Who is Jukka?

Looking back at my career, I’ve always been thinking a few steps ahead. What would need to happen today, so that I won’t have to be solving the same problems tomorrow?

I have a background on the business side, studying and working on marketing and CRM processes. Yet it quickly became evident that progress requires crafting a better future through technology. So I embraced it.

I have helped not just customers but also the broader user community to make use of Microsoft’s business applications for nearly two decades. I was a Microsoft MVP for 11 years. I co-founded a Power Platform consulting company in 2020.

Today, I’m still continuously thinking about what lies ahead. How can low-code and generative AI capabilities change the everyday reality of business technology - so that we may move towards solving the next problems?

My work roles in recent years

•Analyzing the current state of low-code app and automation usage within enterprise tenants (both Power Apps and Dynamics 365 CE apps).
•Deploying, configuring, using and maintaining admin reporting tools (CoE Starter Kit + extensions).
•Identifying and prioritizing security & architecture issues for governance backlog.
•Designing a Power Platform governance framework to cover all critical areas from enterprise IT perspective.
•Documenting the detailed practices for platform administration, citizen developer solutions and partner solutions lifecycle management.
•Evaluating platform adoption maturity level and planning activities for supporting a growing number of users, makers, vendors and solutions in a scalable way within enterprise organizations.
•Pure play Power Platform line-of-business solution design, development and deployment.
•Leveraging Dataverse, Power Apps (canvas, model-driven), Power Automate and Power BI as elements of solutions integrated tightly with Microsoft Teams.
•Optimizing the licensing portfolio to maximize ROI from Power Apps/Automate investments without requiring additional MS first-party app licenses (D365).
•Analyzing the solution architecture as well as implementation details of Dynamics 365 CE environments developed by other MS partners.
•Performing health checks to identify issues requiring customer and partner actions prior to broader roll-out and new feature development.
•Evaluating the sprint deliverables of ongoing Dynamics 365 CE deployment project by a partner, acting as an advisor to the customer IT organization.
•Starting from 2005, working in CRM technology projects throughout their entire lifecycle, both on customer and partner side.
•Net new deployments, CRM on-prem to Online migrations, version upgrades, modernizations, integrations.
•Covering tasks from presales to requirements analysis, solution design, customization, developer coordination, project management, data migration, training, support, roadmap planning.
•Ramping up new CRM and Power Platform consulting teams/practices.
•Designing learning paths for competence development, training and supporting consultants, setting roadmap targets, developing commercial offering, partner coordination.
•Authoring marketing content, establishing thought leader position in the global MS BizApps market, measuring impact.