Low-code apps and workflow automation for every team. We also use Power Platform for the approvals and exception screens that sit around AI agents.
Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of four low-code tools that enable organisations to build custom apps, automate business processes, visualise data, and create external-facing portals — all connected to Microsoft Dataverse and the wider Microsoft ecosystem. Power Platform bridges the gap between what IT can deliver and what business teams need, enabling citizen developers while maintaining enterprise governance.
Power Platform is often where people meet the agents. Power Automate carries the approvals an agent raises, because an agent never approves its own work, and Power Apps gives the person handling an exception a place to review the evidence. We use it this way in our finance operations, IT operations and software delivery offers, wherever it fits the client's estate.
Every organisation that uses Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365. Business teams that need custom apps but cannot wait for IT backlogs. Operations teams drowning in manual, repetitive processes. Analysts who need self-service BI without writing SQL. Organisations that want to extend D365 functionality without expensive custom development.
Power Platform suits the parts of a process that need people, such as approvals, exception handling and reporting. Agents do the volume work in between.
The results below come from redesigning whole processes around agents, across clients' own line-of-business applications. They did not come from Power Platform on its own.
Agents prepare payments, credit decisions and write-offs. A Power Automate flow can route each one to the named person who must approve it.
When an agent passes a case outside its limits to a person, a Power App can show the evidence and the suggested action in one place.
Agents write the CAB pack with scope, risk, test evidence and rollback plan. A flow can take it to the board and record the decision.
Power BI can show process owners what the agents handled, what they escalated and what people approved.
Finance operations · PE-backed group
£32m
Annual savings
450+ FTE of capacity released
IT operations · PE-backed business
£7m
Added to annual EBITDA
70% Leaner IT organisation
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Build canvas and model-driven apps with Dataverse, on-premises, or third-party data. Includes Copilot for app generation from natural language descriptions.
Create cloud flows, desktop flows (RPA), and business process flows. Includes AI Builder for document processing, form recognition, and prediction.
Create interactive reports and dashboards with 500+ data connectors. Includes Copilot for natural language report creation and AI-powered anomaly detection.
Build responsive, data-driven websites for customers, partners, and employees. Includes authentication, role-based access, and Dataverse integration.
Power Platform licensing is flexible, with per-user and per-app/per-flow options. Many Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 licences already include Power Platform entitlements. Veriland Consulting helps you understand what you already have and what you need to add.
| Feature | Per User Plan | Per App / Per Flow Plan | Premium / Capacity Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power Apps | ~£15/user/month | ~£4/app/user/month | N/A |
| Power Automate | ~£11/user/month | ~£75/flow/month | N/A |
| Power BI Pro | ~£7.50/user/month | N/A | N/A |
| Power BI Premium | N/A | N/A | ~£3,750/capacity/month |
| Power Pages | N/A | N/A | From ~£150/site/month |
| AI Builder | Add-on credits | Add-on credits | Included in some plans |
| Dataverse Storage | Included (limited) | Included (limited) | Additional capacity available |
| Copilot Features |
Prices are approximate and subject to Microsoft licensing terms. Many D365 and M365 licences include Power Platform entitlements. Contact us for a tailored quote.
Tip: Check your existing M365 and D365 licences — you may already have Power Apps and Power Automate entitlements included. Get a licensing assessment from Veriland.
The low-code platform market is crowded. Here is how Microsoft Power Platform compares with other popular platforms used by UK organisations.
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Comparison based on publicly available feature information. Individual capabilities may vary by edition.
Power Platform enables you to modernise legacy tools and manual processes with low-code alternatives that are faster to build, easier to maintain, and fully integrated with your Microsoft ecosystem.
Rebuild legacy desktop and web applications as modern Power Apps with cloud data storage, mobile access, and integration with your Microsoft ecosystem.
Migrate Access databases to Dataverse-backed Power Apps with proper relational data design, multi-user support, and enterprise security.
Digitise paper-based and email-driven processes with Power Apps for data capture and Power Automate for workflow orchestration.
Replace manual spreadsheet reports with interactive Power BI dashboards connected to live data sources for real-time visibility.
