Integrating SAP and other System of Records with Jon Gilman

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/462Jon Gilman shares his experience working at Microsoft for over 18 months since the acquisition and how they have incorporated their products into the Power Platform. Talks about Jon’s focus on creating exciting content for enterprises to quickly adopt and implement the Power Platform, as opposed to the traditional DIY approach. Jon shares his background as an industrial engineering major and his journey from General Motors to Accenture, where he worked on implementing SAP and building custom software. Explains the challenges faced by organizations when implementing ERP systems, where operational efficiency increases on the back end but creates complexities and inefficiencies for front-end users. Jon reflects on his journey from founding Clear Software to joining Microsoft. He discusses his dissatisfaction with ERP systems and the need to improve the user experience for front-end users. Shares Jon's journey of building productivity tools and transitioning to web applications using technologies like Silverlight, Adobe Flex, and HTML5. Jon talks about the acquisition of Clear Software by Microsoft and the process of integrating its capabilities into the Power Platform. He highlights the technical integration and the migration of pre-built app templates as power apps. The Concept of Clean Core in SAP Systems Migration - The concept is driven by SAP itself and involves extracting different workloads through APIs and the relevance of the Microsoft perspective and the SAP Power Platform Azure story. Emphasizes the importance of avoiding writing business logic in custom code within ERP systems and the challenges faced by organizations with extensive custom ABAP code in the SAP world. Jon explains how the Power Platform, including connectors and pre-built templates, streamlines and automates business processes, reducing the time and effort required for tasks such as vendor setup and purchase order entry. The discussion revolves around allowing organization members to update applications in different systems and the need for a balance between security and flexibility is emphasized. Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith