Automate Your Repetitive Processes

With Power Platform – Microsoft’s low-code development environment – Synergi can help your team automate repetitive business processes, build custom apps and workflow tools, and generate instant reports without leaving the Microsoft workspace.

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What is Microsoft Power Platform?

Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of low-code tools that allow businesses to build their own apps and automations.

It’s often used by finance, operations, HR and IT teams who want to reduce the time they spend on routine tasks and business processes.

Power Platform works within your company’s existing Microsoft 365 environment. At Synergi, we help our clients create highly bespoke automations using Power Platform, without the need to outsource to a developer.

What’s included in Microsoft Power Platform?

Power Apps: Create web and mobile apps
Power Automate: Build automations for repetitive tasks and workflows
Power BI: Develop business intelligence dashboards and data visualisations
Power Pages: Publish custom websites and landing pages

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What are the main benefits of Microsoft

Here are some of the many ways we can help you use Power Platform to your team’s advantage.

Digitise manual processes

Stop relying on spreadsheets and paper records. If your team follows routine business processes, automating them can save time and boost productivity.

See real results

Build solutions that bring meaningful changes to your business, whether that’s through time and resource savings, or by creating frictionless processes for your team and clients.

Get real-time business intelligence

Know what’s happening now. Custom Power BI dashboards can be accessed anywhere, on any device, giving you greater visibility into your organisation’s performance.

Automate repetitive tasks

Help your team use the skillsets you hired them for. Routine tasks reduce capacity for higher-value work. With Power Automate, you can speed up workflows and give teams time back.

No steep learning curve

Power Platform works inside Microsoft 365. That means no need to leave the Microsoft environment, and no new platforms or programming languages to learn.

What would you like to optimise?

If you’re not sure where to start, the Synergi team can help. Tell us about the processes you follow and we’ll show you exactly how Power Platform can make them more efficient.

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Power Apps: Custom apps for your business

How much time does your HR team spend approving holiday requests? How long does it take for Marketing to report on project performance, or for Operations to track company equipment?

Companies lose countless hours each week to time-consuming work processes. Power Apps lets you build custom applications that improve efficiency across your business and free up your team’s time for higher-value work.

Using Power Apps, the Synergi team can build a custom application that’s already integrated with your existing Microsoft 365 tools.

What can Power Apps be used for?

If you’re not sure how a custom application could help your organisation improve productivity, here are some common ways UK businesses use Power Apps for inspiration.

Holiday approval app: Spending too much time on holiday approvals? We could build an application to manage requests from start to finish, or create a Power Apps integration that works with your existing system.

Inspection forms: If your team conducts site inspections, we could build an app that lets them log information, upload photos, submit sketches and automate tasks to reduce administrative burden.

Project tracking: When delivering a project or campaign, we could build an app that tracks milestones, logs your team’s time, sends automated alerts and populates a central dashboard to visualise progress.

Equipment logging: If you often lose track of equipment or spend too much time logging usage, we could build an app that integrates with a smart device like a phone or barcode scanner to automatically populate usage and location records.

Power Automate: Stop wasting time on repetitive tasks

Some business processes are repetitive, but they don't require a custom application. Think chasing colleagues for sign-offs, copying data between systems and writing the same emails from scratch.

These tasks are necessary, but do little to contribute towards the overall goals of your business. Repetitive processes like these drain your team’s capacity and rarely support strategic or innovative progress.

Using Power Automate, we can help you set rules that trigger automatic actions under the right conditions. Once the automations are set, routine tasks are completed in the background without the need for continuous oversight.

What can Power Automate be used for?

Power Automate can transform your company’s approach to routine tasks. Here are some popular examples.

Automated invoice approval: Currently, each time an invoice comes in, your finance team may be identifying the right manager for approval, manually copying out invoice information and emailing approval requests before logging approval in a spreadsheet.

Instead, we could automate this whole process so that data is instantly extracted from an invoice and requests are shared to the relevant manager who can either approve or reject the invoice at the touch of a button.

If you’re using Power Platform alongside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, we can also help you match invoices to purchase orders and attach documents to payment records for easy auditing.

Employee onboarding: HR teams tend to follow a predefined onboarding process for each new recruit.

Currently, your team may be manually creating employee records, requesting ID copies, arranging training, getting new equipment ordered and scheduling introductions.

Instead, we could set up an automation that takes care of this for you, freeing up your HR team’s time for more specialist tasks.

Data entry automations: When a new inquiry comes in, sales teams often manually copy prospective client information into a CRM. They may also make notes after each contact, such as emails or video calls.

This is a time-intensive process that often leads to incomplete records and confusion about client status.

