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As a company and a community, the drive towards transformation is always front and center in our minds.

Whether we think of the work in front of us as solving problems, creating efficiencies, or empowering people, we are all engaged in digital transformation.

While digital transformation ultimately takes many forms, it often starts with a focus on one thing: improving flow.

In its simplest form, “improving flow” is the effort to build automated workflows out of repetitive tasks from everyday appliance apps.

Whether that is managing marketing leads, facilitating order processing, or tracking IT ticket escalations, every business has hundreds or thousands of these processes happening every day; all of which can be streamlined through automation.

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There has been a lot of energy surrounding Microsoft’s Power Platform lately.

A couple of weeks ago during a presentation he gave on campus, Satya Nadella talked about the importance of the Power Platform and how it serves as a core offering for our customers.

Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and the Power Platform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company vis-à-vis I would say our commercial customers – businesses of all sizes, whether it’s small business, large business, whether it’s in an emerging market or in a developed market.

The Power Platform is today comprised of three services – Power BI, PowerApps and Flow. While each of these services is best-of-breed individually, their combination as the Power Platform is a game-changer without equal for our customers.

I wanted to spend some time today introducing you to our vision for this platform and, more importantly, to highlight some of the people and organizations leveraging it to bring that vision to life.