Jukka Niiranen

Jukka Niiranen

Power Platform Advisor, Owner at Niiranen Advisory Oy. Microsoft Business Applications MVP since 2013. CRM geek since 2005. Craft beer aficionado. Original techno junkie. Dad.

Microsoft Teams as a platform

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.

Dataflex is more (and less) than CDS

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.