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AI and BC: chat with your data using MS Teams

This article will outline a method for creating virtual agents (chatbots) that can respond to user questions about business data. To achieve our goal, we’ll utilize the following tools: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, our favorite ERP system. Microsoft Teams where users will ask their questions. Power Virtual Agent to create a virtual assistant, which […]

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Simplifying Expense Categorization with AI and Python

The first step towards efficient personal expense management is understanding how your earned money is being utilized. One practice that I find very helpful is categorizing expenses. This means organizing expenses into different categories such as house rent, food, transportation, clothing, entertainment, medical expenses, and so on. In this article, I will introduce you to […]

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Querying Business Central data with ChatGPT

Can you imagine asking in natural language questions about your data? In this blog, I will demonstrate how you can leverage the power of Language Models (LLMs), with a focus on ChatGPT, to request information about the data stored in your ERP system. This article provides a general overview but to fully grasp what I’ve […]

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Empower Your Development Team with Power Automate

To ensure the success of a new project, there are several activities that can promote collaboration and coordination within the team. Some examples are: Creating a chat room for team members. Creating network folders where documents can be shared. Making available to team members the software needed to carry out the project. These are just […]

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Could ChatGPT be integrated with Business Central?

Considering what I have seen online these days, I can assume that ChatGPT needs no introduction. This chatbot developed by OpenAI has the ability to understand and answer an infinity of questions in natural language. I have tested ChatGPT on several occasions, asking very different things, such as: writing code, optimizing existing code, summarizing text […]

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The future of coding is no coding at all

One of the most significant trends in the software industry in recent times are the low code platforms [1].  What does low code mean?  It’s a paradigm for programmers and non-programmers which allows you to develop and deploy applications quickly and with a small amount of code (or even without code!). Using a low code […]

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Estimating software projects using Fermi questions

How many times do you need to estimate a software project with hardly any details? In the work of a software engineer it happens frequently and most of the time the details about the projects are not yet available (and probably will never be!).  To achieve an estimate there are two kind of approaches: Non-algorithmic […]