Jukka Niiranen is a former Microsoft MVP and a current Power Platform expert, offering his services through his own firm and sharing his views regularly on social media and in his newsletter. On this episode, Jukka joins us to talk about how his career has evolved, his current work, his technology outlook, and a few hints at his upcoming licensing session at DynamicsMinds 2025 (where MSDW is a media partner). 

Jukka's career has evolved in the last decade from a consulting role with a Microsoft partner to founding a services firm to now opening his own consultancy. He also recently made the decision to end his 11-year streak as a Microsoft MVP and we discuss that experience. And Jukka shares some context on how the evolution of Microsoft Business Applications has shaped his advice to clients regarding AI, Power Platform, D365 apps, and more. 

Show Notes:

• 1:00 - Jukka's professional history,  including his newest venture and the transition from CRM to Power Platform and low code advisory
• Clients in the low-code world are not exactly the same as CRM decision makers
• 4:30 - The emergence of Microsoft's low-code vision with the components that became Power Platform
• 7:30 - The ongoing separation in the Power Apps community between CRM-based and dev-based
• 15:15 - What Jukka has learned from looking at Microsoft's Ideas sites
• 17:15 - Experience after retiring his MVP status
• 26:30 - How Jukka's views in writing and advisory work overlap
• 28:00 - Jukka's presentation on Power Platform licensing at DynamicsMinds 2025
• 34:30 - What kind of AI conversations is Jukka having with customers today
• 43:45 - Security and governance issues as it relates to AI in enterprise software
• 49:00 - About Jukka's newsletter, Perspectives Plus

Where to find Jukka:

• Newsletter: https://perspectives.plus/
• Company: https://niiranenadvisory.com/
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jukkaniiranen/
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jukkan.bsky.social
• Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@jukkan