Crow Canyon Software

Crow Canyon Software Unleash the potential of Microsoft Office 365, Teams, & SharePoint through the power of NITRO Studio, a PowerApps alternative.

follow us on Instagram: crowcanyonsoftware Crow Canyon Software provides an efficient, cost-effective solutions to various small or large organizations in all types of industries. Our products are in use at over 2000 organizations worldwide. Our philosophy is to keep it simple and cost-effective by leveraging your existing IT infrastructure. Crow Canyon Software sets itself apart from other companies because we build upon your existing collaboration platforms rather than installing new hardware. We are focused on making your support organization as productive and responsive as possible, thereby enabling you to improve and sustain employee and customer satisfaction. Our team comprises experienced software professionals and technology staff certified in Microsoft technologies.

Stop chasing tickets. Start solving them.Automate the IT help desk workflow so requests are routed to the right team, tr...
10/14/2026

Stop chasing tickets. Start solving them.

Automate the IT help desk workflow so requests are routed to the right team, tracked against SLAs, and moved toward resolution automatically.

10/13/2026

No-code/low-code is changing the way businesses get work done. ⚡

From building business solutions faster to automating repetitive tasks and adapting processes as needs evolve, no-code/low-code gives teams more flexibility to improve the way they work.

Here are 5 ways no-code/low-code can transform business operations

Build the solution. Not the code.From custom forms and workflows to approvals, portals, and dashboards, NITRO Studio hel...
10/08/2026

Build the solution. Not the code.

From custom forms and workflows to approvals, portals, and dashboards, NITRO Studio helps you build and automate business processes within Microsoft 365 & SharePoint.

Less coding. More possibilities.

10/01/2026

A real challenge. A real transformation.
See how Spokane Regional Health District transformed its business processes with NITRO Studio while continuing to build on its existing Microsoft environment.

The most dangerous phrase in IT this year: “But it still works.” InfoPath hit its retirement date on July 14, 2026. Here...
09/30/2026

The most dangerous phrase in IT this year: “But it still works.”

InfoPath hit its retirement date on July 14, 2026. Here is the trap: for many organizations, the forms didn't visibly break. People submit them, approvals still route, nothing is on fire. So it drops off the priority list.

That is exactly the problem. “Still working” and “supported” are not the same thing.

What we actually see once a platform goes unsupported: it is not a dramatic failure on day one. It is a slow accumulation of risk. No security patches. No fixes when a browser or tenant update changes behavior. And the moment you need to change a form for a new policy or a tax rule, you discover you cannot, because publishing is already blocked.

The pattern is almost always the same. Nothing, nothing, nothing, then an urgent business change forces an emergency migration on the worst possible timeline, usually with the fewest people available.

A calmer way to think about it, even if you cannot migrate everything now:
- Sort forms by risk, not by age. The ones touching personal data, finance, or compliance come first.
- Separate “business critical” from “nice to have.” Not every form deserves a rebuild. Some just need retiring.
- Tighten access to the ones you cannot move yet, and monitor them.
- Treat a required change to a frozen form as the trigger to migrate that process, not to hunt for a workaround.

Running unsupported software is a decision, even when you decide by not deciding. The goal is to make it a conscious, risk-ranked choice instead of a surprise.

If you are still on InfoPath: roughly what share of your forms would you call genuinely business critical? For most teams it is far smaller than the total, and that is the reassuring part.

We wrote up the full risk-ranking and migration approach here if it is useful:
https://hubs.li/Q04vZz590

Too many channels. Too many requests. One IT team.NITRO Help Desk for IT brings them together in one place, giving your ...
09/30/2026

Too many channels. Too many requests. One IT team.

NITRO Help Desk for IT brings them together in one place, giving your IT team a clearer way to manage every request.

See how it works. Send us a DM to book a demo.

Let NITRO Studio handle the workflows while your team focuses on what moves the business forward.Build, automate, and st...
09/29/2026

Let NITRO Studio handle the workflows while your team focuses on what moves the business forward.
Build, automate, and streamline business processes with NITRO Studio.

Unpopular opinion: for a lot of teams, Power Apps is the wrong first answer to InfoPath. Not because it is a bad product...
09/22/2026

Unpopular opinion: for a lot of teams, Power Apps is the wrong first answer to InfoPath.

Not because it is a bad product. It is a great one. But “just move it to Power Apps” has quietly become the default advice, and defaults are where migrations go over budget.

Here is the nuance we keep running into. InfoPath was one thing: a form plus its logic in a single place. The common replacement is actually three things stitched together: Power Apps for the form, Power Automate for the workflow, and Microsoft Forms for the simple stuff. Three tools, three skill sets, three things to govern and license.

For a complex, form-heavy estate, that can be exactly right. For a team that just needs 60 forms and approvals rebuilt without standing up a Power Platform practice, it is often overkill.

A simple way to decide, before you commit to any platform:
- Do you have (or want) in-house Power Platform skills? If no, weigh toward a single no-code platform.
- Are your forms mostly simple, or full of cascading logic and multi-step approvals?
- Do you need on-premises, or is cloud-only fine? Power Apps is cloud-only.
- Does your data need to stay inside your own Microsoft tenant?
- Is your licensing model predictable as usage grows, or does it scale per user and per flow?

The honest answer is that the best InfoPath replacement is not a product; it is a fit. Sometimes that is Power Apps and Power Automate. Sometimes it is a single SharePoint-native platform that rebuilds the form and the workflow in one place. What matters is matching the tool to the estate, not to the trend.

So we will put it to the practitioners here: if you were choosing an InfoPath replacement today, would you go Power Apps and Power Automate, or a dedicated no-code platform, and what is the deciding factor for you?

A story we love from a healthcare project we worked on: Wi******er District Memorial Hospital, a rural Ontario hospital,...
09/18/2026

A story we love from a healthcare project we worked on:

Wi******er District Memorial Hospital, a rural Ontario hospital, needed to move off Nintex and InfoPath before the deadlines caught up with them. That meant rebuilding around 1,800 workflows, including the eConsult referral system their clinicians rely on every day.

Our team helped them do the whole thing in five weeks. Same processes, better performance, lower cost, and adoption that actually stuck.

If you are staring at your own list of aging workflows and wondering how it can possibly get done in time, this one is worth reading.

What is the workflow migration deadline weighing on your team the most right now?

Read the full write-up: https://hubs.li/Q04xlrBS0

The hardest part of an InfoPath migration is rarely the form. It is discovering the workflow logic that someone built fi...
09/15/2026

The hardest part of an InfoPath migration is rarely the form.

It is discovering the workflow logic that someone built five years ago, documented nowhere, and then left the company.

We see the same pattern on nearly every project. A team scopes the migration by counting forms. “We have 80 InfoPath forms, this should be straightforward.” Then they open one and find it quietly triggers three approvals, writes to two lists, emails a distribution group, and enforces a business rule that only one person still understands.

The form was the easy 20 percent. The workflow behind it was the real project.

If you are planning to move off InfoPath, inventory the logic, not just the forms:
1. What does each form trigger when it is submitted?
2. Which lists or systems does it read from and write to?
3. What approvals or routing rules are buried inside it?
4. What validation exists that people now assume is “just how it works”?
5. Who is the one person who understands the exceptions?

Rebuild the form and the workflow together, as one process. Migrate them separately, and you get a shiny new form that triggers nothing, or a workflow waiting on a form that no longer submits.

The teams that struggle treat this as a forms project. The teams that succeed treat it as a process-discovery project that happens to involve forms.

Genuinely curious: when you last audited your InfoPath forms, how far off was the number you expected from the number you actually found?

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