Power Platform

Learn how to set up and use the Demand Forecasting functionality in D365 for Finance and SCM. We will talk through the algorithms available for forecasting and how you can tweak the settings and control the machine learning project. We will also discuss examples of how to extend the functionality and bring more life to your machine learning project. Learning Objectives: understand Time series models and algorithm parameters needed for statistical forecasting in D365; understand how to use Forecast models for forecast comparison and analysis; define how forecast models can be used to feed plans and fulfill an S&OP process.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of the subject area.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

This session is focused on the education of administering, adopting, and promoting the Power BI platform for an Enterprise solution. 

Join us to learn about adopting a framework for your BI team to govern and manage content in Power BI, utilizing Workspaces for BI Collaboration and organization of Report content, creating a Power BI Admin team who maintains and defines the intent of Workspace environments, establishing naming conventions for content (Dashboards, Reports) for End Users, methods to help support and educate end users to adopt Power BI, and creating an internal BI Support Site.

Session Level: Intermediate

Do you receive upfront payments for services in future fiscal periods? Want to learn about the new Revenue Recognition features in D365 Finance? How can you use Power BI to easily monitor your cash-to-revenue cycle? Don’t miss this valuable session with a  finance expert to demystify new revenue recognition functionality in D365 Finance.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

As a low/no code development tool, Power Automate places a lot of power in the hands of users who previously had to rely on a developer.  But as a certain young Spider-Man once taught us, with great power comes great responsibility.  

Instead of muddling your way to learning how to control all that power on your own, let us show you the 5 things you need in your integration to make it kick ass.

Session Level: Basic

Successful enterprise projects use a variety of continuous integration and advanced DevOps tools.  These tools and techniques take significant time and investment as well as ongoing maintenance to ensure the process runs smoothly.  What about the small implementations with a handful of users and potentially only one or two citizen developers building the business application?  This session covers some simple best practices, tools and techniques to ensure the work on small to medium Dynamics 365 and Power Platform business application development is properly archived in source control and updates are rolled out in a simple, but controlled fashion.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Join our Velosio experts to learn how to best leverage the Microsoft Power Apps to meet your business requirements. With Power Apps, you can automate and enhance processes, collect and connect data, and create actionable insights. If you have been thinking about getting started with Power Apps, or even wondering what it can do for your organization by reviewing real-life applications, you will not want to miss this insightful session. Join Rod Donovan, Velosio’s Power Apps and Power Platform expert, as he discusses 10 Power Apps use cases implemented with real clients. He’ll share business needs and problems and how the team applied Power Apps to solve them, as well as available templates, tools, and outsourced resources you can use to get up and running quickly with the power of the Power Apps.

Data visualization through tools like PowerBI is now critical. You need to see how your business is running, and understand the dials to move for best performance. Dashboards are only as good as the data behind them. In this session, we’ll show you how you can mistakenly create what appears to be a useful dashboard in Excel or PowerBI, but isn’t relevant due to poor data management.  We will then walk you through best practices and tools for effective data organization and governance processes, so you can ensure you will walk away with accurate dashboards that will drive stellar results. 

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Intermediate 

How to drive Power Platform adoption in your organization, with a special focus on best practices, setting expectations, and running a Center of Excellence. 

You’ll leave this talk with clear guidelines and materials to apply these principles in your own environment.

Session Level: Intermediate

It’s possible to build a fairly robust permissions scheme on a Power Apps Portal app, but how exactly do Web Roles work? And what’s the difference between web page access control rules and entity permissions? 

I cover all that and more in the informative session that will empower you to set up Portal security in your own scenarios.

Session Level: Basic

You have been automating all your business processes with Power Automate and want to take them to the next level, but don’t know how? 

There are tons of actions that can be added to Flows but having too many of them may become extremely overwhelming, especially when building large Flows. 

Using expressions can help in reducing the number of actions a Flow can execute, which reduces the runtime of the Flow. 

