Charles Lamanna articles

Charles Lamanna

Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Platforms—Microsoft

Charles leads the product development and engineering teams responsible for creating business applications and low-code platforms that empower everyone to achieve more. This spans products and services across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance Enterprise. These products include low-code/no-code tools, robotic process automation, conversational AI, customer experience platform, customer service, finance, and supply chain applications.

Announcements

Published May 25, 2021

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Build differentiated SaaS apps with Microsoft Industry Clouds

The past year has brought dramatic change to almost every facet of our lives. We have seen the same disruption play out across every industry, from retail to healthcare to financial services. Customer expectations are fundamentally altered, and it’s hard to imagine things going back to the way they once were.

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Published March 2, 2021

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Announcing new Power Platform capabilities at Microsoft Ignite

As organizations rethink entire business models, low-code solutions are increasingly considered imperative to empower anyone to collaborate and build transformational solutions.

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Published October 1, 2020

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T-Mobile creates business solutions with Microsoft Power Platform

T-Mobile is the second largest wireless provider in the United States with over 98 million customers and the only nationwide 5G network. T-Mobile wants to manage costs but also accelerate application development with services enabling users to create their own solutions to business challenges.

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Events

Published September 22, 2020

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Achieve your app development goals with Power Platform and Azure

This year at Microsoft Ignite, I’m continuing the conversation about how Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft Azure work together to enable professional developers to build and deliver applications faster and more cost effectively. Today we’re announcing a set of new capabilities across Power Platform.

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Published July 21, 2020

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Introducing Project Oakdale, a new low-code data platform for Microsoft Teams

The COVID-19 crisis has rapidly changed the way we live and work, and many organizations have shifted to remote work or are implementing a hybrid remote work approach as they reopen physical locations.

Announcements

Published July 21, 2020

4 min read

Return to the workplace with confidence with the Power Platform

There is no standard handbook for reopening a business during a global pandemic. Each organization faces the daunting task of minimizing risk in conference rooms, factory floors, storefronts, and more to ensure the safety of every employee and customer.

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Announcements

Published June 16, 2020

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Imagine, build, and deploy solutions with Microsoft Power Platform

Currently, 97 percent of the Fortune 500 uses the Microsoft Power Platform in many remarkable ways. Today, I want to share a solution developed by GSK, which is part of the global Fortune 500 and one of the world’s leading healthcare companies.

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Announcements

Published May 20, 2020

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Rapid application development with Microsoft Power Platform & Azure

On the kickoff of Build, we have an incredible 31 sessions covering Power Platform and Azure. This volume of sessions at a professional developer conference is a turning point for the Power Platform, so I wanted to take a moment and reflect on this growing fusion of low-code and code-first development.

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Announcements

Published May 19, 2020

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Microsoft acquires Softomotive to expand low-code robotic process automation capabilities in Microsoft Power Automate

Today, we are announcing the acquisition of Softomotive, a world-leading provider of robotic process automation (RPA) with over 15 years of experience and the creator of WinAutomation.

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Published March 2, 2020

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Microsoft Power Automate adds robotic process automation in April

In case you missed our announcement at Ignite 2019, we launched the preview of UI flows, the new robotic process automation (RPA) capability in Microsoft Power Automate. Today we’re announcing that UI flows will be generally available worldwide on April 2. Power Automate already helps hundreds of thousands of organizations automate millions of processes every day.

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Published May 6, 2019

3 min read

Power Platform & Azure enable developers to build apps faster than ever

At Build this year, I’m excited to announce investments for professional developers on our Power Platform. The Power Platform is a low code platform that enables organizations to analyze data, act on it through applications, and automate business processes.