PL400 : Describe Power Virtual Agents extensibility points including Bot Framework skills and Power Automate flows

Alan Turning was the first mathematician who was given the idea about intelligent machine and Power Virtual Agent is one of them. PVA is a core component of the Power platform that provides a way for businesses to build a library of most easily answered questions and provides a user experience that allows customers to access information with fast and simple queries using bots.


Bots are the New Apps : Satya Nadella 


What is Bot ?

A bot is a form of AI that simulates human interaction through a chat interface.

Power Virtual Agents :

Microsoft 365 Power Platform that provides a no-code interface to allow teams to build chatbots that can be deployed across multiple channels and web sites. It builds powerful bots using guided GUI and empowers the customer support staff.

Advantages:

Engage naturally : engage with customers and employees conversationally.
Democratize AI:  Empower subject matter experts to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface.
Continuously Improve : Points the AI to website and automatically build topics to get started with a few clicks.

Components of Power Virtual Agents:

  1. Topic
  2. Entities
  3. Actions
  4. Publishing

Extensibility Options:

Power virtual agents can bridge the gap between subject matter experts and development teams due to extensibility features. Millions of customers around the world use Power Virtual Agents to easily create and manage bots. Now, those bots can be enhanced with the powerful Bot Framework Composer, Power Automate Flow and Bot Framework capabilities that run inside Power Virtual Agents.


Power Automate Flow :

When a bot interacts with customers, it may require information from the application to provide a personalized experience to the customer. Power Virtual Agents bots perform this type of action by calling Microsoft Power Automate. Flows can help automate activities, call operating systems, or connect to external applications.

Power Automate Flows are called from within topics by using the Call an Action.

Bot Framework Composer:

    Bot Framework Composer is an open-source, visual authoring canvas for developers and multi-disciplinary teams to design and build conversational experiences with Language Understanding, QnA Maker, and a sophisticated composition of bot replies.


    Microsoft Bot Framework:

    Power Virtual Agents is built upon the Azure Bot Framework. it can use Bot Framework skills as extensible components.

    1. Skills is new a core part of the Bot Framework SDK version 4.7
    2. Every new Bot Framework bot is also a skill and can be registered with Power Virtual Agents.
    3. Existing Bots and Skills can be converted to a skill and registered with Power Virtual Agents.


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