Ask anyone who has adopted cloud services why and they'll likely mention the costs. Often the primary driver for attracting organizations to cloud, cost and value are the metrics by which businesses evaluate hosting and cloud services. Yet, according to 451 Research, 75% of surveyed businesses indicate that budget and cost is either a moderate or significant impediment to their use of cloud. So what is getting in the way of businesses effectively extracting cost benefit... Read the full text.

This week we're bringing back the Dynamics news update. Jason and Dann review a range of recent announcements and commentary pieces. It's a wide-ranging episode, touching on Summit and Directions EMEA, and looking ahead to eXtreme365. Topics include Dynamics 365 Tenerife and NAV's future, Dynamics 365 hybrid and on-prem plans, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and more.  Notes 1:15 - Dynami... read more Read the full text.

Here's what's happening on this week's live webcast schedule. Register to attend live or get access to the recorded event. Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Microsoft's CSP Program: The Why, What, and How for Dynamics Partners 12:00 PM EDT Register Microsoft has ma... read more Read the full text.

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs: Item Transfer in Dynamics NAV Procedure to Create a Custom Cue Based on a Query and a Normal Field in Dynamics NAV Certificates of Supply in NAV Approval Workflow Setup and Process in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Item Transfer in Dynamics NAV On his Dynamics NAV Essentials blog, Mahmoud M. AlSaadi wrote that transferring items from one site to another when you're working with inventory is a common business requirement... Read the full text.

Microsoft has released the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017: Revenue was $24.5 billion and increased 12% Operating income was $7.7 billion and increased 15% Net income was $6.6 billion and increased 16% Diluted earnings per share was $0.84 and increased 17% For the fourth consecutive quarter, CEO Satya Nadella credits commercial cloud.  "This quarter we exceeded $20 billion in commercial cloud ARR, outpacing the goal we set... Read the full text.

Here's what's happening on this week's live webcast schedule. Register to attend live or get access to the recorded event. Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Solve Document Challenges and Improve Customer Engagement with Xpertdoc and Dynamics 365! 12:00 PM EDT Register Are you a Dynamics 365/CRM user looking to solve your business' document challenges? Join Xpertdoc Channel Manager read more Read the full text.

Three highlights emerged from last week's NAVUG Summit Nashville event - the huge turnout, the technology roadmap for the upcoming releases of NAV, and the push for users to start adopting Power BI. Now in its tenth year, Summit continues to draw a strong crowd. Dynamics Communities reported that over 6,500 people attended the full event, with 1,000 NAVUG attendees making the trip. The success of these conferences and their continued growth are generally good indicators of the overall... Read the full text.

Following Directions EMEA 2017 , Dynamics SMB partners broadly acknowledge that Microsoft made some critical improvements to its 2018 plan for Dynamics NAV and Dynamics 365 "Tenerife", compared to its introduction two weeks earlier. Still, the path forward for existing NAV customers and partners could use some more detail from Microsoft, says Directions EMEA chairman Christian Sega, who reflected on the event and the future of Dynamics in a new interview. In comparison to the... Read the full text.

Editor's Note: This article is adapted from the Directions 2017 Business Report for Dynamics partners. As a longtime Microsoft-observer with a perspective geared toward Microsoft Dynamics, I'd like to share some of my impressions of the important trends from this year's Directions EMEA 2017 in Madrid. The Microsoft Dynamics SMB partner community has never been awaited a Directions EMEA event as it did this year's edition. There were two main reasons for that. First, they... Read the full text.

For Dynamics NAV users, Microsoft's roadmap guidance at NAVUG Summit 2017 in Nashville was clear: NAV will continue to get yearly updates, and any customers who want to remain on-premises or hosted (non-SaaS) can do so. And customers can expect  Dynamics 365 "Tenerife,"  when it arrives in 2018, to offer both a SaaS option and an on-prem roadmap that carryies on from NAV. Naming of the Tenerife release is still undecided, according ... read more Read the full text.