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First impressions on Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2

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.

July 9, 2020
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United at last: Dynamics 365 Dual-write goes GA

After nearly two decades of trying to bring Microsoft's ERP and CRM systems closer together, there is now finally a standard mechanism for moving data in near real-time between Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps and Common Data Service. What does having ERP data available in CDS mean for business applications customization and new app experiences?

March 29, 2020
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Year 2019 in Microsoft Business Applications

What were this year's top 3 most notable themes in the world of MS business applications? We saw the rise of the low-code movement, a number of changes in the already complex licensing model of Power Platform, and the evolution of Microsoft's data story to help organizations make better use of new AI innovations. Here are some thoughts on why these will continue to have an impact in 2020.

December 27, 2019
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The Real Common Data Service Emerges

When Microsoft announced one year ago that XRM would become CDS v2.0 (officially Common Data Service for Apps), there wasn’t yet any big system redesign implemented to make this a physical reality. Today we are much further down that road…

April 8, 2019
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First impressions on Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 2

United at last: Dynamics 365 Dual-write goes GA

Year 2019 in Microsoft Business Applications

The Real Common Data Service Emerges

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