Dataverse
A business application described in one sentence, under control
Microsoft lets you describe an application in everyday language in Copilot Cowork. The data stays in Dataverse, with your access rights.
Based on MicrosoftCopilot Studio
Copilot Studio: the "harness" gets a new name, your agents stay
The engine behind Copilot Studio agents becomes the Microsoft Copilot harness. What changes, what stays, and what to check before talking about it.
Based on MicrosoftMicrosoft 365
Copilot for finance: what's coming to Excel and the close
Reconciliations, journal entries, close, forecasts: Microsoft announces over 25 finance skills and extensions for Copilot. What's already available.
Based on MicrosoftCopilot Studio
Copilot Studio: agents with their own account and a memory
Microsoft announces Copilot Studio agents with their own account, a shared memory and triggers. What this means for executives.
Based on MicrosoftMethod
The two-day audit: what we put a figure on, and why
Two days, €1,900: I watch what your teams do by hand, I put a figure on what the process costs and what the tool would save. Then a fixed price.
Field notesMicrosoft 365
Zero software purchased: everything runs on your Microsoft 365
This year, everything I delivered for CAC 40 groups has one thing in common: zero software purchased, zero extra subscriptions, zero servers.
Field notesFinance
Half the value is in the green dot
The monthly import of bank positions was forgotten, done late or done twice. One button, a chain that runs on its own, a timestamped green dot.
Field notesCompliance
Hiding a button does not protect the data
A hidden screen or an invisible button protects nothing. In a whistleblowing channel, confidentiality lives in the permissions, at the data level.
Field notesCompliance
Regulatory deadlines watched by the tool, not by a person
Reply within 7 days, open the investigation within 14: in a whistleblowing channel, the tool counts the overdue cases. The manager reads one number.
Field notesCompliance
No list of administrators, and that's the tool's best idea
In a whistleblowing channel, the application works out each person's role from their actual permissions. No list to maintain, no possible mismatch.
Field notesCompliance
The status that is computed instead of entered
A status picked from a drop-down list ends up lying. Computed from the facts of the case, it becomes provable in an audit.
Field notesFinance
The silent 500-row limit
A cash total off by several hundred thousand euros, all green, with no error message. The cause: a 500-row limit.
Field notes
A process that costs you too much? An Excel file that has outgrown itself? A team losing time?
Describe it in five lines. Reply within 24 h with a costed estimate.