increased ability to use flows and automation. With Premium Capabilities, they can develop higher quality applications that rely on critical data sources.

The benefits of Microsoft Power Platform Premium Capabilities:

• Common language between IT and business, and improved IT efficiency. Power Platform provides a common language and platform for developing solutions. On average, IT/DevOps efficiency increased by 18.8% because of the investment in premium capabilities.
• High return on investment and significant decrease in application development costs. Organizations can save on maintenance and license fees by retiring legacy applications, also avoid infrastructure costs, the need to validate code, or the cost and effort involved in hosting outside of Power Platform. According to survey data, an average of 54% of legacy applications were retired due to the investment in premium capabilities. The capabilities enabled by premium connectors and Dataverse increased organizations’ revenues, decreased time to market, improved solution quoting, decrease cost of delivery, and lowered error rates.
• Effective cooperation of teams of professional developers and nontechnical citizen developers. As a result, solutions can be developed at a lower cost and with less effort than would be required of a traditional development solution. On average, survey respondents indicated a 22.6% increase in professional developer productivity, an 18.3% increase in database analyst (DBA)/data scientist efficiency, and an 18.8% increase in IT/DevOps efficiency.
• Organisations can better integrate, leverage and explore the data in the Power Platform. The feature significantly improves and accelerates automation, business intelligence and application use cases within the platform, saving time for employees and becoming more efficient. Line-of- business (LOB) users of premium capabilities including connectors and/or Dataverse realized 3.1% greater efficiency on average according to the research.
• Increased security and visibility around data connections. Through that developers and data teams could do more with less without spending undue time on managing security or recreating code and components unnecessarily. 93% of respondents agreed that premium capabilities increased security and visibility around data connections, the average efficiency increased for DBAs/data scientists of 18.3%, also 81% said that improved IT governance is a benefit of Power Platform premium capabilities.
• The features facilitate digitization and move-to-cloud strategies for organizations, also reliability and reduction of outage and error through automation. 63% of respondents said that the reduction of errors due to increased automation is a particularly important benefit, while 48% said that reduced downtime and process downtime are also particularly important.
• Premium capabilities support greater agility for organizations, 63% of survey respondents agreed that premium capabilities made their organizations more agile for system changes, reducing cycle time for new products and services.

If you would like to know more about all the potentials and benefits of Power Platform Premium Capabilities for your organization, contact us and ask for consultation with one of Noventiq experts.

The full Forrester report can be downloaded here: https://info.microsoft.com/ww-landing-forrester-tei-of-power-platform-premium-capabilities.html?LCID=EN-US