Tag: miscellaneous
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10 things I’ve done with the Power Platform
As you may have seen from some of my recent posts, Power Platform is a wide umbrella that covers a number of Microsoft Business Applications products. Here’s some things that are related to the Power Platform that I’ve done in the past: Personal Power BI reports Power BI is an awesome tool when building a…
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Power Platform and Dynamics 365 explained
I wanted to find a little explainer for someone about what Power Apps are and what Dataverse is and how Dynamics 365 plays into all of it, but I wasn’t able to find what I wanted so I decided to write something on my own. The current Microsoft Business Applications landscape This is the way…
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How is Power BI different from Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Power BI is a component inside Microsoft Fabric. I’ve been using Power BI for a long time. Since it came out, I think. I think it was some sort of Excel add-in at first and it’s since morphed into a pretty awesome reporting and analytics toolset offered at a somewhat reasonable price. I’ve even…
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What language does Power Automate use?
Power Automate and Logic Apps both use the same language, Workflow Definition Language (or WDL). The nice thing about Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate, though, is that there’s a fancy front end that allows you to generate most of the code without hands-on-keyboard. Here’s an example. I built a small little flow that uses…
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Companies that use enterprise resource planning: finding results in Google
I’m guessing you came to this page because you searched for “companies that user enterprise resource planning” in Google or Bing. Well, I don’t have a list of companies for you, but I CAN help you find them on your own (teach a person to fish, you know.) Boolean searching in Google Not to sound…
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What is DAX and how does it relate to Dynamics 365?
DAX can mean lots of things. In the context of Power BI, DAX stands for “Data Analysis Expressions”. It’s a language used when creating calculations in Power BI – similar to Excel functions. In the context I want to discuss, though, DAX is shorthand for Dynamics AX. Microsoft Dynamics AX was the last name of…