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Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Power Platform and the AI Revolution

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

In this AI era, employing leading machine learning and AI models such as ChatGPT for responding to customer feedback and prototyping applications is crucial to drive business success in the competitive market. This book is an indispensable guide to integrating cutting-edge technology into business operations and leveraging AI to analyze sentiment at scale, helping free up valuable time to enhance customer relationships. Immerse yourself in the future of AI-enabled application development by working with Power Automate, Power Apps, and the new Copilot Studio. With this book, you’ll learn foundational AI concepts as you explore the extensive capabilities of the low-code Power Platform. You’ll see how Microsoft's advanced machine learning technologies can streamline common business tasks such as extracting key data elements from customer documents, reviewing customer emails, and validating passports and drivers’ licenses. The book also guides you in harnessing the power of generative AI to expedite tasks like creating executive summaries, building presentations, and analyzing resumes. You’ll build apps using natural language prompting and see how ChatGPT can be used to power chatbots in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have charted your path to developing your own reusable AI automation patterns to propel your business operations into the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Learning about the Encodian Flowr connector

Before you get started working on a flow, you’ll need to understand how to use the Encodian Flowr connector and its actions. In this section, we’ll look at the critical pieces that are needed to make this flow work. To successfully work with the connector and actions, you’ll need to understand the following concepts, terminology, and actions:

  • Input formatting
  • Tokens
  • The Populate PowerPoint action
  • The Merge Presentations action

Let’s take a quick look at each of these areas!

Input formatting

Many of Encodian’s content manipulation actions require the use of structured data. In this case, structured data is typically supplied in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax:

{
   "object1" : "value1",
   "object2" :  "value2—electric boogaloo"
}

As shown in this simple example, the JSON...