COE Starter Kit - How it differs from Power Platform Admin Center?

[dave8]

Hello,

I have quickly looked at COE Starter kit and was wondering, what is the need/benefits of these apps, while Admin Center already does the job? What are those functionalities that can only be performed from COE Starter kit and not Admin Center?

Can anyone please clarify ? 

Thanks and Regards,

[alrez]

Hi,

I have never used the COE starter kit before personally but looking through our documentation it seems like its just an expanded admin center for what you are looking for. It also looks like it connects to more modules then the PPAC does. I'll post the documentation we have on COE kit.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/starter-kit

Regards,

Alex

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Hello,

Admin and governance tools fall into three broad categories:

Admin center
The core, most important capabilities for admins and makers are the functions in the core product admin centers. These features are designed to be the easiest and most robust way to complete tasks, and are fully supported by the engineering team:

• Environment and environment security management
• Data loss prevention (DLP) policy management
• Data integration and gateway management
• Admin analytics (to view capacity and activity on Common Data Service, Power Apps, and Power Automate)
• Support ticket requests

Platform extensions
Four connectors provide access to the same APIs that the products and admin centers use. These have been exposed through the connectors library to give users the ability to create custom solutions to execute administrative or governance-related tasks.

• Power Platform for Admins
• Power Apps for Admins
• Power Automate Management
• Power Apps for Makers

Templates and customizations
The CoE Starter Kit falls into this category. The CoE templates use the admin connectors in combination with other connectors and formulas to achieve specific goals. The nature of a template is to provide a good solution for a specific task, but it might not have the exact functionality that everyone needs. It might require adjustment to achieve what others are looking for.

You can get familiar with all the modules of the CoE Starter Kit here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/coe/starter-kit-explained

Some of the added capabilities, that PPAC doesn't offer are

- tenant wide analytics of Power Platform Adoption in your organisation (PPAC only gives you this information per environment)

- templates for Welcome emails to onboard new makers, Template Catalog to share best practises, App Catalog to help discovery of apps

- Ability to perform App and Flow Risk Assessments and Archive tasks to help keep a tidy environment 

- Sample Audit Process template to gather additional information for your highly used apps, such as impact of an outage etc.