Power Platform

In this session, Belinda will guide you through the use case of creating a Payables Transaction Batch Approval app in Power Apps.  The app will also include a flow from Power Automate that will notify the AP department of the batch being approved.  Finally, the new app, which contains the flow, will be placed in a Power BI report providing for faster review and approval; which will save you $$$.

This session is geared for an audience with a basic skill set.

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

Do you ever feel like the Power Apps interface could be more intuitive and user friendly? That it could better support fast data input and rapid changes? It can. 

In this presentation, you’ll hear a story illustrating the art of the possible around creating an intuitive, easy to understand interface for fast-paced data input, told through the eyes of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, who tapped into Power Apps for critical support of their Great Futures 2025 Initiative.

Session Level: Basic

In this session led by PowerObjects’ Nghiem Doan, you will learn tips and tricks for building Responsive Canvas Apps using the low-code approach of Microsoft’s Power Apps solution builder. We will cover a range of Power Apps topics, including how to:

•    Create a Responsive App from scratch

•    Work with Gallery Control and Form Control in Responsive Canvas Apps

•    Manage reusable components in Responsive Canvas Apps

Join Nghiem and the PowerObjects team for this innovative workshop that will provide you with ideas for tools you can immediately implement in your own organization. 

Join this session to learn about situations where Portals have helped organizations with the pandemic response, and why Portals is well suited for these types of situations.

In this session, we will walk through creating a Common Data Service (CDS) Entity from your GP Database.  Then we’ll create an ongoing scheduled integration to the CDS.  We’ll wrap up by building a Model-driven Power App that provides a Sales Manager with an amazing experience exploring and managing Sales Order Processing (SOP) Data using Power Apps.

This session is geared for an audience with an intermediate skill set.

If you have been wanting to get started creating Flows with Power Automate, this is your chance! 

In this session, you’ll learn:

What can be done with Flows

How are Flows different than SharePoint Designer Workflows

How to create Flows for everyday tasks such as sending automatic reminder emails

How to create Flows from templates

The best resources for advancing your Flow skills

Where to get help

And more…

All concepts will be presented through live demonstrations!

Session Level: Basic

This session will begin by re-introducing select popular elements from within my Intelligent Administrator dashboard, and then include a number of ‘nuts and bolts’ exercises on how to build one from the ground-up.  Tips/techniques for building this Admin-style dashboard will foster greater understating and applicability to your Dynamics GP environment.  The dashboard itself encompasses 150 SQL queries and produces 350 Power BI indicators across 30 subjects in MSSQL, Dynamics, GP Companies, Management Reporter and even ISV products.  Attendees will learn how to leverage Power BI for powerful real-time analysis of configuration selections in each of the modules in Dynamics GP.

This session is geared for an audience with an intermediate skill set.

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

Microsoft’s Power BI dashboard and reporting solution provides a way to gain insight into your Dynamics SL and other data.  The Microsoft Dynamics SL team has built Power BI Dashboards for Project, Customers and Vendor information that are a great starting point.  Attend this session to see what is available today and how you can start taking advantage of these solutions at your company today.

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to describe the Power BI dashboards that are available.

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

Level: Basic

Building a data model in Power BI is the most important task you should do properly in your Power BI solution. This session is about the most common design pattern models of Power BI; Building the Star Schema with fact table and dimension tables, understand the relationships, building common models such as Budget vs. Actual with fact tables with different granularity, or Inventory model with a snapshot fact table. 

This session is about real-world design patterns of Power BI.

Session Level: Advanced

Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence in Power BI consists of clicks not code. 

The session will step thru the features added to Dataflows to utilize the ETL built into PowerQuery. The analytics retrieved from this features helps with the necessary data cleansing and preparation needed for a model. Called AutoML, this option enables the data prep integrated into a model for reporting in Power BI. All is done within Power BI and skills already possessed by the analyst. Model quality and visibility is available through these steps while creating a ML in an awesome reporting tool.

Session Level: Advanced

Power BI Premium is Microsoft’s enterprise BI platform that enables you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights. 

This session dives into the latest capabilities and future roadmap. Various topics are covered such as performance, scalability, management of Power BI artifacts, and monitoring. 

Learn how to use Power BI Premium to create semantic models that are reused throughout large, enterprise.

Session Level: Intermediate

Explore how to adopt the Power Platform at scale across a large organization, and discuss how administrators, architects, and program/project managers can govern, manage, and operate the Power Platform in service to their business-focused customers. 

The discussion will include an overview of the current state of the platform, and dive into several of the tools and techniques used to manage and govern the platform, including the Power Platform Adoption Framework and the Center of Excellence (CoE) model.

Session Level: Intermediate

Session description to come soon!

Session Level: Basic

You’ve customized your all SharePoint forms with InfoPath and your organization is now moving to SharePoint online? Not a problem, join us in this session and learn how to use Power Apps to customize your SharePoint online forms.

During this session we will take a tour of the Power Apps Studio application, look at the available controls and discuss the basic concepts of Power Apps.

We will also, perform a step-by-step demo showing you how to create a multi-tab SharePoint online form integrating corporate branding, user driven content and simple business logic.

Session Level: Basic

The new Microsoft Power Virtual Agent gives you the tools you need to easily create and maintain intelligent chatbots. 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP as he introduces you to what Power Virtual Agent or PVA has to offer. 

In this session Daniel will go through how to build your very own chatbot that enables you to engage conversationally with your customers and employees without using a single line of code.

Session Level: Basic

With the introdcution of PowerApps Portals, which is the successor of Dynamics 365 Portals, it is important to understand the defintion of the new portal solution, its capabilities and benefits for offering external customer-facing experience. PowerApps Portal compliments an existing Dynamics 365 instance. Customers and partners can build low-code, responsive websites, which allow external users to interact with data in the Common Data Service (CDS), the underlying data platform for both Dynamics 365 and PowerApps.

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

Join us in a session, where we will share experiences in how to identify the areas in the business for you to apply the PowerPlatform in order to gain immediate wins, value, experience, and knowledge at the same time! Look at it as a scalable approach, where experience will increase the value.

Session Level: Intermediate

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how to use PowerShell for Power Apps and Power Automate.

You will learn:

How to use PowerShell for Power Apps and Power Automate?

Managing Tenant Level Settings

Creating and Managing environments

Managing Power Apps and Power Automate Owners

Managing Power Apps and Power Automate Connections

Managing Canvas Apps

Pulling Usage Statistics

Best Practices

Session Level: Intermediate

It is easy to use Power BI as a self-service tool. However, using it in a multi-developer environment comes with challenges. You can easily end up with silos of Power BI solutions, duplicates of Power Query, and DAX codes. 

Come to this session to learn how to avoid duplicate work using the right architecture for developing your Power BI solution.

Session Level: Intermediate