Power Pages
Consultancy Services
Mata365 provides Power Pages consultancy for Irish SMEs, designing and building secure, data-driven portals that connect directly to Dataverse, SharePoint, and the rest of your Microsoft 365 environment. We are based in Dublin and work with Irish and UK businesses across every sector.
How Power Pages Helps
You Build Modern Business Portals
Power Pages enables businesses to create secure, data-driven websites for customers, partners, and internal users.
Custom Business Portals
Build tailored Power Pages portals for customers, partners, and internal users, designed around your specific Irish business requirements rather than generic templates.
Secure Data Access
Provide external users with controlled, authenticated access to the business data they need, with none of the data they should not see.
Seamless Integration
Connect Power Pages portals directly to Dataverse, SharePoint, and Power Automate so the portal reads and writes live business data without manual synchronisation.
Our Power Pages
Consultancy Services
End-to-end Power Pages solutions to build, manage, and optimise business websites and portals.
Our Power Pages
Implementation Process
A structured approach to designing, building, and launching Power Pages portals that are secure, data-connected, and ready for your Irish business from day one.
Discover & Plan
Understand your portal requirements, target users, and data landscape, defining who will access the portal, what data they need to see or submit, how authentication will work, and how the portal will connect to Dataverse, SharePoint, or other systems before any design work begins.
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Design & Configure
Design the portal structure, page layouts, navigation, branding, and data models, configure Dataverse tables and portal metadata, and build the authentication and role configuration so your Irish business can review and approve the design before development moves to the live environment.
Deploy & Optimise
Launch the Power Pages portal, connect live data sources, configure Power Automate integrations, test all user journeys across desktop and mobile, and optimise page load performance and data query efficiency before the portal goes live for your Irish business users.
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Train & Support
Train your content managers and portal administrators on updating pages, managing user access, and monitoring portal activity, and provide ongoing Dublin-based support for feature additions, performance improvements, and technical issues as your Irish business portal evolves.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Common questions about Power Pages portal development and consultancy, answered for Irish businesses looking to build customer portals, partner portals, or external-facing web applications on Microsoft Power Platform.
What is Microsoft Power Pages and what can it do for an Irish business?
Microsoft Power Pages is a low-code web development platform that lets businesses build secure, data-driven external-facing websites and portals without needing a full software development team. For Irish businesses, the most common use cases are customer self-service portals where clients can submit requests, track orders, or access documents; partner portals where external organisations can collaborate and share information securely; and data collection portals where external users submit forms that feed directly into Dataverse or SharePoint. Power Pages portals connect natively to Dataverse and the rest of the Power Platform ecosystem, meaning data submitted through the portal is immediately available inside your business’s Microsoft 365 environment without manual transfer. Mata365 designs and builds Power Pages portals for Irish businesses across every sector.
How is Power Pages different from a standard website for an Irish business?
A standard website is primarily an information publishing tool, typically built on WordPress or a similar CMS. Power Pages is a portal platform built around authenticated user access to business data. The key differences for Irish businesses are that Power Pages users log in with verified identities, see personalised content and data based on their role, can submit and retrieve data that connects directly to your Dataverse or SharePoint environment, and trigger business processes through Power Automate when they take actions in the portal. A customer portal built on Power Pages is not a website with a contact form, it is a secure, data-connected application that gives external users controlled access to your business systems. Mata365 helps Irish businesses decide whether Power Pages is the right tool for their specific requirement and builds the portal correctly when it is.
What data sources can a Power Pages portal connect to for an Irish business?
Power Pages connects natively to Microsoft Dataverse, which is the primary data layer for the Power Platform. Through Dataverse, a Power Pages portal can read and write to any table in your Power Platform environment, including records shared with Dynamics 365, Power Apps model-driven apps, and custom business data. Power Pages also integrates with SharePoint through Power Automate, allowing portal form submissions to create SharePoint list items or document library entries. For Irish businesses using Salesforce, SQL Server, or other external systems, Power Automate connectors can extend this integration so portal activity updates records in those systems simultaneously. Mata365 designs the right data integration architecture for every Power Pages portal built for Irish businesses.
How does Power Pages handle security and authentication for Irish businesses?
Power Pages supports multiple authentication methods, including Microsoft Entra for staff or partner users who already have Microsoft accounts, Azure AD B2C for external customer authentication with email and password, and local authentication for scenarios where external users do not have Microsoft identities. Role-based access control determines which pages, forms, and data records each authenticated user can see, so a customer only sees their own account data and a partner only sees content relevant to their relationship. For Irish businesses with GDPR obligations, Power Pages supports data residency in EU data centres, consent management, and data minimisation through table and column permissions in Dataverse. Mata365 configures authentication and access management for every Power Pages portal with Irish data protection requirements in mind.
Can Power Pages replace an existing customer portal for an Irish business?
Yes, for many Irish businesses Power Pages is a practical replacement for an existing customer portal, particularly where the current portal is built on a legacy system that is expensive to maintain, lacks integration with the Microsoft 365 environment, or requires IT involvement for every content update. Mata365 assesses your current portal, understands the functionality your Irish business and its users depend on, and designs a Power Pages replacement that delivers the same capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem at lower long-term cost. Migrating portal data to Dataverse and redesigning the user experience as part of the transition is a common engagement Mata365 delivers for Irish businesses moving to Power Pages.
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