About Me - Jukka Niiranen blog

Hi, I’m Jukka

I’m a 40-something business geek from Helsinki, Finland. I’m an independent Power Platform Advisor working for myself at Niiranen Advisory Oy.

Blogger

I’ve been a fairly regular blogger since 2008. If you’ve been working in the Microsoft ecosystem or been a power user / admin of Dynamics CRM/365 products, then you might have come across my blog called “Surviving CRM”. All of that content is still here on this site, but in December 2019 I migrated over to this “Thinking Forward” blog under jukkaniiranen.com that you’re visiting now.

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Former 11x Microsoft MVP

In 2013 I was awarded by Microsoft as the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Dynamics 365 technology. In the words of Microsoft, “this award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.” I remained in the MVP program for 11 years, until I retired from it in 2024.

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Solopreneur

After working in several consulting roles over the past years, as well as co-founding the first Power Platform agency in Finland, I decided to become an independent advisor in 2024.

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Where business meets IT

Throughout my professional career I’ve always been that guy who can translate business needs & wants into the language of technology that developers and IT professionals understand. Now that every company is becoming a software company, explaining these new opportunities of technology to the business is an increasingly important part of my role.

Focused on usability and user adoption

Few things in life frustrate me more than seeing the development of advanced technical solutions that are incomprehensible to the end users and deliver an appalling UX. I won’t let that happen on my shift.

Deep Dynamics 365 insights

I’ve worked in the Microsoft business applications ecosystem on a daily basis since 2005, both in customer and partner roles. This gives me perspective on the future direction of how these technologies are evolving and what obstacles customers may face when using them to manage their business processes.

No-code first

I’m a Citizen Developer who always explores ways to meet the requirements without resorting to customer specific code. Microsoft Power Platform is an amazing, ever expanding toolkit that can often deliver you the business results via configuration options that won’t limit your agility on future adjustments and system updates.