Tag Dataflex

Analysis

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.

November 17, 2020
branding Common Data Service Dataflex Dataverse naming

Analysis

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?

August 13, 2020
branding Common Data Service Dataflex Power Platform product Project Oakdale roadmap

News and events

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.

July 21, 2020
branding Common Data Service Dataflex Microsoft Teams PowerApps Project Oakdale XRM

How naming works in the Power Platform universe

There never was a “Microsoft Dataflex”

Dataflex is more (and less) than CDS

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