Honeywell, SAP and the Power Platform

Today's guest is from Poon , India . He works as a Senior Information Technology Manager . He was first awarded as MVP in 2023 . He has a focus on business applications with Microsoft , both Dynamics and the Power Platform . You can find links to his bio , social media , etc . In the show notes for this episode . Welcome to the show , Mourtaza .

I love to eat french cuisine and I would say that is the most preferred cuisine worldwide and , being being in pune , it's not always easy to get those type of food , like you know . Uh , family , yes , for sure , I'm a family oriented person . I love to spend time with my family whenever , like you know , it is possible .

Uh , I've got one son , who is 11 years old now , and , when time permits , like you know , of course , once I'm done with the work , that is my stress reliever , like you know , to play with my son . And when it comes to fun , I love beach .

So , uh , the nearest beach from pune is go , I would say you'll be visiting soon , once you'll be in India , and those are from . From an Indian perspective , goa is the most liked beach .

However , like you know , from where I am coming from , like you know , because Madagascar being one of the most natural country in the world right now , so they have got also the most beautiful beach , even currently .

I had to start , like you know , from the basic when it comes to an english language and in meanwhile , like you know , uh uh , to to maintain my French language , I used to give tuition and I was teaching French language in one of the most reputed , renowned institute in Pune . It is , like you know , symbiosis Foreign Institute of Languages .

Okay , and then I discovered , like you know , the gap of the Indian students , at least from Pune .

Of course I am a native speaker because Madagascar , being the official first language of Madagascar , is French , being a Francophone country , and having said that , french is my french first language and that helped me also to connect with the indian french language lovers , because I was part of duolingo as an ambassador and we used to organize , at least whenever

possible , like you know , once in a month , to meet up with the french language lover . And then they were asking me , like you know , what are those tips for to get fluency in the french language and so on .

So , on and off , I was helping them and later on , like you know , one fine day it clicked me I should write a book because , again , that was a kind of a childhood dream to write a book , yeah , yeah . So , of course , to find a topic , it was not so easy .

And then I I met a few mentors who helped me out , like you know , to use ikigai methodology , japanese ikigai very famous methodologies wherein to find , like , like you know , my inner passions .

So , of course , two things came out one was information technology , which I am into , and the second was , like you know , again , like you know , I was in , I'm interested into the french culture , french language and so on . So that's why I took that opportunity that , like you know , let's do it .

Uh , however , uh , once you start thinking , even to write a book , you need to have a very uh disciplined schedule , because it's not always easy , like you know . And , if you remember , in March 2020 , 2020 , the main lockdown , the hard lockdown , started , even in India .

Everyone was locked at their house and , of course , the new way of working started work from home , home office and that gave me an opportunity , like you know , because in the evening I was free , no , and that gave me the opportunity to write that book at that point of time . So , in short , that was my story , yeah .

Of Madagascar still Malagasy once I came to India , of course , english and Hindi , again being the national language , bit of Marathi , like you know . I have started understand .

I understand Marathi , but while speaking , it's still challenging for me , but I'd say , and a bit of Arabic because , being Muslim , like you know , I speak a bit of Arabic , not much , but , but let's say and a bit of arabic because , being muslim , like you know , uh , I speak a bit of arabic , not much , but so let's say , maybe five fluent and maybe one to

two coming up so so can you read arabic ?

So those were my first programming language and I had really fun , like you know , doing that . And since childhood I was a computer kind of a person , very much addicted to computer , day and night , yeah , and I have also that habit to give back to the community , like you know , whenever , yeah , yeah .

So , as you , I think so I believe you are also a spiritual person , because I heard of manifestation techniques and all . So whenever I give back to the community , we always get more and more , like you know , in return also . That is , I believe , a lot .

So since those days , I was helping some of the person of my community , of course in line of technology person of my community , of course in line of technology , and I started my IT career in Madagascar itself in year 2000 and , I would say in 2006 or 7 , I came back to India wherein I had to polish a few of my IT skill because India being one of the

motherland of technology to polish those and get an entry into the industry in India itself , in fact in Pune itself .