In this session, you will learn how to embrace expressions, which actions can be replaced by expressions, and how to build them by seeing some awesome, real-life  solutions.

Session Level: Intermediate

Learn how to power up your Field Service implementation with Power Automate!  Shawn Tabor & Joel Lindstrom will show you how Power Automate has helped their Field Service customers, and other tips and tricks! Flow, Flow Approvals and UI Flows will be demonstrated.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

We are all familiar with two types of apps within the Power Platform – canvas apps and model-driven apps. Canvas apps provide complete control over user experience whereas model-driven apps are more data-driven with comparatively lesser user experience flexibility. Now how about having the best of both worlds? That’s where embedded canvas apps come into play. Simply put, they are canvas apps within a model-driven form. This session takes you through the experience of creating and embedding a canvas app into a model-driven form and overcoming challenges with embedded canvas apps.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Do you want to drive innovation across your organization? Innovia Consulting’s Chief Operating Officer, Chad Williams explores how Microsoft Power Apps can solve your business problems quickly.

This session is not just theoretical, though. Chad has seen these solutions work. During his presentation, he will draw on examples of businesses that have found real-world success incorporating Power Apps with Business Central. His practical approach ensures you leave the session already thinking about how you can use Power Apps in your own business.

Using Typescript in the Microsoft Power Apps and Dynamics 365 environment has become the preferred method by most in the industry for streamlining client side development. However, code reuse and unit testing typescript as well as integrating Typescript into your release pipelines can be a bit of a conundrum when it comes to enterprise applications. In this session we’ll look at getting started using Typescript in Power Apps and Dynamics 365 and then taking that Typescript to the next level by adding both unit tests and code modules for reuse as well as integrating Typescript into your Azure Devops pipeline.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with advanced-level knowledge of the subject area.

Join EasyTerritory Co-founder, Benton Belcher, for an engaging session showcasing how to build immersive reports and dashboards for territory management using Power BI and the Azure Maps-based EasyTerritory Territory Map Visual.  We’ll explore strategies for building optimizes territories in EasyTerritory Azure App, and publishing the results to Power BI for sharing and collaboration across the enterprise.

Geared to experienced Workflow builders and Power Automate novices, this will teach Dynamics 365 users how to make the jump to Power Automate. We will cover existing D365 workflow steps and how to replicate them in Power Automate, where you still want to use classic workflows over Power Automate, and of course some of the cool things you can only do in Power Automate such as querying for data other long requested features.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner-level knowledge of the subject area.

In this session, 3 MVP’s will demonstrate some out of the box uses for the Power Automate.  Most are personal use cases.  The audience will vote on who has the coolest apps, giving that MVP bragging rights for the year. 

This is a great opportunity to help you, the attendee, generate ideas for your own use cases.  We’ll even leave room at the end for Q&A.

Session Level: Basic

Smart is sexy and understanding what’s new in Business Central will make you the most interesting person at virtual cocktail parties. With Business Central at the core, we’ll show you the hottest integrations with Microsoft 365 and Power BI. KPIs are king and at your fingertips. See how you can report available cash, sales profitability, inventory value, and net income. With personalization tools and an enhanced user experience, everyone has the ability to work how they want in Business Central.

Join ArcherPoint’s Gwendolynn Massie, a 21-year Dynamics veteran and lover of all things Business Central, for your tour of the features that make you go “wow!” and make everyone see you for the rock star you are.

Companies are planning on how to safely reopen offices and have employees working safely in-person . During this session, we will cover how the Power Platform can help you decide when it is safe to reopen, manage risk of exposure at your workplace, track who will be in the office, and identify potential exposure. This session will cover Microsoft’s Return to Workplace solutions, custom solutions with Power Platform, and using AI to automatically track occupancy limits.

A collection of useful tips to help you work faster and more efficiently in Power BI. Topics include best practices and recommendations for improving the loading and modeling of data, leveraging parameters, creating date tables, time based calculations, measures vs. calculated columns, using report themes, bookmarks, and templates, ideas for faster creation of reports, and more.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.