POWER PLATFORM CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (COE) STARTER KIT OVERVIEW

• • Overview

  • Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit overview
  • Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of tools—Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Pages—that allows users to build apps, automate workflows, analyze data, and create websites without heavy coding. It enables organizations to digitally transform processes, improve productivity, and make data-driven decisions. The platform is low-code/no-code, making it accessible to both business users and developers.

    What is a Center of Excellence (CoE)?

  • A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a team, framework, or hub within an organization that sets best practices, standards, and governance for a specific area, technology, or process.

    → It ensures consistent quality, efficiency, and compliance

  • → Provides guidance, training, and support to teams
  • → Helps monitor, manage, and optimize adoption and performance

    Strategic foundation: Power Platform Center of Excellence

  • The strategic foundation of a CoE is to create a structured approach for managing, governing, and scaling the use of Power Platform.
  • → Governance: Define rules and controls to manage apps, data, and automation safely
  • → Adoption & Nurturing: Support users with training, guidance, and templates
  • → Monitoring & Optimization: Track usage, performance, and ROI to improve processes

    CoE Starter Kit: Strategy to implementation

  • → Provides a structured path from strategy to execution
  • → Includes pre-built apps, dashboards, and templates
  • → Enables continuous monitoring, user support, and adoption tracking
  • → Helps streamline processes, improve efficiency, and scale solutions
    • What's in the CoE Starter Kit?
    • The CoE Starter Kit is a set of pre-built tools, apps, dashboards, and templates.
    • → Admin & Governance Tools – Monitor app/flow creation, enforce policies, ensure compliance
    • → Monitoring & Analytics Dashboards – Track usage, adoption, performance, health
    • → Templates & Sample Solutions – Ready-to-use apps, flows, templates for faster adoption

    Note: Helps organizations manage, govern, and optimize Power Platform.

    Tip:

  • → Use dashboards to track adoption/performance
  • → Apply governance tools to maintain compliance
  • → Leverage templates to save time and standardize practices

    Get started using the CoE Starter Kit

  • Steps to Get Started:
  • → Plan and Define Goals: Set objectives, outcomes, governance policies
  • → Set Up Environment: Prepare Power Platform environment
  • → Install CoE Starter Kit: Import apps, flows, dashboards
  • → Configure Governance Tools: Set rules, policies, permissions
  • → Monitor & Nurture Users: Track adoption, provide training/resources
  • → Optimize & Scale: Review insights, improve processes, expand solutions

    Use the CoE Starter Kit alongside Automation Kit

  • → CoE Starter Kit = Monitoring, governance, adoption
  • → Automation Kit = Automates repetitive tasks/workflows
  • → Together = Secure governance + streamlined operations
    • Administrative tools available
    • → Environment & Tenant Insights – Overview of environments, usage, health
    • → User & Maker Tracking – Monitor app/flow creators & activity
    • → Policy Enforcement – Enforce DLP & security rules
    • → App & Flow Inventory – Complete list of apps/flows
    • → Audit & Compliance Reports – Track changes & ensure compliance
    • → Alerts & Notifications – Alerts for policy violations/unusual activity

    How to use with Power Platform Admin Center

  • → Admin Center = Environment-level management
  • → CoE Starter Kit = Dashboards, user tracking, governance tools
  • → Together = Stronger governance + adoption monitoring

    Managed Environments for Power Platform

  • → Secure & governed environments for enterprise
  • → Enforce data policies, control app/flow creation
  • → Ensure compliance across organization

    Individual features

  • → User & Maker Tracking
  • → App & Flow Inventory
  • → Policy Enforcement
  • → Monitoring Dashboards
  • → Templates & Sample Solutions
  • → Audit & Compliance Reports

    Tenant-level analytics

  • → Overview of apps, flows, environments
  • → Track user activity, adoption trends, performance
  • → Identify inactive/risky apps & enforce governance
  • → Data-driven insights for productivity & compliance

    Next stop

  • → Define Goals & Metrics
  • → Deploy & Configure CoE Starter Kit
  • → Monitor & Track Adoption
  • → Nurture Users with training/guidance
  • → Optimize & Scale solutions
    • Additional resources
    • → Training – Guidance and resources for learning and adoption
    • → Certification – Validates skills through official exams; builds credibility