Microsoft’s Power Platform updates hint at the future of enterprise coding
With the updates to Power Platform unveiled at this week’s Build event, Microsoft is not focusing on improving coding capabilities directly, but trying to simplify the overly-complex enterprise environments where programmers have to exist.
The 2024 reality for enterprise coders is that—depending on the analyst firm citing the figures—somewhere between 70% and 80% of their daily tasks do not involve coding and instead involve navigating the bureaucracy of the global IT environment. It’s actually the intersection of multiple complex environments, from the global enterprise to interconnected cloud environments from multiple companies, typically including Microsoft, Google and Amazon.