Expert Portrait: Mehdi Chekori, Power Platform Director

In a business world where technological agility makes all the difference, Microsoft Power Platform stands out as a vital strategic lever. Mehdi Chekori, Power Platform Director at Logient, shares his vision and expertise to demonstrate how this powerful suite of tools can not only accelerate your digital transformation and business application development but also create a decisive competitive advantage in today’s complex market. 

Hello Mehdi! First, can you tell us about your background and what led you to specialize in Power Platform? 

Technology has always been part of my DNA. I started programming at the age of 10, driven by a curiosity that naturally led me to study software engineering. My professional path has always been guided by the pursuit of efficiency and innovation in application development. 

In 2018, I identified the transformative potential of low-code as a solution to drastically speed up development cycles while optimizing costs. Microsoft’s Power Platform immediately stood out for its robustness and seamless integration with the Microsoft ecosystem already in place in many organizations. 

One of the pivotal moments in this specialization was our collaboration with a major Canadian airport. What started as simple prototypes and proof-of-concept initiatives evolved into a multi-year strategic partnership. This project allowed us to push the platform’s limits to meet extremely complex operational needs. 

How would you summarize Power Platform to someone discovering it? 

Power Platform is an integrated ecosystem developed by Microsoft that revolutionizes how businesses can meet their technological needs. This suite includes Power Apps to create custom business applications, Power Automate to orchestrate and automate complex processes, Power BI for advanced analytics and data visualization, Power Pages to build secure professional websites and portals, and Copilot to integrate conversational artificial intelligence. 

At the heart of this ecosystem is Dataverse, a robust data storage platform that centralizes business information in a unified, secure model accessible to all Power Platform components. This architecture ensures data integrity and facilitates its use across various applications. What makes this platform uniquely powerful is its ability to cover the full spectrum of technological needs.  

In your opinion, what is Power Platform’s main advantage? 

The key strength of Power Platform is the balance it offers between rapid development and the ability to meet highly demanding technical requirements. This platform creates what I call “accelerated technological efficiency” by seamlessly combining the agility of low-code with the power and flexibility of pro-code. 

This efficiency is amplified by its native integration with the Microsoft ecosystem already present in most companies. This synergy allows for immediate use of data and features from Office 365, Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and Azure, creating technological coherence that multiplies the value of existing investments. 

In practical terms, our hybrid approach radically transforms traditional delivery timelines. Business applications that once required several months of development can now be deployed in a few weeks, or even a few days for certain modules. 

This velocity never comes at the expense of quality. The robustness of the Power Platform architecture, combined with our deep technical expertise, ensures that the applications we develop remain fully maintainable, scalable, and compliant with the highest security standards. It’s this combination of speed, seamless integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, and technical reliability that constitutes, in my opinion, the true value proposition of Power Platform.  

How does Power Platform help your clients stand out in the market? 

In today’s economy, execution speed is often the key success factor. By drastically reducing development cycles and associated costs, we enable companies to adopt a more agile and proactive stance in their market. 

To summarize this acceleration in time-to-market: rapid testing of new ideas, low-cost concept validation, and deployment of complete solutions in a fraction of the usual time. This technological agility becomes a strategic differentiator for our clients, who can now seize market opportunities ahead of their competitors.  

What are the integration advantages of Power Platform with other systems? 

Beyond its natural synergy with the Microsoft ecosystem (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook), the platform excels in its ability to communicate with virtually any external solution. For instance, Power Automate offers more than 1,200 pre-built connectors covering major cloud services and business applications. For specific or proprietary systems, we develop custom connectors that integrate seamlessly into our clients’ existing architecture.  

This is what enables the elimination of information silos and transforms Power Platform into a central hub that intelligently orchestrates data flows across all enterprise systems.  

Can you tell us more about your team’s motto “Powerful alone, better together”? 

This motto not only captures the essence of Power Platform but also embodies the core values of our team. Just like the platform’s components, each member brings a unique area of expertise, but it’s our collaboration that delivers exceptional results.  

In practice, this approach transforms the way we design solutions. Instead of creating isolated applications, we build interconnected digital ecosystems where data and processes flow seamlessly. A Power Apps application can trigger Power Automate flows that feed Power BI dashboards, all accessible via a Power Pages portal and enriched by Copilot intelligence.