Perspectives on Power Platform

Brutally honest and cheerfully sarcastic insights on Microsoft’s low-code and AI technology, business apps, and the business of software - written by Jukka Niiranen.

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Oct 2, 2025

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20 min read

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.

Jukka Niiranen

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Aug 22, 2025

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11 min read

What next for Power Automate?

Cloud flows are starting to feel like a legacy feature that is ripe for being "reimagined" into a new automation offering for the era of agentic AI. (Whatever that means.)

Jukka Niiranen

Feb 25, 2025

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15 min read

Product ideas in the void

Microsoft is eager to hear user feedback. Do they want to execute on user ideas, though? It doesn't always seem that way.

Jukka Niiranen

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Dec 19, 2025

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24 min read

Can Plan Designer create real Power Platform solutions?

What you can expect to get from the AI tools inside Power Apps maker portal when asking them to support your business process with apps, automations and agents.

Jukka Niiranen

Dec 11, 2025

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10 min read

XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog is here!

When's the last time you explored the new and updated community tools for Power Platform and Dynamics 365? Here's a website to make that easier.

Jukka Niiranen

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Dec 5, 2025

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13 min read

A year of Perspectives

Writing a weekly newsletter for one year has been a journey indeed. One thousand hours later, what have I learned about the tech world that I cover — and myself?

Jukka Niiranen

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Nov 28, 2025

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16 min read

Headless business apps and generative UI

Text-based chat won't be the only interface for AI. Combining the "GenUI" ability of LLMs with structured data from existing apps via MCP could become a winning formula.

Jukka Niiranen

Nov 21, 2025

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15 min read

Agent 365 makes sense & is not enough

Microsoft is doubling down on its key strengths in the enterprise with the "control plane for AI agents". This is a better commercial story than M365 Copilot, yet it alone won't make agentic AI secure.

Jukka Niiranen

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Nov 14, 2025

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17 min read

Trying to live with code

With helpful AI assistants everywhere, we are running out of excuses to not write code. Here are my experiences on what removing this boundary means and what we should think about before letting AI write code for us.

Jukka Niiranen

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Nov 7, 2025

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18 min read

App Builder: apps without the Power

Power Apps promised a "no cliffs" experience for business apps development. Copilot agents promise to generate code with AI and... then what? How do we take it further?

Jukka Niiranen

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

You can always Export to Excel

Are you concerned that users could grab data from your business app into a spreadsheet? Here's why you can't just flip a switch and disable that in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps.

Jukka Niiranen

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Oct 23, 2025

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24 min read

2035: The Year of AI Agents

Remember how we were all supposed to have a team of agents working for us by now? "A decade of agents" is a more realistic take than 2025 claimed by Microsoft et al.

Jukka Niiranen

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