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.
Due to trademark issues, Microsoft had to back off from their plans to rebrand CDS as "Dataflex". How does something like this even happen?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
