‘When I first joined the Dynamics community back in 2004, Microsoft had just purchased Great Plains and Navision, the pieces that would become Microsoft Dynamics, and all the talk was about how Microsoft was going to do what it always did – change the game. In the preceding years, the Dynamics product suite has grown […]
Related to the new Dynamics 365 platform Microsoft is launching, Microsoft is also releasing a new way to look at your business data, called the Common Data Model. At its simplest form, the Common Data Model is a way for all of your business apps to be able to speak the same language about the information […]
Introduction Welcome to Microsoft Dynamics Overview. Dynamics is the most complete business software solution available today and this blog will demonstrate why and how it can help your company. This first post in our Dynamics 101 blog series will introduce you to Dynamics, including the software foundation, terminology, where Dynamics is headed, and some simple […]
Microsoft has announced the next step in their investment in their cloud business software, Microsoft Dynamics 365. It combines their best-of-breed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions into a single product offering, all online. To put it into context, think about what Microsoft recently did with putting its […]
Big Data Analytics: Suddenly, analytics has become hot. While Business Intelligence is hardly new, a whole series of recent high-profile examples has alerted companies to the scale of the potential insights and information lurking in their datasets. Dashboards, predictive analytics, machine learning, cluster analysis: consequently, in a growing number of businesses, such tools are now […]
The buzz surrounding Business Intelligence is inescapable. From Big Data to predictive analytics, there’s a growing sense that Business Intelligence offers a way for businesses to compete in a different way—working smarter, rather than just harder. But equally, the Business Intelligence landscape is confusing. New and different vendors to get to know, for instance. New […]
The Business Intelligence practice have produced content and supporting capabilities to help eBECS customers leverage the Power BI toolset more easily. This takes the form of 2 key elements: 1) Rapid Return Dynamics Data Modeler – one of the main problems with trying to access data held within Microsoft Dynamics LOB systems is the complexity […]
Power Map is a very powerful visualisation tool, unfortunately the name of the component doesn’t really do the functionality justice. It’s easy to look at Power Map and discount it because we don’t have data which naturally fits on a map. Enter custom maps, with a custom map we can take a picture or floorplan […]
Microsoft has announced “Sales Productivity “ , a limited time special offer for sales executives that combines the familiarity of Office 365, with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and the self-service BI solution Power BI for Office 365. Organisations will receive a combined price of this solution at £42.79 per user per month: Office 365 Enterprise E3. The latest Office across devices, […]
