Claiming yet again without a shred of proof that Oracle is oh-so-tantalizingly close to snatching some large SAP ERP customers, Oracle founder Larry Ellison appears to be auditioning for the lead role in a modern-day version of Aesop’s The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Optimize your site for search engines (SEO), improve your on-site search function and ensure your team has digital expertise as you simplify your web store navigation, enhance your online product description and leverage marketing automation. Learn this and more through this session!

This fast-paced session covers the most useful functions, formulas, and tips you need to build organized workbooks. From conditional formatting, date functions, and VLOOKUP, to building payment calculators, learning the magic of Flash Fill, and more. This presentation is for any Excel novice or enthusiast looking to take their spreadsheet skills to the next level.

Learn the edge services to have more visibility and proactive monitoring of your Azure Virtual networks and best practices to manage the inbound/outbound traffic flow. 

Even measured against the fun-house-mirror distortions that 2020 imposed on us all, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had a singular year.

Join GPUG All-Stars Aleiha Hanson, Belinda Allen, Jo deRuiter and Frank Heslin as they discuss tips and tricks for virtual presentations. Discussion will include PPT presentation, presenting to an audience you can’t see, and other tips for virtual sessions. Bring your questions and your experiences to share!​​​​

Offering a sneak preview of the rapidly intensifying competition between two of the world’s top software companies, Microsoft executive VP Judson Althoff said recently that CRM without chat is “arcane” and that Teams is years ahead of Slack.

Covid-19 has accelerated digital transformation for 88% of global organizations. Trend Micro research reveals the increase in cloud adoption may leave business data insecure.

So while other executives in the Cloud Wars had superb years and were forces of outsized change and innovation and impact, I chose Benioff as the Cloud Wars CEO of the Year for 2020 because he achieved all of those things without his company missing a step

Presented by Based on Patrick Lencioni’s Best Seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this session will dive into what makes teams in the workplace successful and what makes them fail. We will explore the five dysfunctions in detail, discuss why they are each detrimental to the team and how to overcome them.​

In this session, we’ll show you how easy it can be to mistakenly create what seems to be a useful dashboard in Excel or Power BI, but isn’t truly relevant due to poor data management. Then we’ll walk through best practices and tools for effective data organization and governance processes so you can ensure you’ll always walk away with what are helpful, accurate dashboards that will drive competitive, stellar results.​​

Do you ever find yourself updating the wrong date field in Microsoft Dynamics NAV? The purpose of this webinar is to understand how date fields within NAV work.  There are multiple date fields within standard Nav and each one has a separate function.  Filling in or updating the wrong field could be preventing you from receiving the results that would like on other reports. So join us for a quick review where we will help you understand what each of these fields mean and how they can affect your reports.

Hi, my name is Shane, and I am obsessed with PowerApps. That has led to me working on 100’s of Power Apps with people across the globe. In this session, I am going to share with you my lessons learned along the way. Things like building focused apps, my process for working on apps, how to choose data sources, the key factors around images, where Power Automate fits, and more. I will even cover my “never” list of things I don’t do in Power Apps.

This webinar focuses on the “Order Promising” function in Microsoft Dynamics NAV / 365 Business Central. The aim of this hands-on presentation is to help users understand the benefits of this function and how it can be set up to help increase efficiency around Sales Orders and, therefore, contribute further to the satisfaction of their customers.

On the Cloud Wars Live podcast, Christopher Lochhead and I discuss Fender, Zoom, and the end of Silicon Valley.

Oracle and its fast-growing IaaS business face a very different challenge, as chairman Larry Ellison says demand is far outstripping supply.

While Oracle just 2 years ago might have had trouble even giving away its cloud-infrastructure services, its fast-growing IaaS business now faces a very different challenge as chairman Larry Ellison said demand is far outstripping supply.

Heidi walks through a step-by-step on how to add a new system view to Dynamics 365 using Power Apps.

Learn how to adjust your upgrade strategy to align with Microsoft’s changes, and how to evaluate your upgrade options in light of new models. We will cover as well the transition from C/AL to AL and from custom mods to Events, so you can realize the reality of less disruptive and less costly upgrades.​​

AI technology is poised to significantly disrupt the industry of web scraping bots due to its ability to analyze vast information and recognize unique patterns.

This demo-packed webinar will load, analyze and process Star Wars data into streamlined business processes that combine the Power Platform and AI to generate actionable insights. We cover the art of the possible and gain the Force of a Power Platform Jedi!
 
Access session resources here: https://datachant.com/2019/05/30/be-a-power-platform-jedi-pbiusergroup-webinar/”

Automation and AI tools are becoming more prevalent in enterprise settings due to the many benefits of investing in this technology

Stream the Cloud Wars Live podcast to hear Wayne Sadin discuss the latest in strategic planning, true cloud-native ERP, and CIO leadership.

Judson Althoff, Microsoft EVP of worldwide commercial business, laid out their 5-step plan for “how 50,000 people go to work every day”.

Looking at ways to improve email workflow for employee training was a top priority for the City of White Rock. This small to mid-size organization needed to find a way to automate and simplify daily business processes.

Microsoft executive VP Judson Althoff said recently that CRM without chat is “arcane” and that Teams is years ahead of Slack.

Alkermes, a global biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a research and development center near Boston, Massachusetts is using SAP Concur to digitally transform processes around automation to drive multiple efficiencies. Understand the why and how behind their strategy to learn how this can inform your decision making process around automation!