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About Sam Kumar

Sam Kumar is the Vice President of Marketing at Inogic, a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner renowned for its innovative apps for Dynamics 365 CRM and Power Apps. With a rich history in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform development, Sam leads a team of certified CRM developers dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies with Copilot and Azure AI the latest additions. Passionate about transforming the CRM industry, Sam’s insights and leadership drive Inogic’s mission to change the “Dynamics” of CRM.

Building Standalone Apps with Power Apps Code Apps: Using Dataverse and Office 365 Users Connectors (Part 1)

In the Dynamics 365 and Power Apps ecosystem, we have several options for building applications, each one is for a specific type of requirement. Model-driven Apps works well when we need a structured UI with standard components, while we use Canvas Apps to create custom, mobile-friendly interfaces with a low-code approach. Recently, Microsoft introduced another… Read More: Building Standalone Apps with Power Apps Code Apps: Using Dataverse… »

The Ultimate Guide to AI Semantic Search in SharePoint with Microsoft Copilot

Organizations generate thousands of documents across SharePoint, including contracts, invoices, proposals, technical specifications, HR files, SOPs, and more. But finding the right document at the right moment is where the real challenge lies. AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, when combined with modern semantic search and Azure AI Search, are reshaping how business users discover, understand,… Read More: The Ultimate Guide to AI Semantic Search in SharePoint with… »

Build AI-Powered Apps in Minutes with Power Apps Vibe: A Complete Guide (Preview)

If you’ve ever tried building apps with Microsoft Power Apps, you know the process: creating tables, designing screens, adding controls, connecting data, and writing formulas. While the traditional app-building process is effective, it can also be time-consuming and complex. But now, imagine this: You simply describe the app you need, and within minutes, Power Apps… Read More: Build AI-Powered Apps in Minutes with Power Apps Vibe: A… »

How Copilot Studio Leverages Deep Reasoning for Intelligent Support Operations

Deep Reasoning in Microsoft Copilot Studio enables AI agents to analyze multi-step support scenarios, evaluate historical case data, apply business rules, and recommend well-reasoned actions similar to how an experienced support specialist thinks. AI agents are becoming a core part of customer service operations, but traditional conversational models often struggle when scenarios become complex, like… Read More: How Copilot Studio Leverages Deep Reasoning for Intelligent Support Operations »

How to Download Large Files from Dynamics 365 CRM Using BlocksDownloadRequest API

Introduction When working with large files in Microsoft Dataverse (Dynamics 365 CRM), standard download methods often fail due to payload size limits, network interruptions, or memory overload. To address these challenges, Dataverse provides a chunked, block-based download mechanism through APIs such as: InitializeFileBlocksDownloadRequest InitializeAttachmentBlocksDownloadRequest InitializeAnnotationBlocksDownloadRequest This method is the recommended and most reliable way to… Read More: How to Download Large Files from Dynamics 365 CRM Using… »

Dynamics 365 Solution Consolidation: How to Use CloneAsSolutionRequest to Merge Patches and Clean Up Your Environment

Introduction In Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, solutions are the primary vehicle for application lifecycle management (ALM). As a best practice, direct changes to the base (parent) solution in production or UAT environments should be avoided. Instead, every hotfix or small enhancement should be applied via patches. Each patch adds a separate layer on… Read More: Dynamics 365 Solution Consolidation: How to Use CloneAsSolutionRequest to Merge… »

From Teams to Outlook to SharePoint: How to Make Your Copilot Work Consistently Everywhere!

Introduction Microsoft Copilot Studio has unlocked a new era of conversational AI for organizations looking to automate workflows, improve employee productivity, and extend intelligence into everyday apps. But while creating a copilot is becoming easier, scaling that copilot across Microsoft 365, especially Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Word, and other surfaces, is where most organizations hit a… Read More: From Teams to Outlook to SharePoint: How to Make Your… »

How to Automate Formula Writing in Power Automate Using Copilot

As developers, we use Power Automate to handle everyday tasks and automate small parts of our work. Flows help reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and make repeated tasks run smoothly. But just like many of us experience, we often face one big challenge, i.e., writing expressions. Expressions may look small, but they require time and… Read More: How to Automate Formula Writing in Power Automate Using Copilot »

AI-Driven Process Diagrams in Plan Designer: Transforming Requirements into Visual Workflows

The initial release of Plan Designer delivered strong capabilities for generating detailed requirement documentation, but it lacked one critical component: visualising how those requirements come together as a complete business process. Without a visual workflow, teams had to interpret written requirements on their own, often leading to gaps in understanding, misalignment between business and technical… Read More: AI-Driven Process Diagrams in Plan Designer: Transforming Requirements into Visual… »

The Best PowerMap Replacement: Maplytics with Built-In Bing and Azure Maps License

The location-intelligence landscape inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 is shifting fast. For years, users of PowerMap (PowerObjects/PowerPack) relied on it for basic visual mapping, simple pin plotting, and light analytics. But as field operations have matured and business expectations for geo-mapping have grown, gaps in capability have become impossible to ignore. For the past few months,… Read More: The Best PowerMap Replacement: Maplytics with Built-In Bing and Azure… »