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Call2Recycle manages industrywide e-bike battery recycling program with Power Pages

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, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 28 June 2022

As a non-profit operating for over 25 years, Call2Recycle helps consumers and over 200 battery and battery-powered product companies keep batteries out of landfills. They partnered with EFOQUS to digitize their sales, finance and operations processes using Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Sales. This blog post describes how they used Power Pages to extend their existing system with an external facing portal that facilitates enrollment and training of e-bike retailers.

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Meet the developers combining Power Platform and Azure to go faster

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, Principal Program Manager, Friday, 29 April 2022

Software developers around the world are embracing low-code as a powerful part of their toolkit — they look at Power Platform as the next layer of abstraction that reduces repeated work, adds to their skill set, and lets them focus their coding energy on the problems that matter most. The increased level of productivity is also changing the way these developers work with their users — as fusion teams creating a much more active and rewarding environment for building impactful solutions faster than ever before. Let’s meet a few of these developers and look at examples of solutions built using Power Platform along with Azure services.

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Hearing Australia – Audiologist adopts Microsoft Power Platform to transform hearing loss prevention program

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, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 31 March 2022

Hearing Australia is Australia’s largest provider of government-funded hearing services and have been servicing people with hearing loss in Australia for 75 years. This is an inspiring story that features Jacqui Peck, an Audiologist who taught herself Power Platform while visiting remote communities in the Australian outback. She partnered with the ICT team, as a fusion development team, to transform one of their key programs for hearing assessments. The solution was built using Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. Over 100 Community Engagement Officers and Audiologists use it each month and it has become a single source of truth for program data. This has also helped secure continued funding from a government grant.

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Ardent Mills uses Microsoft Power Platform to enable a paperless state-of-the-art mill

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, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, 09 February 2022

Ardent Mills operates in more than 40 locations that specialize in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic and gluten-free products that drive emerging nutrition and innovation across plant-based ingredients. To stay current with the increase in operations and production across their plants in several different countries, their processes need to be efficient and supported by the technological capabilities available today. Deborah Romero-Reinig, explored Power Apps and Microsoft Power Platform to improve their processes and establish reporting capabilities across their plants. Several apps are now live and the team is now working towards a digital foundation for their upcoming paperless state of the art mill.

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EY Nordic Tech Hub transforms annual salary review process with Microsoft Power Platform

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, Principal Program Manager, Thursday, 16 December 2021

EY is a global professional services firm with over 300,000 employees across 150 countries. With specialties in assurance, tax and transaction, and advisory, they have delivered client solutions to 1 million users worldwide. Most recently, the EY Nordic Tech Hub team transformed their annual salary review process with Microsoft Power Platform. The solution uses Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SQL, and is connected to SharePoint online. With this new technology, a process that once took four months, now takes only two.

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Western States Caterpillar – fusion teams use Microsoft Power Platform to build mobile apps for field staff

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, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Western States Caterpillar Equipment Company is an authorized Caterpillar dealer with over thousand employees and seventeen stores across five mountain states in the United States. They found creative ways to use a combination of low code and code-first solutions, with IT and business working in fusion teams, to deliver data rich applications. They have multiple mobile Power Apps solutions used by field staff to manage sales tasks while on the go, and streamline the equipment rental return process. The apps use custom connectors to access internal and external systems, with Power BI reports used to gain insights and enable decision making.

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H&M Group enables citizen development at scale with Microsoft Power Platform

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, Principal Program Manager, Monday, 20 September 2021

H&M Group is a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company with more than 5,000 stores in 78 countries and more than 53 online markets. A growing community of citizen developers has created thousands of Power Platform solutions across the company. To support development and maintain security and governance, H&M Group set up a Center for Enablement using the Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence Starter Kit.

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Announcing: Real-world Story Sessions at Microsoft Business Applications Summit

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, Principal Program Manager, Monday, 03 May 2021

The Power CAT team is excited to bring to you a series of real-world story sessions at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS). In these sessions, you will hear directly from citizen makers, pro-developers, and IT Pros across a wide spectrum of organizations adopting Microsoft Power Platform. Hear their stories, watch their demos, and deep dive into details of their solution architecture. We hope these stories will spur ideas and inspire innovation and creativity within your own organization.

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FortisAlberta wins Canadian Safety Technology Award for Microsoft Power Platform solution

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, Principal Program Manager, Friday, 12 March 2021

FortisAlberta delivers safe and reliable electricity service in Canada to more than 60% of Alberta’s total electricity distribution network. In this blog post we learn how they used Microsoft Power Platform to transition from a paper-based process to a digital solution for documenting Injury Prevention Plans (IPPs). The solution recently won the Canada’s Safest Employers award for Most Innovative Use of Safety Technology.

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