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  • 7 months of Perspectives – start of my newsletter journey

    Learning a new way to write after 16 years of WordPress based blogging. Why the tools we’ve always used may not take us where we want to go next.

  • This blog is now part of the Fediverse (nope, not anymore)

    How ActivityPub can make blog posts visible on the modern, decentralized social web. Reflecting on my 15 years of blogging and how the technology around it has evolved.

  • The world beyond apps – my thoughts on AI’s impact

    How LLM based generative AI systems are challenging the role of traditional business applications, as well as the job roles of people building them.

  • The state of Teams as a platform

    2 years since the Dataverse for Teams launch, it’s time to look how far we’ve come with the Microsoft Teams application platform story & what’s missing still.

  • Podcast: Understanding Power Platform’s evolution

    What are the market trends & client needs for low-code? How is Power Platform positioned in Microsoft’s cloud? What is the business potential for partners? These are some of the topics that I talked about in the podcast episode for “Demystifying Enterprise Innovation”.

  • 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.

  • Licensing by consumption: pricing model of Power Platform online services

    On the topic of Dynamics 365 and PowerApps licensing changes coming in October 2019, I earlier wrote about the biggest change in how Microsoft is separating the first party applications and the underlying platform in the new Per App pricing model. There’s another aspect in the coming licensing updates that has also caused a lot […]

  • 4 directions for Power Platform business growth

    It’s now roughly one year since Microsoft launched the concept of Power Platform. It’s been extremely interesting in the past 12 months to watch how this new platform strategy starts to play out in the world outside Redmond, as the pieces of this grand puzzle begin to become visible here and there. Having worked in […]

  • 2 become 1 UI: PowerApps Roadmap from MBAS

    Have you looked at the MBAS Gallery yet? Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2019 was last week and already the majority of sessions have been published online for also non-attendees to enjoy. Even if you attended the conference in Atlanta, there’s a chance that you may have missed a few sessions, with there being 200+ of […]

  • 4 Stages of MS Cloud Business Apps Evolution

    In the past I’ve written about the History of Microsoft CRM from it’s first 10 years. I’ve also explored how the platform evolution up until Dynamics CRM 2013 had changed the product and how we worked with it. This time I want to focus on specifically the Microsoft Cloud era. I started to think about […]

  • Top 3 Themes for Dynamics 365 in 2018

    What were the biggest news and announcements from 2018 for the Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem? Here’s my top 3 picks.

  • Unified Experiences in October 2018 Release

    The October ’18 of Microsoft Business Applications is going to bring a whole bunch of exciting features, spread across the huge stack of products and apps that either make up or operate on the Power Platform. Much of them will be specific to an area that only some of the users or developers work with […]