The questions that cause many IT-managers and directors to have countless sleepless nights are: How do meet the needs of the business? How can we modernize our IT-landscape and make it future-ready?
Then there is AI which emerges on the scene. In addition to all of that, there are ever declining budgets for IT-departments together. And even if you have the money, how do you find the right personnel to execute your IT-strategy? Or how can you even retain the right personnel? All of these seem to be ingredients of a perfect storm. Doing more with less appears to be the task, but that is easier said than done.
Microsoft Power Platform
Enter low-code with the Microsoft Power Platform, which is a leader in the low-code market according to Gartner. It offers organizations the possibility to build smart and efficient low-code solutions. Take for example Power Apps, which offers you the possibility to build smart low-code apps. Or take Power Automate, which accelerates your processes immensely. And with the launch of Copilot low-code will even transform into no code. With CoPilot you can create chatbots, apps or flows with just one single sentence. An IT-landscape that is better to manage is within easy reach for every organization on the planet. But success with the Power Platform does not happen automatically.
Based on our experiences, we have observed that an appropriate governance policy is a vital precondition for success with the Power Platform. Without firmly establishing your governance timely you lose grip on the solutions that are being built, which offers you an additional problem on top of all your problems. At Sopra Steria, we advise a lot of organization facing this issue. On top of that, we help our customers in across different sectors with a proven structured approach as a solution to this problem.
Loss of control
It is often assumed that the introduction of low-code within an organization, such as the Power Platform, is accompanied by the loss of control. For example, we heard the story of a CIO from a large multinational company. He complained that all of a sudden, a 1000 Power Apps were emerged inside his organization. Indeed, this situation can give the impression of a loss of control. However, it’s not the whole story.
First of all, the introduction of the Power Platform doesn’t automatically mean that everyone can build their own applications. The administrator always controls the way those applications are built. But there is another argument.
Suppose that the organization of the CIO mentioned in this story did not have the Power Platform, and relied heavily on Excel for supporting these processes (as is often the case today). Would this CIO have been able to name the exact number of these ‘digital’ processes? Would he and his colleagues have been able to identify who had access to these manual Excels, let alone control how information was shared? Probably not.
Regain control
On the contrary, with the Power Platform integrated in your organization and with the right guidelines you regain control over the data exchanged among your employees. With the Power Platform Admin Center you are able to see which data when and how is exchanged. Additionally, with numerous different governance possibilities (like Data Los Prevention Policies) you can enforce suitable guidelines when your colleagues build solutions using the Power Platform.
The interesting question with the Power Platform isn’t how you build an app, although it can certainly assist with that. The real question is how you deploy the Power Platform within your organization while maintaining control. It's about harnessing the immense potential of low-code to enhance your organization's productivity without creating additional challenges for IT.
Boost productivity
It’s about using the Power Platform to boost the productivity of every department, every team, every project, every process and every single employee inside your organization. But in a controlled and effective way.
You are not the first organization to wrestle with these questions: we have encountered many others facing similar challenges. But we’re ready to help you to start with the Power Platform in a controllable and scalable way. We are able to help you on the basis of our experiences at our customers and, not to say the least, within Sopra Steria as well.
Promise
Therefore, we dare to make you a promise. Within 20 work days, we will empower you to regain control about the Power Platform and establish a foundation for controlled growth. Our skilled advisors are ready to provide guidance tailored to your unique company culture, and our expert developers are prepared to assist you in creating efficient and intelligent solutions.
Achieving more with less, while maintaining control. It is possible with the Power Platform.