UN Low-Code + API Summit 🇪🇸
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UN Low-Code + API Summit 🇪🇸

Wave periods between major innovation in the cloud are growing shorter. We no longer have the luxury of waiting it out, of adopting later. Cloud ecosystems built on strategic foundations create the conditions to absorb successive waves of change. This session explored the history of these wave periods and implications that quickening technological innovation hold for global organizations, overviewed the “strategic pyramid” model for activity and system-based value in the cloud, introduced a reference ecosystem map built with ecosystem-oriented architecture, applied this architecture to a UN organizational context, and linked the architecture to a combination of Azure data, Azure AI, and Power Platform technologies.

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D365 + Power Platform UG 🇬🇧
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D365 + Power Platform UG 🇬🇧

Workloads in the Microsoft Cloud are increasingly being built to (a) integrate with one another, (b) integrate with the broader enterprise application and data system, and (c) make use of common building blocks such as core platform services, Azure data, application, and integration services, and Power Platform. On the latter, the most successful organizations are now using Power Platform to build ambitious, high value solutions. In other words, solutions are being tied together rather than architected in isolation, and this is generating vast datasets built as "single sources of truth".

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Azure Integration Congress 🇳🇱
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Azure Integration Congress 🇳🇱

Organizations using Microsoft Cloud are integrating their workloads with each other, broader enterprise applications, and common building blocks like core platform services, integration services, data solutions, and Power Platform. Successful organizations are using Power Platform to build high-value solutions that tie different solutions together, generating large datasets as “single sources of truth”. This session will explore real-world examples of how organizations have integrated their workloads into an ecosystem, best practices, and lessons learned, inspiring attendees to think like the world’s boldest solution and enterprise architects.

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Keynote @ HSO Tech Day 🇳🇱
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Keynote @ HSO Tech Day 🇳🇱

I have come to understand strategic thinking as more art than science. Strategy is surely informed in part by data, but I find that our society in general and the technology industry specifically too often confuse data and wisdom, that we foolishly (though understandably) seek heuristics or processes so that we can turn the art of strategic thinking into a game of color by numbers so simple that anyone can do it. When it comes to strategic thinking, better that we seek methods of framing our thoughts rather than shortcuts to the answers themselves. This session offers practical approaches to injecting strategy into your organization’s Microsoft Cloud journey, indeed, a selection of the same approaches I take with my clients. We explore a wide range of topics, including the impact of AI on the strategic landscape, how organizations have ever-decreasing time to absorb waves of innovation into their operating models, the transition from activity-based to system-based value, and how governance fits. We’ll then investigate a model for weaving strategic intent into the ongoing cloud journey, and explore industry-specific ecosystem maps that illustrate how other organizations have found success doing this.

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D365 + Power Platform UG 🇬🇧
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D365 + Power Platform UG 🇬🇧

Workloads in the Microsoft Cloud are increasingly being built to (a) integrate with one another, (b) integrate with the broader enterprise application and data system, and (c) make use of common building blocks such as core platform services, Azure data, application, and integration services, and Power Platform. On the latter, the most successful organizations are now using Power Platform to build ambitious, high value solutions. In other words, solutions are being tied together rather than architected in isolation, and this is generating vast datasets built as "single sources of truth". This session will get you thinking like the world's boldest solution and enterprise architects as we explore real-world examples of how organizations have knitted their workloads together into an ecosystem, best practices for doing so, and lessons learned along the way.

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Dynamics Minds 🇸🇮
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Dynamics Minds 🇸🇮

Power Platform solutions are increasingly being built to integrate with one another and with the larger enterprise application and data ecosystem, and the most successful organizations are using Power Platform to build ambitious, high-value solutions. In other words, solutions are being tied together rather than architected in isolation, and this is generating vast datasets built as "single sources of truth". This session will get you thinking like the world's boldest solution and enterprise architects as we explore real-world examples of how organizations have knitted their workloads together into an ecosystem, best practices for doing so, and lessons learned along the way.

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Iberian Summit 🇵🇹
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Iberian Summit 🇵🇹

Power Platform solutions are increasingly being built to integrate with one another and with the larger enterprise application and data ecosystem, and the most successful organizations are using Power Platform to build ambitious, high-value solutions. In other words, solutions are being tied together rather than architected in isolation, and this is generating vast datasets built as "single sources of truth". This session will get you thinking like the world's boldest solution and enterprise architects as we explore real-world examples of how organizations have knitted their workloads together into an ecosystem, best practices for doing so, and lessons learned along the way.

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