POWER CONFERENCE 2023

Silence of the technical lambs: When you don’t speak up for user experience

How exciting is it to design your first home? You get to personalize it and make it a perfect fit for your lifestyle. Just like that, you can also create a business application to suit your users’ needs. A grand design to connect them to the business vision.

But what if your business application was put together based on decision-makers’ egos? What if they did not understand their end users’ needs and your app development team decided to stay silent? Despite the best intentions for your grand design, it all goes wrong. So, you are stuck in endless retrospectives, tech debt in your future sprints, and some very disappointed stakeholders.

In this session, let us take you through a tour of our digital app dollhouse where things have gone all sorts of wrong for users. From low adoption to jargon-filled custom fields to inconsistent process flows and anything in between, we are here to explain it all. A cautionary tale for all your business application projects. Remember, all good things are to those who wait.

How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?

All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits to cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, have become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from the global software giant is no exception.

But what does this mean for the real world? For the data analysts, engineers, and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions.

In this session, we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric? What, why, and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term? Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, and Power. Resource. Thing!

How to like your flow in the long run

If you’ve ever felt the initial excitement of creating flow, only to be met with the frustration of nothing working as it should, this session is for you.

Tomáš will provide practical advice backed up by real-world examples. He will show you how to ensure the dependability of your flows. You will learn what basic factors must be considered, what questions to ask yourself during the creation process, and how to seamlessly integrate the knowledge gained into the processes.

You will discover which elements are required for success.

You will gain valuable knowledge that will assist you in building better flows and avoiding unnecessary headaches in the future. Prepare to leave with renewed faith in creating flows and the knowledge to turn your Power Automate efforts into a source of joy, both now and in the future.

A developer’s guide to the low-code world

Get ready for a refreshing session in which Honza will focus on collaboration between pro-code and low-code developers. Whether you are involved in developing applications or managing development teams, this lecture is for you.

Jan will focus on the potential of creating, connecting, and querying various data sources (API) within the organization and how to use them not only in model-driven but also canvas applications. In addition, he will demonstrate how to effortlessly create tables in Dataverse using different data and explore the huge possibilities of custom connectors in Power Automate.

Discover with Jan the seamless integration of both worlds in application development!