Microsoft Power Platform | Power Apps; Power Pages; Power Automate; Power Virtual Agents; Power BI
The Logician
The Logician tends to think in a somewhat linear fashion. Their approach to problem-solving is to break down the problem into smaller elements. Each problem has a cause—or trigger—and one or more outcomes. Logicians are good candidates to begin their Microsoft Power Platform journey with Power Automate workflows. Whether we choose Power Automate cloud flows or Power Automate desktop flows, each has a discrete starting point and one or more ending points—working well with our Logician’s thought process.
The Artist
The Artist loves the freedom to use paint, palettes, and brushes to create their own personalized masterpiece. Power Apps provides the Artist with a canvas (no pun intended) to build applications with lots of flexibility for customization—whether they want to create forms with a tabular structure of components or to make them freeform. Canvas apps even allow for changing the screen appearance.
Like a work in progress, in which the Artist carefully distributes paint with brushes and other tools, our Artist starts building in Power Apps by placing controls on the canvas forms and then configuring and customizing them to their specific needs. Apps created in Power Apps are declarative, and they function like an Excel worksheet with formulas that continuously update. So it makes sense that our Artist would work with similar formulas, using them to further configure the canvas forms.
The Numerologist
It’s all about the numbers—good, bad, or indifferent. The Numerologist loves to see their data presented in different ways. And not just simple tables, charts, and filters but rather a mash-up of related or unrelated data to find patterns that unearth the data’s real meaning. It’s even better if predictability and what-if scenarios can be added.
Naturally, the Numerologist frequently chooses Power BI as the first tool in their journey into the realm of Microsoft Power Platform. Our Numerologist’s domain is data sciences, which takes them on a different path than the business process–centric tools Power Apps and Power Automate.
The Chatterbox
Let’s chat! The Chatterbox is all about conversations. Our developers( read Chatters) love a good dialogue so they can share—and gather—information. They like to keep things simple, without learning how to use a tool. Chatterboxes like experimenting with Power Virtual Agents to create chatbots. They often begin by building simple bots based on Q&A data scrubbed from sites or loaded manually in the bot.
Over time, as they get comfortable, Chatterboxes experiment with additional input controls, such as choice fields and branching. Then the natural progression from the branching logic and fields leads them to Power Automate flows built like the bots themselves, which provide even more flexibility.