Articles by Nick McKenna
The AI Maturity Pyramid: Where Does Your Organisation Actually Stand?
Every organisation is "doing AI" now. The question is whether they are doing it deliberately.
EU AI Act High-Risk Compliance: A Technical Readiness Guide for August 2026
The EU AI Act's high-risk obligations become enforceable on 2 August 2026. For development teams and AI programme leads...
Total Cost of Ownership: Composable Commerce vs Monolithic Platforms
When a commerce director presents a composable commerce business case to their CFO, the conversation often stalls at the...
EWS to Microsoft Graph: The API Migration Every Outlook Add-In Developer Must Complete by October 2026
Microsoft has confirmed that Exchange Web Services will cease to accept connections from Outlook add-ins on 1 October 20...
WOPI Security Beyond Proof Keys: Implementing Zero Trust for Cloud Document Editing
Proof key validation is the entry point for WOPI security — the mechanism that verifies every incoming request from Offi...
Multi-Agent AI Systems: Orchestrating Specialised Agents for Enterprise Workflows
Gartner does not report a 1,445% increase in enquiries about a technology that is merely interesting. That figure — the...
Agentic Commerce: How AI Agents Are Transforming B2B Product Discovery
The B2B buying experience is undergoing a more fundamental shift than anything the industry has seen since the move from...
The VSTO Migration Countdown: Your 60-Day Implementation Guide for April 2026
The April 2026 VSTO migration deadline is no longer a future concern. For enterprise development teams that have not yet...
CSPP Plus Backstage Integration: Adding Your Cloud Storage to Microsoft Office's File Menu
For most ISVs implementing WOPI-based document editing, the user journey begins the same way: a user browses your platfo...
Microsoft 365 Extensibility in 2026: From Office Add-Ins to Intelligent Agents
The landscape of Microsoft 365 extensibility has changed more in the second half of 2025 than in any comparable period s...
Artificial Intelligence-Powered Document Intelligence: Combining WOPI, Office Add-Ins, and LLMs
Enterprise document processing has been a persistent challenge. Organisations generate, receive, and process vast quanti...
Building Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents with MCP: A Developer's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
In December 2025, Microsoft announced that Microsoft 365 Copilot declarative agents now support the Model Context Protoc...
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