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In an era of increasingly sophisticated digital tactics, one question that is often raised is, Are events still relevant? Clearly the answer is yes for many companies. According to research by SiriusDecisions, B2B companies with revenues ranging from $100M to $1B devote between 30-40 percent of their marketing program budgets to in-person events. Their challenge is to attain the maximum effectiveness from that spend…

In an era of increasingly sophisticated digital tactics, one question that is often raised is, Are events still relevant? Clearly the answer is yes for many companies. According to research by SiriusDecisions, B2B companies with revenues ranging from $100M to $1B devote between 30-40 percent of their marketing program budgets to in-person events. Their challenge is to attain the maximum effectiveness from that spend…

Didn’t you wish there was some expert that would just explain how to use Dynamics 365 and Power Platform technologies? Purvin Patel brings his firehose of information to the community every Monday at 10am (Pacific) as part of a weekly webinar series. You should expect deep dives, special guests, MVPs talking about cool things they have made, some nifty tips and tricks and what is coming down the road. There are even…

Didn’t you wish there was some expert that would just explain how to use Dynamics 365 and Power Platform technologies? Purvin Patel brings his firehose of information to the community every Monday at 10am (Pacific) as part of a weekly webinar series. You should expect deep dives, special guests, MVPs talking about cool things they have made, some nifty tips and tricks and what is coming down the road. There are even…

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for LCS (August 2019, release 2). Remove the edit button in BPM Corporate libraries [targeted release] After a project library is published to the corporate library, the organization admin was able to see the edit button in the corporate libraries and make edits of the process but will get an error…

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the release notes for LCS (August 2019, release 2). Remove the edit button in BPM Corporate libraries [targeted release] After a project library is published to the corporate library, the organization admin was able to see the edit button in the corporate libraries and make edits of the process but will get an error…

I’ve been doing a little bit of work with the Electronic Reporting engine in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, and I ran into a little trick that I wasn’t able to find listed on any forums, Yammer groups, LCS issues, or blog posts. What was I trying to do? I was creating a custom payment model to export a payment file.  Since this file was going to have multiple records and could have multiple different types…

As Jesper described in his post about our componentization project , in the Business Central 2019 release wave 2 were splitting Business Central into two major chunks that collect and separate the under-the-hood, platform-like functions from the business logic. These are the System Application and the Base Application, respectively. In addition to simplifying the code, one of the primary benefits of this approach is…

As Jesper described in his post about our componentization project , in the Business Central 2019 release wave 2 were splitting Business Central into two major chunks that collect and separate the under-the-hood, platform-like functions from the business logic. These are the System Application and the Base Application, respectively. In addition to simplifying the code, one of the primary benefits of this approach is…

Applies to: Dynamics 365 Layout The Dynamics 365 Layout team is pleased to announce the August 2019 update, which makes it quicker and easier to scan a room when you start creating a layout. The previous process required that you scan a ceiling to start the layout design process. This can be an impediment in locations with tall ceilings, however–especially in manufacturing environments. Scanning the ceiling is now optional…

Applies to: Dynamics 365 Layout The Dynamics 365 Layout team is pleased to announce the August 2019 update, which makes it quicker and easier to scan a room when you start creating a layout. The previous process required that you scan a ceiling to start the layout design process. This can be an impediment in locations with tall ceilings, however–especially in manufacturing environments. Scanning the ceiling is now optional…

In todays content and product-saturated marketplace, personalization is the key to standing apart from the competition. According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan , by 2020 customer experience is expected to overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator, and companies globally lose over $300 billion each year due to poor customer experience. Given those numbers, failure to personalize customer engagement…

In todays content and product-saturated marketplace, personalization is the key to standing apart from the competition. According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan , by 2020 customer experience is expected to overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator, and companies globally lose over $300 billion each year due to poor customer experience. Given those numbers, failure to personalize customer engagement…

Retail statements are one of the most important (and complex) processes a retailer have. It’s where the retail sales and transactions are being transformed to become physical and financial transactions so you can see the sales in finance and in inventory. Retail statement calculation and posting have...

Retail statements are one of the most important (and complex) processes a retailer have. It’s where the retail sales and transactions are being transformed to become physical and financial transactions so you can see the sales in finance and in inventory. Retail statement calculation and posting have...

An update to the Dynamics 365 Business Central connector for Microsoft Flow will be released in the coming weeks. The existing triggers and actions were modified to improve the overall performance in the connector. Your existing Flows will continue to work until October 1, 2019. Even though the same connector is used to build PowerApps, this update does not require existing PowerApps to be manually updated. Any PowerApp…

Whats the number one problem healthcare executives need to solve in order to improve care delivery and reduce operational costs? In a word: Interoperability. Theres a lot of buzz these days around the idea of interoperability in healthcare. But what does the term actually mean? Heres a snippet from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) newly proposed definition : Interoperability is the…

Whats the number one problem healthcare executives need to solve in order to improve care delivery and reduce operational costs? In a word: Interoperability. Theres a lot of buzz these days around the idea of interoperability in healthcare. But what does the term actually mean? Heres a snippet from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) newly proposed definition : Interoperability is the…

As we turn business logic from the System layer into extensions, were putting extra focus on isolating sensitive information such as Azure Key Vault secrets, and providing a standard way to store the information. One of the changes in that direction is to deprecate the Service Password table, which will happen in 2019 release wave 2. The Service Password table was important because we used it to develop secure features…

As we turn business logic from the System layer into extensions, were putting extra focus on isolating sensitive information such as Azure Key Vault secrets, and providing a standard way to store the information. One of the changes in that direction is to deprecate the Service Password table, which will happen in 2019 release wave 2. The Service Password table was important because we used it to develop secure features…