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SAPERP

Start SAP master data governance with material and vendor master

A full governance program takes years to fund. Material and vendor master ownership is where an S/4HANA team can start this quarter.

Amani ReedSeptember 12, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftDevOps / ALM

How many Power Platform environments you actually need

A working rule for deciding which Power Platform solutions get their own dev, test, and production environments, and who approves promotion between them.

Priya NwosuSeptember 10, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayGovernance

Set Workday Extend governance before the first custom app

Workday Extend apps read HCM data by default. Decide who reviews access, who tests against real data, and who owns the app before it ships.

Priya NwosuSeptember 10, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftDevOps / ALM

Build a Power Platform ALM pipeline makers actually use

A pipeline survives when the build takes under two minutes, test data looks real, and a maker can roll back without opening a ticket.

Elliot ParkSeptember 8, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceConsulting

Scope a migration SOW for Dynamics 365 or Salesforce

A migration statement of work only holds up if it names a discovery gate, a rehearsed change order, and a written data assumption.

Amani ReedSeptember 7, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Governance that keeps Power Platform makers building

A fifteen-minute conversation before the first screen is built, recorded on the Dataverse solution, does more than an approval form completed after go-live.

Priya NwosuSeptember 2, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceLicensing

How to read a licensing change before finance does

The four numbers a platform owner needs before a Power Platform, Dynamics 365, or Agentforce repackaging note gets forwarded to finance.

Noah ValeAugust 24, 2026 6 min read

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SalesforceServiceNowIntegration

Small integration contracts for Salesforce and ServiceNow

Name the business event, send only fields the receiver acts on, version when meaning changes, and write down what happens to duplicates.

Elliot ParkAugust 14, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAnalytics

Write the analytics questions before the Dataverse schema

Power BI can only answer what the Dataverse model was built to hold. Write the leader's questions first, with the decision, grain, and freshness each needs.

Noah ValeAugust 10, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceAI & Agents

The readiness check before an agent pilot grows

Before a Copilot Studio or Agentforce pilot gets more users, check it has four named owners, a visible failure path, and a review date.

Priya NwosuAugust 2, 2026 6 min read

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ServiceNowITSM

What your ServiceNow CMDB needs before an agent reads it

An agent assessing change impact trusts every CI and relationship it finds. Fix class ownership and identification rules before it goes live.

Elliot ParkJuly 22, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceData

Business keys that survive a Dataverse or Sales Cloud rebuild

Match on the number the business already reads out, enforce it as a unique field on both sides, and test the missing, repeated, and near-twin key first.

Elliot ParkJuly 14, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftServiceNowAdministration

The first thirty minutes of a Power Automate incident

When a shared Power Automate flow fails, find the work that stopped, name one lead, and write the ServiceNow record before anyone resubmits a run.

Priya NwosuJuly 3, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceConsulting

How to run a CRM vendor demo that answers your questions

Send the script early, load your own duplicates and odd legal entities, and ask to see a failure. A CRM demo only counts as evidence when you run it.

Priya NwosuJune 18, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftDevOps / ALM

A release checklist for shared Power Platform solutions

The questions a platform team should ask before a shared Power Platform solution reaches other makers, and where to keep the answers for the next owner.

Priya NwosuJune 15, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Keep your Power Platform center of excellence small

A center of excellence earns its keep with office hours and a pattern library, and loses it the day it starts approving every app or owning every maker's flow.

Priya NwosuMay 25, 2026 6 min read