AI Builder Autumn Announcements
AI Builder has had a host of new features added which we will highlight here with relevant documentation links so you can explore further.
Custom Cloud Development in Azure
In this blog, we take a look at four recent custom cloud development projects that we have undertaken using Azure Integration Services, The Power Platform and more.
Enterprise-Scale Bespoke Cloud Developments at Ballard Chalmers
In this blog, we take a technical look at two examples of enterprise-scale bespoke cloud developments that we have undertaken.
2019 Power Platform Release Wave Two
Microsoft announced the release plans of wave 2 for the Power Platform in June. Early access will be available 2nd August with general availability hitting 1st October.
Microsoft stated: “The Microsoft Power Platform enables users and organizations to analyze, act, and automate on the data to digitally transform their businesses. The Power Platform today is comprised of three products – Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow.”
The Power Platform – Microsoft’s Next Big Thing
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has driven a five-year stock rally since taking over the helm. Microsoft’s cloud computing, led by Azure and Office 365, is the leading cause of this growth. Building on this achievement, another avenue of business has opened: customization of cloud products, most easily achieved with the Power Platform.
Backing up Microsoft Flow to Visual Studio or Github
At Ballard Chalmers, we have become huge fans of Microsoft Flow from Office 365, using it among other things to create our internal client sites, send out our monthly support updates and other digital workplace process automation steps. This automation has…
PowerApps – Could They Replace Some of Your Legacy Apps?
There is a lot of buzz around PowerApps at the moment with Microsoft confirming at the recent SharePoint Virtual Summit that it is the strategic tool to replace the functionality that InfoPath used to offer. Unfortunately for those of you…
Welcome To The New Power BI
Power BI is changing! It still has the same underlying components, such as Power Query and Power View, but has been enhanced and repackaged, and many additional data sources added. Excel is still present, but there is more emphasis on…
Power BI: Self Service Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Empowering users with the ability to analyse their own data is a worthy objective in its own right. So is enabling them to do so without having to install complex data analysis software on their own PCs. Letting users manipulate…
Microsoft Power Query: Empowering the End User
SQL Server has always had a strong connection with Excel and for two very good reasons: 1) SQL Server is excellent at storing, querying and analysing large data sets. 2) Excel allows users to work with and present data in…