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Governance & Security for Microsoft Power Platform
Ascent is Strathcona Solutions' proven implementation program that ensures your organization is maximizing your Power Platform implementation and it’s low-code tools.
Maximize your Power Platform investment ensuring:
- Optimized setup for citizen-development
- Enhanced security and compliance
- Rigorous oversight and governance
- Improved engagement from the maker community
- Increased adoption within your organization
Ascent for Microsoft Power Platform CoE
Benefits of Ascent
Enable Innovation
Foster greater creativity and innovation across the organization by empowering business units to digitize and automate their business processes, while maintaining the necessary level of central oversight and governance.
Build for Growth
Drive innovation and improvement across the organization. Plus, as a central function it can break down geographic and organizational silos. This can be a powerful way for an organization to align around business goals rather than individual department metrics.
Unprecedented Monitoring Visibility
From single to 10,000-foot views, you’ll experience complete visibility over your environments, policies, controls, apps, connectors, licenses, creators AND risks. Ascent gives you a holistic vantage point of your tenant, so you can focus on strategic decision-making and licensing cost management.
Robust Governance
Expose and navigate the intricacies of a multi-environment tenant, defining access privileges, managing connector requests, establishing and automating approval processes, and provisioning of authorized templates and starter apps.
Data Security, Sovereignty & Integrity
Manage your security profile with central controls, real-time monitoring, alerts and auditing. You’ll protect sensitive data and mitigate risk while empowering creators under the policies and safeguards you define.
Maximize investment
Get the most out of the Microsoft Power Platform
Ascent for Microsoft Power Platform CoE
Built upon Microsoft’s Published Best Practices
ASCENT from Strathcona Solutions is a comprehensive suite of Microsoft’s Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) consulting and configuration services designed to ensure secure, efficient and governable Microsoft Power Platform implementations.
The Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit is a collection of components and tools that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps, Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
Ascent for Microsoft Power Platform CoE
Why Partner with Strathcona Solutions?
Faster delivery
Ascent implementations are completed in as little as one business week, depending on the availability of key client personnel.
Comprehensive Deployment
Depending on your needs, Strathcona Solutions will assign experienced specialists in Microsoft Modern Workplace, Microsoft Power Platform, ALM & Pipeline, Business Analysis, and Marketing / Communications to ensure your CoE implementation precisely reflects your visibility, security and governance objectives.
Trusted Advisors
Our resources specialize in delivering on the CoE Starter Toolkit and have expertise in all of the nuances and limitations of the system. Our team asks the right questions, of the right corporate resources, for the right configuration to fit your organization’s unique circumstances.
Systemic Approach
Our rigorous methodology includes templates, checklists and best practices so that you can benefit from the experience of multiple implementations.
Training & Documentation
Give your Microsoft Power Platform administrators a head start with hands-on training from experienced platform specialists. And for your creators, makers and citizen developers, instructor-led training and guidance help them embark on successful journeys building apps, automating processes and analyzing data.
Ongoing Support
Strathcona Solutions monitors the changes to the Microsoft Power Platform and can provide regular quarterly scheduled updates.
Ascent for Microsoft Power Platform CoE
Key Outcomes for Your Organization
Increased Engagement
Increase the adoption of the Power Platform to unleash the creativity of the citizen developers in your organization, providing a safe place for discovery, shared learnings and innovation.
Established Governance
Take comfort knowing that your Power Platform environments are safe. Establish guardrails and guidelines for distributed access, while having notifications and reports to oversee the activity.
Optimized Technology
Leverage the power of out-of-the-box administration, governance and nurture components. Quickly implement tools for templates and automation of application lifecycle management.
Reduced Technology Debt
Resolve the problem of orphaned applications, independent data sets, and uncontrollable growth of Azure licenses and storage. Stay on top of usage with regular metrics and reports.
Installing the Center of Excellence (CoE) toolkit helps ensure your investments in the Microsoft Power Platform is successful and allows you to achieve your desired business outcomes and adding long-term value to your organization.
Engaging Strathcona Solutions to implement the CoE through its Ascent solution, ensures that it is done properly, swiftly and appropriately for your organization.
Ascent for Microsoft Power Platform CoE
Pricing
Strathcona Solutions offer a suite of solutions to maximize Microsoft Power Platform implementations.
Custom branded templates and UI controls keep creator apps looking on-brand and easy to use. Custom application lifecycle management (ALM) pipelines ensure robust application promotion and version control; and when your needs dictate, we can customize entire solutions that automate workflows around your request, approval and maintenance procedures.
Strathcona Solutions Ascent
for Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence
The most comprehensive suite of consulting and configuration services designed to ensure stable, secure and efficient Power Platform implementations.
Includes consultation, installation and configuration of development and production CoE Starter Kit environments, documentation and administrator training.
Add Ascent's quarterly update for an annual fee of $3,995.
all inclusive, CAD
Custom Branding
Custom-branded Starter Themes, Templates and Guides for Power BI, Power Pages, and Power Apps. Apply corporate logos, colors and fonts for an enhanced brand experience while enforcing consistency of app appearance.
Application Lifecycle Management
Implement custom ALM Pipelines, including templates and admin training, for managed or unmanaged Power Platform environments, using model driven or canvas apps.
Training Workshops
Receive hands-on, expert training for administrators, creators and makers from Strathcona's experienced Power Platform specialists.
Custom App Development
For your Center of Excellence apps. Enhance your Power Platform visibility, governance and security with features that meet your specific needs.