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Power Platform Community Conference 2025: Apps and Copilot

At Power Platform Community Conference 2025, Microsoft highlighted a broader strategy for operationalizing AI by combining apps, agents, and Copilot into a single managed platform for real business processes. The announcement matters for IT and platform leaders because it signals a shift toward an "agentic" operating model and intent-first, AI-assisted development, with implications for how organizations build, automate, and govern low-code solutions at scale.

3 min read · Sep 17, 2025

Power Platform

Power Apps User-Defined Functions GA for Production

Microsoft has made user-defined functions (UDFs) in Power Apps generally available, meaning makers can now use reusable, production-ready functions in Canvas apps to reduce duplicated formulas, improve consistency, and simplify maintenance. This matters because UDFs are now part of the new analysis engine experience—enabled by default for new apps in version 2508.3—helping organizations build more scalable, governable, and supportable enterprise apps.

3 min read · Sep 2, 2025