Power Platform

What the Microsoft Platform Enables

SharePoint
SharePoint

Simple sharing and seamless collaboration across your organisation.

Harness your organisation's collective knowledge and provide a stable content management system.

    Example use cases:
  • Document management system
  • Enterprise intranet
  • Knowledge management
  • HR process automation
  • Creating custom workflows
Power Automate
Power Automate

Boost productivity by quickly and effectively automating secure and intelligent workflows.

Leverage hundreds of pre-built connectors to automatically move data around your organisation.

    Example use cases:
  • Process automation
  • Staff onboarding
  • GDPR or regulatory requirements
Power Apps
Power Apps

Leverage an extensive library of templates and low-code/no-code technology to empower users to build apps when they need to with advanced functionality.

    Example use cases:
  • Customised app for functions such as:
  • Expense approval
  • Employee onboarding
  • Service requests
  • Crisis alerting
Power BI
Power BI

Gain a unified, governed view of your data leading to better and more accurate insights.

Utilise advanced security features to ensure your users only see what they are meant to.

    Example use cases:
  • Basket analysis
  • Human Resources dashboard
  • Financial dashboards
  • Call centre insights
  • Detail on hand ot drill through to granularity
Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents

Create powerful chatbots that can answer questions posed by your employees or customers.

These bots can be created easily without the need for data scientists or a developer.

    Example use cases:
  • Customer service chat bot
  • Data investigation
  • Intranet search
  • Learning and development
  • Employee onboarding assistance
ML Studio
ML Studio

Use Azure Machine Learning Studio for data science projets without any coding experience.

The rule-based engine in the studio enables easy building of complex models to suit your organisational needs.

    Example use cases:
  • Document classification models
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Communication analytics
  • Market basket analysis
  • Churn models
Challenges You Could Be Facing

After investing in the platform, you might struggle to realise the potential of the platform

A lack of strategic direction endorsed from the top.
Struggle to automate data availability for all business needs.
Growing issue of shadow IT due to poor data governance and controls.
Lack of developers available to meet today's demand for application build.
Business uptake of tools is below expectation.

How do I unlock the potential of my platform and build a Centre of Excellence?

Guided Solutions
Business essential apps, built and controlled by IT.
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Citizen Developer
Business users appropriately trained and empowered by PMI - the global leaders in CD learning and certifications.
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Strategy, Methods and Frameworks
Correct control mechanisms over business data and use.
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Centre of Excellence
IT and the business working in harmony. Full platform benefits reached.

How To Unlock Your Platform Potential

The journey to realising the full ROI from implementing digital systems will only be achieved with an analytics platform that combines the data from across your organisation to create insight and drive data-driven decisions. Setting your asset up for success in this manner can unlock potential and even help drive it to become a market leader.

Insight

Strategy, Methods and Frameworks

  • Data Classification
  • Data Governance
  • User Centric Design
  • Risk & Compliance
  • Content Management Strategy

Guided Solutions App Store

  • Automated Reporting
  • Machine Learning and AI
  • Operational essentials
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Customer 360
  • GDPR and FSI Compliance
  • Risk Reporting

Citizen Developer

  • Low Code / No Code
  • Certification
  • Training
  • CoE
PMI
Technology
SharePoint
SharePoint
Collaboration Platform
Power Automate
Power Automate
Workflow Automation
Power Apps
Power Apps
Application Development
Power BI
Power BI
Business Analytics
Power Virtual Agents
Power Virtual Agents
Intelligent Virtual Agents
ML Studio
ML Studio
Build and deploy fast
Data
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage
Big Data Storage

It is only with a stable and well governed data platform that an organisation can unlock value from its systems, allowing IT to successfully govern data and the flexibility for business users to become true citizen developers.

Value Realisation Diagnostic

2-Week Maturity Assessment

Platform
    Assessment of your existing platform to score its:
  • Existing maturity based on usage patterns
  • Scalability to support growth
  • License landscape to enable business adoption
People
    Assessment of your existing operating model and people to score its:
  • Current business enablement strategy
  • Ability for the organisation to support change
  • Existing training maturity and the ability to scale
Process
    Assessment of your current processes to score its:
  • Change management and current ability to implement new change
  • Data control and governance strategy
  • Approach to ways of working (waterfall/agile)
Value Realisation
    Combining the diagnostic scores into your strategy to ensure realisation of value including recommendations on:
  • The PMI Citizen Developer strategy and transformation plan
  • Areas of most value with prioritised recommendations
  • Funding recommendations
  • Expected ROI
Example Diagnostic
Platform Assessment Metrics
Scalability of Infrastructure
License Landscape
Current Platform Uptake
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People Assessment
Business Strategists
Hub architects
App developers
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Process Assessment
Governance CD ready
Change management process
Business adoption of processes
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Platform Assessment Metrics
Undeveloped
DBOT with 3rd party support
Intermediate
COE with minimal 3rd party support
Advanced
3rd party advisory only

Example Methodology For A Coe with Minimal Support

FTI Digital Delivery have developed a new service offering for established corporations and high-growth start-ups combined with Centre of Excellence. It is a risk-adjusted, time and deliverables-based project with clear internalisation of knowledge for the client (Citizen Developer CD)

Design/Strategy
Strategy Plan & Alignment
Build
Application Build
Operate
Execution and Scaling (Centre of Excellence)
Methodology
Microsoft Journey Through Citizen Developer
Vision & Execution
SharePoint Power Automate

Hub Architects (PMI CD Architects)

Facilitate access to the relevant tools and methods and manage the governance process.

Collaborate between Core IT and Business Users.

Typically include CIO/CTO functions, Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, Project Managers and Line Managers.

SharePoint

Business Strategists (PMI CD Strategists)

Set an operating environment and the direction for an organisation to achieve its purpose

Drive organisational transformation by harnessing the power of Microsoft application platform and cultural practices

Typically include members of Senior Leadership Team or Senior Architects.

Core IT
Why & How
SharePoint

Transformation Methodology (PMI CD Foundation)

Gives an overview of Citizen Development, its role and benefits to an organisation.

Typically includes everyone in an organisation who will be on the Microsoft journey.

SharePoint Power Apps Power Automate Power BI Power Virtual Agents ML Studio

Microsoft App developers (PMI CD Practitioners)

Build and test working Microsoft prototypes in real-time.

Typically includes Microsoft Power Apps developers e.g. Students, Subject Matter Experts or Project Professional.

Business Users

The Role Of Your Citizen Developer Partner

The Right Expertise
We are the Strategic Partner for Citizen Developer with PMI
50+ People Trained in delivering Citizen Developer
Over 500 Accumulative Years Experience in Business Transformation
The Right Platform
Certified Professionals in Microsoft and Citizen Developer
Strategic Partner with Microsoft
$10M ROI Realised
The Right Process
20+ Years Experience in User Centric Design
30+ Years Experience in Platform Deployment
Proven Track Record in DBOT Methodology
Leave You Prepared
80% of your Leaders Trained
60% Adoption across key business areas
Citizen Developer Culture in Operation
Next Steps
Value Realisation Diagnostic
2-week Maturity Assessment with 3 Ps
Value Realisation Diagnostic
Methodology
Chosen based on diagnostic scores
Methodology
Transform
COE with minimal 3rd party support example
Transform