What’s New in Microsoft Power Platform 2025 Release Wave 1

The Microsoft Power Platform 2025 Release Wave 1 is packed with exciting new features and enhancements. This release focuses on how to expand AI capabilities, simplify automation, and deliver features that allow organisations to analyse, act, and automate their data in ways that were not possible before.

If you are relying on Power Platform to transform your business, the following is what you should know of the latest release.
Highlights of Recent Power Platform Innovations:

•The integration of Power BI with Microsoft Fabric brings enhanced Copilot experiences and seamless real-time data replication for advanced analytics.
•AI-powered capabilities in Power Apps and Power Automate enable the faster creation of intelligent solutions through agents and automation features.
•Microsoft Copilot Studio sees significant enhancements, including autonomous agents and a broader range of features for building custom agents.
•AI Builder receives upgrades with multi-modal content processing, leading to smarter and more adaptable automation.
•Administrators gain boosted governance and security tools for improved management and scalability of the Power Platform.

Power BI Moves to Microsoft Fabric

This powerful combination delivers improved data integration, empowering users across the board to make more informed decisions. Experience enhanced data insights with Copilot and leverage Data Factory's real-time data replication and expanded connectivity to diverse external sources.
Key Improvements:
•Enhanced Copilot Insights: Generate deeper understanding from your data with improved Copilot support.
•Real-Time Analytics: Benefit from faster, more accurate analysis with real-time data replication.
•Expanded Data Connectivity: Access and transform a wider range of data with broader connectivity options.

Power Apps: Building Solutions Smarter and Faster with AI.

Power Apps is revolutionizing software development with the new Plan Designer. Define your business challenges and let AI-powered agents guide you in creating solutions. Benefit from intelligent automation and monitoring capabilities, accelerating your journey towards scalable business applications.
Key Innovations:
•AI-Powered Agents: Automate routine tasks with intelligent AI assistance.
•Proactive Agent Monitoring: Resolve issues swiftly with dedicated agent monitoring tools.
•Integrated Problem-Solving: Define business problems directly within the platform and receive AI-driven solution support.

Power Automate: Smarter, Human-Centric Automation

Power Automate is taking automation to the next level with Human-in-the Loop functionality that enables advanced approvals and generative AI actions for smarter document processing. The new Automation Center provides enterprises with powerful capabilities to address advanced workflows at scale.
What’s New?
•AI-driven document processing for faster workflows.
•Advanced governance tools for automation management.
•Human-in-the-loop experiences for approvals and exceptions.

Microsoft Copilot Studio: Enhanced Custom Agents and Broader Reach.

The latest Microsoft Copilot Studio update focuses on empowering custom agents with new conversational channels like WhatsApp and SharePoint. By integrating enterprise knowledge, agents can deliver more context-aware interactions. Makers can now easily upgrade declarative agents to unlock expanded custom capabilities.
What’s New?
•Support for new channels like WhatsApp and SharePoint.
•Enterprise knowledge integration for context-rich responses.
•Custom agent upgrades for enhanced capabilities.

AI Builder: Automate Everything

AI Builder remains at the forefront of automation, now empowering businesses to streamline routine tasks like never before. Its latest advancements, including multi-modal content processing and enhanced prompt-building, enable the unified handling of text, documents, and images through simple natural language commands.
What's New:
•Process various data types with multi-modal capabilities.
•Build custom AI actions with a wider range of data sources.
•Generate diverse content formats.

Governance and Administration: Enhanced Security and Control

This latest release empowers administrators to maximize their Power Platform investment through enhanced governance, security, and observability tools. The redesigned Admin Center and the introduction of the new Admin Connector simplify management and enable the automation of administrative tasks.
What's New for Admins:
•Enhanced security policies for Copilot and agents.
•Modernized Admin Center experience.
•New Admin Connector to automate administrative tasks.

Companies are always looking for new ways to do things better. Microsoft Power Platform is easy to change and can grow with a business. That's why it's a really important part of going digital, helping companies succeed and grow for a long time in a market where there's a lot of competition.
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