SAP and SharePoint Integration: Who Should You Hire?
Hire a senior Microsoft-side integration engineering firm that is fluent in SAP’s interface layer: a team that can consume SAP OData services published through SAP Gateway, call BAPIs and RFCs, exchange IDocs where asynchronous document flows demand it, and land that data in SharePoint, Dataverse, and the rest of your...
Power Automate vs UiPath and Blue Prism: Which RPA Platform for a Microsoft Enterprise?
For an enterprise already standardized on Microsoft 365 and Azure, Power Automate is the default choice, and the burden of proof sits with the alternatives. The licensing math alone is hard to argue with: Microsoft’s published pricing runs $15 per user per month for attended automation and $150 per bot...
How Much Does a Dynamics 365 Implementation Cost at Enterprise Scale?
For a US enterprise deployment of 100 or more users, published partner estimates (Rand Group’s Dynamics 365 pricing guide and ERP Software Blog’s 2026 US implementation guide, both detailed below) put Dynamics 365 implementation costs between roughly $250,000 and $750,000, and complex Finance and Supply Chain Management programs at multinational...
ServiceNow and Microsoft 365 Integration: Four Paths, and What Each Does to Your Governance Boundary
Short answer: You do not integrate ServiceNow with Microsoft 365 and Azure “without losing governance.” You choose which of four paths you are on, and you accept what each one does to your boundary. Microsoft states the position plainly for regulated tenants: third-party connectors “might involve storing, transmitting, and processing...
Who Handles Microsoft Integration When an ERP or CRM Migration Creates Pressure?
Short answer: The integration work created by an ERP or CRM migration is almost never owned by the ERP implementer. The system integrator brings the new platform up; the pressure lands on whoever owns the interfaces between it and the forty other things in your estate that still have to...
Dynamics GP End of Life: What Moves to Business Central?
Short answer: Microsoft's cloud migration tool moves your Dynamics GP financials into Business Central online, and it moves more than most people expect: the chart of accounts, customers, vendors, items, outstanding receivables and payables, checkbooks, 1099 data, open purchase orders, and a configurable slice of history. What it does not...
Is Office 365 CMMC Compliant? The SKU Decides Before the Environment Does
Short answer. No. Office 365 is not CMMC compliant, and it cannot be, because CMMC certifies organizations, not products. But the useful answer has two layers, and almost every article collapses them into one. Layer one is the SKU. Office 365 is not Microsoft 365. Microsoft’s own plan table reads...
Is Microsoft Intune CMMC Compliant? What It Covers, and What It Does Not
Short answer. No. Microsoft Intune is not CMMC compliant, and neither is any other product, because CMMC certifies organizations, not software. Intune is a control implementation tool, not a compliance certificate. What it does is enforce and evidence a specific slice of the 110 security requirements in CMMC Level 2,...
Microsoft 365 GCC or GCC High: Which Government Cloud Do You Need?
Short answer. Most defense contractors do not need GCC High in order to pass a CMMC Level 2 assessment. Microsoft’s own guidance is that the need for CMMC certification is not a deciding factor for choosing your cloud environment. What forces GCC High is export controlled data under ITAR or...
ShareGate vs AvePoint vs Microsoft SPMT: Choosing a SharePoint Migration Tool Without Breaking Permissions and Governance
how to choose a SharePoint migration tool For most enterprise moves to Microsoft 365, ShareGate is the right default: published pricing from $5,995 to $17,995 per year, unlimited data, and the deepest self-service coverage of SharePoint content and permissions. Choose AvePoint Fly when the migration crosses a government cloud boundary...
Shadow IT or Governed Power Platform: Which Carries More Risk?
Ungoverned citizen development costs you control: regulated data lands in unreviewed apps, critical processes depend on one maker who has since left, and nothing passes a security review. A governed Power Platform contains that exposure with managed environments, DLP policies, and a center of excellence. i3solutions has run this at...
