Uh, and then the green shake that my wife Claudia makes for me. Stephen Handley: So I'm on, uh, a routine of start with my glass of water. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Neil Benson: So just before we get too far into that, and I'd love to give you a chance to introduce yourself, just starting with a couple of simple, quick questions we like to ask all of our guests here. Stephen Handley: Financial services professionals in Australia, but also now we're starting to see quite a bit of activity elsewhere, New Zealand, South Africa, even some coming from the US. Neil Benson: The reason I wanted to invite you onto the show, I've seen a lots of content coming out from Fin365, which is your application development business, serving financial advisors here in Australia. Stephen Handley: Thanks, Neil, thank you for the invitation. Welcome to the Amazing Applications show.
Here's Stephen Handley, Founder and CEO of Fin365. You'll find show notes for this episode at /037. And the investments that Stephen hopes Microsoft will make in the platform to support his customers and his ISV business. It also covers AppSource and licensing and integrating with Azure release management, visualizing CRM data with Power BI. What it's like selling to small and medium-sized financial services companies, especially given the structural changes occurring within the financial advice industry that's emphasizing the need for a modern CRM application. We discuss Stephen's rationale for choosing Dynamics 365 as a development platform for his ISV business. And at the same time, he's the CEO of Fin365, leading a team, building a client engagement app for financial advisors. He's Stephen Handley, who is the managing director and a practicing financial planner at MiPlan Advisory in Melbourne, Australia.
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My guest in this episode is a software developer, turned financial advisor, turned software developer again. It's not my usual agile style content, but if you want to check it out, I'll add a link in the show notes to our YouTube video. Amey and I got to pimp a couple of LinkedIn profiles from members of our community and provided top 10 tips for maximizing your LinkedIn profile for a career in Microsoft business applications.
There were students entering the workforce for the first time, parents returning to work, or people switching careers. This event was designed for people interested in exploring a career, working with the Power Platform. This weekend, Amey Holden and I were presenting at the Power Platform starter days event. Our goal on this show is to help you slash your project budgets, reduce your delivery timelines, mitigate technical risks and create amazing, agile Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications. I'm your host, Microsoft business applications, MVP Neil Benson. Neil Benson: Welcome to the Amazing Applications podcast, for Microsoft business apps creators who are building amazing applications that everyone will love.
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Agile Foundations for Microsoft Business Apps free online mini-course at Customery Academy.Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps online course at Customery Academy.Amazing Applications podcast page on Podchaser.Amazing Applications podcast page on LinkedIn.Amey Holden and Neil Benson Pimp LinkedIn profiles.Advice to startups thinking about or who already started developing on the Microsoft Power Platform.What it is like selling a product to the financial industry which is under so much transformation.How a product from the heavily regulated Australian financial services industry can be adapted for other international markets and their regulations.What led to the choice of Microsoft Dynamics over Salesforce or Zoho or others?.How Stephen's background of being a software developer and a financial adviser could be the perfect blend of expertise for his application development business.Fin365 was born out of need for better data management practice management platform that Stephen identified in his own financial planning business. Join me with Stephen Handley,founder, CEO and chief architect at Fin365, an application development business serving financial services professionals in Australia.