When IT leaders push back on “citizen development” they are just displaying their closed mindedness and incompetence. Every successful organization is – right now, today – full of citizen developers, people using whatever technology tools they have available (and often finding ways to get around IT limitations to get additional Read more…
About 4 1/2 years ago I wrote a post on how to calculate a next anniversary (birthday) date in Dynamics 365. It’s been a top 3 post according to Google Analytics. I’m proud of that solution because it was a real no-code solution to a common requirement for lots of Read more…
TL;DR: Need to configure a Microsoft Power Apps (Power Platform) Lab environment for a workshop, App in a Day, etc. here is a ready to go script: https://github.com/nicknow/Setup-DataverseLabEnvironment. In the Microsoft Power App in a Day package there used to be a script to quickly deploy a trial environment. It Read more…
What is the Power platform all about? I get this question a lot. The reality is that the Power platform is more than one thing and it can be “about” a lot of different things. PowerApps is a pixel-perfect mobile-first UX app creation for the enterprise. Common Data Service is Read more…
Microsoft Inspire 2018 wrapped up on Thursday (7/19) with a Bruno Mars concert. But, before the music there were a bunch of very useful sessions on Microsoft Business Applications (i.e., Dynamics 365, PowerApps, Flow, PowerBI, etc.) Yes, I know the marketing/branding still a bit unclear but hopefully that will be Read more…