Design AI-powered business solutions with Microsoft Power Platform: Review

A diagram of AI-first patterns for business processes was the most useful part, giving me a mental model for where to even start. But it's just a diagram and some text. Without a single practical example to work through, it’s all just theory. The entire 35-minute module is like this: a high-level tour of product marketing slides. There are no labs. No sandbox. No Power Apps to click through. You just read descriptions of components like AI Builder and Dataverse, then get quizzed on which product name maps to which business problem.

I was hoping for a step up from the intro modules, something that actually showed how to *design* a solution. Instead, it feels like a pre-sales document turned into a web page. For instance, it lists 'extensibility options' like connecting to Azure Machine Learning, but only tells you *that* you can do it, not *how* or *why* you would choose one path over the other. The whole thing reads like a catalog.

I clicked through it in less than half an hour and did learn the names for a few more Microsoft services. I can't say I learned how to 'design' anything, though. It’s a map of a territory you're not allowed to enter.