Fusion Development:
“Breaking the glass wall”
Sometimes you miss a link to an external system, which is necessary to retrieve essential data. Or your development platform just doesn't have the functionality you need yet. That is exactly the problem that fusion development solves. Microsoft defines fusion development as “breaking the glass wall” between users and software creators. Fusion development brings end users, citizen developers, developers and IT administrators together. A multidisciplinary team with only one goal: to make solutions to business challenges quickly and easily.
Citizen developers get to work with Power Platform and hire a full-stack developer if necessary to develop integrations. The IT Pro ensures that the apps and data integrations are deployed correctly, and that everything can be used safely and in a controlled manner. If the functionality is used by a larger group, or even business-critical, you can easily further scale up the app and have all the knowledge and experience within your team to further develop the project on Azure. This way, you exchange knowledge efficiently, everyone does what they are good at, and all your development and IT capacity is used optimally.
Extend the Power Platform itself with Fusion Development
So Fusion development helps you achieve more with the Power Platform by adding connectors and functionality. But it would be a shame to only use them in one project, so you can roll out connectors to your entire organization. The data you have unlocked is then available to all other Power Platform developers. Many developers also share their extensions in Microsoft's Independent Publisher Connector Program, allowing anyone to reuse them. We will also publish a new connector soon, but more about that later.
No-code DevOps
But fusion development doesn't stop with Power Platform and development. Also the management of applications (Application Lifecycle Management, or ALM), you can increasingly leave it to citizen developers. By packaging an app into a 'solution', they can manage it themselves, share it with other environments or departments, or reuse it as part of a new solution. All without writing code. Azure DevOps provides these solutions with a version history and allows developers to set up development, testing, acceptance, and production environments. Such a streamlined process helps an organization to use Power Platform professionally and ensures that fusion development accelerates the devising, testing, building and deployment of process innovations.
What is your challenge?
We are enthusiastic about fusion development and we love working on the Power Platform. Because it enables people to improve their own work processes. And because it frees up developers' hands to have much more impact by unlocking data and building reusable functionality. Are you as enthusiastic as we are? Or do you still have to see it all and want to give us a chance to convince you? Let us hear from you! Tell us what your challenge is and we'll brainstorm together how fusion development can help you move forward.
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