Wrapping up the year in Microsoft’s low-code business apps: what were the biggest themes of 2021?
Did Power Apps really leak your customer data?
Over a thousand Portals were discovered with a security setting misconfigured. Why did this data leak happen and what can we learn from it?
Democratizing code
Could low-code platforms like MS Power Platform democratize app development the same way Web 2.0 did it for social content creation and sharing? Here’s a collection of thoughts around how using less code may impact the business applications ecosystem.
What will Power Fx mean for Model-driven Power Apps?
Will the common low-code programming language turn business app customization from GUI based tasks to a jungle of formulas, or will we just gain new powers?
Year 2020 in Microsoft Business Applications
Here are the three most important topics that shaped the world of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 in the year 2020.
How naming works in the Power Platform universe
Dataverse instead of CDS, tables instead of entities, Customer Insights instead of… Customer Insights. Don’t get too attached to any particular name in the Power Platform and BizApps world, as the only constant here is change.
How Microsoft Teams can scale up low-code: my 5 min explanation
Video of my presentation from Microsoft Ignite 2020 event: “How Power Platform Now Empowers All Microsoft Teams Users”.
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.
There never was a “Microsoft Dataflex”
Due to trademark issues, Microsoft had to back off from their plans to rebrand CDS as “Dataflex”. How does something like this even happen?
Dataflex: the day after
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.
