Agents, Apps, and a New Era for Power Platform: Argano’s Takeaways from PPCC25

The 2025 Microsoft Power Platform Community Conference (PPCC25) in Las Vegas marked a major shift for Microsoft’s Power Platform. Over 7,000 attendees witnessed Microsoft unveil a new era: moving from traditional low-code to AI-assisted development. The theme, “speed of innovation,” captured the focus on how AI and intelligent agents are transforming app creation, automation, and business productivity.

PPCC25 delivered headline moments; electrifying performance, keynotes, and a record-breaking AI agent hackathon, but the real story is what comes next. Organizations are now poised to harness Microsoft’s next wave of innovation, where AI agents become the backbone of Power Platform innovation and enterprise-scale solutions.

Only four years in, PPCC is now the global hub for Power Platform, reflecting Microsoft’s vision for low-code development, automation, and AI as the drivers of enterprise transformation. What began as a “low-code makers” event has evolved into an AI-first, agent-driven, enterprise-scale movement.

1. AI agents: Driving end-to-end automation and app innovation in Power Platform

AI agents are redefining the Power Platform by evolving from simple assistants to autonomous agents and orchestrators of business processes. Key innovations include:

• Agent-driven app building: Power Apps Planner now uses AI agents to handle requirements, data modeling, code, and UI assembly. Makers describe what they need in natural language, and agents build the solution step-by-step.
• Intelligent data agents: New data entry and data exploration agents extract data from documents and enable natural language queries, making apps more user-friendly and automated.
• Power Pages: AI-driven design and automation features now extend to web portals, enabling external-facing sites to benefit from the same AI-first development paradigm.
• Copilot Studio enhancements: Improved testing and debugging tools for AI agents, plus full code visibility for makers and developers. This ensures quality and transparency in AI-generated solutions with the help of the agent QA framework.

Together, these innovations position organizations to accelerate development and automate high-value processes strategically.

2. Intelligent workflow automation

Workflow automation is entering a new era with agent driven capabilities that simplify complex processes and expand automation beyond traditional boundaries. Highlights include:

• Agent flows in Power Automate: The flow designer now supports agent-based workflows, making it easier to automate complex decision making with AI.
• Computer use agents: AI agents can perform desktop and web automation tasks, bridging cloud and legacy systems even in environments without APIs.
• Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Users can create Power Automate flows using natural language directly in Outlook or Teams, lowering the barrier for automation.

3. Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot Convergence

Microsoft is bringing Power Platform and Microsoft 365 closer together, enabling seamless app building and automation within familiar productivity tools. Key capabilities include:

• App builder and workflow agents: Build apps and automate processes within Microsoft 365 Copilot by describing needs in plain language.
• Custom Copilots in office apps: Embed custom Copilot agents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for AI powered business assistance in familiar tools.
• Power BI and Fabric integration: AI features like “chat with your data” and Fabric Data Agents enable users to analyze and act on data across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.

4. Governance and security: Scaling innovation with control

As AI agents and Power Apps scale across enterprise environments, governance and security remain critical. Microsoft introduced new features to ensure compliance and control:

• Copilot Studio test sets: Validate agent reliability and compliance before deployment
• Granular admin delegation: New roles and permissions for secure oversight
• Security agents for Power Pages: Protect external-facing portals with AI-driven security
• Integration with Microsoft Sentinel: Enhanced monitoring and threat detection
• Environment groups: Unified policy management across multiple environments
• Service principals: Support automated management tasks using Azure AD app identities
• Lifecycle management: Improved ALM tools and agent testing ensure safe deployment and compliance

5. Power Pages: Generative apps, code apps, and SPAs

Low code is evolving with generative capabilities and modern frameworks, enabling faster and more flexible app development. Innovations include:

• Generative pages: Describe the page, generate a React app within a model-driven application
• Code apps: Full-stack development with VS Code, TypeScript, Git, and custom components
• Single page apps: React/Vite architecture, high-performance UX, deep Dataverse integration

Practical takeaways

• AI is now central to Power Platform’s app development and automation.
• Makers and business users can build solutions faster, with less technical overhead.
• Governance and security features support safe scaling in enterprise environments.

Taking your next step with Argano

We support your end-to-end AI journey through:

• Training and upskilling: Workshops and enablement for AI-first development, including a Data to AI Strategy Workshop to modernize your data estate and prepare for AI-driven automation, an AI Envisioning Workshop for business and IT leaders who are exploring how to responsibly and effectively adopt AI across their organization, and our Copilot Readiness Assessment evaluation and roadmap for Copilot adoption.
• Governance and security: Frameworks and controls for safe innovation, featuring the Governance & Security Workshop to strengthen compliance, control, and solution quality, plus Business Impact Assessment to quantify ROI and accelerate low-code adoption.
• Rapid deployment: Templates and accelerators to reduce design time, including Portal Modernization for rapid, secure deployment of scalable portals and the Inspection Management Solution to digitize and automate inspection operations.
• Strategy and build: Custom AI agents, Power Pages SPAs, and Code Apps, leveraging Argano’s expertise in building or selecting multi-agent Copilots tailored to your business needs.

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