Data, Data, Data
Dynamics 365 Sales Insights – Will it Work?
If you are one of those organizations who has a healthy CRM solution where all your sales people are fully-engaged with it, adding clean records, and gaining real value from it; then this blog post is NOT for you. For the rest of you, those who’s Dynamics 365/CRM solution may be struggling for various reasons,…
Read MoreHow to embed Power BI visuals into Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain – Part 3: Custom Reports
The third part in our Power BI Embedded blog series will have you covered in case out of the box Power BI reports provided by Microsoft do not meet your business requirements. Please refer to Part 1 on how to get going with embedded Power BI and Part 2 on the Data Refresh rules. Power…
Read MoreHow to embed Power BI visuals into Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain – Part 2: Data Refresh
This is a Part 2 of the blog series on embedded Power BI for Dynamics 365 – please refer to Part 1 on how to get started. While it’s important to deliver useful information in a convenient manner, it is equally important to deliver current information when users need it. Ultimately, business requirements dictate how…
Read MoreHow to embed Power BI visuals into Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain – Part 1: Getting Started
Some of you may be wondering what it would take to have access to rich, interactive and powerful Power BI visuals directly in Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain. Excitingly, the solution is not a very complicated one. There’s not even a need for additional licensing. Microsoft simplified the process of delivering reports to Dynamic…
Read MoreBusiness Applications Summit – a “Virtual” Success?
Yes, like many of you, we were supposed to be at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit in-person last week, but with the state of the world that could not happen. We have to admit that, in our opinion, the biggest benefit to attending a conference like this is not the content, but seeing friends and…
Read MoreDynamics 365 Warehouse Performance – Give Me the POWER!
There is nothing more powerful in a warehouse than having useable data at your fingertips. (Useable being the operative word). Dynamics 365 Supply Chain can deliver that power all together at the click of a button in one screen. Warehouse Performance The Warehouse Performance Power BI content allows warehouse and operations management all the information…
Read MoreData, Data, Data Part 3: Power BI Embedded & Dynamics 365
The third installment of the “Data, Data, Data” webinar series delved into the world of Power BI. Attendees were shown how their Dynamics 365 Finance/Supply Chain deployments can and should be influenced by Power BI embedded. Check out the webinar recording here: Also check out Part 1 (Data Vault Modeling) and Part 2 (Azure Logic…
Read MoreMVP Summit 2020 – Teams Style
As a Microsoft MVP, one of the events that I look forward to most every year is the MVP Summit, held in Redmond at the Microsoft campus. It is an event held every year in March where all Microsoft MVPs are invited to speak to the product groups, hear about upcoming technology, and provide feedback…
Read MoreMicrosoft Power Automate: Over 300 Connectors and Counting
Microsoft Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow, has continued to make strides in its pursuit of enabling greater productivity through automation of “repetitive, time-consuming tasks”. With the addition of 18 new connectors in the past 2 months, the product now boasts over 300 connectors in total. What does that mean? Well, the sky is…
Read MoreEllipse Solutions – Architect Innovation Meet 2019 Recap
We’ve had some pretty cool stuff going on as a company this month. On top of participating in a Habitat for Humanity build and User Group Summit, we held our own annual 2-day conference all about the cutting edge of Dynamics 365 and related technologies. The Architect Innovation Meet, or AIM, is Ellipse Solutions’ own…
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