Practice 02 · Low-code & automation

Power Platform, governed from day one.

Citizen development is a great instinct and a terrible accident waiting to happen. We help you unlock Power Platform productivity at scale — with a Center of Excellence, ALM, and security model that protects you from the predictable disasters.

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The four products

Apps, automation, portals & copilots.

Power Apps

Canvas & Model-driven applications

Replace spreadsheets, paper forms, and legacy Access databases with mobile-first apps that are deployed in days, not quarters — and integrate naturally with the rest of your Microsoft estate.

Canvas apps for mobile, tablet & embedded scenarios
Model-driven apps on Dataverse
Component libraries & design system enforcement
Custom PCF code components
Offline-first apps with Dataverse Mobile Offline
Integration with SharePoint, SQL, SAP, Salesforce
Embedded experiences in Teams & D365

Power Automate

Cloud, desktop & process flows

From simple approval flows to enterprise process automation orchestrating dozens of systems. Including RPA via desktop flows, AI Builder document processing, and machine-attended automations at scale.

Cloud flows across 1,400+ connectors
Desktop flows / RPA — attended & unattended
Approval workflows with Teams & Outlook
AI Builder for forms, invoices & documents
Hosted RPA & machine groups at scale
Custom connectors for proprietary APIs
Process Mining for automation candidate discovery

Power Pages

External portals on Dataverse

Customer, partner and citizen portals built on the same Dataverse that powers your Dynamics 365 — with proper authentication, rich CMS, B2B / B2C identity, and enterprise SLAs.

Customer self-service portals
Partner / dealer / supplier portals
B2C portals with Azure AD B2C
Citizen-facing public sector portals
Custom branding, SCSS & Liquid templating
Forms, lists & entity-bound pages
Web API for client-side extensibility

Copilot Studio

Custom copilots & agents

Bespoke generative-AI agents grounded in your own data — surfaced inside Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, your portal, or any channel. With actual guardrails, not hallucinations dressed up as features.

Custom copilot design, build & deployment
Knowledge grounding on SharePoint, Dataverse, web
Generative actions calling Power Automate & APIs
Authentication & data loss prevention
Multi-channel — Teams, web, custom apps
Analytics & conversation telemetry
Migration from classic Power Virtual Agents

Center of Excellence

Govern before the sprawl.

Within 18 months of unlocking Power Platform broadly, most enterprises end up with hundreds of unmanaged apps and flows, no idea who owns them, and no inventory of what data they touch.

A Valyra Center of Excellence engagement deploys the Microsoft CoE Starter Kit, configures DLP policies, environment strategy, maker support, archival of orphaned solutions, and a tenant-wide telemetry & consumption dashboard. Typical setup: 4–8 weeks. Typical ROI: visible in the first quarter.

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Where Power Platform lands hardest

Real-world patterns we keep delivering.

Pattern A

Field operations apps

Mobile canvas apps replacing paper-based inspection, audit, asset and safety workflows. Offline-first, photo capture, GPS, and write-back to D365 or SAP through Azure Service Bus.

Pattern B

Approval & request automation

Replacing email-driven approval chains for procurement, HR, finance and IT requests with Teams-native flows, audit trail, and SLA tracking.

Pattern C

Customer portals

Self-service portals on Power Pages, layered over D365 Customer Service or custom Dataverse models — case logging, knowledge base, account management.

Pattern D

Document & invoice automation

AI Builder + Power Automate pipelines extracting structured data from PDFs and emails, with human-in-the-loop review and ERP write-back.

Pattern E

Internal copilots

Knowledge-grounded chatbots in Teams answering HR, IT, policy and product questions — with document-level access controls and full conversation logging.

Pattern F

System retirements

Replacing aging Lotus Notes, MS Access, and SharePoint workflow estates with governed, scalable Power Platform equivalents on Dataverse.

FAQ

Common questions.

Most production apps end up needing premium connectors (SQL, custom, on-prem gateway, AI Builder), which means a Power Apps Premium license per user. We will model your estate against per-user, per-app and pay-as-you-go pricing and recommend the most economical mix — including Dataverse capacity, AI Builder credits and process mining.

Both, in different proportions. We typically deliver the foundational apps and the CoE, train a maker community, and set governance gates so anything moving toward production goes through our review. The 80% of apps that are simple — power users own them. The 20% that touch sensitive data or critical processes — we own them with you.

Dev / Test / UAT / Prod environments per solution area, managed solutions only in non-Dev, source control via Git through Power Platform Build Tools, and CI/CD through Azure Pipelines. Every release is traceable to a work item and peer-reviewed. We do not promote unmanaged solutions to production. Ever.

D365 CE and Business Central run on the same Dataverse / connector ecosystem, so the integration is essentially native — model-driven apps, custom forms, plug-ins, automated flows. For FSCM, we bridge through dual-write, virtual entities, or Azure Service Bus depending on volume and latency requirements.