In this post we will talk about Microsoft Power Pages, the fifth product in the Microsoft Power Platform family.
Whether you’re a low-code maker or professional developer, this low-code, scalable, and secure solution empowers you to build business-centric websites quickly and easily.
For years, Power Apps portals have offered users an end-to-end experience to create external portals quickly and confidently, and customize them with pages, layouts, and content. As a new, standalone product, Power Pages empowers anyone, regardless of their technical background, with an effective platform to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites.
As a part of the world’s most comprehensive low-code development platform, anyone can now streamline business processes and easily automate workflows—resulting in a unified and convenient end-to-end business solution for your organization. Microsoft Power Platform is truly better together.
What’s new: Rapidly launch business websites with confidence
As part of the preview, there are a lots of features and capabilities now available.
The Design Studio makes it easy to design, style, configure, and publish modern business websites. Start from scratch or use one of the ready-to-use templates to design your site pages with text, video, images, business data forms and lists, and more. The Templates Hub hosts full-featured websites with demo data, so you can jumpstart your journey to managing scheduling, registration, application submission, and more. With the Learn Hub, you can explore guides, tutorials, and quick videos to learn how to build websites, model and visualize business data, work with code components, and of course, configure sites.
Securely collect and share business information with site visitors using Microsoft Dataverse, a smart, secure, and scalable low-code data platform. Power Pages runs on Microsoft Azure and connects with Dataverse to provide critical security capabilities that include advanced encryption, rich role-based access controls (RBAC), and support for Microsoft Azure Front Door and other web application firewalls. Microsoft Azure DDoS Protection addresses top web security vulnerabilities.
Use Visual Studio Code in Power Pages to code advanced capabilities using JavaScript, Liquid templates, code components, and web APIs. With these tools, professional developers can securely interact with underlying business data and implement custom business logic, all without leaving the surface of their favorite developer tools. Microsoft Power Platform command line interface also helps developers easily download and upload their customization projects.
Unlimited possibilities
People often think of low-code web development as being useful for basic projects like a site to showcase a company profile or to use as an e-commerce platform for other content. But with Power Pages, you can do that and so much more, like supporting enterprise-wide, professional solutions at scale. This includes:
- Community services: Reach and serve millions of citizens at scale, providing community services such as self-service permitting, licensing, incident and outage reporting, and applying for grants.
- FAQ sites: Provide answers to common questions about products, services, special events, policies, and procedures.
- Customer self-service: Provide all-day customer self-services, such as warranty registration, returns, support inquiries, appointments, and bookings.
- Partner support: Streamline business processes with partners, such as supplier onboarding, sustainability tracking, inquiry management, and vendor support.
And with that we introduced you to Microsoft Power Pages the 5th product of Power Platform.