Top 7 Power BI Alternatives and Competitors in 2023

Power BI is a market-leading enterprise BI tool. But should it not suit you, explore the features, pros and cons of these seven tools that may be a better fit. Continue reading Top 7 Power BI Alternatives and Competitors in 2023

Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform – February 2022

Hello from mid-America where warmer weather is getting rolled out to us in snippets, but most days are still being spent in the cold weather environment. Microsoft is doing something like our recent weather with its Power Platform in February as they’ve begun revealing some newer 2022 rollout code in preview mode. This month was […] Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform – February 2022

Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform – January 2022

The big news this month is the release of the next Release Wave Plan. As if we were all excited enough about Power Platform, this is over 100 pages of excitement for your bedtime reading pleasure. It isn’t quite a page turner but, still good to be in the know. Those highlights dominate this article. […] Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform – January 2022

What’s New with Power Platform – November 2021

Microsoft Ignite kicked off this month with positive news for Power Platform with developers and Microsoft Teams continuing to be the focus. New connectors, artificial intelligence, and a much-needed makeover for Power BI, all new in Power Platform for November. Hope you enjoy all the latest updates!  Why isn’t your app in Teams?  With Teams growing at […] Continue reading What’s New with Power Platform – November 2021

What’s New with Power Platform – September 2021

Automate together Collaboration has now become much easier in Power Automate. The new co-presence feature will allow multiple users to edit a flow simultaneously. If you have ever used Excel or Word online collaboration, you will recognize the new user icons next to the save button that indicate all of the users editing the flow with you. There […] Continue reading What’s New with Power Platform – September 2021

Everything You Need to Know about the Power Platform – August 2020


Ignite is right around the corner but August had a few PowerApp updates that you should know about.

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Everything You Need to Know about the Power Platform – July 2020


Teams is now the center of the SharePoint world and it is working to become the center of the Power Platform universe.

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Everything You Need to Know about the Power Platform – June 2020


The month of June brought with it many updates to the Power Platform, here’s a breakdown of what is new.

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Everything you Need to Know About Office 365 – March 2020

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Teams, Teams, and more Teams – Sorry kids, but this month I feel like the whole update is about Teams. Why? Because all of a sudden half the world is work from home and it turns out collaboration platforms like Teams are pretty helpful.

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Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics bridges the gap between data lakes and warehouses

At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.” Like SQL Data Warehouse, it aims to bridge the gap between data warehouses and data lakes, which are often completely separate. Synapse […] Continue reading Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics bridges the gap between data lakes and warehouses