Unlocking Automation and Efficiency with Microsoft Power Platform

Everyday processes are quietly costing you time. Is it time to fix them?

Chasing approvals, rekeying data and working around spreadsheets all add up. In this on-demand webinar, BCN’s Power Platform specialists and Microsoft explain how organisations are turning everyday process friction into better outcomes, and where to begin.

Webinar overview

Microsoft Power Platform is a set of connected tools for improving the way work gets done. It sits on your existing data and identity, and many organisations already have some of it as part of Microsoft 365.

Yet in most businesses, processes still rely on shared mailboxes, manual approvals and spreadsheets nobody is sure are current. They work, just slowly, while consuming time, creating delay and hiding risk.

As AI makes it easier than ever to build something quickly, the challenge is now choosing the right approach and turning ideas into processes the business can depend on.

In this 45-minute session, Andy James, Power Platform Lead at BCN, and Emma Portlock from BCN are joined by Steve Worrell, Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. They share real examples, live demos and a client story, along with practical steps to find your first opportunity.

What you’ll learn

Why Power Platform matters: What Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Power BI each do, and how to check whether you already have them.

Spotting the friction worth fixing: How to recognise the processes that quietly cost the most, from manual approvals to repeated data entry.

From business challenge to better outcome: Two demos showing how a request stuck in a mailbox becomes one connected process, and how agents and apps work together around different roles.

Business transformation in practice: A client shares their story in their own words, covering the challenge, what changed and what they’d tell others.

Automation, AI or both: How to decide which approach fits each step, and why creating something quickly isn’t the same as running a process the business depends on.

Finding your first opportunity: Four practical steps to shape a first project, and why involving IT early stops good ideas becoming shadow IT.

Who should watch?

This webinar is ideal for:

• Business leaders and decision-makers looking for practical ways to improve efficiency.
• Operational teams managing approvals, requests and data across multiple systems.
• IT professionals who want to support business-led improvement while keeping it secure and governed.
• Organisations looking to get more value from their existing Microsoft investment.

Key Takeaway:

Start with the problem. Design around the people. Choose the technology last.

Whether you’re exploring Power Platform for the first time or looking to build on what you already have, focusing on one real process is the fastest way to reduce manual effort and show value. You don’t need a specification, just the problem.