What is the Microsoft Power Platform? Wikipedia says: “Microsoft Power Platform is a line of business intelligence, app development, and app connectivity software applications. Microsoft developed the Power Fx low-code programming language for expressing logic across the Power Platform. It also provides integrations with GitHub and Teams.”

On 24 May 2022 Microsoft announced that PowerApps portals are being rebranded as Power Pages.

Wikipedia has the following list and brief comments on the apps that ar3 part of the platform

• Power BI, software for visualizing data with different kinds of charts. It competes with tools like Tableau.
• Power Apps, graphical software for writing low-code custom business applications. (Known as PowerApps until 2019).
• Power Automate, a toolkit similar to IFTTT and Zapier for implementing business workflow products. (Formerly Microsoft Flow).
• Power Automate Desktop (PAD), robotic process automation (RPA) software for automating graphical user interfaces (via the acquisition of Softomotive in May 2020). This product uses a Robin Script based language to achieve RPA.
• Power Virtual Agents, software for writing chatbots

Learning Power Platform

For a basic overview of what Power Automate is, check out the YouTube video called Getting Started with the Power Platform by Andrea Pinillos. This video is about 37 minutes long.