Unified developer experience
Approach
How we build: unified tooling, one pipeline, and an environment model that scales from a single developer to a full programme.
Building on the unified developer experience
Historically, finance and operations development lived apart from the rest of the Microsoft cloud: its own developer VM, its own tooling, its own deployment mechanics. The unified developer experience closes that gap by bringing X++ development into a Dataverse-backed Power Platform environment.
Practically, that means a developer provisions a unified environment rather than waiting on a virtual machine, works in familiar Visual Studio tooling against that environment, and produces a unified package that carries both X++ models and Dataverse solutions.
We treat this as the default for new work. It removes the slowest part of onboarding, cuts idle environment cost, and gives you a single application lifecycle across ERP and low-code instead of two disconnected ones.
From keystroke to production
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Unified dev environment
Dataverse-backed environment per developer or per feature branch.
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Source control
X++ models and Dataverse solutions versioned side by side in Git.
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Azure DevOps pipeline
Automated build compiling X++ and packaging a unified deployable artifact.
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Test environments
Controlled deployment to build/test and UAT with repeatable data.
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Production
Governed release, monitored through Application Insights and LCS.
Principles we do not compromise on
Extension, never over-layering
Everything we build survives one-version updates. If it cannot be extended cleanly, we redesign it.
Automated, repeatable builds
If a release depends on someone remembering a manual step, it is not a release process.
Low-code where it belongs
Power Platform is powerful and easy to misuse. We put governance in before the sprawl, not after.
Documentation your team can use
We hand over solutions your own people can run without us on speed dial.
AI where it earns its keep
Copilot and agent scenarios are extensions of your ERP like any other: introduced where there is a clear business case, governed through the same ALM, and never a demo that accidentally survives into production.