Alexander Boamah, Dallas/Fort Worth LDAC Leader and Power Platform Expert, + Bridget Courneya, DAC Content Dev. Manager, sit down for a quick chat. Hear Alexander’s User story, his journey to becoming a Community Leader, and his take on citizen development.

With Microsoft’s announcement for Microsoft Viva, they are showing their commitment to enable and empower people to excel and collaborate at work. This latest offering can be integrated with Microsoft Teams to bring people and teams closer together in new ways.

Gill Walker, CRM Success Catalyst with Opsis, chats with Aaron Back, DAC Director, about Dynamics 365 certifications, training, keeping up with the many application changes, and much more!

This is one of the most popular tips I have shared at past Summit events! Let me know what you think! You can use #MSDynGP + #Excel + #Macros to create awesome formatted reports!!

A big moment for Women in Tech! At 31, Bumble’s CEO Whitney Wold Herd will be the youngest woman to lead a company through an IPO. A tech company outlier, over 70% of Bumble’s board is made up of women. Read about this WIT milestone, Herd’s story, and Bumble’s strategy for its business decision in this CNN Business news story.

Google Cloud Q4 growth happened far more rapidly than any other cloud provider, but that’s not because the others were slacking.

Everything is changing at the speed of light these days, especially in the realm of Supply Chain. Read on to learn how vehicle, robotic, and software automation altered the supply chain landscape in a matter of months according to ABI Research. These changes are expected to continue as both consumer and business digital and contactless behaviors become entrenched.

As part of the Community Response Series, Learn the pros and pitfalls of having remote service delivery and how to keep your remote teams engaged and energized.

An insightful article by CIO Dive on how companies are prioritizing skills over degrees for many IT roles. Studies are finding many of the critical technical knowledge needed for certain IT roles is not covered in the classroom.

As part of the Community Response Series: There are drawbacks to working remotely, and you might find you have a hard time staying productive through the day when you aren’t in a traditional office setting. But there are strategies you can lean on to stay productive no matter where you spend your workday. With planning and dedication to doing your best work, your days away from the office can be some of your most productive. I want to give you 6 ways to stay motivated and how you can tell your employees to stay motivated during these trying times.

In this Community Response Series webinar, Vish Walia of the Customer Success team at Microsoft Canada will share 3-D Action plan to drive business continuity and growth during these chaotic times. The webinar will focus on identifying new ways of productivity and leverage new solutions to complement Dynamics 365 Capabilities.  

This BizTech article by Doug Bonderud addresses multiple areas of cloud encryption that you need to be cognizant of in your cloud strategy. Some take cloud security for granted based on assumptions, but making sure your data is secure from end to end is vital.

Stream this Cloud Wars Live podcast episode for my conversation about business, data and more with BMC President and CEO Ayman Sayed.

Hello BC|NAV Members! I know you have been waiting and time has come for to announce a Global initiative for BC|NAV Chapters in 2021. Several Chapter Leaders and Programming Committee members came together to create some 2021 excitement and allow all of us to Learn, Connect, and Network while we wait for Summit 2021 in October, Face-to-Face. Every BC|NAV Member is welcome and we encourage you to tell other members and colleagues to join us. We will create our content based on all of our requests and what is new in our BC|NAV community and companies.Let’s see the schedule so you can Mark Your Calendars!Now that you can see the 2021 Calendar look for announcements to register. Below Meeting on 2/23:https://www.navug.com/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=98e04228-b3b0-4ea0-9618-eb66d02cc8c4&CommunityKey=d56524ef-b109-4410-80f1-c25c3ee327f0&Home=%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-homeWe are very excited to hold this Global event in 2021 and I hope you feel the same way. If you have questions feel free to reach out. I expect to see everyone at these meetings so we can inspire, design, empower, and achieve what all of us expect from our Local User Groups and Chapter Meeting. Most importantly, we will have fun.Thanks,Steven Chinsky

On Feb 23 from 11:30am to 1:30pm ET, this Finance Function Roundtable event will be joined by Kerry (Rosvold) Peters, CEO of New View Strategies and BC/NAVUG All-Star, and Kim Dallefeld, Senior Trainer & Implementation Consultant for Dallefeld Consulting.

Extending its year-long run as the world’s fastest-growing major cloud vendor, Google Cloud Q4 revenue soared to $3.83 billion.

Want to stay current with the state of cloud computing? Read this article by Paul Gillin to hear about edge computing, distributed cloud, and the now-mainstream use of software containers. Paul Gillin is the Senior Editor for Wikibon’s micro-analysis team; he has 23 years experience in tech journalism, including his time as founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget as well as editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. 

This article by Srini Vasan, CEO of eShipGlobal, an on demand transportation management solution provider, discusses the many benefits of Big Data and its analysis to supply chain companies wanting to increase efficiency and profitability in supply chain execution.

Read a blog post from January 2021 about Google’s alternative to third-party cookies, FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), which will be open for advertiser testing in Q2 2021. Learn how FLoC will protect the privacy of users while providing advertisers with needed attribution data.

A Custom Rating Control for Power App. fully configurable with the option to use any icon/image as a ratingDownload Custom Control:https://github.com/DeepakS22/DPowerApps/blob/master/Rating-ControlV1_20210202043731.zip

BC/NAV Chapter – MARK YOUR CALENDARS!Through collaboration we grow. The first united D365UG meeting for BC/NAV Chapters will be hosted by the Great Lakes Chapter. Please use this link to register: protect-us.mimecast.com/s/… Or head to the Great Lakes Chapter page to register. Each month a different Local Chapter will coordinate an informative virtual meeting. Look for additional postings in your particular Chapter to learn about these virtual events. With DynamicsCon headlining March and Summit promising the return of in person meetings in October, we won’t be scheduling united Chapter Meetings in those months.  For those who want to save the dates, the following Chapters will be providing the content for the next 6 months: April 22nd – Andrea Riviezzo (Denver)May 20th – Jessie/Traci (Houston)June 22nd – Steve Chinsky (Boston)July 22nd – Greg Alford (Chicago)Aug 20th – Cliff/Suzanne (Baton Rouge)Sep 23rd – Kim Dallefeld (Dallas)All are welcome! Please join and help create content and topics to discuss on future meetings. We will collaborate and grow together :)See you there.Thanks,Steve

Join Andrea Riviezzo, Sales Tax Guru, where she and others will discuss MRP within NAV/BC or using external software, and what you need to know before implementing MRP.

January 2021 saw some major cloud database developments in a fast-moving, fast-growing, customer-demand-driven market.

Two days ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood revealed to the world in unmistakably clear language why Microsoft has become, without question, the world’s largest and most-influential enterprise-cloud provider.

According to AccountingToday, tax prep and finance companies are saving massive hours in tax prep leveraging RPA — 2,500 to 3,200 hours per year on average. CPAs are leveraging RPA to augment their roles, not be replaced by them, to focus on higher-value work.

Interesting analysis from Computerworld (careful for the ads) outlining what employees are entitled to in this work from home reality we have all gotten very used to. The seven rights are outlined as “articles” that include employers paying for business equipment, flexible work hours and much more.

Many users may have heard that Microsoft isn’t investing heavily in Dynamics GP. So, does support for Dynamics GP still matter? Well, if you have made the decision to stay on GP, it probably does. Whether you plan to stay on for another year or for the foreseeable future, you will need to keep your Dynamics GP system up to date. Tap here for details on how we can support you now and into the future, or go to our profile to schedule a demo or discovery call with our team–yes, we do in fact have live experts at the ready to have a Teams meeting with you to discuss your needs!