The IMP0WER Blog
This blog is the working notebook of a consulting practice, not a content operation. Every post starts the same way: a question that keeps coming up in real engagements — should this be a list or Dataverse? what actually breaks in a SharePoint migration? is our tenant ready for Copilot? — answered the way we'd answer it in the room: specifically, honestly, and with the trade-offs left in.
A few standing rules. Posts are written by the people who deliver the work, with bylines and dates. We publish when we have something worth your time, on a steady cadence — not on a quota. You'll find no filler, no recycled press releases, and no "ten reasons to digitally transform" listicle padding. Where a topic touches something we sell, we'll say so plainly and link it; where the honest answer is "you don't need a consultant for this," the post will say that too. It's the same rule that governs everything else we publish.
If there's a question you'd like answered here, send it to us. The editorial queue is built from real questions, and the good ones usually turn out to be shared.
Latest posts
Nintex vs Power Automate: Renew, Rebuild, or Run Both
· Stephen Curry
Nintex vs Power Automate after the 2026 SharePoint retirements: where each wins, where each runs out of road, and how to decide renew or rebuild per workflow.
Read the post →Managed Environments and the Pipelines Deadline: Count Your Users Before You Flip the Switch
· Stephen Curry
Pipelines now block deployments to unmanaged targets after a 30-day window. What Managed Environments cost, what you get, and what to check before you switch them on.
Read the post →Power Platform ALM for a Small IT Team: The Minimum That Stops Edits in Production
· Stephen Curry
The minimum viable Power Platform ALM for a 1–5 person IT team: environments, solutions, managed deployments, and pipelines, without enterprise DevOps overhead.
Read the post →SharePoint Server 2016/2019 and InfoPath After July 14, 2026: The Exit Plan
· Stephen Curry
SharePoint Server 2016/2019 and InfoPath reached end of support on July 14, 2026. What ended, what unsupported means, the realistic paths, and how to sequence the exit.
Read the post →Copilot Studio vs Microsoft Foundry: Which One, and Who Pays for What
· Stephen Curry
Copilot Studio vs Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) after the 2026 changes: harnesses, credits vs tokens, Agent 365, and a seven-question decision framework.
Read the post →What a Power Platform Governance Assessment Actually Produces
· Stephen Curry
What a Power Platform governance assessment should hand you: an inventory you keep, a ranked risk register, a DLP matrix, a sequenced roadmap, and decisions, not a pitch.
Read the post →Canvas vs Model-Driven Apps: How to Actually Choose
· Stephen Curry
A decision framework for canvas vs model-driven Power Apps: users, data, lifespan, licensing, plus the custom-pages and code-apps options most guides miss.
Read the post →Power BI vs Microsoft Fabric: What's Changing, and Whether You Need to Move
· Stephen Curry
Fabric didn't replace Power BI; it absorbed it. What Premium retirement actually forces, who benefits, who doesn't need it yet, and how to decide without the hype.
Read the post →Dataverse vs SharePoint Lists: How to Actually Choose
· Stephen Curry
A working decision framework for Dataverse vs SharePoint lists — data shape, security, scale, lifecycle, licensing — and the signals you've outgrown a list.
Read the post →What we write about
Posts are written by the people who deliver the work, with bylines and dates.
Retirement deadlines and migrations.
InfoPath, SharePoint Designer workflows, SharePoint Server support windows — Microsoft has published the dates, and the clock runs whether or not anyone is watching. Planning guides, real timelines, and exit maps for the technologies on borrowed time, feeding our migration and workflow modernization practices.
Governance and the estate you woke up owning.
Sprawl, orphaned apps, DLP, environments, and what a right-sized Center of Excellence looks like — the practical side of Power Platform governance, written for people who inherited the problem rather than caused it.
Copilot and agent readiness.
Oversharing, permissions, content hygiene, adoption that outlasts the license purchase, and the governance that keeps agents from becoming shadow IT — companion reading for our Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio work.
Honest comparisons.
Dataverse vs SharePoint lists, Power BI vs Fabric, canvas vs model-driven, Nintex vs Power Automate, build vs buy — the decisions clients actually face, argued both ways, because a comparison that always lands on the expensive option isn't a comparison. Start with the Dataverse and Power Apps pages for the standing frameworks.
Automation that keeps running.
Approval patterns, error handling, monitoring, and the RPA reality check — the production-engineering side of Power Automate that separates automation from technical debt with a trigger attached.
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