Microsoft Power Platform Wave 2 2025: New features SMBs shouldn't miss
- Elise Dejour
- Dec 19, 2025
- 4 min read
The Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, Copilot Studio) is undergoing significant changes with the Wave 2 2025 release, with new features available between October 2025 and March 2026.
For SMEs, this is a major opportunity: increased automation, artificial intelligence, enhanced governance, and easier construction of business applications without code.
Power Apps: Create business applications faster with AI integration
The new version of Power Apps emphasizes collaboration between business users and agents (assistants) and accelerates application creation using AI. Among the major new features are:
Integrated "Agent feed" to monitor the actions of intelligent agents (e.g., filling out a form, viewing data, generating a summary).
AI application: upload an image or text description to generate an automated app or interface (low-code). Better integration with Power BI, Dataverse, and agents to build end-to-end solutions.
For example, for an SME: imagine that your logistics, field, or sales teams have a customized app in just a few days that is connected to your ERP or CRM.
Power Pages: smart and secure portals
With this update, Power Pages enables developers to create external business websites (such as customer and/or supplier portals) more quickly and securely, thanks in particular to the new features introduced in this update:
Accelerated site building
Built-in security agent features to monitor and protect your portals.
Suitable for external use cases: customer portal, supplier access, employee portal.
An SME will thus be able to launch a customer or supplier portal without outsourcing, with a solution connected to Dataverse and the back office.
Power Automate: intelligent automation at scale
This version brings major new features in automation: native AI, Human-in-the-loop (HITL), advanced approvals, and governance control.
Generative Actions to automate tasks via AI.
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP): invoices, delivery notes, emails to be processed.
Governance center to monitor, secure, and control automations (Automation Center).
With these new features, companies can free up their teams from repetitive tasks; for example, an email arrives → automatic quote/delivery note creation task → notification to the relevant team.
Copilot Studio and intelligent agents: the "brain" of the platform
The launch of Copilot Studio enables the creation and management of intelligent agents that work together, leveraging Azure AI & Microsoft Graph, particularly in:
Building "agent teams" that cooperate (e.g., a data entry agent, a validation agent, a reporting agent).
Deep integration with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Graph to leverage your data.
Dedicated governance to ensure security, accountability, and traceability.
For example, imagine an agent that reads customer requests, creates a ticket, assigns it, and generates an automatic report - all without manual intervention.
Dataverse and data storage/processing: the intelligent foundation
Dataverse is strengthening its position to become a true low-code/AI-ready data platform with integrated agentic capabilities:
“Dataverse for Agents”: support for intelligent agents connected to data.
Highly optimized intelligent search (Dataverse Search).
Integrated AI business logic: automatic rules, scoring, recommendations.
As a result, customer, transactional, and operational data are now ready to feed applications and agents without over-development.
Governance & administration: mastering AI, agents, and automation
One of the major challenges for SMEs is mastering the digital ecosystem. This wave specifically targets governance, in particular through:
A unified hub for governing agents, apps, and workflows.
Security controls, compliance, visibility on agent usage.
Simplified management of environments, features, and rights.
For Swiss SMEs (or those operating in Switzerland/the EU): nLPD/GDPR compliance becomes easier to manage, even with AI and agents.
Why is this update an opportunity for your business?
These new features bring together three key drivers: Increased productivity thanks to automations, agents, and apps that save time. Innovation becomes even more accessible with low-code and AI, which accelerate business value creation. And compliance and control are guaranteed with enhanced governance and greater security.
For SMEs, this allows them to catch up with (or even surpass) large companies in terms of agility and speed of adaptation, a real operational lever.
Key takeaways from Microsoft Power Platform 2025 Wave 2
The new features in Microsoft Power Platform 2025 Wave 2 mark a turning point: AI, automation, intelligent agents, and governance are becoming central to digital solutions. To get the most out of this update:
Identify the business processes to be automated (sales, customer service, back office).
Set up data management (Dataverse) and agents for your priority cases.
Ensure governance: access rights, traceability, compliance.
Enlist support to ensure successful user adoption.
Almakom, the choice of proximity
At Almakom, we integrate and customize Microsoft solutions. We develop specific business applications (transport, distribution, healthcare, etc.). We support Swiss SMEs so that they have solutions that are compliant, efficient, and adapted to their reality in the field. At Almakom, we act as an integrator and publisher:
We define requirements in order to select the right ERP modules.
We customize solutions for specific industries (healthcare, transportation, distribution, finance, etc.).
Regulatory compliance: compliance with the GDPR, nLPD, and industry standards.
Training and support for teams to ensure adoption.
Support and scalability: the ERP grows with your business.
👉 It is this pragmatic and hands-on support that makes all the difference.
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