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“Without a rules engine, AI outputs are suggestions floating in the ether. With one, they become executed, governed decisions.” John Grace – North52 CEO Vibe Coding Is Intoxicating – Until It Isn’t A consultant I know spent a Saturday afternoon last month spinning up a lead qualification tool for a
If you’ve ever wondered what’s actually happening inside an automated ALM pipeline for Dynamics 365 business rules, this post is for you. We’re going beyond the high-level overview and into the technical detail – the repository structure, the YAML pipelines, the service connections, and a live walkt
“Vibe coding is the architect sketching a brilliant building. A business rules engine is the building code that makes sure it doesn’t fall down.” John Grace – North52 CEO We’re in a moment where everyone with a Copilot / OpenAI / Anthropic subscription and a well-crafted prompt feels like they can b
If you’ve ever stared at a production issue and wondered “who changed this rule, and when?” – you’re not alone. For teams managing business rules in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, tracking changes has traditionally meant digging through emails, chasing down spreadsheets, and hoping someone remembe
“There’s a meaningful difference between giving enterprises access to an AI model and building that model into workflows where real decisions are made.” John Grace – North52 CEO We are deep in the vibe coding era – Copilot / OpenAI / Anthropic. A competent person with a weekend and a prompt can spin
“AI hides complexity. North52 manages it.” John Grace – North52 CEO Core Message: As organizations reduce technical headcount and lose code literacy skills, sustainable automation requires platforms that don’t depend on scarce developer talent to maintain. The Technical Talent Exodus Problem 1. The
“The hard part was never writing the rule. It was making sure someone could still explain it eighteen months later.” John Grace – North52 CEO The Vibe Coding Illusion A team lead I spoke with earlier this year had a story that stuck with me. His organization had just wrapped a sprint where a busines
“Every D365 JavaScript web resource & C# Plugin generated from a chat prompt is a future archaeology project for someone who wasn’t in the room.” John Grace – North52 CEO Just describe what you want in plain English. The AI spits out a working plugin. Deploy it, move on. It feels like the future bec
Your LinkedIn feed has changed. Where it used to be full of people debating low-code vs. pro-code, now it’s full of people building entire applications in an afternoon with Claude Code or Cursor, narrating the process in real time, often with a tone of mild disbelief. And fair enough. The barrier to
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Complex rules are often required to be executed as part of a Canvas Power App. North52’s business rules engine for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform is a perfect partner when you need to evaluate complex rule
A new knowledge base article has been published on our support portal. Overview Microsoft Dynamics Marketing allows for the collection of data from form submissions. However, each data field submitted is stored in a separate Dataverse record (using JSON for lookup values) which makes it difficult to
North52 Business Process Activities Has Met Microsoft’s Highest Standard for Partner-Developed Software Solutions Cork, IRELAND – 22 February, 2017 – North52 announced today that its product North52 Business Process Activities, the leading advanced business rules solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365/
Just starting off this blog with content around useful links & articles relating to Microsoft’s CRM product & their xRM platform. It’s inspired by similar blogs such as, http://samgentile.com/Web/new-and-notable/ http://blog.cwa.me.uk/ Hopefully, I will get some original content up here as well. The
