Join AX and Microsoft veteran user, developer, tinkerer, author and jack-of-all-trades, Murray Fife as he illustrates interesting features and take-aways for power users and developers during this time of unprecedented change in the work life of technical Dynamics professionals around the world.

In this session, you’ll be shown an overview of BC’s contact management and interaction logging capabilities within the BC Sales area. ​

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!

Join fellow users in your quest for certification with Microsoft for D365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing MB-320! Sessions are a combination of MVP and expert presentation that focus on what you can expect to see on the test, followed by roundtable discussion. Session 1 topics: Introduction to manufacturing components.

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!

Customer Service provides all the features and functionality that organizations need to manage the services they provide to their customers. In this webinar we are going to through Customer Service from beginning to end with a high level overview of tracking, recording, sharing, and creating items.

Failing to deliver a well-designed Power BI Report can be a common reporting pitfall. What good is quality data if it is not presented in a way that is meaningful or easily understood? Someone without any prior knowledge should be able to quickly understand a report without explanation and be quickly drawn to the key elements you want them to view.

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

What can Harry Potter teach us about the relative estimation of Microsoft Business Applications? My son, Jensen, has just finished reading his first Harry Potter book and drops in to explain relative estimation.

​Don’t miss this session to garner a deeper understanding for common Microsoft Dynamics SL closing issues, understand how to better utilize period sensitive reporting, and improve your closing process.

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.

From what is Power Apps – to “how do I get started”, this session will introduce the basics of canvas apps and cover.

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!

Join us to where we will cover:

• Introduction to Events (Publish, Raise, Subscribe)
• Identifying when your code should run
• Creating a New Codeunit to run code when event occurs
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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?

Is Scrum the perfect approach for every Microsoft Business Application? No! Many, but not all, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, and Power BI applications benefit from a Scrum approach. Find out in this video when to use Scrum and when to adopt an alternative approach.

This webinar covers the changes to the code base, deprecated features, new code additions, and best practices for the technical features added in Wave 1 (April 2020) for Business Central. ​​

Presented by @Shawn Dorward

Love Excel? ME TOO!! Want to learn more things about Excel to save you time and be more productive? Join me, Shawn Dorward – Microsoft MVP and GPUG All-Star, for this session to go over some cool formulas and excel functions that will take your excel skills to the next level and save you time!!​
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Join fellow users in your quest for certification with Microsoft for D365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing MB-320! Sessions are a combination of MVP and expert presentation that focus on what you can expect to see on the test, followed by roundtable discussion. Session 2 will focus on discrete manufacturing topics.

The Scrum Dynamics podcast and vlog is back!

In this episode, Jonas Wauters from KPMG Belgium, asks for advice on pitching Dynamics 365 with Scrum to prospective clients who always want to know: What is going to be delivered? When is it going to be delivered? How much is it all going to cost.

When the scope, timeline and costs are fixed in agile projects, how can we possibly answer these questions? Listen in to find out.

Presented by @Jo deRuiter

Data Analytics is all the Rage! Learn how to use a tool you are already familiar with to create up to the second refreshable Excel reports using your GP Data. We’ll discuss dashboarding, data-sources and how to make the most of Excel and GP!​
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Join fellow users in your quest for certification with Microsoft for D365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing MB-320! Sessions are a combination of MVP and expert presentation that focus on what you can expect to see on the test, followed by roundtable discussion. Session 3 is Part I of a two-part webinar on process manufacturing.

In this introduction to the Scrum agile framework for Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, you’ll learn the basics of Scrum events, roles, deliverables and theory. You’ll also learn about some advanced agile practices you can apply to Dynamics 365 as well as when to use Scrum.