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Jukka Niiranen

The Original Power Platform Advisor.

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Post-Ignite agentic hangover

Jan 16, 2026

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16 min read

Post-Ignite agentic hangover

After the big November 2025 launch at Ignite, Agent 365 has gone back undercover. Do the partner solutions exist in the real world at all? Is this a product or a "product"?

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
The year of Microslop, 2026

Jan 9, 2026

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24 min read

The year of Microslop, 2026

Microsoft has a set of challenges ahead in 2026 to undo the damage to its brand and reputation that has accumulated in the past couple of years.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Impostor without a syndrome

Dec 29, 2025

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14 min read

Impostor without a syndrome

Most of us have occasional concerns about being good enough at what we do. Here's how I've found joy in being a straight-up impostor in software built with custom code.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Can Plan Designer create real Power Platform solutions?

Dec 19, 2025

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24 min read

Can Plan Designer create real Power Platform solutions?

What you can expect to get from the AI tools inside Power Apps maker portal when asking them to support your business process with apps, automations and agents.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog is here!

Dec 11, 2025

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10 min read

XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog is here!

When's the last time you explored the new and updated community tools for Power Platform and Dynamics 365? Here's a website to make that easier.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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A year of Perspectives

Dec 5, 2025

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13 min read

A year of Perspectives

Writing a weekly newsletter for one year has been a journey indeed. One thousand hours later, what have I learned about the tech world that I cover — and myself?

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Headless business apps and generative UI

Nov 28, 2025

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16 min read

Headless business apps and generative UI

Text-based chat won't be the only interface for AI. Combining the "GenUI" ability of LLMs with structured data from existing apps via MCP could become a winning formula.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Agent 365 makes sense & is not enough

Nov 21, 2025

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15 min read

Agent 365 makes sense & is not enough

Microsoft is doubling down on its key strengths in the enterprise with the "control plane for AI agents". This is a better commercial story than M365 Copilot, yet it alone won't make agentic AI secure.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Trying to live with code

Nov 14, 2025

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17 min read

Trying to live with code

With helpful AI assistants everywhere, we are running out of excuses to not write code. Here are my experiences on what removing this boundary means and what we should think about before letting AI write code for us.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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App Builder: apps without the Power

Nov 7, 2025

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18 min read

App Builder: apps without the Power

Power Apps promised a "no cliffs" experience for business apps development. Copilot agents promise to generate code with AI and... then what? How do we take it further?

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
You can always Export to Excel

Oct 30, 2025

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14 min read

You can always Export to Excel

Are you concerned that users could grab data from your business app into a spreadsheet? Here's why you can't just flip a switch and disable that in Dynamics 365 or Power Apps.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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2035: The Year of AI Agents

Oct 23, 2025

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24 min read

2035: The Year of AI Agents

Remember how we were all supposed to have a team of agents working for us by now? "A decade of agents" is a more realistic take than 2025 claimed by Microsoft et al.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Can Workflows replace Power Automate?

Oct 15, 2025

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26 min read

Can Workflows replace Power Automate?

Microsoft 365 Copilot paying customers can now create actual cloud flows by prompting an agent. With plenty of caveats and issues left to resolve, based on the Frontier preview.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Selling M365 Copilot: the next episode

Oct 10, 2025

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18 min read

Selling M365 Copilot: the next episode

The controversy of addressing the poor adoption rate of paid Copilot & the many discussions sparked from it. What moves might Microsoft make next to find growth in AI license sales?

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

Oct 2, 2025

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20 min read

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Building products on the Power Platform

Sep 26, 2025

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17 min read

Building products on the Power Platform

Can you build a SaaS product from the low-code components offered by Microsoft's platform and then charge money for it? Yes, if you overcome a few hurdles first.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Lite side / dark side of Copilot Studio

Sep 16, 2025

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14 min read

Lite side / dark side of Copilot Studio

Microsoft's decision to bundle two different AI agent technologies under the Copilot Studio brand makes it even harder for admins and developers to figure out the technical details of Copilot agents.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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The secret life of Copilot scheduled prompts

Sep 11, 2025

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7 min read

The secret life of Copilot scheduled prompts

Formerly known as Copilot Actions. Formerly orchestrated by Power Automate. This current feature that is NOT called "an agent" has some interesting characteristics worth exploring.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Who monitors the Power Platform Monitor?

Sep 3, 2025

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18 min read

Who monitors the Power Platform Monitor?

Making sure your apps and flows are running isn't that easy. Monitor promises effortless visibility, but how well does it deliver that today?

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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What bubble? Oh, THAT bubble...

Aug 27, 2025

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7 min read

What bubble? Oh, THAT bubble...

The memes tried to warn us about the GenAI bubble. In August 2025, the world still doesn't have AGI and people are getting increasingly anxious about the hyped expectations vs. market reality.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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What next for Power Automate?

Aug 22, 2025

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11 min read

What next for Power Automate?

Cloud flows are starting to feel like a legacy feature that is ripe for being "reimagined" into a new automation offering for the era of agentic AI. (Whatever that means.)

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Who is Microsoft Agent 365?

Aug 15, 2025

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13 min read

Who is Microsoft Agent 365?

Where is he/she coming from and what is the secret mission of Agent 365? I bet this mission is all about finding a new commercial model beyond per-seat SaaS licensing.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
Numbers designed to please

Aug 7, 2025

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20 min read

Numbers designed to please

When a company like Microsoft needs big numbers to convince their audience, here's the playbook for generating the millions and billions seen in their marketing comms.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Assistants without hands

Aug 1, 2025

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9 min read

Assistants without hands

When everyone talks about agentic AI, it's all too easy to forget how AI assistants like Copilot today can't be trusted to do things for us - if it involves anything more than talk.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen

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Reboot your chatbot

Jul 24, 2025

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4 min read

Reboot your chatbot

AI is not just about cold, hard data. LLMs are narrative building machines that may take you for a wild ride unless you remember to reset the context of the chat.

Jukka Niiranen
Jukka Niiranen
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Perspectives on Power Platform

Brutally honest and cheerfully sarcastic insights on Microsoft’s low-code and AI technology, business apps, and the business of software - written by Jukka Niiranen.

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