GovOps with Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot

In an era of tightening budgets and rising citizen expectations, government agencies must modernize or risk obsolescence. This book provides a comprehensive, handson roadmap for public sector leaders, architects, and developers to harness Microsoft Power Platform's lowcode and AI capabilities with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, AI Builder, Copilot, and Dataverse. This book lays out the case for lowcode modernization, demonstrates how to assess organizational readiness, and introduces governance and CoE best practices.

Readers will walk away with repeatable frameworks, proven templates, and scripts to accelerate digital transformation in any government setting to foster transparency, efficiency, and citizenfirst service delivery.

What You Will Learn

• Core Platform Deep Dive: Unpacks each Power Platform component with architecture patterns, stepbystep tutorials, and design guidelines using official Microsoft icons.
• SectorSpecific Use Cases: Shares rich, realworld examples from licensing and permitting to emergency response coordination, complete with workflows, code samples, and architecture diagrams.
• Advanced AI & Copilot Integrations: Shows how to train custom AI models, implement Copilotpowered naturallanguage generation, and embed responsible AI with humanintheloop designs.

• Operational Excellence, ALM & the Road Ahead: Covers CI/CD pipelines, environment management, security/DLP policy enforcement, accessibility, and nextgen Copilot trends.
  Who This Book is For

  This book is for IT leaders, solution architects, citizen developers, lineofbusiness analysts, and public sector project managers looking to modernize government services. Readers should have some familiarity with Microsoft 365 or basic low-code.

  Realworld case studies: legislative tracking, emergency response, licensing, and grants demonstrate applicability Explore every Power Platform component like architecture patterns, Microsoft icon diagrams, and bestpractice scripts Infuse AI Builder models and Copilot-driven naturallanguage assistants responsibly, boosting productivity

  Autorentext

Sarat Piridi is a Microsoftcertified Solution Architect (PowerPlatform Solution Architect Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and PowerAutomate RPA Developer) with over 14 years of experience delivering enterprisegrade, globalscale automation. He led the UnifiedPremier project at Microsoft, handling up to one million support cases per day across North America and EMEA, and automated fiscal workflows for CalOES. He has coauthored five peerreviewed research papers, regularly speaks at industry conferences, and serves on technical advisory boards dedicated to publicsector digital transformation.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction to Government Modernization.- Chapter 2: Overview of Microsoft Power Platform.- Chapter 3: Planning a Government LowCode Strategy.- Chapter 4: Building EndtoEnd Solutions.- Chapter5: Integrating AI and Co-Pilot.- Chapter 6: Deployment & Governance.- Chapter 7: Facilitating Government Modernization through Use Cases.- Chapter 8: Best Practices & Frameworks.- Chapter 9: The Road Ahead.- Chapter 10: Resources & Templates.- Chapter 11: Azure AI + AI Builder High-Level AI Model Development.- Chapter 12: Copilot Studio In-Depth Tutorial Bots, Prompts & Custom Skills.- Chapter 13: Low-Code + Pro-Code Fusion When to Extend with Azure Functions.- Chapter 14: Secure External API Integrations in Government Applications.- Chapter 15: Data Governance & Sovereignty with Dataverse and Azure.- Chapter 16: Making Power Platform Solutions Run Better.- Chapter 17: Monitoring & Logging with Azure Monitor and Power Platform Admin Center.- Chapter 18: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning.- Chapter 19: The Future of Digital Government Trends to Watch.- Chapter 20: Developing a Culture of Low-Code Innovation in Government Sector.