What do the words "innovation", "change", and "Microsoft" have in common? A powerhouse in the world of business applications, Microsoft is once again demonstrating its ability to innovate and change with the introduction of Power Pages. Power Pages is the next generation of a Microsoft's Power App Portals offering, and this latest innovation will help businesses get to market faster with their Portal Websites. This blog will provide an understanding of what Power Pages is and the features that are being introduced with this next generation of Power Apps Portals.
Power Pages - What Is it?
In technical speak, this is an enterprise-grade, low/no code software as a service platform for creating business facing websites. In simpler terms, this is a solution that allows businesses to take internal data from Dynamics 365 and make it available to external users. Power Apps Portals is the earlier generation of Power Pages, so the base foundation of providing secure access to internal data isn't new. However, the experience for creating those external facing portal pages is getting in line with Microsoft's no/low code philosophy.
The new features coming out with Power Pages includes a new design studio for easier page creation, an easier process for creating sites, new templates for creating content, and a Learning hub. All of these changes are geared towards the business development teams creating the portal pages meaning. This is exciting because this means Microsoft is trying to help lower the cost of entry for businesses to create and manage portals while still maintaining a secure means of delivering information to external portal users.
Power Pages - Introduction and Implementation Exploration
The Design Studio makes the portal creation experience so much easier. Changes to pages and site menus can be viewed in line while editing.