Microsoft Power CAT

We are the Power Customer Advisory Team (Power CAT), part of the Microsoft Power Platform engineering team at Microsoft.

We work with a specific group of key enterprise customers and do whatever it takes to ensure their success with Power Platform.

We are a diverse group of technical architects, community managers, program managers, developers, and content creators, located all over the world, all sharing a deep passion for the possibilities of low-code.

Power CAT

What’s New

Approvals Kit Feb release and Custom connector discussion
The February release of the Approvals Kit added the ability to provide an external reference when starting a business approval process. The external reference makes it easy to relate the approval instance to a unique identifier that you can use to update your system of record when the approval process completes or is cancelled. Want to explore the February release have a look at our LinkedIn post.

We are investigating if working with Dataverse Connector to start a business approval with the Approvals Kit will make a better experience. Want to know more your can read our LinkedIn post that explains the proposed change. Feedback from customers will help us make the case for adding this feature.


CoE Kit February release available
Our LinkedIn post provides a quick summary of the features in the February release of the CoE Kit release.

The key focus for this release was update of the kit to remove the legacy connector in response to Important changes (deprecations) coming in Power Platform - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn. By moving to the modern connector, users can take advantage of additional actions, triggers, and improvements when working with Dataverse. This change ensures that the CoE Kit remains up-to-date and fully functional within the Power Platform environment.

With this release you can now store deleted objects temporarily by default for 2 months before actual deletion.

Automation Kit Updates: Release update and roadmap
Role transition:
Marty Carreras and Power CAT Automation team are taking over the product management of the automation kit from Grant, who will focus on the CoE.

Latest release of the automation kit:
The release includes updates to the audit trail information for flow sessions, which allows for more control and visibility for administrators and support personnel.

Runtime scheduling feature:
The team is developing a feature that will enable users to define and modify the schedule of cloud and desktop flows at runtime, using a Cron scheduler mechanism and a calendar view. This will address a common pain point and add value to the Automation Kit.
Unveiling the Revamped WhoisPowerCAT site: Explore the New Dynamics at https://aka.ms/WhoisPowerCAT
Explore the newly updated https://aka.ms/WhoisPowerCAT for cutting-edge guidance, tools, and best practices tailored to empower your journey with Microsoft's Power Platform.

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MICROSOFT POWER CUSTOMER ADVISORY TEAM EVENTS

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Power Customer Advisory Team Events

CoE

CoE Starter Kit

Second Wednesday of each month
7:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT

AutomationKit

Automation Kit

Second Tuesday of each month
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PT

Creator Kit

Creator Kit

Last Tuesday of each month
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM GMT

ALM Accelerator

ALM Accelerator

Second Tuesday of each month
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM GMT

Approval Kit

Approval Kit

Second Monday of each month
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PT

BEST PRACTICES, GUIDANCE

Guidance

Power CAT produces lots of resources to guide our customers to success with Microsoft Power Platform in their digital transformation. These resources were created by Power CAT, based on our experiences and expertise from working with customers.

Guidance

Power Platform Guidance

Microsoft Power Platform Guidance provides information to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary to succeed with Power Platform.

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Power Well-Architected

Power Well-Architected

Power Platform Well-Architected is a set of best practices, architecture guidance, and review tools to help you make informed decisions about the design, planning, and implementation of modern application workloads with Microsoft Power Platform..

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Adoption

Power Platform Adoption

Jumpstart your Microsoft Power Platform adoption journey with a workbook, a maturity model, and best practices that can help you shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes for your adoption effort.

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PowerCatLive

Power CAT Live

Power CAT Live is our YouTube channel that covers new features and enterprise level topics for enterprise architects and IT leaders. We talk about and show the solutions we are working on, and we have lively conversations with product leaders and experts.

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Blog

Power Platform Blogs

We contribute blog posts that cover a wide range of topics and areas of interest on the official Power Platform, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages blogs.

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LOW-CODE REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION USING MICROSOFT POWER PLATFORM

Tools

Power CAT produces lots of resources to guide our customers to success with Microsoft Power Platform in their digital transformation. These resources were created by Power CAT, based on our experiences and expertise from working with customers.

CoE

CoE Starter Kit

The Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a set of templates that are designed to help you develop a strategy for adopting, maintaining, and supporting Microsoft Power Platform.

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automation

Automation Kit

The Automation Kit for Microsoft Power Platform is a set of templates that are designed to help you manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption with Power Automate, based on industry best practices.

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approvalsKit

Approvals Kit

The Business Approvals Kit for Microsoft Power Platform is a set of templates that are designed to help you manage, govern, and scale approvals using a collection of Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse components.

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ALMAccelerator

ALM Accelerator

The ALM accelerator for Microsoft Power Platform provides guidance and an app to help you implement source control, enable version history, and deploy solutions in Microsoft Power Platform.

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creatorkit

Creator Kit

The Microsoft Power Platform Creator Kit helps you easily create consistent, beautiful, and effective user experiences for custom business applications with a collection of 24+ Fluent UI controls and templates for Power Apps.

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!!

Videos

Microsoft Power CAT tools videos, tutorials, demos & more.

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Customer Stories

Blog
Accenture
No-code templates on Microsoft Power Platform for faster, flexible, and user-friendly approval workflows. These no-code templates speed up complex approval workflows with conditional branching, delegation, and admin controls, usable by anyone in your organization.
Blog
ADH Clinic
Small business owner transitioned from paper to digital, enabling her to stay open and continue delivering treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution includes Microsoft Bookings, Forms, Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse.
Blog
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, Japan’s largest insurance company, used Power Automate desktop flows to optimize citizen developer training & certification processes.
Blog
American Red Cross
A training specialist used Power Apps to digitize the process for First Aid and CPR instructors to order supplies.
Blog
Ardent Mills
Ardent Mills operates in more than 40 locations that specialize in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic & gluten-free products. A citizen developer built several Power Apps solutions that are used daily across all locations. They are adopting Dataverse in their journey to building a paperless state-of-the-art mill.

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