Four things to know and five things to do following the big Microsoft Dataflex + Teams announcement
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Four things to know and five things to do following the big Microsoft Dataflex + Teams announcement

Today’s public announcement of new Microsoft Dataflex and the re-branding of the former “Common Data Service” (CDS) as Microsoft Dataflex Pro is one of—if not the—most profound Microsoft product evolutions of 2020. There will be significant discussion and work on this in the weeks and months ahead, but for now I’d like to help folks contextualize this new development by asking two questions: What should I be thinking big picture with the launch of Microsoft Dataflex, and what should I do next to make sure my organization is ready?

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A love letter to my team, Microsoft Partner of the Year for Power Apps and Power Automate
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A love letter to my team, Microsoft Partner of the Year for Power Apps and Power Automate

I am beyond excited to share that Applied Information Sciences (AIS) has been recognized as the Microsoft worldwide Partner of the Year for Power Apps and Power Automate. Permit me a brief love letter to my team… Emily Cartner is our solution architect who led the team behind a lot of what made this award possible. The rest of the group, too: Whether in India, Europe, or the United States, this business applications team is the world’s best. I am so grateful that these brilliant people (current and future) all choose to direct their talent and passion in the direction of our—and our clients’—collective success.

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Sharing the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second edition
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Sharing the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second edition

Today we’re releasing the second edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework. We're introducing some new ideas—and new ways of thinking about existing concepts—as we enter the Power Platform Adoption Framework's second year. As a "framework", we're committed to broadly applicable best practices for adoption at scale, not to being a technical manual.

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Power Platform is a First Class Citizen in the Cloud Transformation + App Modernization journey
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Power Platform is a First Class Citizen in the Cloud Transformation + App Modernization journey

That’s what low-code cloud transformation and app modernization is really about: Harnessing the “65% Opportunity” with Power Platform as a first-class citizen for business applications amongst Microsoft’s “Three Clouds”. So what's driving this? And — perhaps more importantly — how do we do this at scale? How do we migrate one, two, or ten thousand workloads to Power Platform?

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Adopting the Microsoft Power Platform in the enterprise
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Adopting the Microsoft Power Platform in the enterprise

This session introduces the Power Platform Adoption Framework and gives an overview of its start-to-finish approach to help you and your organization get the most value out of any form of Power Platform available to you today. We also share how other enterprise organizations have scaled with large and complex needs using Power Platform and what were the tools, best practices and patterns they explored and used to become successful adopters.

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Power Platform Adoption Framework is now open for community collaboration on Github. Join us!
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Power Platform Adoption Framework is now open for community collaboration on Github. Join us!

Last week at the PowerApps + Flow User Group in London, I shared the news that ongoing development of the Power Platform Adoption Framework is now happening on Github. Developers everywhere use Github to create software, and now we’re going to use Github to further build the framework that enables people to create beautiful and useful things on Power Platform deployed in large, enterprise-grade organizations.

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It’s time for a shared, community commitment to Best Practices adopting and developing Power Platform

Now that we have what I will call a mature and evolving platform, it’s time that the community around that platform get serious about meaningful best practices. We owe it to our customers, our employers, and one another to adhere to a shared commitment to excellence and a body of best practices that back up the way we adopt the platform and develop solutions there.

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Introducing Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach to adopting Power Platform at scale
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Introducing Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach to adopting Power Platform at scale

I am so excited to be sharing the first edition of the Power Platform Adoption Framework, the start-to-finish approach for adopting Microsoft’s Power Platform at scale. The white paper is available at this link. My hope is that the framework will continue to become a worldwide standard for enterprise-grade adoption of the Power Platform.

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Enterprise management and governance are keys to scaling Power Platform
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Enterprise management and governance are keys to scaling Power Platform

In other words, how do we get beyond individuals or pockets of people doing great things with the technology (PowerApps, Power BI, Flow, Common Data Service, Dynamics) and rather spread the benefits of the technology across the entire business so that everyone, every department and office in the organization benefits from Power Platform’s incredible capability?

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Power Platform is all PLATFORM: Driving value, lowering costs, and building your organization’s future with Microsoft’s next great business technology
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Power Platform is all PLATFORM: Driving value, lowering costs, and building your organization’s future with Microsoft’s next great business technology

We don’t invest in one-off apps anymore, i.e. a CRM in one corner of your network where you run your sales, something in another where you manage your delivery, clunky Human Resources Management off over there where you take care of your people, etc.. No, what we care about here is the platform where you integrate all of the above — not through monolithic one-size-fits-all ERP — but rather through elegant app experiences across all your users’ devices that tie back to that magical Common Data Service.

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Three Trends Changing the Business Applications Landscape

The business intelligence, automation, and enterprise application landscape is changing dramatically. In the previous incarnation of enterprise technology, line-of-business owners were forced to choose between pre-baked commercial off the shelf (COTS) software, which was difficult to customize and often did not truly meet the business’s unique needs, or custom solutions that (though flexible and often tailor-made to the business needs of the moment) cost more and were far riskier to develop and deploy.

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