Why use Microsoft Power Platform for accounting
Most accounting software is only as good as the platform it’s built on. While features like payables, financial reporting, or consolidations are important, the underlying architecture determines whether your system can scale, integrate, and evolve with your business.
Gravity Software is the only accounting solution built entirely on the Microsoft Power Platform—a modern, cloud-based foundation that gives users access to Microsoft’s continuous innovation in automation, artificial intelligence, analytics, and security.
In this article, we’ll explore why that matters and how your finance team benefits from a platform-first approach to accounting.
Why the Power Platform matters
Legacy accounting systems are often built on proprietary or outdated frameworks. While they may serve basic needs, they’re often limited when it comes to automation, integration, or real-time visibility.
Proprietary platforms:
- Require custom integrations for every new tool or workflow
- Offer limited flexibility as your business grows or adds entities
- Don’t evolve fast enough to keep up with modern technology
- Increase dependence on a single vendor’s update and support cycles
In contrast, the Microsoft Power Platform is designed for agility, scalability, and openness—making it an ideal foundation for financial systems.
Built for accounting. Backed by Microsoft.
The Microsoft Power Platform is designed to support flexible, scalable business applications. It includes tools like Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Virtual Agents.
When accounting software is built natively on this platform—as Gravity Software is—it delivers deeper capabilities, faster innovation, and easier connections to the tools your team already uses.
Better visibility, automation, and customization
By building Gravity Software natively on the Microsoft Power Platform, we give finance teams direct access to tools and technologies that go far beyond traditional accounting features.
You don’t need to bolt on third-party solutions or wait for custom development. With Gravity, these capabilities are already built in:
Power BI
Create dynamic dashboards and real-time financial reports across multiple entities—without exporting data or building spreadsheets. Power BI connects directly to your accounting data model for faster insights and better decision-making.
Power Automate
Power Automate lets you automate workflows like invoice approvals, journal entries, and alerts using no-code logic flows. It’s a scalable way to reduce manual effort and increase consistency across accounting operations.
Microsoft Copilot
Gravity Software supports embedded AI capabilities through Microsoft Copilot, giving users intelligent suggestions, anomaly detection, and data summaries within tools like Excel, Outlook, and Teams. Copilot helps finance teams work faster and make smarter decisions across routine tasks and reporting.
Note: A separate Microsoft Copilot license is required to activate this feature. Clients must purchase it directly from Microsoft.
Power Apps
Build custom forms and apps to streamline budgeting, approvals, or other tasks—without IT involvement. Power Apps gives finance teams the flexibility to solve niche challenges quickly.
Want to dive deeper into how businesses are using these tools? Read more about Power Apps and the Power Platform here.
Open APIs and seamless integrations
Because Gravity is built on Microsoft’s open and standards-based platform, integration is simple, scalable, and future-proof.
Gravity Software connects natively with:
- Microsoft 365 apps like Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
- Microsoft Teams for collaboration and approvals
- Jet Reports and Jet Insights
- Ramp Expense Management
- MTC's Time and Billing
Always evolving through Microsoft innovation
Microsoft invests billions annually in its Power Platform ecosystem. That means Gravity Software users benefit from continuous enhancements across areas like:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Low-code/no-code development tools
- Advanced business intelligence and reporting
- Security, compliance, and identity management
- Workflow automation and data connectivity
Because Gravity is built on this platform, you’re not waiting for years between releases. You gain access to the latest features and improvements as Microsoft releases them—without disruption or additional development cycles.
Enterprise-grade security and global hosting
Your financial data is stored and managed in Microsoft Azure’s global network of over 200 data centers. That means:
- End-to-end encryption
- Built-in disaster recovery
- High availability and uptime
- AI-powered threat detection
- Compliance with global standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO/IEC 27001
By leveraging Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, Gravity ensures your accounting system is secure, reliable, and ready for scale—without requiring your team to manage servers, backups, or security updates.
Real-world results
Gravity Software has been a great fit for our company as we expand our entities. We were already using Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, so the seamless integration with Gravity was a huge advantage. We had long outgrown QuickBooks, but didn’t quite require an expensive and overly complex enterprise application. We’ve been able to streamline our internal accounting processes based on the capabilities of Gravity. We’ve eliminated (at least) two outside programs/processes that we previously utilized for reporting purposes.”
— Director of Accounting, 360 Destination Group
Ready to modernize your accounting platform?
Gravity Software gives finance teams the flexibility and power of Microsoft’s technology ecosystem—delivered in a purpose-built accounting solution for growing businesses.
Built on the Microsoft Power Platform, Gravity helps you automate workflows, gain real-time insights, simplify integrations, and stay ahead of technology trends.
To see how it works in action, schedule a personalized demo and discover how Gravity Software can help your business scale smarter.
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