I'm taking care of one of their IT department .

Like you know , it's a global team and the headquarters is in Germany and Lindsay has a presence in 60 countries and the team , yeah , uh , which makes it more interesting , like you know , because you get to connect with lots of interesting people and , uh , uh , the team which I am into is a core team which provides services to all these 60 countries , service it

services . I would say , when it comes to IT service , it starts with Microsoft , starts with business applications , azure , sap , it security , it administration and so on .

However , from my end , we did an integration of with using power automate and sap easy dms , like you know , using power power automate connectors , power integration with using Power Automate and SAP Easy DMS , like using Power Automate connectors , power Platform connectors and using OData and all .

They've got this whole concept , of course , and I think Power Platform is such a great wraparound story that it allows for you know , those unique workloads , automations , things like that to happen abstracted away from the core SAP system and using the tools of the Power Platform . It's interesting that you're doing work in that space .

How big a deal is Power Platform inside the organization and Dynamics ? Is it a core part of your enterprise stack of tools that you're using ?

When it comes to digitalization , like you know , uh many , uh my team being an expert in uh power platform we are using extensively on a daily basis , for sure , okay , but also , side by side , we are pushing people , each department , like you know , each product manager or each leaders , to uh use and empower them with the tool , because nowadays , with this

low-code , no-code technology , it becomes really easy to digitize any processes . And Power Platform has a very good great suite of tools such as , like you know , power Apps , power Automate , power Pages , power BI and so on , even coming with Copilot nowadays . So that helps really .

Like you know , people achieve more with less , as Microsoft says , like you know , Interesting .

So , as I said earlier , mark , like you know , I have that inclination towards helping people since , like you know , many years same and even if I I even when I came back to india , as I again uh mentioned earlier , like you know , uh , whenever I was getting an opportunity , I was helping also , for example , students to get uh proficient in the french language

and so on , and so was for the uh technology related .

So I think so , uh , I'm not sure about the year , but uh , 10 years ago , I got an opportunity from uh times of india wherein , like you know , I had to present similar podcasts related to sharepoint and so on , and extensively started during the covid time because , uh , like you know , I got connected with uh , uh one fellow uh , patrick gimone , I think so

he's the owner and founder of uh ems or amp community worldwide . He's a frenchman and I got connected with him .

I got connected with uh african people wherein , like you know it was also I was providing technical knowledge , being a technology evangelist and sharing , kind of you know , the latest trends of technology , at least from a business application side , and I like those type of , like you know , knowledge sharing .

It's fun and it helps you also to connect with very interesting people from all side of the globe . And for sure , as mark , we meet today and for sure we are going to meet more once . I believe we are going to connect soon in person , so that helps . Like you know , for me , relationship matters .

Yeah , and one fine day , uh , I'm uh , like you know , I met one lady from ireland , foin . Her name is foin and yeah , yeah , I think so . She is quite famous and she's one of the I think so , one of the leader of power uh , platform technology in ireland . She's working with avana day in accenture .

And she told me would you like to get nominated for mvp ? I say , for sure , why not ? Let's give it a try . And she nominated me . I , I would like again , I'm taking this opportunity again to thank her in this platform , I hope . And yes , that was the story in short . And Fuin nominated me .

And then , one fine day , I got an email from Michael Congratulations , you are an MVP now . Yeah .

I've got very good mentors in my life , even now , because that is a very important point to get the good mentors , unless you'll not get into the right direction earlier , like no thanks to my father because he showed me at least this direction to be to come into the IT , because in years and 90s they already technology was a boom , of course , in different areas

, different aspects and different technologies , but as we are currently experiencing the age of AI , so in those earlier , like you know , it was something different , because IBM , mainframe and those type of technology and why I'm into information technology , it's an exciting domain , mark , because technology is magic .

Technology is magic and it empowers human life , as we are seeing right now , and maybe one line of your code could change someone's life or make someone's life better , I would say , and that I love it .