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Power Platform news,decoded.
Articles and two issues a month: what is changing in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform, our method, and what it means for your SME.
- Power AppsSeptember 30, 2026
Turning an Excel File into an App: The 4 Steps
Your shared Excel file has become business-critical. Here is how to turn Excel into an app, step by step, without losing what already works today.
Read - Power AppsSeptember 30, 2026
Replacing Microsoft Access with Power Apps and Dataverse
Your Access database still runs, but only one person dares touch it. How to replace Access with Power Apps and Dataverse, step by step, without breakage.
Read - Power AppsSeptember 30, 2026
Offline Mobile App with Power Apps for Field Teams
Technicians, building sites, warehouses with no signal: what an offline mobile app built with Power Apps does natively, and what you still have to design.
Read - MethodSeptember 30, 2026
How Much Does a Power Apps App Cost? The 7 Cost Drivers
The cost of a Power Apps application comes down to seven drivers, from scope to licensing. Here is how to read a quote, and why a fixed price protects you.
Read - Microsoft 365September 30, 2026
Microsoft Lists, Excel or Power Apps: Which One to Use?
Microsoft Lists or Power Apps, or simply Excel? A five-question decision grid to pick the right tool based on users, rules, approvals, mobile and volume.
Read - Power AutomateSeptember 30, 2026
Supplier Invoice Automation with Power Automate
Shared mailbox, AI Builder reading, approval by amount, hand-off to your accountant, reminders before due date: supplier invoice automation, step by step.
Read - Power AutomateSeptember 30, 2026
A Teams Approval Workflow with Power Automate
Building a Teams approval workflow with Power Automate approvals: routing by amount, delegation, reminders, audit trail, SharePoint or Dataverse.
Read - Power AutomateSeptember 30, 2026
Automatic Overdue Invoice Reminders with Power Automate
A payment schedule, a three-step reminder sequence, exclusions and sending from the company mailbox: automatic overdue invoice reminders done right.
Read - Microsoft 365September 30, 2026
Automating Employee Onboarding in Microsoft 365
One HR form that creates the account, assigns licences, opens Teams and reminds the manager: how to automate employee onboarding, and offboarding too.
Read - Power AutomateSeptember 30, 2026
Power Automate Desktop RPA: Automate Software With No API
Power Automate Desktop RPA explained: recording clicks, making the flow robust, a dedicated machine, and knowing when RPA is a patch or a migration.
Read - AI agentsSeptember 30, 2026
Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365 Copilot: Which to Choose?
Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365 Copilot? One assists each person in Word and Teams, the other builds agents on your data. How a small business decides.
Read - AI agentsSeptember 30, 2026
A SharePoint AI Agent for Your HR Questions
Leave, expenses, remote work: a SharePoint AI agent answers HR questions from your up-to-date documents, respects access rights and never decides for you.
Read - AI agentsSeptember 30, 2026
Automatic Meeting Minutes with Microsoft's AI Tools
Automatic meeting minutes in your company's official format, reviewed by a human and filed in SharePoint: the full chain, its limits and the consent rules.
Read - AI agentsSeptember 30, 2026
Enterprise AI Agents: The Guardrails Before Production
Enterprise AI agent guardrails to set before production, from scope to kill switch, plus GDPR and the question of who is accountable when it answers.
Read - Power AutomateSeptember 30, 2026
AI Builder: Read Your Documents Automatically
Invoices, delivery notes, scanned forms: AI Builder document processing, from prebuilt models to confidence thresholds, inside a Power Automate flow.
Read - Power BISeptember 30, 2026
Power BI Executive Dashboard: The 8 KPIs an SME Needs
A Power BI executive dashboard that gets used fits on eight indicators, one page per question and a nightly refresh. Here they are, and why they matter.
Read - Power BISeptember 30, 2026
Connect Excel to Power BI Without Re-Keying Data
How to connect Excel to Power BI, then your accounting, ERP and CRM: scheduled refresh, data gateway, Power Query cleanup. No more Monday copy and paste.
Read - Power AppsSeptember 30, 2026
Shop Floor Production Tracking: From Excel to an App
Your production tracking Excel has twelve tabs and one keeper. Moving to tablet entry, alerts and a live dashboard without alienating the shop floor.
Read - MethodSeptember 30, 2026
Inheriting a Power Platform App: Audit and Maintenance
The app runs, its builder left, a flow just failed. A short audit, then Power Platform application maintenance with a name, a channel and a deadline.
Read - TrainingSeptember 30, 2026
Power Platform Training for Your Teams: Where to Start
Power Platform training for a company: who to train, in what order, on which data, and what to expect three months later. Not a catalogue.
Read - Power AppsJune 10, 2026
Power Apps or Excel: How to Know When It's Time to Make the Leap
Your shared Excel file is acting up and you're wondering whether it's time to turn it into a real app. Here's how to decide, with clear criteria and our field-tested tips.
Read - Power AutomateJune 3, 2026
Power Automate: 5 Automations to Set Up This Week
You don't need a big project to start automating. Five simple flows you can launch right now, with the pitfalls to avoid and our pro settings.
Read - AI agentsMay 20, 2026
Your First AI Agent with Copilot Studio, Without Getting Overwhelmed
Everyone is talking about AI agents in 2026. Here's how to launch one that's actually useful, the guardrails you can't skip, and the mistake everyone makes at the start.
Read - LicensingMay 6, 2026
Is Power Platform Really Free with Microsoft 365?
The question we get every week. What's included, what isn't, and how to know ahead of time whether your project will tip over into premium.
Read - Business IntelligenceApril 22, 2026
Power BI or Power Apps for Your Dashboard?
Behind the word "dashboard" hide two very different needs. Picking the right tool changes everything. We untangle it, with the real-time nuance many people overlook.
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