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7 Best Practices for Successful Power Platform Adoption Even an intuitive, robust platform like Power Platform requires good planning and governance to benefit a business. Here are the seven steps to successfully implementing it in your organization. Focus on manual process pain points Identify antiquated, manual processes that impede progress — internally and externally. Understand each process, system tools (email, spreadsheets, and others) involved. Envision steps for ideal experience and begin designing a more efficient process with Power Platform tools. Map data sources and access Understand the kind of data and data sources for Power Platform use, including any external data sources you'll need to integrate, and find the appropriate APIs or connectors. Define and assign app access levels as part of your data security planning and choosing connectors approved by Corporate IT. Establish governance Use Microsoft Active Directory to set parameters and control access/permissions to safeguard sensitive information and the integrity of the app. Individual Power Platform tools also include administrator settings that enable more granular access and use controls for greater security. Assemble a center of excellence (COE) Centralize best practices for using Power Platform and maximum adoption by creating a Center of Excellence. Use Microsoft's templates for shared governance models, along with collaborative tools to monitor developments, applications in use, and new app or workflow opportunities. Celebrate successes Highlight Power Platform-enabled improvements, efficiencies and positive business impact with particular emphasis on how easy the platform is to use and empower others to begin creating their own applications and workflows. Encourage adop on Employ and share Microsoft's best practices, documentation, and tools that architects, IT pros, and business decision makers need to successfully achieve short-term and long- term objectives. Use the lessons to create targeted and easily consumable training on individual app use directly with Yammer and chat groups to collaborate, ask questions, and organize show-and-tell sessions. 1 3 STEP STEP 5 7 STEP STEP 2 4 6 STEP STEP STEP Solve the right problems Clearly identify and define the business problems your teams need to solve and critically evaluate business opportunities from Power Platform services. Choose the tools that map most closely to those issues. oneneck.com