Business Application
Applications that drive business operations: customer relations, process automation, and custom-built tools.
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01Power Apps
Power Apps code apps: React hosted and managed by the Power Platform
Until now, the choice was binary. Either an application was built using low-code and inherited the identity, connectors, and governance of Power Platform, or it was developed from scratch, in which case all of that had to be rebuilt: hosting…
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02Power Apps
Managed Environments: The Premium license is now visible in the app
Enabling a Managed Environment provides access to a suite of premium features—among the twenty or so documented by Microsoft—including sharing controls, data policies, and weekly usage insights. However, a licensing rule…
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03Business Application
You're already using Microsoft: Should you adopt a second platform?
This question comes up often, and it’s asked in all sincerity: The company runs on Microsoft 365, someone has seen a demo of a business application suite—Odoo is the most commonly mentioned—and the tool seems comprehensive, modern, and affordable. Should we…
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04Azure
Integrate Rather Than Replace: Connect Your Tools Without Starting From Scratch
The scenario is almost always the same. Two tools don’t communicate with each other, someone has to manually enter data between them, and the data discrepancy eventually becomes apparent to a client. The conclusion is that one of the two—often the older one, sometimes both—must be replaced with…
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05Business Application
Who owns the app once it's finished?
That’s the question we ask at the last meeting, and it’s the one we should be asking at the first. A business application isn’t something you buy and take home: it’s a collection of elements—an interface, rules, data, access rights, hosting…
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06Azure
Power Apps or expansion on Azure : Where Does the Border Lie?
This is the most critical decision in a business tool project, and it’s almost always made too late—after selecting a vendor, who naturally proposed what they know how to do. Yet the two approaches don’t cost the same, don’t follow the same…
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07Power Apps
How Much an App Really Costs Power Apps
The listed price of a business application is almost always the wrong figure. Not because it’s incorrect, but because it covers only part of what the company will actually pay—and because the missing part doesn’t become apparent until six months later…
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08Business Application
The Spreadsheet That Keeps a Department Running: When Should It Be Replaced?
In almost every business we start, one department runs on a single file. Service schedules, request tracking, time off, supplier orders, equipment inventory. It works, it didn't cost anything, and no one has ever…
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09Business Application
AI as a Differentiator: What Can Be Copied and What Cannot
A company that rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot gains the same capabilities as its competitor doing the same thing—often within the same week. That’s the nature of a subscription service: it’s available everywhere, at the same price, with the same features. This…
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10Business Application
Dynamics 365 Sales vs. HubSpot: What Really Makes the Difference
This is the most common trade-off in French-speaking Switzerland as soon as a sales team exceeds five people. On one hand, there’s a tool known for being simple, impressive in demonstrations, and quickly adopted. On the other, there’s a platform perceived as cumbersome, but already half-paid for by the…
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