AIS is the 2019 MSUS Partner Award Winner – Business Applications – Dynamics 365 for Sales. This is our vision for the Power Platform era.

I am incredibly excited to share that AIS has been announced as the 2019 MSUS Partner Award Winner – Business Applications – Dynamics 365 for Sales at #MSInspire!

Some background on how we won:

Story for MSUS Win Dynamics 365 SalesWhen the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) needed to score a big win for its members, they brought in the AIS team to build a single, shared player management system, called PA.NET. AIS extensively customized Dynamics 365 for Sales to meet the unique needs of NFLPA, integrated it with Office 365… and then took it all to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.

Using Dynamics 365 for Sales, PA.NET provides one master set of player data and powerful reporting tools. Now employees across the organization can turn to the same system to answer questions, uncover marketing and licensing opportunities, and identify other ways to help members. When a specific licensing request comes in, they can find the right person, or people, in minutes.

So where do we go from here? From Dynamics to Power Platform.

Our Business Applications & Automation Practice is investing heavily in Dynamics and the Power Platform. We recognize that an organization’s adoption of the Power Platform should be thought of as a journey, not a one-off “app of the moment” solution. By focusing on enterprise management and leveraging the Common Data Service (CDS) as much as possible, we help clients like NFLPA scale their adoption as they migrate workloads and make use of Power Apps, Power BI, Flow, and Dynamics 365.

Power Platform Technologies

Earlier this year, we worked with friends in the business applications community around the world to launch our Power Platform Adoption Framework. Mature organizations realize that rigor, discipline, and best practices are needed to adopt the platform at scale.

The Power Platform Adoption Framework is the start-to-finish approach for adopting the platform at scale.

It helps enterprise organizations:

  • Get to value quickly
  • Educate, train, and grow their community of developers and power users
  • Create durable partnerships between business, IT, and the user community
  • Continuously improve ROI on the platform by identifying and migrating new workloads
  • Blend agile, rapid app development with rigorous, disciplined enterprise management

I hope that the framework will continue to become a worldwide standard for enterprise-grade adoption of the Power Platform. I’ve been lucky to collaborate with Power Platform experts and users around the world to create the Power Platform Adoption Framework. I’m proud to say that AIS is fully behind the framework, sharing it with the community, and committed to its future development as best practices for scaled adoption evolve. We’re sharing it so that everyone can use it because we believe that a vibrant and thriving community around this technology is good for everyone who uses it.

Please join me in congratulating the AIS team, and please join us on this journey to scale the Power Platform to meet the challenges of the years to come.