Course Outline
Introduction to AI Builder and Low-Code AI for Government
- Overview of AI Builder capabilities and common use cases for government
- Licensing, governance, and tenant-level considerations for government agencies
- Integration with Power Platform tools (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) to enhance public sector operations
OCR and Form Processing: Structured and Unstructured Documents for Government
- Differentiating between structured templates and free-form documents in government contexts
- Preparing training data: labeling fields, ensuring sample diversity, and adhering to quality guidelines for government
- Building an AI Builder form processing model and assessing extraction accuracy for government applications
- Post-processing extracted data: validation, normalization, and error handling in a governmental setting
- Hands-on lab: OCR extraction from mixed form types and integration into a processing flow for government operations
Prediction Models: Classification and Regression for Government
- Problem framing: qualitative (classification) vs quantitative (regression) tasks in public sector scenarios
- Feature preparation and handling missing data within Power Platform workflows for government
- Training, testing, and interpreting model metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, RMSE) for government applications
- Model explainability and fairness considerations in business use cases for government agencies
- Hands-on lab: building a custom prediction model for churn/score or numeric forecast for government operations
Integration with Power Apps and Power Automate for Government
- Embedding AI Builder models into canvas and model-driven apps for enhanced government services
- Creating automated flows to process extracted data and trigger business actions in government processes
- Design patterns for scalable, maintainable AI-driven applications for government
- Hands-on lab: end-to-end scenario — document upload, OCR, prediction, and workflow automation for government operations
Complementary Process Mining Concepts (Optional) for Government
- How Process Mining helps discover, analyze, and improve processes using event logs in government agencies
- Using Process Mining outputs to inform model features and automate improvement loops in government operations
- Practical example: combining Process Mining insights with AI Builder to reduce manual exceptions in government workflows
Production Considerations, Governance, and Monitoring for Government
- Data governance, privacy, and compliance when using AI Builder on sensitive documents in government
- Model lifecycle: retraining, versioning, and performance monitoring for government applications
- Operationalizing models with alerts, dashboards, and human-in-the-loop validation for government processes
Summary and Next Steps for Government
Requirements
- Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, or Power Platform administration for government
- Familiarity with data concepts, foundational machine learning principles, and model evaluation techniques
- Proficiency in working with datasets, Excel/CSV exports, and basic data cleansing processes
Audience
- Power Platform developers and solution architects for government agencies
- Data analysts and process owners interested in automating tasks through artificial intelligence
- Business automation leads focused on document processing and predictive use cases within the public sector
Testimonials (2)
We did quite complex examples, so we could get a feeling of how the real work with Power Automate Desktop can look like in the real world scenario.
Michal Strnad - MicroNova AG
Course - Microsoft Flow/Power Automate
Dynamic, adaptive, and informative