Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

PowerApps – Why invest in the technology

I'm often asked if the investment in the Power Platform is good value for money, especially with so many unknowns about the licencing future of the products and Microsoft's own agenda for it not being entirely clear. The difficulty here is understanding what that investment actually is; with the October update the Power Platform now … Continue reading PowerApps – Why invest in the technology

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

Review: Cambridge PowerApps and Flow User Group 8th August 2019

This meeting had a varied speaker set that worked really well. Some overarching themes came through by having a mix of super technical and super users. Chris O'Brien started the evening with real user stories of solutions developed by Content and Code and tips on how to use Dev tools to produce PowerApps. His top … Continue reading Review: Cambridge PowerApps and Flow User Group 8th August 2019

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

Invitation to contribute to a PowerApps “Look Book”

Have you created a really cool looking PowerApp? Want to share? I'm putting together a PowerApps Look Book to show new citizen developers what's possible. Having provided training for PowerApps in a Day to advanced PowerApps sessions it's absolutely impossible to describe the impact that a well laid out app can have to win the … Continue reading Invitation to contribute to a PowerApps “Look Book”

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

Cambridge Event – 8th August 6pm

Microsoft MVP Chris O'Brien will take us through a fascinating case study of how to bring SharePoint and PowerApps under control, and get them working together productively. Samit Saini will also share with us his incredible journey from Heathrow security officer to Devops Office 365 Solutions Specialist and meeting Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Sharon Sumner … Continue reading Cambridge Event – 8th August 6pm

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

PowerApps AI Builder Demo – Form Processing with PDFs

Following the launch of the AI Builder I decided to play with the Form Processing functionality to see where I could create something functionally useful for my team. The Forms Processing model is designed to analyse documents / images and extract key data. So where to start; Business Need - One of the things we … Continue reading PowerApps AI Builder Demo – Form Processing with PDFs

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

#CommunityRocks – I love that you can just ask.

One of the nicest things about working in a strong #community like the Power Platform community is the support we give each other. Have tools like Twitter where people can reach out and ask for help means we can help propel each other forward together. So, I was pinged on Twitter by a lovely lady … Continue reading #CommunityRocks – I love that you can just ask.

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

Microsoft Business Applications Summit

This week was an important one for the Business Applications teams with a summit dedicated to the new and upcoming features of the platform. Some very exciting things were announced and demonstrated by the MVPs at the event including the AI Builder in PowerApps which I'll add my own blog post about later this week. … Continue reading Microsoft Business Applications Summit

Sharon Sumner - PowerApps and Flow Evangelist & Speaker

Cambridge PowerApps & Flow User Group Update

Please note the new logo - thanks to the talented design team for giving us an identity at last for #cambsppug August Event When:  Aug 8, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (GMT) Event link  Cambridge PowerApps and Flow User Group We are delighted this quarter to welcome two very popular PowerApps & Flow speakers to the … Continue reading Cambridge PowerApps & Flow User Group Update