Steve reads his Blog

Can Microsoft Ever Catch Salesforce? 15.12.2023 5:20 ↓

My thoughts on the current state of this competitive battle.

Steve has a Fifth Annual Chat with Charles Lamanna 29.11.2023 48:48 ↓

I caught Charles the other day for my fifth annual Chat. We talked about many things fresh off of Ignite—copilots, of course, but also Project Sophia and his thoughts about AGI.

Are You Straddling Outbound and Real-Time Marketing? 21.10.2023 5:52 ↓

Are You Straddling Outbound and Real-Time Marketing? Listen to this.

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 7 26.09.2023 6:19 ↓

Part 7, the last in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 6 25.09.2023 9:26 ↓

Part 6 in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 5 24.09.2023 5:18 ↓

Part 5 in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 4 19.09.2023 6:41 ↓

Part 4 in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 3 19.09.2023 7:07 ↓

Part 3 in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 2 18.09.2023 7:32 ↓

Part 2 in my series of Sally and Power Platform

Sally in HR has a Business Problem - Part 1 15.09.2023 10:50 ↓

In this mini-series, we will follow Sally from HR as she uses the Microsoft Power Platform to solve business problems.

Finding The Limits of Low-Code 19.06.2023 6:27 ↓

For as long as I have been in this business, about 25 years now, costs for clients have always been a wild card.

How to Write a Modern RFP for CRM Implementation 19.06.2023 9:27 ↓

How do you write an RFP for Dynamics 365 or Power Platform Services? You don't. You can search for "How to write a CRM RFP?" or "Template for CRM RFP", or "RFP for Dynamics 365", or similar, and what you will find are a lot of RFP examples that failed to generate responses.

Update on ”Service as a Subscription” Model 19.06.2023 6:09 ↓

It has been exactly one year since we signed our first customer up for “The Works from Forceworks”

A Mountain of Shitty Little Apps 19.06.2023 8:35 ↓

When Microsoft introduced the Power Platform as a "Citizen-Friendly" set of tools for non-technical business users to create apps to solve business challenges, it seemed a worthy endeavor. Well, enough time has passed to assess the outcome. Those who jumped in with both feet now have a mountain of shitty little apps. Those who watched from the sidelines decided, "We don't need that!" So is that th...

Steve has a 5th chat with charles 13.09.2022 27:50 ↓

This was my fifth chat with Charles Lamanna.

Steve has a Chat with Vahe Torossian 13.09.2022 56:59 ↓

  I had a chance to sneak up on Vahe Torossian , a Microsoft Corporate Vice President and the man in charge of Sales for Microsoft Business Applications. While Vahe has been with Microsoft for 30 years, many of you may not know him, so I wanted to fix that. Vahe is no ordinary Seller; he’s the “Top” guy who sets the sales strategy and motions for the entire global team. Vahe is also the guy who ru...

Steve has a Chat with Jukka 25.08.2022 58:54 ↓

I had the pleasure of having a chat with a Power Platform industry leader, Jukka Niiranen. Listen or Watch below. Enjoy!

The Works Services-as-a-Subscription Model Update 04.08.2022 7:18 ↓

Back in May, I wrote a post describing a completely new Services model we call "The Works from Forceworks". It is a Services-as-a-Subscription model that is unique in the industry. I also promised to follow up with our learnings from this new model, so today I will do just that. The Works First, I'll remind you of what the offer is. Thanks to advances in low-code/no-code for Dynamics 365 and the P...

Power Platform Outside the Bubble 14.07.2022 6:55 ↓

In my recent conversations with Charles Lamanna here  and Jason Gumpert here , we discussed the explosive growth of the Power Platform. Then while listening to Jukka Niiranen on yet another podcast here, I was reminded that we are all inside the Power Platform bubble. From the outside, however, this bubble is tiny. Expanding Bubble There is no denying that the Power Platform's growth is impressive...