Designing Outlook Add-Ins for the Microsoft Graph-Only Era: Architecture for 2027 and Beyond
Exchange Web Services is gone. As of 1 October 2026, Microsoft has retired EWS for Exchange Online, and the bridges that many Outlook add-ins quietly re...
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Artificial Intelligence
From Compliance Project to Operating Model: Building an AI Governance System with ISO/IEC 42001
On 2 August 2025, a significant tranche of the EU AI Act's obligations became applicable. A year on, many organisations...
Microsoft Office Add-In Developer
Cross-Platform Office Add-Ins in 2026: One Codebase for Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android
The promise of modern Office extensibility is deceptively simple: write your code once and have it run wherever Office r...
SharePoint Embedded
SharePoint Embedded Security and Compliance: Purview, Sensitivity Labels, Data Residency, and Audit
Few decisions stall a SharePoint Embedded project faster than an unresolved security review. The engineering team is rea...
Systems Integration
Augmenting Your Software Development Team
Most of the companies we work with already have a development team, and a good one. They are not looking for somebody to...
Artificial Intelligence
Beyond August 2: GPAI Obligations, Codes of Practice, and the EU AI Act Roadmap to 2027
The high-risk obligations that applied from 2 August 2026 dominated the conference circuit, the compliance webinars, and...
Artificial Intelligence
The EU AI Act Is Now in Force: What Day-One Compliance Actually Looks Like
As of 2 August 2026, the high-risk obligations of the EU AI Act apply. The countdown is over. For the first time, organi...
B2B eCommerce
Replatforming to Elastic Path: Migrating from Salesforce Commerce Cloud and SAP Hybris
For most enterprise commerce teams running Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware) or SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris...
SharePoint Embedded
Intelligent Documents: Adding Microsoft 365 Copilot and RAG to SharePoint Embedded
For the last two years, the conversation around document storage in custom applications has been dominated by a single p...
Microsoft Office Add-In Developer
Migrating VSTO and COM Add-Ins to the Office Web Add-Ins Platform
If your organisation runs custom VSTO or COM add-ins, you have probably encountered a good deal of noise about deadlines...
Microsoft Office Add-In Developer
The EWS Cutover Runbook: Your Go-Live Plan for the October 1 2026 Deadline
The clock now reads under 90 days. On 1 October 2026, Exchange Web Services stops serving Outlook add-ins, and any add-i...
SharePoint Embedded
Co-Authoring Under Control: Real-Time Document Collaboration for Audit and Compliance Platforms
Walk through the document workflow of almost any audit, risk or compliance platform and you will find, somewhere near it...
SharePoint Embedded
SharePoint Embedded at Scale: Multi-Tenant Architecture Patterns for ISVs
A SharePoint Embedded pilot is deceptively easy to stand up. You register an application in Entra ID, create a container...
Microsoft Office Add-In Developer
From AppSource to Enterprise Procurement: Distributing Your Office Add-In to Large Customers
Every ISV that builds an Office Add-In eventually runs into the same uncomfortable truth: shipping working code is rough...
Artificial Intelligence
The EU AI Act Goes Live in 33 Days: Final Compliance Checklist for August 2
There are 33 days between the publication of this article and the date that the EU AI Act high-risk obligations become e...
B2B eCommerce
Selling Spare Parts Online: Aftermarket eCommerce for Equipment Manufacturers
Every machine a manufacturer has ever shipped is still generating demand. Filters, seals, belts, bearings, wear parts, s...
Microsoft Office Add-In Developer
Escaping the Spreadsheet Shadow System: Excel Add-Ins for Audit and Compliance Platforms
Every GRC platform vendor knows the pattern, even if few say it out loud. The platform is the system of record — risk re...
B2B eCommerce
Choosing Your Composable Commerce Frontend: Hosted Frontends, Custom React, and Headless CMS Compared
The first big decision in a composable commerce build is the platform — Elastic Path, commercetools, BigCommerce, or one...
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