Curious about how Hackathons can benefit our society? Check out this blog post on Charitynavigator.org for a quick intro! Charity Navigator is one of the larger and more trusted non-profit assessment organizations in the U.S. PC World says, “Consider it [Charity Navigator] the Consumer Reports of the nonprofit world.”

In the spirit of the DAC Digital Acceleration Binge, we have been on the lookout for other great virtual programs that tell real world stories about transformation and growth! Great list of speakers at this event and a topic near and dear to our hearts; digital velocity!

Presented by @Michael Carlo

During this quick session PowerBI.Tips (https://powerbi.tips/) we will be diving into the topic of running a community virtually.
Learn some tips and tricks from a seasoned YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips). This can seem really daunting to get started but this process doesn’t have to be. Learn from Mike Carlo as he walks through what he has learned about running a YouTube Chanel.
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Dynamics admins, are these important release dates on your calendars? https://ledgeviewpartners.com/blog/dynamics-365-2021-release-wave-1-dates-you-should-know/

Data automation allows companies to conduct operations more consistently, securely, and reliably. Learn how one company tackled the challenges.

The level of innovation driven by Power Platform applications is setting the pace across multiple industries and the globe. Our goal is to tell those stories from the community members that are literally setting this pace based on their awesome work, creativity and passion. Join us and tell your stories!

Great perspective from Ryan Prindiville, part of the Consulting Leadership Team at Armanino where he heads Strategy and Transformation, Data Analytics and Solution Architecture functions, around the shifting sands of digital transformation. If your organization is managing through transformative change, connect for a discovery call with the Armanino team to help put perspective around your options.

Great perspective from Turn On Dynamics and Hands Free ERP CEO Peter Joeckel on ideas and approaches to applying the same “efficiency” enabled through AP automation to other elements of ERP process.

Your organization’s success is increasingly reliant upon the organizations that make up your supply chain. You may be utilizing multiple solutions from different companies, and trying to figure out the optimum way to have them all work together. This outline from TrueCommerce outlines the most complete way to connect your business across the supply chain.

My latest blog post is all about my adventures learning to use QuickBooks and my thoughts about features I loved vs. features and options in GP. For more GP tips and tricks, visit my website: www.trainingdynamo.com

Each role has a role to play in order to manage and secure data effectively, This shouldn’t be left to any one person or a single department, but should be a shared responsibility.

April sits down with John Siefert for a brief discussion regarding the recently announced partnership with D365 Finance. As April explains, a key capability customers need is extended planning and analysis on top of the 365 Finance stack, and the Solver solution fit that need–especially in a shifting market that needs a level of agility in planning and reporting. This interview rounds out the DAC analysis on what the Solver and Microsoft D365 Finance relationship means to partners and users in the market. To see the interview with Solver CEO Nils Rasmussen introducing the relationship or our time with Tad Remington outlining the impact on customers and partners please tap on the links.

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”?