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- My name is Anbu Anbarasu.
I lead the Low Code Services team
within EY Client Technology.
EY is one of the Big
Four accounting firms.
We are across 150 countries,
about 300,000 employees
and we're one of the largest consumers
of Microsoft technology stack.
During COVID, one of the
FSO teams reached out to us
to work on the Paycheck
Protection Program solution.
The program entitles
any small business owner
in the US who is impacted
by the COVID lockdown
to go into a bank and
apply for a PPP loan.
So EY wanted to simplify the process
for both the banks, as
well as the borrowers.
Typically, when we try
to build an application,
we start from scratch.
We come up with a wishful design
and the wireframe and it's a long process.
We didn't have any of those
luxuries when the COVID hit.
The key differentiator
on why we chose Power Platform
is how easy and quick it
is to develop solutions.
Power Apps, Power Automate
and data come together
and integrate very seamlessly
and that was the reason
why we chose Power Platform
for the PPP solution.
As an IT person, it's not very often
that you touch up on people's lives
through your solutions.
Since launching the solution,
we were able to process the loan amount
for 50,000 small business owners,
totalling 10 billion in loan forgiveness.
It feels great to have
been part of the solution
and to have delivered this
at a very crucial time when
people really needed it.
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