Microsoft's Power Pages, the game-changing platform for building business-centric websites, has now become universally accessible. Power Pages facilitate the low-code, scalable, and secure development of enterprise websites. The platform bestows a rich set of templates and administrative tools for the management of live sites, serving as a comprehensive solution for website development and hosting.
Microsoft unveiled Power Pages as part of the Microsoft Power platform family in May 2022. The new product has shown remarkable user engagement. Over 100 million active users per month utilize Power Pages across numerous verticals, including government, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit organizations.
Now, during Microsoft Ignite, the company gladly announces the general availability of Power Pages and invites users to discover more about its capabilities.
The Design Studio within Power Pages enables users to effortlessly create modern, data-centric business websites. The makers can now build multi-step forms including document uploads with the Pages and Data Workspaces, even without knowing any coding.
For inspiration and quick start, the makers can select from a variety of responsive and customizable templates included in the Templates Hub. This includes 16 latest business solution templates for various applications like processing building permits, managing after-school activity registrations, and client appointments management.
The Learn Hub platform comprises an all-new Tutorials section that offers extensive support to users, both professionals, and citizens. The Tutorials cover a broad range of training materials on Power Pages capabilities.
Beyond low-code, Power Pages offers advanced pro-developer capabilities, such as the integration of Power Pages Design Studio with Visual Studio Code Web. Makers can hence fine-tune and extend their web pages as needed.
The platform's security and governance are further augmented with features like integration with Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall, support for custom domains, and Azure Front Door's provision for Content Delivery Network (CDN) support.
Another noteworthy feature is the site verification checklist before making the website live, allotting total control over the site's public access.
Power Pages' subscription licensing, based on monthly authenticated and anonymous users per website, offers both prepaid and pay-as-you-go options. This ultimately serves as an efficient tool for website seasonality, budgeting, and forecasting.
Moreover, Power Pages is now also available to Power Apps portals makers, granting access to the Design Studio, Learn Hub, and Templates Hub.
Power Pages is currently being utilized globally in diverse customer scenarios, including sales and government services, demonstrating its real-world applicability and efficacy.
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As Microsoft makes Power Pages generally available to all users, enthusiasts and developers across the spectrum, from no-code to code-first, are offered several ways to familiarize themselves with this comprehensive, low-code platform. Features such as pre-built templates and tools, a website building and hosting facility, and multi-step forms that include document uploads, enhance the site-building experience.
Power Pages was unveiled as a new standalone product during Microsoft Build 2022 and has since experienced impressive customer growth. The announcement made at Microsoft Ignite aims to familiarize users with this tool that currently serves over 100 million monthly active website users. The product reaches a wide array of audiences, ranging from government and educational institutions to industries involved in manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare.
Microsoft Ignite offers interested learners a great opportunity to understand the Power Pages tool further. A session offering a walkthrough of Power Pages' web development process will be hosted by Sangya Singh on October 12, 2022.
New low-code capabilities have been made available with the Design Studio, which lets makers create modern, data-centric business websites for desktop or mobile. The updated features promise a user-friendly environment for building forms and adding custom CSS in the Styling Workspace.
You can choose from 16 new business solution templates provided in the Templates Hub. These templates are responsive and customizable, catering to various needs such as processing building permits, managing after-school activity registrations, client appointments, or customer self-service, among other applications.
Additionally, the Learn Hub on the platform brings a new Tutorials section to guide you through the tool's usage and capabilities. This section features embedded How-To videos and provides an extensive set of documentation making the learning process more effective.
Advanced pro-developer tools are also offered to users, going beyond just low-code. Users are now able to integrate Power Pages Design Studio with Visual Studio Code Web. It offers a free, zero-install experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Code in the browser. This feature enables editing and browsing source code for web page content, styles, and scripts, and syncing it back to the Design Studio.
Security and governance are a concern for every website maker. Power Pages offer enhanced security features like an integration with Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall, CDN support with Azure Front Door and support for custom domains. There's also a go-live checklist to simplify site verification prior to going live, offering total control over when the site becomes public.
Power Pages subscription licensing is now available in two modes - prepaid or pay-as-you-go. It's based on monthly authenticated and anonymous users per website, simplifying the choice of the right licensing options for your business.
The launch of Power Pages also sees a seamless transition for Power Apps portals makers. All the low-code capabilities like the Design Studio and Templates Hub are at their disposal.
The Power Pages platform is already assisting several companies in providing efficient services to the public and automating manual processes. Non-profit and government organizations as well as Fortune 500 companies have been noted for their use of Power Pages, proving that it caters to various use case scenarios.
Curious minds willing to learn more about Power Pages can check out its capabilities and sign-up for the service on the Power Pages platform. With Microsoft's initiative to make the platform generally available, opportunities now arise for businesses to make the most of this tool's offerings.
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