Project Oakdale (at that point Dataflex) was first announced by @clamanna at Microsoft Inspire as a low-code data platform built-into Microsoft Teams and it immediately drew a lot of attention in the community. The idea behind it - as articulated quite aptly by @Jukkan in his post Dataflex is more (and less) than CDS - is to deliver an application platform for the masses. But to be honest, Microsoft only lifted the tip of the veil at that point in time.
Fast forward, to Microsoft Ignite only two weeks ago with a number of big announcements with regards to Project Oakdale:
- Now in Preview: customize Teams with built-in Power Platform Capabilities - Project Oakdale went in public preview with the ability for everyone to try it out.
- Public preview of Power Virtual Agents within Microsoft Teams - the ability to build bots using Power Virtual Agents with the bot creation experience embedded within Teams itself. The most exciting part of this announcement is that PVA for Teams is included with your existing Teams licenses. If you are new to PVA, check out the PVA webinars and video gallery
- Azure API Management connector on the Power Platform - interesting note here "Citizen developers can use these API Management backed connectors in Power Apps hosted in Teams through the existing Teams licensing" ... Watch the session Build Power Apps within Microsoft Teams and get to the next level with Azure APIs and the Power Platform for more details
References:
- Build custom apps to drive productivity in the remote work world with PowerApps and Teams session at Microsoft Ignite about Project Oakdale - must watch and great intro
- Why should I consider using Project Oakdale in Teams (Youtube)
- Power Apps and Microsoft Teams (Microsoft documentation)
- Announcing Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 updates at Microsoft Ignite
- Microsoft Teams as platform
- Overview of Project Oakdale (Microsoft docs)
- How are Project Oakdale and Common Data Service different? (Microsoft docs)
- How Power Platform now empowers all Teams users
- Build and customize your first Teams App with Power Apps - Full training (Youtube 00:43:04)
Old articles (Released in July after initial announcement on July 21th):
- Introducing Project Oakdale, a low code data platform for Microsoft Teams
- A closer look at Data Platform Capabilities in Project Oakdale
- Microsoft Dataflex questions and answers
- What is Microsoft Dataflex
- Dataflex is more (and less) than CDS
- Dataflex for Teams: limitations and opportunities
- Four things to know and five things to do following the big Microsoft Dataflex + teams announcement
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