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Author: Helayna Lowe

Three futuristic applications of Power BI

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Power BI (Business Intelligence) has been available for around a year on the desktop as part of Office 365. It connects to Microsoft Dynamics CRM using Power Query’s OData, and allows users to explore and visualise sales, customer and marketing data directly in Excel. According to a number of recent reports, Microsoft will be launching this … Continued

Is Microsoft Health going to be good for CRM?

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At the end of October Microsoft launched a way to capture even greater detail on its (and your) customers than Microsoft Dynamics CRM: the Microsoft Health platform.  Designed to work with devices and services from leading fitness service providers such as Jawbone, MapMyFitness, and RunKeeper; Microsoft Health aims to become your ‘go to’ app when it … Continued

The Dynamics training drought

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A while back, we discussed how people in the Dynamics industry – whether Partners or End users – are starting to become concerned with the level of resource on offer. Many believe this is a result of a Dynamics training drought. Where we left off… Previously, we suggested that Partners should take responsibility and to get the right training … Continued

Microsoft’s tablet finally cracks the Surface

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When Microsoft pitched the new Surface Pro 3 as a rival to the Macbook Air it not only raised a few eyebrows, it raised a few belly laughs too. But for the first time since its release in October 2012, the Surface has just recorded a quarterly profit. Even the biggest Apple devotee might be … Continued

Elusive AX 7 assumptions

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This year’s AXUG Summit has been and gone. There’s been relatively little chatter coming out of the Microsoft Dynamics development team about their next edition of AX, AX 7, previously codenamed “Rainier”. Here we’ll give you the low-down regarding all the information we’ve learnt over the past couple of weeks. What’s next for Dynamics AX … Continued

CONV2014 update: AX and the Internet of Things

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AX and the Internet of Things: At Conspicuous, part of our job is keeping up to date with the insanely-fast-moving world of Microsoft Dynamics, and that’s why we’re at the prestigious Convergence Conference held this year in Barcelona. Yesterday, in Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote speech we heard about the Internet of Things, and a little about … Continued

Convergence 2014: How to get the most value from the event

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“It’s where opportunity and innovation meet.” Conspicuous will be there! Our aim is to learn more about the Dynamics’ solutions and make sure we’re the most up-to-speed Microsoft Dynamics recruiters in Europe. But before we arrive in Barcelona, we’ll be creating a battle plan to get the most out of it. 1. Be seen  First off, … Continued

A lack in resource for Dynamics Partners

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After a number of conversations with Dynamics Partners, there’s a topic that comes up time and time again. In fact, I’m sure this will be a major conversation at the Dynamics NAV panel meeting this Friday. There’s a lack of resource, affecting profitability among Partners and Microsoft Dynamics. Agree? For the people prepared to listen, … Continued

NAV 2015: The magic touch

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With the fantastic news that Dynamics NAV 2015 (formerly codenamed “Crete”) will be optimised for touch devices, the community can’t wait to get their hands on it. Fantastic news for NAV workers everywhere.  Who said accounting isn’t exciting? From a technological perspective this is fantastic news as Dynamics NAV finally gets to showcase what it … Continued

Dynamics CRM 2015: What’s new?

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The lines once drawn between marketing and sales are no more. At least that’s what Microsoft claimed in their September announcement that CRM 2015, Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Dynamics Marketing services are going to be updated and available this year.  With that in mind, we’ve had a look at the latest Dynamics CRM 2015 … Continued