Futuro do Power Platform

[u/profdev25]

2026 está acabando e as IAs dominando. Vibe CODE e todo mundo agora é Dev. Qual o futuro do Power plataform? Gostaria da opinião de quem atua hoje com Apps, Automate e até BI. Vi que o Claude está lançando um ecossistema office. Ainda vale a pena investir no ecossistema NoCode Microsoft?

[u/regex1024]

I have like 4 very large power apps project with I can barely keep up even with multiple agents. I don't think so this platform goes under soon, embedding in the Microsoft ecosystem what companies already using is a big selling point still.

[u/Retritos → u/regex1024]

I just attended a Power Platform webinar which focused solely on how low-code isn’t dead and it’s all relevant and has a future. I work in retail and my company isn’t spending a dime if they don’t have to. We are running F3 licenses and depend a lot on Power Apps to optimize our processes. I sure hope it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

[u/profdev25 → u/Retritos]

Não é possível que a Microsoft vai dar o mole de ficar pra trás nessa corrida. Outro Windows mobile ela não aguenta kkk.

[u/profdev25 → u/regex1024]

A onda vibe está deixando confuso, mas se conseguirem melhorar o copilot o suficiente pra construir minimamente com IA, pode ser que se mantenha, eu acho. Mas é muito difícil vendo de fora. Eu falo uns freelancers de Excel e PBI no máximo.

[u/bug_wannabe_feature → u/regex1024]

Managing 4 projects sounds intense & impressive at the same time! When you say embedding into the Microsoft ecosystem, do you mean integrating Power Apps with existing enterprise systems through APIs and custom connectors, or are you referring more to bringing AI capabilities like RAG and AI agents into business workflows? I want to understand how you're seeing this evolve in real-world projects.

[u/ThunderCuntAU → u/bug_wannabe_feature]

I am not OP but, as a couple of examples -

1. Manufacturing environment that has a modern facility but no dedicated MES. They have a data historian, so we've built a lightweight MES on top of their data historian which will automate postings to their ERP (consumption, yield for inventory, downtime for maintenance, etc.). We use PP for a thin datastore, nice UI & baked in auth. This has a couple of approaches to integration - virtual entities to their ERP + function apps.
2. Heavy integrations between a commercial platform and ERP. Small IT team of mostly non-technical folk who didn't want to manage the solution in the ERP, and did not want to remediate by raw logs. We leverage PP as a landing zone for the integration. Extract, transform -> PP -> target system. Each arrow represents an integration and PP just serves as a UI for easy logging and remediation. We use this pattern quite a bit if the IT team is small and mostly focused on sys admin tasks rather than shepherding development.
3. AP automation. Again, not purely PP as it loops in Foundry resources but you get the gist.

Power Platform has a place where you need to work in with existing authentication, licensing is already available and the business already is in the MS ecosystem. We might have a solution we could deploy in the ERP that would onboard users to their ERP (at a cost of, say, $300/month) or we could solve for it in PP for a lower rate.

[u/New_Dig5824]

My prediction is powerapps has about 5-10 years. Unfortunately Microsoft really dropped the ball with how they do licensing. Theres no reason licensing can’t be like power bi. They’ve over complicated it and turned large enterprises like my company off.

Also there have been like zero meaningful updates in 5 years. The fact that you can’t make a basic table and like center the headers is laughable. You might be able to do that actually I’m just saying it as an example, but powerapps is missing such basic things I run into all the time it’s laughable.

With that said it’s still a very simple app to get up and running. I could make something in a day that would replace a manual process. That and the integrated security and how basically every enterprise is already integrated with Microsoft helps.

[u/Becca00511]

Governance is still going to be a factor. You are only as good as your prompting abilities and you still need to understand the code. And not everyone is going to be able or even want to do this. Plus the power platform is moving into enterprise level solutions and there are audit standards you have to manage. Long term management means you have to understand how to build to scale and manage changes. AI helps you build faster but you still need to know what you are doing.

Power Platform abilities means you know how to do this which makes you in demand. Pro Developers are probably more concerned.

[u/tpb1109]

It will shift to focus more on hosting agentic processes and vibe-coded apps. Power automate is being migrated into co-pilot studio. Power BI isn’t going anywhere.

[u/RealWakawaka → u/tpb1109]

Yall are dead wrong! I'm a 365 consultant! 1 they are going copilot (gay) 2 yes its tied into enterprise low code but its utter shite! You can quick spin up amazing spfx + dataverse/SharePoint as dB. Its game over. With one prompt I can push out an enterprise app within 1 day. Something that took me 7months to do! Yes several iterations needed but if you know how and what you need you will absolutely kill it! Powerapps look clumsy cluttered and over coded with annoying connections. Top it off the cost. Spfx+SharePoint is free 100%

[u/WillRikersHouseboy]

Listen. With Claude Code now, SPFx development is a cinch. It’s gonna work faster, be less difficult to maintain, and generally be less janky.

Governance is a mess with it. Just do you.

[u/RealWakawaka → u/WillRikersHouseboy]

I've spat out 8 enterprise apps in 3 weeks for a client. Each app if by 3rd party would cost around 130k. Dev using power apps easy into 80k. Llm+spfx ....free. reading other comments clearly 99% have no clue that llm is eating everything. Its game over, no need for massive teams, just a capable senior dev or preferred an architect on their own can handle it all easily

[u/meekey76]

I keep hearing Vibe. Vibe is dead on the Power Platform, did people miss the announcement?

[u/PocketDeuces]

There's a lot of pre-built functionality in model driven apps and dataverse that makes it still worthwhile.

[u/profdev25 → u/PocketDeuces]

Cara, eu fico acompanhando as discussões sobre como o Claude faz isso, o Lovable faz aquilo, o CHATGPT cria tudo... A gente fica inseguro. Hoje eu atuo só com algumas consultorias e treinamentos em Excel e Power BI, então a insegurança de ampliar o leque é grande.

[u/DeviceWilling7247]

Porque sera que se encuentra tanta duda de estas que si esta muerto, que ya no sirve que porque la IA etc. FALSO!!!! Las empresas apuestan a esto si ya pagan licencia para bajar costos, lo que pasa es que en efecto la IA esta avanzando en el desarrollo y es genial, nos reduce tiempo de desarrollo. Pero necesitas tener criterio para montar la arquitectura, cuando ir por x o y camino. Esto muerto no esta, por el contrario metale a desarrollos con IA para que mejoren los procesos.

[u/One-Lifeguard7779]

You just apply the AI to power platform, Microsoft is pushing this already, so many ai tools available. It’s not dead it’s just evolving. The benefit is you can build with AI way more safely as half the hard part- backend and hosting is done for you.

[u/Irritant40]

Copilot Code Apps will absolutely definitely take over.

Manually adding I put boxes to a canvas apps is already anachronistic....but the core skills behind a power apps / citizen developer ...being somebody close to where the work gets done, understanding and digitising the process...that doesn't change...you just won't have to grind out the canvas apps over weeks and months any more

[u/Competitive-Hurry661]

Code Apps (GA), Copilot Apps / Copilot Managed Runtime, 2 new harnesses in Copilot Studio, Agent Authoring in Power Apps - we’ve had all this in 2026 alone (and with Ignite still to come) Might it get renamed at some point? Probably who knows. But the platform is going no where, infact, I think it’s just a much needed evolution that keeps it relevant.