Instead, we could automate a process where a new client record is created as soon as an enquiry is received. If you have access to Copilot – an AI assistant available as part of most Microsoft 365 subscriptions – we could also create an automation that automatically summarises emails and Teams calls so your team is always on the same page.

Real-time business intelligence

You want the latest insight into your organisation’s financial performance now, not in a week’s time. Reporting can be a tedious and lengthy process; data collection, analysis and commentary all take time to complete.

A real-time reporting tool, Power BI gives finance, operations and management teams on-demand visibility into KPIs and other performance metrics from wherever they are in the world.

Power BI is mobile-ready, allowing you to easily switch between desktop and mobile when travelling. It integrates with Dynamics 365 Business Central data, giving you better visibility across departments, regions and subsidiaries.

What can Power BI be used for?

Power BI gives access to instant performance data across your organisation. Here are some examples of how teams can use Power BI to their advantage.

Live KPI dashboard: Right now, you may need to wait for multiple departments to share KPI data before you can paint a clear picture of performance. Power BI extracts data from across your organisation and pulls this information into an interactive dashboard.

This gives you granular insight into your team’s progress, what’s going well and which areas require immediate attention, allowing for more proactive rather than reactive decision-making.

Financial health dashboard: Get a better understanding of your financial performance. Power BI integrates with Dynamics 365 Business Central to report on bank feed, sales and spending data.

An intuitive visualiser lets you explore live profit and loss reports as well as cash flow and revenue projections within a single dashboard.

Easy integrations. Easy to get started.

Offers extensive integrations, is often included within existing subscriptions, works seamlessly across major devices, and provides robust controls to safeguard information.

400+ built-in connectors

Including Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Salesforce, SAP, Excel and Teams

Part of 365

Power Platform may already be included as part of your Microsoft 365 licence

Mobile-ready

Access Power Platform apps on iOS, Android and Windows devices

Secure data

Easily manage user roles and permissions to protect sensitive data

How much does Microsoft Power Platform cost in the UK?

There are several Power Platform subscription tier options, ranging from single app licences to full-platform access.

A monthly subscription to an individual app within Power Platform typically costs around £16 per user – actual pricing is highly dependent on the type of licence you select. Plus, keep in mind that you may already have access to Power Platform as part of your Microsoft 365 licence.

Knowing which option you need can be a challenge. Having worked with businesses across the UK, the Synergi team can advise on the right licence for your organisation and help you get the most from your subscription.

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Microsoft Power Platform FAQs

1. What is Microsoft Power Platform?: Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of applications designed to help businesses work in more efficient, more productive ways. It allows teams to automate routine workflows and easily build applications, increasing their capacity for higher-value work.

2. What is included in Microsoft Power Platform?: Power Platform is home to Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages. The apps can be used in conjunction with Copilot Studio, Microsoft’s custom AI assistant builder.

3. Is Power Apps included in Microsoft 365?: Power Apps and other applications within Power Platform are sometimes included as part of a Microsoft 365 licence. To find out if your subscription includes Power Apps, contact your IT provider.

4. What is the difference between Power Apps and Power Automate?: Both apps are designed to speed up manual business processes. Power Apps lets you build web and mobile apps – like equipment logging or holiday request applications. Power Automate lets you set rules that trigger actions – such as automatic invoice approval requests or employee onboarding activity.

5. How much does Power Platform cost in the UK?: A monthly subscription to an individual app within Power Platform typically costs around £16 per user. Actual pricing is dependent on the type of licence you choose. The Synergi team can advise on the right licence for your organisation.

6. Can Power Automate connect to Sage or other non-Microsoft tools?: Yes, you can connect Sage to Power Automate. Power Platform (which houses Power Automate) comes with 400+ built-in connectors, including non-Microsoft tools like Salesforce, Google Drive and Slack.

7. Is Power BI better than Excel for business reporting?: Power BI can be better suited to business reporting than Excel as it draws live data from across your organisation and builds real-time dashboards that help you visualise KPIs and financial performance.

8. How does Power Platform work with Dynamics 365 Business Central?: When used in conjunction with Dynamics 365 Business Central, Power Platform can draw information from across your Microsoft environment to facilitate advanced automations.

Why choose Synergi as your Power Platform Partner?

Working with a trusted managed IT provider like Synergi to deploy Business Central helps you introduce a transformative software solution with minimal disruption to your organisation.

As a recognised Microsoft Solutions Partner, we’ve been helping clients across the UK realise the full potential of their Microsoft tools for over a decade – resulting in an overall customer satisfaction score of 4.95/5.

Security is as important to our organisation as it is to yours. As a Cyber Essentials Plus-certified company, we have passed the same strict standards of security that we help our clients to achieve.

Ready to automate?

If you’d like to explore how your business could save countless hours with automation, we can help. Our team will talk you through Power Platform and help you understand whether it’s the best option for your business.

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