Project Background From August 2020 to this February, I worked as a Business Analyst (BA) on a project team to help a major insurance company modernize thousands of InfoPath forms into the Microsoft Power Platform. Our client needed to retain critical business functionality and workflows of these forms before Microsoft ends their extended InfoPath support in July 2026. Our efforts included modernizing the InfoPath forms by using Power Apps canvas apps, Power Automate, and some Power BI. It was a […]
AIS recently held an internal hackathon for Microsoft Power Platform to expose our team to the platform, concepts, approaches through hands-on experience and to demonstrate the role Power Platform plays in modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. As a premier Microsoft partner, Power Platform has quickly become a core part of our holistic enterprise cloud transformation strategy. Our teams have helped enterprises across Financial Services, Insurance, Health and Life Sciences, and the Government leverage Power Platform for enterprise-grade application modernization […]
The landscape for Power BI licensing is complex and evolving. To begin to grasp the structure and detail, let’s break it down. Today I am asking: what are the capabilities of using a free license? Really, It’s Free More than one path exists to obtain a free account. For our exploration in this article, I will use two: Individual Free Account Office 365 (Dev Tenant) Member Free Account Let’s frame this in a story with two fictional characters. Cary Small […]
This blog series is for anyone trying to learn how to use the Power Platform. Readers should know software development fundamentals. This post builds on the first two parts by adding smartphone camera capabilities to the interface. It starts by covering how to add an Image field to the Item form. Next, it illustrates how to implement bar code readers in the app. Last, a demonstration of the capabilities is performed with screen captures from the smartphone. The blog series […]
This blog series is for anyone trying to learn how to use the Power Platform. Readers should know software development fundamentals. It begins by explaining why we would want to create a home inventory system. It then takes the reader over the requirements of the system, including potential future enhancements. It takes time to explain the database model and how it translates into tables in the Microsoft Dataverse. This post concludes with a review of the User Interface mockup. The […]
Pluralsight Course Overview Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a top tech trend over the last few years, and we are seeing great interest in augmenting RPA with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make automation more resilient. While Power Automate (previously called Flow) has been around for a while, RPA capabilities have been a recent addition, allowing you to automate all repetitive desktop processes. You can choose between prebuilt drag-and-drop actions or record your own desktop flows. In this course, Intelligent […]
This video demo and blog provide a step-by-step walkthrough of adding related subgrids to a Power Apps portal for a Trip Planner Application. You may consider adding a related subgrid to your portal if you have tables associated with each other. For example, you have a Trip table that is your main table and a Traveler table. You want your traveler table to be directly related to your trip table so that any data you add to your traveler table […]
Rapidly deploy Microsoft’s Return to the Workplace solution and leverage the underlying technology for future growth Today, Microsoft announced the release of the Return to Work, Return to Growth strategy in a white paper developed jointly with AIS. We’re also releasing our Return to Work implementation service via Microsoft App Source, and are excited to begin working with large enterprise organizations rolling out Microsoft’s Return to the Workplace solution and then using the Power Platform to empower citizen developers, build […]
This blog is a step-by-step walkthrough of building a fully functioning leave request app for any organization with a vacation, sick leave, military leave, bereavement leave, holidays, Jury Duty, and so on. This app will include a solution in the Common Data Service, a Model-Driven App, a Canvas App, and Power Automate. The Canvas App is for employees to submit a request. The Model-Driven App will be a back-office system used by admin or supervisors to check everyone’s requests. The Power Automate flow will trigger […]
Assumptions This write up is executed in sequence in that if you jump to a section, it assumes you have completed the parts before it. This write-up assumes the following; You have a Power Apps tenant with administrative privileges. For the source control and CI/CD sections; An Azure DevOps project configured with the Power Apps Build Tools Extension. 3 Power Apps environments; development, staging/build, and production. Executive Summary This write-up is for anyone looking to learn how to automate the […]