Samit Saini used to be the security guard at Heathrow Airport. He worked for 13 years.
Now, he works at the IT department at Heathrow Airport and has developed 17 applications for different functions around the airport, although he still can’t write code.
From security to product development, Samit Saini told us that it was not that difficult.
The key to all this is the Power platform.
As a security guard who loves excel, Samit Saini used to use excel to handle his administrative work. After he discovered PowerApps, “Everyone can do their own applications,” he used PowerApps to make a digital version of the paper form and updated his workflow from scratch, which was appreciated by the IT department.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells Quartz, there will be more and more stories like Samit Saini.
November 4, Satya Nadella in the Ignite business Developers Conference introduced the Power platform – a collection of Power BI analysis, PowerApps application development and platform automation engine Flow, Let everyone more easily develop application.
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Microsoft introduced the Power Virtual Agent for the Power platform, enabling everyone to build an intelligent robot that requires no coding and no artificial intelligence training.
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence can save users time, allowing users to define every possible question and answer without too much effort, and rely on this tool to understand the audience’s intent and enable them to Get the right feedback.
Reducing the threshold of technology, so that more people can have their own applications and their own intelligent robots, which is what Microsoft does.
Satya Nadella said at the scene that LinkedIn’s data has proven that 60% of the jobs in the technology industry are not within the “traditional” technology industry that we believe.
As more and more companies network their own data, there will be more and more related technical positions. Nadella expects a shortage of about 1 million developers in 2030, and they need to find new ways to lower the threshold for those who might use computers to develop applications.
Just as the emergence of excel allows more people who are not engaged in statistics and calculations to become white-collar workers, Microsoft hopes that the Power platform can also lower the industry threshold with unencoded or less coded programming. At the same time, they don’t think that the platform of “everyone can develop” will compress the professional growth space of professional developers.
We may have more professional developers and more ordinary (untrained) developers. In fact, I believe that both industries will be applied as the company’s digital capabilities improve.