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0 pointsllimos5y ago0 comments

Correct, especially when you add Power Automate and Power Apps - MS have been quietly pulling ahead in this space.

They also have one huge advantage that no-one else besides maybe Google have - integration with Office 365: your corporate directory, email, filestore... Which means they don't even need to be the best at this kind of product. Good enough, plus the integration, is a game changer.

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basch5y ago

Office 365 AND Dynamics (CRM, Finance, ERP etc.)

The one thing Microsoft really needs still is in house, industry specific layers to drop on top of dynamics, such as https://www.mtwocloud.com/ instead of depending on these third parties. Microsofts own sales teams don't know these products exist, and they have poor visibility. Enough companies won't even touch Dynamics, preferring something more industry specific.

Look at all the other things they cover in the SalesForce, Adobe, Oracle realm that automatically integrate right into the Power Platform. https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/

janstice5y ago

Microsoft does have industry accelerators that sit on the Common Data Model & Dynamics, so ISV's (and presumably in-house devs) can write industry-specific solutions that might hopefully play nicely together:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/common-data-model/industry-...

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