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Teams started out as a pure collaboration tool, but it's now becoming a platform for no-code, low-code and pro-code business apps. Here's an analysis of the potential impact Teams will have for Power Platform and Microsoft 365 application development.
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Due to trademark issues, Microsoft had to back off from their plans to rebrand CDS as "Dataflex". How does something like this even happen?
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How did the outside world react to Microsoft's announcement of Dataflex and what questions should we focus on after the dust settles from Inspire 2020.
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The new name for Common Data Services is Dataflex Pro. What about the non-Pro version then? That's where the story gets really interesting, with a Microsoft Teams licensing bundle that will allow the creation of Power Apps on top of relational data for pretty much all Office users in the world.
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The Common Data Service is a foundational element of Power Platform, yet it isn't an actual software product that would be sold directly on a per user basis. The history as well as the future of CDS make it a complex part of the licensing puzzle for customers - and Microsoft.
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The low-code platform from Microsoft is becoming an increasingly mature foundation for business apps of all shapes and sizes, based on this latest roadmap. Uniting citizen dev & pro dev tools and offering pahts from Power Platform tools to Azure is a common theme in 2020 Wave 2.
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Power Platform Admin Center has taken the place of the old CRM era admin tools. Where are the features now and what's different for Dynamics 365 admins?
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Application Lifecycle Management often deals with tools and concepts from the pro-developer world that aren't necessarily easy to apply as-is to the new world of low-code applications. What do you need to consider in your ALM strategy to align it with the citizen developer language and mindset?
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Whether you are using a particular feature on a daily basis or once a year doesn't make a difference when it comes to the licensing requirements of Business Applications. Why is it so hard to offer a license type for the "light touch" scenarios?
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The low-code tools are making it easier than ever to have data flowing between different systems and presented in a custom UI that may bypass the original enterprise applications altogether. However, this does not free you from the requirement of having a license for these systems. Welcome to the world of multiplexing.