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PPCC25: Data priorities gain importance in Power Platform roadmaps and customer successes

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

MSDW Insight: Discussions at #PPCC25 frequently return to the fundamental data access, security, and performance challenges that will allow firms to expand their use of Power Platform services.

Power Platform offers organizations broad flexibility in deciding how to develop, deploy, and control business applications and automation. But with the mix of evolving services, pre-built tools, coding options, and integrations into the broader Microsoft enterprise cloud stack, the journey for customers is far from clear or uniform. 

Based on Microsoft, partner, and customer presentations at this week’s Power Platform Community Conference 2025 (PPCC25), the journey really succeeds or fails based on data. Various sessions at the event have demonstrated that controlling, managing, and deploying data will get customers further in their Power Platform journeys than perhaps any other factor.

Microsoft has offered updates at the event on data-focused agents, data strategy, and the relevance of the Fabric roadmap. And customer stories have offered a glimpse of how data successes have served as one pillar of successful rollouts of new apps and agents.

Fabric and the Fabric Data Agent

For the BI and data management experts, Fabric’s advances shared at PPCC25 by Microsoft CVP Kim Manis and several product managers included:

  • Fabric Data Flows Gen2
  • OneLake data source improvements – SharePoint folder shortcuts, OneDrive files
  • Improved Power BI semantic model creation and management – web access
  • Defining a simplified schema within a semantic model for consumption by AI
  • Growth in the OneLake catalog, which is now used by 230,000 organizations.
  • Power BI Agent in M365 Copilot
  • Fabric data Agents

One customer speaking at the event explained that their investment in Fabric and Copilot Studio make Fabric data agents a valuable addition to their IT mix. They told the audience: 

We're excited about the Fabric data agents. That's something that we're really exploring and seeing some really great results with. We are looking forward to the increased knowledge quality as well as [Fabric’s] increased support for SharePoint lists as a knowledge source. We have a lot of SharePoint use and that’s going to be really great to support our business.

Microsoft demonstrated that Fabric data agents are designed to make it easier to reason over and synthesize a selection of data from OneLake. The agents can then be embedded and used in Copilot Studio when building new agents.

Data acceleration in Power Apps and Dataverse

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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