We are the Open Strata Team, an open-source framework dedicated to cloud governance and application lifecycle management (ALM) for Power Platform environments.
We work with a wide range of enterprise customers and cloud governance communities to guide their platform implementations to success, providing them with the tools and guidance needed to manage resources, enforce policies, and ensure compliance.
We are a diverse group of cloud architects, developers, policy experts, and community contributors from all around the world, united by a shared vision to empower organizations with transparent, policy-driven automation and governance solutions for cloud environments.
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The February release of the Approvals Kit added the ability to provide an external reference when starting a business approval process. The external reference makes it easy to relate the approval instance to a unique identifier that you can use to update your system of record when the approval process completes or is cancelled. Want to explore the February release have a look at our LinkedIn post.
We are investigating if working with Dataverse Connector to start a business approval with the Approvals Kit will make a better experience. Want to know more your can read our LinkedIn post that explains the proposed change. Feedback from customers will help us make the case for adding this feature.
Our LinkedIn post provides a quick summary of the features in the February release of the CoE Kit release.
The key focus for this release was update of the kit to remove the legacy connector in response to Important changes (deprecations) coming in Power Platform - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn. By moving to the modern connector, users can take advantage of additional actions, triggers, and improvements when working with Dataverse. This change ensures that the CoE Kit remains up-to-date and fully functional within the Power Platform environment.
With this release you can now store deleted objects temporarily by default for 2 months before actual deletion.
Marty Carreras and Power CAT Automation team are taking over the product management of the automation kit from Grant, who will focus on the CoE.
Latest release of the automation kit:
The release includes updates to the audit trail information for flow sessions, which allows for more control and visibility for administrators and support personnel.
Runtime scheduling feature:
The team is developing a feature that will enable users to define and modify the schedule of cloud and desktop flows at runtime, using a Cron scheduler mechanism and a calendar view. This will address a common pain point and add value to the Automation Kit.
Explore the newly updated https://aka.ms/WhoisPowerCAT for cutting-edge guidance, tools, and best practices tailored to empower your journey with Microsoft's Power Platform.
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Open Strata provides a range of resources to help organizations succeed in cloud governance and application lifecycle management (ALM) for Power Platform environments. These resources are crafted by the Open Strata Team, drawing from our experiences and expertise in working with enterprise customers and cloud governance communities.
Power Platform Guidance
Microsoft Power Platform Guidance provides information to help you create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary to succeed with Power Platform.
Power Platform Well-Architected is a set of best practices, architecture guidance, and review tools to help you make informed decisions about the design, planning, and implementation of modern application workloads with Microsoft Power Platform..
Jumpstart your Microsoft Power Platform adoption journey with a workbook, a maturity model, and best practices that can help you shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes for your adoption effort.
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We contribute blog posts that cover a wide range of topics and areas of interest on the official Power Platform, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages blogs.
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Open Strata creates a variety of resources to support organizations in achieving effective cloud governance and application lifecycle management (ALM) within Power Platform environments. These resources are developed by the Open Strata Team, leveraging our extensive experience and insights gained from collaborations with enterprise customers and cloud governance experts.
CoE Starter Kit
The Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit is a set of templates that are designed to help you develop a strategy for adopting, maintaining, and supporting Microsoft Power Platform.
The Automation Kit for Microsoft Power Platform is a set of templates that are designed to help you manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption with Power Automate, based on industry best practices.
The Business Approvals Kit for Microsoft Power Platform is a set of templates that are designed to help you manage, govern, and scale approvals using a collection of Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse components.
The ALM accelerator for Microsoft Power Platform provides guidance and an app to help you implement source control, enable version history, and deploy solutions in Microsoft Power Platform.
The Microsoft Power Platform Creator Kit helps you easily create consistent, beautiful, and effective user experiences for custom business applications with a collection of 24+ Fluent UI controls and templates for Power Apps.
No-code templates on Microsoft Power Platform for faster, flexible, and user-friendly approval workflows.
These no-code templates speed up complex approval workflows with conditional branching, delegation, and admin controls, usable by anyone in your organization.
Small business owner transitioned from paper to digital, enabling her to stay open and continue delivering treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution includes Microsoft Bookings, Forms, Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse.
Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, Japan’s largest insurance company, used Power Automate desktop flows to optimize citizen developer training & certification processes.
Ardent Mills operates in more than 40 locations that specialize in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic & gluten-free products. A citizen developer built several Power Apps solutions that are used daily across all locations. They are adopting Dataverse in their journey to building a paperless state-of-the-art mill.
