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Practical comparisons for Dataverse and Power Platform: documents, licensing, professional services and app design.

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Documents

How to generate a PDF from Dataverse or Power Apps

Six ways to turn a Dataverse or Power Apps record into a PDF, from PDF() to paginated reports, with the licence each needs and the documented limit where it breaks.

· 12 min read

Related: SSS DocGen
Licensing

Dataverse file storage cost in 2026

What Dataverse file capacity your licences already include, what Microsoft charges per GB above it, and a small estimator to put your own number on it.

· 10 min read

Related: SSS DMS
Documents

Dynamics 365 document generation tools compared

Nine ways to generate documents from Dynamics 365 and Dataverse, from built-in Word templates to DocumentsCorePack, dox42, Experlogix, Encodian, Plumsail and DocGen, with published prices and an honest ‘choose it if’ for each.

· 13 min read

Related: SSS DocGen
Professional services

Dynamics 365 Project Operations alternatives

Project Operations alternatives mapped for Dataverse-first firms: which ones keep your data in your own Dataverse, what each costs where it is published, and when to choose each.

· 11 min read

Related: PSA Hub
Documents

Dynamics 365 Word template limitations

Where the out-of-the-box Word template breaks — repeating tables, if-conditions, XML mapping, related records, the first 100 rows — and why none of it is a setting you can flip.

· 11 min read

Related: SSS DocGen
Professional services

PSA Hub vs Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Deployment types, where the price difference comes from, and the four cases where the answer is Microsoft rather than us.

· 5 min read

Related: PSA Hub
Documents

The Dynamics 365 document grid 5,000-row limit

Why it is not a setting you can raise, why the missing folder convention is the worse problem, and the four options — two of which are free.

· 5 min read

Related: SSS DMS

Why these are written this way

Every one of these names the cases where our answer is the wrong one, because a comparison that never concludes against the vendor who wrote it is not a comparison. If you are evaluating something here and the honest answer is a competitor or doing nothing, the article should get you there faster than a call would.

Prices and third-party product details change. Where an article rests on a figure, it says where the figure came from and when. Verify anything load-bearing before you decide on it.

The products behind the articles

Products for Dataverse, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform

Each one is priced in public and runs inside your own Microsoft tenant.