Industry Accelerators from Microsoft’s POV with Smith Codio

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• Background – living in Seattle, moving to the Pacific North West from Philadelphia, working in Microsoft engineering team, interests outside of work 
• Thoughts on home automation, i.e. Alexa vs Google Home, and a rundown of house automation devices 
• How Smith started working for Microsoft — internship in Redmond campus and working with the product, getting a job offer, working in different capacities, different teams and services 
• How long the Microsoft Industry Accelerator has been running 
• What’s an accelerator – Microsoft's viewpoint on what problems are being solved with Industry Accelerators, and what they are from a component level 
• Creating additional schema on top of the core Common Data Model, having a managed solutions that are going to be put in Github that one can consume on the CDS for App environment 
• Having multiple data models and how they are handled 
• Breakdown of what is included in the Microsoft Industry Accelerator JSON file 
• What is a schema – a way to represent a set of entities or tables and define the relationships between them 
• Difference between UML (Unified Modelling Language) and ERD (entity relationship diagram 
• How Smith decides what to leave out in the Common Data Model, and the senior leadership team’s involvement 
• Why Microsoft sees the need to create Industry Accelerators 
• The rationale behind creating data models to enable consistency across the industry 
• Biggest changes between version 1 and version 2 
• Various components on the visual layer, pre-packaging around flows, unique experiences (Canvas apps vs model-driven), PCF controls unique to the accelerators 
• Who owns the IP — Microsoft, partner or ISV?
• How Microsoft supports what’s built from an Accelerator  
• Best practice or success stories of partners that have jumped on the Accelerators that Microsoft have a documented case studies on
• First party app dependencies for the Industry Accelerators outside of the Common Data Model
• Plans for Business Applications with regard to the Accelerator Programme

RESOURCES

• Accelerator Overview 
• Extending an Accelerator Overview 
• Health Accelerator Overview 
• Nonprofit Accelerator Overview
• Higher Ed Accelerator Build with ISVs 
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