Power BI dashboards look so great but – let’s face it – it’s intimidating to get started. This session will focus on getting you introduced to Power BI. The technical user can start here to begin designing dashboards. The non-technical leader can start hear to learn enough about the capabilities of Power BI to develop a vision for reports that meet their needs.

Businesses across the globe are addressing the COVID-19 crisis in a variety of ways, from enabling employees to work remotely to shuttering storefronts for the foreseeable future. During these unprecedented times, the Microsoft Business Applications team is taking steps to ensure customers’ business continuity, and at the same time ensure you can conduct business effectively. Join Microsoft experts for a presentation and discussion on what Microsoft is doing right now to ease the mandatory policy for continuous updates for Customer Engagement and Finance and Operations users, allowing you to pause updates for a period of time. We will also discuss changes to deadlines for deprecating legacy features, such as the Customer Engagement legacy web client.

Training is important in companies today and recently there have been some questions from users around how to use Training within the Human Resource module. We have seen great questions popping up with the GPUG Community Forum around this module. Join Terry Heley from Microsoft as she discusses how users that have Training setup in HR are using it. We will also include and cover FREE SmartList reports you can use in your company with Training and raise increases based on employee completed training! ​​​

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just sci-fi, it is now a reality and a true differentiator in the efficiency and profitability of your company. Microsoft is leading the charge by making AI commonplace and even embedding it as standard functionality inside the Finance functions of Business Central. You’ll see real examples of out-of-the-box AI-supported processes, and we’ll discuss how you can use readily available AI services to improve your decision making capabilities.

Get up to speed quickly with BI and AI concepts, and the solutions offered by Microsoft including PowerBI, Relationship Assistant, AI for Sales and Customer Service and Azure Cognitive Services. Analytics is on track to drive virtually everything about our future work lives. From bots, to the internet of things to artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, our lives will transform more in the next 20 years than any other period in history.

In 2019 Amber Bell and Kristen Hosman presented a virtual session showing the power of using SQL Views and SmartList Designer to design “super cool” reports. This year, they will show you even more reports and how you can use both SmartList Designer or SmartList Builder to take them to the next level by turning them into live Excel Reports and Dashboards!

Here are the top 10 benefits for Microsoft customers or partners building Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Automate or Power BI apps.
1. Better business software
2. Faster release cadence
3. Higher return on investment
4. Greater user satisfaction
5. More visibility and confidence
6. Efficient allocation of capital
7. Less risk
8. More control
9. Empowered collaboration
10. More rewarding

How do you get started developing with BC or NAV? What License is required? What can you touch and what should you not touch? What about source control, integration, reporting, database access, etc.? What type of development should you leave to your partner? We’ll cover all the basics and some best practices to make sure you get started on the right foot.

Reconciling the Dynamics NAV/BC inventory against the G/L can prove to be quite complicated. The number of elements influencing the inventory span across most of the application. Let’s take the a moment to review ‘How’ to reconcile inventory to G/L and ‘How’ to perform a physical inventory. This will reinforce what we might already know and prepare us for year-end and 2021.

— Behavioural test is an acceptance test written in plain language that users can write and understand
— Explain the context, event and outcome in given-when-then format
— Can be written before, during or after development
— Writing behavioural tests before development is BDD (behaviour-driven development). Helps developers know when they’re done.
— Set of behaviour tests is a form of contract between users and app builders
— Can be slow to execute until automated and don’t reveal root cause

Do you feel finding information in Business Central is challenging? Attend this session to learn all the ways to quickly find, sort, and filter any data you need quickly and easily. Learn how to use Tell Me to unravel all the things you find and how to fine tune your searches. Discover how to get down to the nitty gritty detail by using filtering. We’ve got lots of ways to make you more efficient in this session!

What is a digital workplace? How do leaders run these projects? How do they use digital to improve how they run their business? And why is this critical to the future of every organization? Digital is being hailed as the 4th industrial revolution. And if history is any indicator, the next 50 years will be even more disruptive than the last 50. But what, really, is a digital workplace? And how can executives participate, keep it on course, and be sure it is creating value?