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Microsoft Fabric + Power Platform at a Top-50 Specialty Retailer

A specialty retailer modernized 87 store-ops apps onto Microsoft Fabric + Power Platform — 6 months end-to-end.

May 9, 2026 · 2 min read · By admin
At a glance
87 BEFORE 64 apps AFTER
Industry
Retail
Topics
Azure · Microsoft · Power Platform
Published
May 2026
Headline outcome
87 87 → 64 apps (23…

Measured outcomes

What this programme actually delivered.

87

87 → 64 apps (23 retired); 31 modernized

0%

Mobile adoption: 0% → 78% of store ops

71%

Per-app maintenance hours down 71%

$2.4M

$2.4M run-cost savings annualized

The challenge

87 store-ops apps built over 12 years on Access, classic SharePoint, Excel-with-macros. Maintenance was painful. Mobile experience was nonexistent. The retailer needed modernization without rebuilding from scratch.

What we built

Power Platform (Power Apps + Power Automate) as the modernization target. Microsoft Fabric as the unified data layer. Strict triage: 31 apps modernized, 23 retired (low usage), 33 retained as-is for now. Mobile-first for all modernized apps. Power BI dashboards for store ops.

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