Somewhere in your organization, a frontline employee is fighting a spreadsheet that outgrew its purpose — re-keying data between disconnected systems, chasing paper approvals, drowning in manual work nobody designed on purpose. This book shows you how to fix that, even if you've never written a line of code. Microsoft Power Platform is your complete, hands-on guide to the fastest-growing low-code ecosystem in the enterprise world: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and the Dataverse foundation that ties them together. Across eight in-depth chapters, you'll move from first principles to production-grade skill — building custom apps, automating real workflows, visualizing data that actually drives decisions, launching secure external portals, and designing AI agents that take action on your company's behalf. This isn't a feature tour. Every chapter pairs clear explanations with real-world case studies, step-by-step exercises, and the governance instincts that separate a citizen developer's weekend project from an IT-approved business solution. You'll learn not just how to build, but how to build responsibly — with security, scalability, and the Center of Excellence practices that let your work survive contact with a real enterprise. Whether you're a business analyst automating your first approval flow, a developer extending Power Apps with custom code, or an IT leader building governance at scale, this book gives you a practical, no-fluff path from your first canvas app to a mature, AI-powered Power Platform practice. What you'll learn: Inside, you'll build working solutions while mastering the concepts behind them: when to choose canvas vs. model-driven apps, how to design reliable cloud and desktop automation, how to model data and write DAX that holds up under real reporting load, how to stand up secure customer-facing portals, how to design Copilot Studio agents that ground their answers in your company's actual data, and how to govern all of it — DLP policies, managed environments, and ALM pipelines — without smothering the grassroots energy that makes low-code work in the first place. By the final page, you won't just understand Power Platform — you'll have the judgment to use it well.
