Charles Lakes II
Creative Solution Architect
United States of America

Microsoft MVP | Creative Solution Architect @ The II Lakes Group

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. | Software Engineer Plus Ultra | Middle-child | Soufside

Dataverse: Everything, Everywhere, Here and There
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power-user
database

Are you building Power Platform solutions, and still storing your data in SQL Server, SharePoint Online, and/ or Excel? If so, then you may need to reevaluate and consider Microsoft Dataverse, the centralized, native data solution of the Power Platform. For many of your low-code initiatives, Dataverse is likely a better data storage offering. Designed to be a secure, low-code solution, Microsoft built Dataverse to help organizations increase their return on investment (ROI), better scale their in-house applications, standardize their data sources, and promote rapid innovation, supported by Microsoft Copilot. Let’s deep dive into Microsoft Dataverse and explore jumpstarting your flex team's productivity.

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Modern (and Reimagined) Processes w/ Power Automate
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power-platform
low-code
power-user

Are you getting the most out of your cloud infrastructure? More and more organizations are embracing the cloud, adopting SaaS solutions, and taking the opportunity to reimagine many of their legacy on-prem processes. Power Automate, the low-code automation offering of the Power Platform, helps modernize many of these workflows. Let’s discuss some automation basics, ideal practices, and opportunities for business efficiency.

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Disorganized Noize: Addressing Fragmented Data
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automation
data-integrity

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.

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Power Apps: Modern Business Solutions for the Enterprise
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low-code
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citizen-development
power-users

Low-code is holding its own against, if not edging out pro-code and no-code development for modern, scalable, enterprise solutions. Power Apps, Microsoft's SaaS offering to design and build custom business applications, is a suite of services and connectors facilitating rapid, feature-rich development. In this session, we’ll outline how Power Apps empowers non-devs, welcomes pro-devs, reduces infrastructure costs, tackles project backlogs, drives process innovation, and democratizes business solution development.

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