Power Platform Consulting Services

Power Platform consulting covers the full lifecycle of Microsoft's low-code stack: assessing where it fits, designing the Dataverse data model, building apps in Power Apps, automating processes in Power Automate, reporting in Power BI, publishing external portals in Power Pages, adding AI agents through Copilot Studio, and then governing and supporting all of it. In practice a consulting partner does three things you can't easily do in-house: decide what's worth building, design it so it scales, and stop it becoming ungoverned shadow IT.

Sometimes, and it depends on how the solution is architected. Standard connectors, basic flows and Power BI's free tier are included with most Microsoft 365 plans. Premium connectors, Dataverse capacity, external Power Pages users and AI capabilities are licensed separately. We model licence cost during scoping, because the same requirement can often be met two ways with very different running costs.

A focused first solution, an approval app, an inspection app, an executive dashboard, is typically 4–10 weeks from kickoff to a live first release, delivered in two-week sprints so you see working software early. Multi-system portals and heavy integration work take longer. We'll give you a range in the scoping call rather than after a month of discovery.

Yes. There are over a thousand connectors covering Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Teams, Azure, SQL Server, Salesforce, SAP and most mainstream SaaS. For on-premises systems we use the on-premises data gateway, and for anything with no connector we build a custom API. Where a legacy system has no API at all, Power Automate Desktop can automate the interface directly.

Power Platform inherits Microsoft's enterprise security model: role-based access, row-level security, encryption in transit and at rest, conditional access, DLP policies and audit logging. The risk in low-code is almost never the platform, it's ungoverned building. That's why environment strategy and DLP design are part of our delivery, not an optional extra. We deliver GDPR- and HIPAA-aligned solutions and hold ISO 9001/27001 certification.

Power Apps is for internal users who sign in with a work account. Power Pages is for external audiences, customers, partners, vendors, community members, who need a public-facing, branded site with its own authentication. Both read and write to the same Dataverse tables, so an inspection recorded in a Power App can appear on a customer's portal without any integration work.

Yes. We deliver Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Finance & Operations and Business Central alongside Power Platform, which matters because most Power Platform work eventually touches CRM or ERP data. It also means we can tell you when a requirement genuinely belongs in Dynamics rather than in a custom app.