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No-code for business users, low-code for IT pros and pro-code for the pro devs. Our view is, we have slang for it: no-code, low-code and pro-code. Otherwise, you'll never be able to go tackle it broadly. Otherwise, you can't really enable all 500 million apps, because you need all three to start using these tools and to use them together in concepts like Fusion Teams. They don't all use the same user interface, they don't all use the same programming model, but all three have to be able to work on one platform. All three have to be able to work on one platform.

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I kind of see it as a broad spectrum, and one of the core theses that we have for Power Platform is that it has to be a platform that works for all three types of users: business users, so the citizen developers IT professionals, so non-developers but technically proficient folks and professional developers. And the 100 million, a portion of those will also now be built with low-code to go faster and be more affordable. Think of an IT admin who maybe can’t deploy to a Kubernetes cluster but definitely could go build a Power Platform solution. Those 400 million can now be picked up and built with low-code tools by the business users themselves, and by non-coding but technically proficient people. So 400 million apps have demand that goes unmet. Today, if this is the total number of solutions that the enterprises should build, say there's 500 million of them: They can only afford to build 100 million at the current cost per solution that gets built. So the analogy I would draw is what I think low-code will do today. There were several hundred thousand people with that job in the U.S., and then all of a sudden, you get the personal computer and the spreadsheet and a lot of the work they used to do, people just do themselves, because I can just open Excel and put the data in.īut what's interesting is these professions evolved to higher-end, more sophisticated solutions where they got to use more mathematical creativity and statistical creativity instead of just the simpler tasks. Forty years ago, there were professional spreadsheet users and data-entry users because you didn't have a personal computer or you didn't have spreadsheets. There's a great article - I think it was by Joel Spolsky - once that talked about what spreadsheets did for data entry. I consider myself a technology historian to a degree. What factors do you see driving low-code adoption? It’s not like air, I don't see it literally everywhere, but you run into it all the time. 97% of the Fortune 500 uses the Power Platform, 92% of the Fortune 500 uses Power Apps in at least one department.

Because that's the other thing - lots of people use it, and they get a lot of value. shared, I think a quarter or two ago, that we crossed $2 billion in revenue in the trailing 12 months, which is growing 72% year-over-year, one of the fastest-growing Microsoft businesses at scale. And the majority of those are business users, non-coders. There’s a few stats we've shared to size it: There’s over 7 million monthly active citizen professional developers, which is pretty astonishingly big if you go compare it to a programming language or something. How many people are using Power Platform? The following interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. In a conversation with Protocol, Lamanna talked more about why Power Platform matters to Microsoft, how it plays with Dynamics 365, Teams and the broader Microsoft suite and why productivity and collaboration are key to Microsoft’s low-code future. Now, as corporate vice president of Microsoft Business Applications, Lamanna has a broad remit at the center of “one of the fastest-growing Microsoft businesses at scale.” That business is Power Platform, which according to Lamanna has more than 7 million monthly active users, more than $2 billion in revenue and is growing at an astonishing 72% year-over-year.

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In another moment of prescience a few years later, Lamanna and a small team of developers entered a Microsoft hackathon where they built a product called Wolf Crow, a low-code/no-code automation and integration tool that would later become Azure Logic Apps, then Microsoft Flow, then Power Apps and eventually Power Platform, a group of business software tools that he now oversees along with Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 applications.

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