Microsoft Business Applications Nomenclature
Recently we have seen a lot of change in the Microsoft Business Applications space. Microsoft moved James Phillips into the role of Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Business Application suite of products and that has created some massive upturn and scaling of the ecosystem we have come to know over the past years. With this change has been some shifts in what we have known in the past and so I wanted to jot down my understanding of the new names for everything. This is the Microsoft Business Applications nomenclature that is now used in the market.
Dynamics 365 for Sales, Service, Talent, Marketing, Field Service, Project Service Automation, Finance and Operations and Business Central is called Dynamics 365 (This is also known as first-party apps, that Microsoft have built on the Microsoft Power platform)
PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and PowerBI is the Microsoft Power platform (you could loosely consider this xRM in the past, however, this is much more sophisticated and extensible and is underpinned by the Common Data Model)
My key takeaway from this is that if you used to live in the xRM world, Dynamics 365 is no longer your game. This is now the Microsoft Power platform. So for all the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) or app builders out there take a close look at the Microsoft Power platform as it is the future of software development for business and the enterprise.