Veriland provides full migration support including data assessment, application redesign, user training, and phased rollout to minimise disruption. Discuss your migration with us.
Power Platform connects to over 1,000 data sources and services out of the box. From D365 and SharePoint to Salesforce, SAP, and custom REST APIs, Power Platform can integrate with virtually any system in your landscape.
Power Platform delivers value across every business function. Here are the most common solution areas by team type.
Custom inspection apps, approval workflows, incident reporting, and task management built on Power Apps and Power Automate.
Budget tracking dashboards, expense approval flows, reconciliation tools, and financial reporting with Power BI.
Employee onboarding apps, leave request workflows, training management, and HR analytics dashboards.
Customer self-service portals, partner extranets, support ticket portals, and community engagement sites with Power Pages.
Veriland Consulting helps UK organisations unlock the full potential of Microsoft Power Platform — from initial assessment to enterprise-scale citizen development programmes.
Assess your existing Power Platform entitlements, identify high-impact use cases, and evaluate your organisation's readiness for citizen development.
Design Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Power BI reports, or Power Pages sites to meet your specific business requirements with scalable architecture.
Build, test, and deploy solutions using ALM best practices with environment management, version control, and automated deployment pipelines.
Train citizen developers, establish governance policies, and set up Centre of Excellence (CoE) toolkit for ongoing platform management.
Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of four low-code tools: Power Apps (custom apps), Power Automate (workflow automation), Power BI (business intelligence), and Power Pages (external portals). Together, they enable organisations to build solutions rapidly without traditional development.
Most Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 licences include some Power Platform entitlements. For example, M365 E3 includes Power Apps for Microsoft 365, and D365 licences include usage rights for Power Apps and Power Automate within D365. Veriland can audit your existing entitlements.
Canvas apps provide a blank canvas with pixel-perfect design control, ideal for mobile and task-specific apps. Model-driven apps are built on top of Dataverse with auto-generated forms, views, and dashboards, ideal for data-rich business applications with complex relationships.
Yes. Power Apps is designed for citizen developers — business users with no coding background. The drag-and-drop designer, pre-built templates, and Copilot AI make it accessible. Veriland provides training programmes and governance frameworks to enable safe citizen development.
Power Automate includes desktop flows (RPA) that can automate tasks in legacy desktop applications that do not have APIs. Attended flows run with user interaction, while unattended flows run autonomously on virtual machines. This is useful for automating data entry in older systems.
Power BI is consistently ranked as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms. It integrates natively across the Microsoft ecosystem and includes Copilot AI for natural language analytics.
Dataverse is the underlying data platform for Power Platform and Dynamics 365. It provides a secure, scalable, cloud-based data store with built-in business logic, security roles, and APIs. All Power Apps, Automate flows, and D365 apps share data through Dataverse.
Yes. Power Pages can build secure, external-facing websites for customers, partners, and suppliers. It includes authentication, role-based access, data forms, and integration with Dataverse. Common use cases include customer self-service portals, partner extranets, and application forms.
Microsoft provides the Centre of Excellence (CoE) toolkit for Power Platform governance. It includes environment management, DLP policies, usage analytics, and app lifecycle management. Veriland helps organisations set up governance frameworks that enable innovation while maintaining security.
Simple Power Apps can be built in days. Data-rich applications take longer, and enterprise-grade solutions with multiple integrations, custom connectors and advanced security take longer still. We agree the timeline with you during discovery, and Veriland follows agile delivery practices for all Power Platform projects.
H2O America partnered with Veriland to unify fragmented operational data and deploy AI-driven predictive maintenance — reducing unplanned outages by 40%, cutting alert noise by 5x, and transforming asset reliability across critical water infrastructure.
Abel & Cole upgraded from Dynamics AX 2012 to D365 Finance & Operations in 15 working days under Veriland's fixed-scope delivery model — one of the fastest ERP upgrades at this scale.
Wessex Water replaced 20+ fragmented legacy systems with a unified Dynamics 365 and Azure platform, centralising asset management, field operations, and compliance across 800+ users.
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