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Project Operations architecture: Dataverse, Finance, and Dual-write
10 min read

Project Operations architecture: Dataverse, Finance, and Dual-write

Dynamics 365 Project Operations runs on two platforms - Dataverse for the front office, D365 Finance for the back office - joined by Dual-write. A reference walk through the data models, the sync layer, the quote-to-cash boundary, and how to configure it.

Dynamics 365Dual-write
Assign work to Claude straight from Jira
6 min read

Assign work to Claude straight from Jira

Claude Agent for Jira lets you assign a ticket to Claude and get back a draft pull request. How the flow works, what you need to switch it on, what it costs, and where you stay in control.

AI AgentsJira
Syncing Smartsheet milestones into Dynamics 365 Project Operations
7 min read

Syncing Smartsheet milestones into Dynamics 365 Project Operations

A nightly integration that reads milestone dates from Smartsheet and writes them onto the matching tasks in Dynamics 365 Project Operations - an Azure Function orchestrator and a Dataverse plugin that drives the Project Scheduling Service.

Dynamics 365Project Operations
Claude Fable 5: Anthropic opens its most powerful model to the public
5 min read

Claude Fable 5: Anthropic opens its most powerful model to the public

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model for everyone - frontier capability with a safety net that routes the riskiest questions to a safer model. What it does, and how the guardrail works.

Frontier ModelsAI Safety
Which CRM fits your business: Dynamics 365, Salesforce, or Kinso
3 min read

Which CRM fits your business: Dynamics 365, Salesforce, or Kinso

A plain decision guide to choosing a CRM platform - when Dynamics 365 fits, when Salesforce wins, and when an owned platform like Kinso is the better call.

Platform SelectionCRM Strategy
Document intelligence: pulling structured data out of PDFs, contracts, and invoices
2 min read

Document intelligence: pulling structured data out of PDFs, contracts, and invoices

How we turn messy PDFs, contracts, and invoices into clean, structured data your systems can use - and where the accuracy actually comes from.

Document IntelligenceData Extraction
Owned vs licensed: when Kinso CRM beats Dynamics 365 or Salesforce
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Owned vs licensed: when Kinso CRM beats Dynamics 365 or Salesforce

Dynamics and Salesforce are the right answer for many teams - and the wrong one for others. A straight comparison of owned vs licensed, without the sales pitch.

CRM StrategyBuild vs Buy
Gemma 4 12B: Google just put frontier AI on your laptop
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Gemma 4 12B: Google just put frontier AI on your laptop

Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 12B runs entirely offline on a 16 GB laptop and lands within reach of a model twice its size - how the encoder-free design works, and why running it locally matters.

Local AIOpen Models
Auto-fill lookup details in Power Pages: inbuilt and code methods
10 min read

Auto-fill lookup details in Power Pages: inbuilt and code methods

Three reliable ways to auto-populate Power Pages form fields from a lookup: basic form metadata, the Web API with a token, and the native Power Pages Web API.

Power PagesDynamics 365
How to create an Azure Blob Storage account, step by step
6 min read

How to create an Azure Blob Storage account, step by step

Set up Azure Blob Storage from scratch: create the storage account, configure access and redundancy, add containers, and upload your first files.

AzureCloud Storage
Azure AD app registration for Power Platform API authentication
10 min read

Azure AD app registration for Power Platform API authentication

A step-by-step guide to creating an Azure AD app registration, generating a client secret, and granting the permissions your app needs to call the Dataverse Web API.

AzurePower Platform