{"id":23965,"date":"2023-03-21T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:46:10","slug":"now-in-preview-coe-starter-kit-backed-by-data-from-self-serve-analytics-data-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/now-in-preview-coe-starter-kit-backed-by-data-from-self-serve-analytics-data-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Now in preview: CoE Starter Kit backed by data from self-serve analytics data export"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2019, we launched the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit<\/a> <\/a>\u2013 a set of templates that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate. In the past three years we\u2019ve continued to evolve and innovate as we learn from our customers. Today we\u2019re excited to announce that the CoE Starter Kit can now use data provided by self-serve analytics<\/a> as a foundation for inventory and telemetry, enabling rich insights built for scale.<\/p>\n\n\n

The heart of the CoE Starter Kit is its ability to gather information about your organization\u2019s Power Platform usage and then help you use it to manage, govern, and nurture Power Platform adoption \u2013 such as identifying your top makers, highly shared and used applications, or environments that consume a lot of capacity. Up until today, the mechanism to gather information was based on cloud flows that use Power Platform admin connectors to crawl your tenant and store inventory and usage data in Dataverse tables. (When we initially launched the kit, this process was the only way to gather the information it needed.) The recent enhancement to export your tenant\u2019s inventory and usage<\/a> from the Power Platform Admin Center provides us with a more optimized option to implement these processes. So, we\u2019re evolving the CoE Starter Kit\u2019s architecture to take advantage of these product enhancements.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

Today, we\u2019re therefore excited to launch the experimental preview of the CoE Starter Kit using data provided by the Data Export feature as a foundation for inventory and telemetry. You can export Power Platform inventory and usage data directly into Azure Data Lake Storage using the Data Export<\/a> feature in the Power Platform Admin Center. Because the data is provided by the admin center, this mechanism is very efficient. Once you\u2019ve set up the Data Export feature, you can configure the CoE Starter Kit to use the data provided by this feature to power the kit\u2019s dashboards, apps, and flows.<\/p>\n\n

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Why should I try this out?<\/h2>\n\n\n

The cloud flows that sync inventory to Dataverse consume a high number of API calls and can hit throttling limits if you have a large number of Power Platform resources (environments, apps, flows) in your tenant.\u00a0 The Data Export feature uses Power BI and Power Platform dataflows, which are powerful at transforming and handling large amounts of data. Using Data Export with the CoE Starter Kit is intended to increase\u00a0performance. In addition to the performance improvements, the Data Export feature also provides much-sought-after data such as flow usage details and model-driven app usage that were not available in the CoE kit until now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

How does the CoE Starter Kit consume data from the Data Export feature?<\/h2>\n\n\n

The CoE Starter Kit uses two mechanisms to consume data from the Data Export feature:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n