Episode Details

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https://podcast.nz365guy.com/63

• Professional journey and working at Microsoft — from the marketing department to joining the Azure team 
• Jumping from following a career in music to IT 
• Work as Program Manager and working with other teams in Business Applications 
• Standards in Consumer Data Service for Apps 
• Five fundamentals of CDS for Apps 
• Spending time on availability, the performance of CDS 
• Components of CDS for Apps 
• Switching to the current technology – unified interface 
• Working with Azure SQL and being its largest customer 
• Translating the CDS for Apps technology to a business level to customers and stakeholders 
• Search roadmap within the application 
• Separation of the CDS platform from apps, such as Dynamics for Sales 
• Opportunity for ISVs working with CDS for Apps

RESOURCES

Book & Podcast 

• “Sons of the Profits: There’s No Business Like Grow Business” by William C. Speidel – https://amzn.to/2CjPRHB  

Resources Mentioned  

• Common Data Service for Apps – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro  
• Azure SQL – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/  
• Dynamics for Sales – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/sales-enterprise/overview

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