Power Apps has shortened the development life cycle of many projects due to the quickness with which you can get connections to your data up and running, no matter where it's stored. But that doesn’t mean you should throw typical software development processes to the wayside when building your apps.

We've recently helped our clients build applications quickly during these times to communicate crisis management news and updates, report on resource utilization, and facilitate work from home solutions.

If you are starting build or in the process of evaluating your next need, keep these important steps and milestones in mind when building your next app, whether it’s a Crisis Management app, or the Sales App that has been in the backlog since before Covid-19 happened.

Topics: Strategy, Development, Power Apps

You may be wondering what are all these acronyms mean, so hopefully by the end of this blog you will have a better understanding of each of these concepts and how to apply them.

Topics: Dynamics 365, Common Data Model, Power Apps, Power Automate, Common Data Service

I'm introducing a short blog series on Dynamics 365 and CDS design best practices that should be applied to any organization. These design approaches are not just for Dynamics 365, but can be applied for any business use case that involves software.

Topics: Dynamics 365, Common Data Model, Dynamics 365 Integrations, Common Data Service

 

The Power Platform Spring 2020 Release notes are here, and they are full of new and exciting features that will enhance usability, efficiency, and integration with a variety of software and devices. Some of these features are not available yet. If you need the most up-to-date information, please refer to the Microsoft Release Notes.

Topics: Power BI, Dynamics 365, Release Notes, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform

You can find the release notes at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/april19/

Topics: Power BI, Dynamics 365, Flow, PowerApps, Cortana

Adding a Map control to your PowerApp can be very helpful to end users, but it is not available out of the box (unless we continue to keep voting here). There are many use cases, such as displaying a map based upon an Accounts address, or displaying the location of a Work Order.

Topics: PowerApps

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Topics: Dynamics 365, Common Data Model, Digital Transformation