In today’s overly competitive and dynamic business landscape, organizations can leverage Power Platform's potential to build low-code solutions to improve productivity and efficiency and drive innovation and growth within the organization. To adopt Power Platform, you must develop environments where developers build, test, and use these low-code solutions.
As businesses increase their adoption of Power Platform, they must develop a good tenant environment strategy as the number of environments grows. If you are new to Power Platform, we will guide you in building your first environment strategy with the features available within Microsoft. We will discuss how new users can apply governance, security rules, and other tenant environment strategy aspects to bring productivity and efficiency to the table. We will also discuss how you can secure your default environment, which is the most critical step in the environment strategy implementation process.
Microsoft Power Platform has four main components: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents Now Copilot Studio. These tools allow users to create custom, business-centric, and flexible solutions to drive efficiency and productivity. They also help users process and analyze data, automate workflows, and build custom business-specific chatbots. Remember, you don’t need to be a coding expert to develop all these solutions. This low-code platform allows users to develop robust solutions within a low-code environment.
All four Power Platform components operate within a Microsoft 365 tenant environment. This environment takes care of user management, data management, security, and regulation compliance. Hence, developing a tenant environment is crucial for businesses to ensure secure, uninterrupted, and flawless operations.
Users will work within a tenant environment to build low-code solutions. Hence, it is crucial to have a tenant environment strategy that is secure and robust.
Let's check out why you need a tenant environment strategy.
To develop a robust tenant environment strategy, you must determine your priorities, future goals, and the number of environments you want to develop. Let's check out some critical steps to build a tenant environment strategy.
The first step is to conduct a thorough assessment of your existing IT infrastructure, organizational needs, security requirements, industrial or government regulations, etc.
For example, you can consider some specific use cases and business processes and how implementing Power Platform will benefit them. Furthermore, determining user roles is also crucial. Define the roles of employees who will use Power Platform, such as IT administrators, developers, business analysts, testers, salespeople, etc.
Finally, before implementing Power Platform, you must assess your security policies, data protection requirements, and regulatory compliance needs.
Once your assessment is complete, you can design the tenant environments within Microsoft 365. There are various types of environments for Power Platform. We have discussed them here:
Users must configure each environment with proper security settings, data access controls, and compliance measures. Microsoft facilitates users with various governance features, such as Data Loss Prevention (DLC), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), etc., for security improvements and user permission management.
Lifecycle management of Power Platform solutions across various environments is crucial, and transparent processes must be established to achieve it.
You must train your employees to ensure quick user adoption and to adopt the Microsoft Power Platform with all the necessary skills. Many tutorials, videos, documentation, and other resources are available to foster a working culture of upskilling and continuous learning.
Keep reviewing your tenant environment strategy to identify and address areas of improvement, bottlenecks, limitations, and cost-saving opportunities. Monitor usage patterns, feedback, and evolving business needs and fine-tune your strategy to maximize the impact.
You must develop a tenant environment strategy that perfectly aligns with your organizational needs and business policies. Here is a list of tips to create a strategy that meets your business needs:
First, evaluate your situation and assess your existing environments and what they are being used for. If you have a clear vision for governance, make sure that you tailor your strategy accordingly. Define your vision for how you will use Power Platform and who will use it to build low-code apps or other assets. Some questions that you must answer are:
There are always some requirements that Power Platform’s built-in capabilities don’t address. You need to identify and evaluate these gaps to tailor your strategy. Some questions you might face while evaluating these gaps are:
Once you answer all these questions, you will know how to tailor your tenant environment strategy.
You can get help from the Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit. It is a collection of various components, tools, and software that can help adopt Power Platform flawlessly. This kit allows users to collect data about platform usage across multiple environments to assist you in tailoring your environment strategy.
Power Platform can revolutionize the way you conduct your business operations. Powered by Microsoft, Power Platform tools can help businesses bring efficiency, productivity, and automation to the table. Not just that, companies can create low-code applications, get actionable insights from received data, and automate operations and processes. Developing a tenant environment strategy to adopt Power Platform is a primary requirement. With a robust strategy, businesses can leverage the potential of Power Platform to drive growth and ROI.
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