Charles Lakes II
Microsoft MVP BizApps | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Charles is a technical speaker and low-code advocate with a pro-code background, specializing in transforming business data architecture. With a passion for innovation, he shares his expertise to solve complex business problems and guide organizations in reimagining their legacy processes, advancing automation initiatives, streamlining operations, and reducing infrastructure costs.
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Disorganized Noize: Addressing Fragmented Data
No organization wants to have incomplete, redundant, or needlessly siloed data. Unfortunately, without proper data governance, it just happens, and poor data hygiene only worsens the problem.
Poorly governed data leads to gaps in availability, questionable integrity, lax security, and ever-increasing storage costs. Ultimately, everyone from the knowledge workers to the C-suite, and even the external vendors, could be negatively impacted and suffer as a result.
In this session, we’ll explore ways to correct broken data, reduce your content sprawl, and unify your datasets.
Target Audience: CTO, CIO, IT Director; IT Engineer; Business Analyst;
Modern (and Reimagined) Processes w/ Power Automate
Are you getting the most out of your cloud infrastructure? More and more organizations are migrating to Microsoft 365 and they want to embrace their licensed SaaS apps, but they are rarely taking the opportunity to reimagine many of their legacy work processes.
Power Automate, the workflow automation arm of the Power Platform, empowers businesses to modernize their older on-prem business processes and redesign them for the cloud. In this session, we will (I) introduce some automation fundamentals, (II) explore several cloud flow better practices, and (III) outline many of the opportunities for business efficiency, saving work hours and avoiding unnecessary costs.
Target Audience: IT Director; IT Engineer; Software Developer; Pro-Code Developer; Low-Code Developer; Database Administrator; Power User; Business Analyst;
Let’s Architect Your App: Microsoft Dataverse 101
Are you creating solutions for the business, but still storing your data in SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Excel or even Access? If so, then it may be time to reevaluate and consider Microsoft Dataverse, the native data solution of the Power Platform.
For most of your low-code projects and many pro-code initiatives, Dataverse is likely the better data storage offering. Built to be a secure, centralized data solution, Microsoft designed Dataverse to help organizations increase their return on investment (ROI), better scale their in-house applications, standardize their data models, and drive rapid innovation, with Copilot by your side.
In this session, let’s dive into Microsoft Dataverse, (I) discover how to jumpstart your flex team's productivity, (II) build some scalable solutions, and (III) tackle your org's project backlog.
Target Audience: IT Director; IT Engineer; Software Developer; Pro-Code Developer; Low-Code Developer; Database Administrator; Power User; Business Analyst;
.NET MAUI: One (Codebase) for All (Apps)
Once upon a time, the Android, iOS, and Windows apps lived in harmony but independently, necessitating dedicated pro-dev teams for each native build. Organizations were essentially doubling, if not tripling, their budgets for prototyping, developing, testing, and supporting their apps.
With the ambitious goal of unifying the apps, Microsoft created .NET MAUI, their modern framework for building native, cross-platform apps from a single, shared codebase.
Join me as we chronicle .NET MAUI’s ability to save resources, time, and money for all!
Target Audience: Software Developer; Pro-Code Developer; App Developer;
Power Apps: Business Solutions for the Modern Enterprise
Low-code is holding its own against, if not edging out pro-code and no-code development for today's modern, scalable, enterprise solutions. Power Apps, Microsoft's SaaS offering to design and build highly custom business apps, is a suite of services and connectors promoting rapid, feature-rich app development.
In this session, we’ll explore how Power Apps (I) empowers non-devs, (II) welcomes pro-devs, (III) reduces infrastructure costs, (IV) tackles IT's project backlog, (V) drives process innovation, and (VI) democratizes business solution development.
Target Audience: IT Director; IT Engineer; Software Developer; Pro-Code Developer; Low-Code Developer; Database Administrator; Power User; Business Analyst;
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Charles Lakes II
Microsoft MVP BizApps | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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