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SAPLicensing

SAP extends the Joule promo for Build, not for ABAP AI

SAP extended the free Build features to December 31, but ABAP AI still goes commercial on October 1. Two deadlines now, and SAP's pricing wording conflicts.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 28, 2026 5 min read

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SAPLicensing

SAP ends free Joule for Developers on September 30

The no-cost period for Joule for Developers ends September 30 and ABAP AI moves to commercial licensing on October 1. Find out who is using it first.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 23, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftDevelopment

Business Central AL queries still default to dirty reads

Business Central 2026 release wave 2 lets AL queries choose an isolation level. The default stays ReadUncommitted, so your existing queries read dirty data.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 21, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftSecurity

Microsoft pays double for cross-tenant Power Platform bugs

Microsoft's updated Power Platform bounty schedule pays double for critical cross-tenant flaws and names Dataverse twice. Here is what an admin should check.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 21, 2026 5 min read

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ServiceNowDevelopment

ServiceNow's Lux UI framework runs on LIT and Tailwind CSS

Lux goes GA in Q4 2026, it is built on LIT, Base UI and Tailwind CSS, and ServiceNow says Workspaces and Angular Service Portals have no deprecation plan.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 21, 2026 4 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Power Pages Server Logic can now call cloud flows

Microsoft says Server Logic in Power Pages can now invoke Power Automate cloud flows, which puts an externally facing form in front of 1,400 connectors.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 20, 2026 5 min read

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ServiceNowLow Code

ServiceNow's Build Agent now upgrades itself from the Store

Otto for Creator's September release makes Build Agent self-upgrading from the Store, and the exceptions decide which of your instances actually drift.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 19, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Power Platform agents can now author security roles

Microsoft's app-builder skill reached GA covering security roles and business rules. What that changes for Power Platform review, ALM and connectors.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 19, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftDevelopment

Power Platform CLI now reaches the whole tenant

Microsoft put more than 200 auto-generated API commands into the Power Platform CLI preview. Governance and licensing are now a script away.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 18, 2026 5 min read

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ServiceNowAI & Agents

The review questions a faster AI Agent Studio still needs

ServiceNow's reworked AI Agent Studio goes from Advisor opportunity to running agent on one screen. These are the review questions to ask before the click.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 4, 2026 4 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Cloud flow or plugin for Dataverse business logic

A plugin can stop a bad save and a cloud flow cannot. That difference, plus who maintains it, settles most calls.

Elliot ParkSeptember 27, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayDevelopment

When to build in Workday Extend and when to wait

Workday may close the gap you are about to fill. Test whether the need is common, price the year of waiting, and name who removes your app later.

Priya NwosuSeptember 27, 2026 6 min read

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SAPIntegration

SAP integration patterns that stay maintainable

SAP integration moves business documents, not rows. Which patterns hold up over years, which quietly become somebody's problem, and what to check first.

Noah ValeSeptember 26, 2026 6 min read

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ServiceNowIntegration

A delivered ServiceNow connector or a script you own forever

The choice between a configured integration and a script gets settled by who is free that week, and your entitlement decides more of it than anyone admits.

Priya NwosuSeptember 25, 2026 6 min read

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OracleArchitecture

How far to extend Oracle Fusion before you build outside

Every extension inside Fusion is a standing commitment to retest four times a year. Exhaust configuration first, and keep logic with its own release cycle outside.

Noah ValeSeptember 25, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayIntegration

The Workday integrations still standing in year five

Effective dating separates the Workday integrations that still hold up in year five from the ones that went quietly wrong and told nobody.

Priya NwosuSeptember 25, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayIntegration

Where a Workday Extend app should stop

Extend earns its place when the app sits on Workday objects and inherits tenant security. Orchestrating outside systems is a different job.

Priya NwosuSeptember 22, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Power Automate or Logic Apps is an ownership question

The two products share most of their design. The real choice is who owns the thing in two years, which budget pays, and who gets paged at 2am.

Noah ValeSeptember 21, 2026 6 min read

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ServiceNowMicrosoftDevOps / ALM

Update sets and solutions will never share one pipeline

ServiceNow captures changes as you make them and Power Platform packages what already exists. Standardise the rules around both instead of merging them.

Elliot ParkSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

When a low-code app has to become a funded project

Once an app writes to a system of record and someone outside the team depends on it by a date, funding it is overdue, and the cost is speed.

Amani ReedSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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OracleMicrosoftArchitecture

Where business logic should live, and who can bypass it

The same validation in the form, the flow and the ERP is a tradeoff nobody wrote down. Pick the layer by who must never be able to break the rule.

Amani ReedSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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MicrosoftAdministration

How to triage Power Platform's release note firehose

A concrete method for sorting Power Platform's twice-yearly release waves and daily message center posts from noise into action.

Noah ValeSeptember 17, 2026 5 min read

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MicrosoftSalesforceIntegration

The real difference between a connector and an integration

A connector gets a record from one system to another. An integration owns what happens when the record gets rejected, and most sync projects fail without that part.

Elliot ParkSeptember 16, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftAutomation

Power Automate flows that fail instead of half-succeeding

A flow that stops is visible in run history. A flow that half-finishes leaves two systems disagreeing, so design the handlers, retries and owner first.

Elliot ParkSeptember 26, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Power Apps delegation and the total that comes back wrong

A query your data source cannot evaluate still returns an answer, built from part of the table, and sample data will never show you the gap.

Elliot ParkSeptember 25, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftLow Code

Why your Power Pages site is slow for everyone else

A portal is fast on an administrator's laptop and slow on a customer's phone. Fix permission scope, list design and image weight before launch.

Elliot ParkSeptember 24, 2026 7 min read

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WorkdayDevelopment

A lifecycle for Workday Extend apps that outlives the builder

Build where the work persists, rehearse the promotion, version every build, and decide who can switch the app off before anyone needs to.

Priya NwosuSeptember 23, 2026 7 min read

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MicrosoftServiceNowDevelopment

Writing ServiceNow and Power Platform code people can maintain

The scripts and business rules inside your instance outlive whoever wrote them. Record why the logic exists, keep it in one place, and fail loudly.

Elliot ParkSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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SAPArchitecture

What SAP BTP actually is, and when you need it

SAP BTP is one name over four different things: extension runtimes, integration, data services and AI. Knowing which one you mean is most of the answer.

Elliot ParkSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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ServiceNowLow Code

What ServiceNow App Engine actually is, and when it fits

ServiceNow's ITSM products are applications on a platform. App Engine lets you build your own there, inheriting the workflow, approvals and catalog you already run.

Noah ValeSeptember 20, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayLow Code

What Workday Extend actually is, and what you build with it

Workday gives you no general purpose database. Extend is the sanctioned way to build something custom inside the tenant's own security, worker data and approvals.

Priya NwosuSeptember 20, 2026 6 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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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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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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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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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