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PPCC 2026 agent demos need a process owner in the room

Microsoft's PPCC 2026 preview asks attendees to bring one process. The stage agent will work either way. What decides the pilot is who owns that process.

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PPCC 2026's procurement agent needs one record it writes to

Microsoft's PPCC 2026 preview runs a procurement request through Copilot, an agent, a workflow, and a reviewer. We'd ask which Dataverse row holds the trace.

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A facilities coordinator holds one unused employee access badge above a drawer full of identical badges still hanging on their hooks.

What an unused license actually costs you

An unused seat still gets billed. Cross usage logs against the assignment list, flag the quiet accounts, and reclaim seats before renewal locks the price in.

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Map the Power Platform and SAP flows before the roadmap

Before a Power Platform or SAP roadmap gets sequenced, list every flow it touches with a source of record, a consumer, and the person who fixes exceptions.

A night-shift service desk analyst on the phone reaches for a single card pinned to the wall beside a thick closed binder.

What a ServiceNow catalog entry owes the support desk

A catalog entry for a Power Platform flow should name who gets paged, what to check first, and who can switch it off. The design document stays where it is.

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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.

Two colleagues talk at a small table over a single page of handwritten notes while a thick binder sits closed on the shelf behind them.

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.

A platform owner at a desk holds a long printed license inventory flat beside an opened vendor letter, a wall calendar behind her.

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.

A platform admin and a business maker at a small folding table in a corridor, leaning over a paper sketch of an app form.

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.