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Why Power Platform Space ?

2 January 2024
Power Platform Space is a project that has been on my mind the 2 past years. As of today, I have 14 years of experience in IT (development and architecture), and I always wanted to share my vision, to write articles on a topic I love. This is usually something to do by passion, so you don't have to wait the experience before you start to share. But in my case, I had various experiences, with different technologies, solutions, so I never felt like writing on many different topics with no real breadcrumb.

During the last 8 years I mainly worked on Dynamics 365 projects, and I really started to appreciate it.
In the beginning, I was happy to work on the technology but not especially excited about it.
Before Dynamics CRM, I worked on other CRMs (Pivotal, Siebel, small experience with Salesforce), and I also have experience in building mobile applications (iOS and Android).

I even had an experience working for a company in the medical field, to adapt a CRM to a population o users called "medical visitors" who are basically sellers. These medical visitors needed to have the CRM on their tablet or other type of devices in mobility situation to meet pharmacist and doctors.

The project was stopped because of the adoption of another solution.



In late 2019, while working on a Dynamics 365 project, I had a implementation that could have been covered with a schedule task, and required some coding. The same feature could be covered with a Power Automate Flow. We went for a Flow. Coming from a technical background, I was fascinated about how easy it was to use it without writing any line of code.

Then I discovered the whole Power Platform and started to connect the dots. That period changed my perception on the whole Microsoft ecosystem. I read and learned a lot about Power Apps, and also Azure, and came to the conclusion that I would eventually work on this cloud for the years to come.
For the first time in my carrier I found the ecosystem that would fit my ambitions. Being able to quickly build apps for specific needs and having a big platform behind to support complex implementations when required. The low code, no-code and Pro-code promise. The CRM Side, The App Side, both together.

A few months later I had the chance to make my first Power Apps application in the context of COVID-19 and 4 years later, here we are, I think I love this Game.
As an IBM consultant, I am proud of the opportunities my company gives me, and I am also proud to be part of this Power Platform community, this is why I decided to share my finding, my thoughts, on this website.
Like David Warner says, Sharing is Caring, this is what I do here. I will probably write a article every two weeks this year. Hope you will enjoy the content you will find here. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any remarks, questions, I'll keep you posted.

Thank you