Qualtrics Chairman Ryan Smith on the wildly creative approach that has enabled his experience-management company to grow so rapidly.

If CES is the biggest show for tech every January, NRF is the biggest show for all things retail. The National Retail Federation has held the show every year for more than 100 years, helping to address the most pressing topics in the retail industry. This year, those topics are largely defined by the global pandemic.

“Application modernization is about taking advantage of the cost structure of the cloud.”

Heidi Neuhauser, D365 All-Star, shares “Get to know the Model-driven App designer”, and Natalie Jackson, Marketing Director for emfluence, speaks on “What Makes the Perfect CRM Record”

For today’s IT leaders, change management is more than technical. It’s about spearheading cultural transformation at every level of the business.

The latest Release Plan (Wave 1 2021) for the Microsoft Power Platform has been published. Learn more about what’s coming to the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 so that you can be prepared.

The Digital Acceleration Imperative, Community Transformation Tips, Future-Proofing Receivables with Digital Transformation

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Tony Uphoff and I discuss the impact of remote working, virtual culture, and a massive B2B market transition.

Maribel Lopez, Senior Contributor for Forbes, highlights IBM’s strategy in the cloud wars by collaborating with various industries, such as financial services, to develop specialty clouds. Combining this with opensource and hybrid cloud, IBM is continuing to focus on driving innovation.

During the Microsoft fiscal Q2 earnings call, Satya Nadella and Amy Hood revealed how Microsoft has become the world’s #1 cloud provider.

A newbie’s guide to collaborative coding in hackathons – not only are they fun, but there are also many practical perks to participating in these programming projects.

If you are familiar with CRM, you will remember the good old days when most customer relationship management tools had basic offerings of mainframe systems.

Today, CRM has transformed into an all-in-one solution, covering all aspects of the operations, goals, needs, and functionality an organization has.

It caters equally (and excellently) to the organization and its customers.

Health and fitness companies have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Orangetheory Fitness has shifted its model to keep business running.

https://www.meetup.com/ChicagolandPowerBI/events/276027132/Join us on February 18th as the Chicago Power BI PUG introduces the concept & importance of collecting your organization’s Activity data from the Power BI Service. Agenda:1) Welcome & Power BI Updates 2) What is Power BI activity data  2a.) Ways to view & see usage based data  2b.) How to store historical and local usage via PowerShell 3) Activity Data Importance & Impactful Uses  3a.) Using the activity data to build better reports for your consumers  3b.) Monitoring events happening in the PBI Service  3c.) Using the Activity Report to organize & clean content  3d.) Monitoring Refreshes, views, and users 4) QA

Would you be OK with paying for “last year’s medicine at last year’s prices”?

Mo Osbourne, Corporate Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Business Applications Engineering at Microsoft, outlines the new capabilities planned for release between the spring and late summer 2021 in this Microsoft blog. Complete with hundreds of new features, the first release of the year continues to cement the Microsoft commitment to power digital transformation for customers and partners.

Wake boarding innovator uses Experlogix CPQ solution to create entirely new value through “True Symbiotic Integration” in working through their value chain to customers! Learn more about how Experlogix can help your organization by booking a demo or setting up a discovery call with one their experts. It is free, easy and you can do it all right through this platfrom!

With an opportunity to get a bit of context from Chris in anticipation of his session at the Digital Acceleration binge taking place on January 28th from 11am-2pm EST, he shares some of the realities behind migrating to the PowerGP Online Cloud solution. Amazing to understand the alternative that PowerGP Online solution enables for everyone running an on premise version of GP today! Join Chris, me and the rest of the community by clicking here

Enjoy this quick tutorial on modifying 1099 Vendors and totals. For more GP Tips and Tricks, check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBX0gIaDu6wxQwEqmJFQPg/videos or website: www.trainingdynamo.com

Enjoy this quick tutorial on printing 1099 and 1096 Forms. For more GP Tips and Tricks, check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBX0gIaDu6wxQwEqmJFQPg/videos or website: www.trainingdynamo.com

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Christopher Lochhead and I discuss the current state of civil discourse, authentic dialogue, how to listen.

Enjoy this quick tutorial on setting up 1099 Vendors. For more GP Tips and Tricks, check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBX0gIaDu6wxQwEqmJFQPg/videos or website: www.trainingdynamo.com

In this news desk we sit down with Solver Chief Commercial Officer, Tad Remington, to discuss the the new Microsoft and Solver relationship from a customer and partner perspective. We do a deep dive into the business, process and customer value enabled by Solver’s cloud based planning and reporting platform, and how this brings new levels of agility to an organization.

Leveraging Microsoft Teams with SAP is now possible in a recent announcement from SAP and Microsoft. The goal is a “frictionless enterprise” that broadens collaboration within organizations and opens new possibilities to streamline. This announcement further builds on the partnership between SAP and Microsoft that was announced in 2019.

Most companies are missing out on the advantages of leveraging AI in their CRM systems. Many times AI can surface data or actionable insights that would typically be missed causing downstream impacts on critical business decisions. This article highlights the needs for infusing AI into your CRM systems.

Q4 financials from IBM show a cloud growth rate of 8%. In the competitive cloud industry, this means they are rapidly falling behind the leaders.

Bob Evans, creator of Cloud Wars and leading influencer in the business technology category, will define how the digitization of business is impacting every organization, big and small, around the world.  Delivering a customer-centric point of view through his analysis of the digital economy, Evan’s perspective will leave you inspired and curious to learn more as he explains where the world is going and the role you can play.  Evans will also explain why Microsoft is at the top of his Cloud Wars ranking and what that means to all of us in the community.