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.

As a senior executive or CIO, how can you assure yourself that the artificial intelligence or machine learning-derived recommendations are reasonable and flow logically from the project work that has been performed?While you want to be supportive and encouraging of your team’s work, you don’t want to be misled inadvertently, and you want to confirm that the data science team hasn’t misled itself.

How can CPO’s ensure an inclusive approach to their supply chain?In this piece learn how to implement supplier diversity and why “procurement with purpose” is important for your business.

ClickDimensions is built right inside of Microsoft Dynamics 365, which means it gives you the ability to email existing contacts and accounts inside of your CRM, but really – it’s a lot more than that.

Keynoter for the Digital Acceleration Binge, Bob Evans of Cloud Wars, sheds a bit of light on why the traditional 9-5 just ain’t gonna work in today’s world! Join us on January 28th from 11am-2pm for a great line up speakers from the community, and specials guests like Bob, by registering here for free!

Feb 11 Intro to Power BI by Microsoft StoreSee –> Link to RegisterSee –> Link to Course CatalogMicrosoft Power BI L100*This is an introductory course within Microsoft Business Applications.Prerequisites: Familiaritywith Excel and access to the Power BI Service.Power BI lets you easily unify data from many sources to createinteractive, immersive dashboards and reports that provide actionableinsights and drive business results. This course will provide anoverview Power BI and how its services and applications work together.Objectives:• Understand the building blocks of Power BI• Explore how Power BI can enable confident decisions usinganalytics• Collaborate with Power BI in Microsoft Teams• Connect to a Power BI dataset and begin visualizing data• Save a report within the Power BI service

Feb 11 Intro to Power BI * See — Link to Register * See — Link to Course Catalog Microsoft Power BI L100 *This is an introductory course within Microsoft Business Applications. Prerequisites: Familiarity with Excel and access to Power BI Service. Power BI lets you easily unify data from many sources to createinteractive, immersive dashboards and reports that provide actionableinsights and drive business results. This course will provide anoverview Power BI and how its services and applications work together. Objectives:• Understand the building blocks of Power BI• Explore how Power BI can enable confident decisions usinganalytics• Collaborate with Power BI in Microsoft Teams• Connect to a Power BI dataset and begin visualizing data• Save a report within the Power BI service

John Siefert sits down for a quick discussion with Solver CEO Nils Rasmussen as they announces their new relationship to be the exclusive CPM solution for cloud based planning & reporting in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.

Big news from Solver: Integration promises initial deployments of Solver’s cloud planning and reporting for Dynamics 365 in as little as one day to drive quick-time-to-value for Microsoft customers. More to come as we sit down with Nils Rasmussen, Solver CEO, to learn more!

Who knew? Read on to find out, as i did that “… a good understanding of data science and machine learning requires some hands-on experience with algorithms. In this regard, a very valuable and often-overlooked tool is Microsoft Excel.”

Join Steve Banker as he discusses current supply chain technology in the following three categories: hyped, promising, and solid solutions.

Join a cast of moderators as they lead us through a review of the material associated with this certification exam. Content will cover Microsoft’s exam guide (found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/mb-600). Each week we’ll cover a section of the material and discuss the items we believe most pertinent to the exam. This is a collaborative study group – while we have moderators lined up we are always open to questions, insights and knowledge from all participants!