Chapter 1: Introducing Digital Transformation and the Role of Low-Code/No-Code Platform
This book will help you to develop an understanding of what digital transformation is and why it is important to each one of us. It will also introduce you to a low-code/no-code platform built into Microsoft Teams, and help you develop proficiency in solving challenges faced by your organizations in their journey to achieve digital transformation. This book is intended to be used by anyone who wishes to build apps, bots, and workflows, and who wants to help automate a lot of manual processes within their organization, whether they're a student, a teacher, an entrepreneur, a doctor, or even a volunteer at a non-profit organization. As you progress through the first couple of chapters in this book, you will realize that with very basic skills, such as creating formulas, and a basic understanding of how you want your screens to look, you will be building very effective digital solutions for your organization.
In this chapter, we will take a quick look at the new trends that are impacting our personal and work lives (that is, the consumer world and business environments) and how every one of us needs to be prepared to use these changes in technology to our advantage, especially in our professional careers.
This chapter also begins to introduce you to Power Platform and Microsoft Dataverse for Teams, which not only helps you to build apps, bots, and flows with minimum training, but also accelerates the pace of digital transformation within your organization. Microsoft Dataverse for Teams provides rich data storage for all types of data, along with enterprise-grade governance and security. You will be able to acquire apps and install them with one-click deployment, almost like downloading an app to your personal smartphone from an app store.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding Digital Evolution
- Digital Evolution in Organizations
- Digital Transformation
- Introducing Microsoft Power Platform