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Webinar 12/11: Introduction to the Power BI Home & Global Search Experience with Nikhil Gaekwad
December 11th, Program Manager Nikhil Gaekwad hosts a live webinar demoing and answer your Power BI Home and Search questions. The improved Power BI home navigation experience makes it easy to monitor and analyze your key business metrics. The Power BI Home landing page and our new Global Search feature in the Power BI service provide a one-stop shop for all your Power BI content and a quicker way to dive into your insights. One of the best parts is the new Power BI Home automatically surface your most important content and let you search for it in a single page!
When: 12/11/2018 10AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-gMM8Pir0
About Nikhil Gaekwad
Nikhil Gaekwad is a Product Manager on the Power BI service team at Microsoft. His journey at the company started off in 2015 on the Windows Wireless team, where he spent two years envisioning, building, and shipping features in the Wi-Fi and IoT space to millions of customers around the world. He has always had a strong passion for working with data and transforming it into actionable business insights. With an aspiration to be influential in the Business Intelligence community, Nikhil joined Power BI in 2017. Most of you will already recognize him from the recent blogs, videos, and presentations from many conferences.
Webinar 12/4: Power BI Helper A FREE community tool for Developers by Reza Rad
This weeks webinar will highlight a community tool called Power BI Helper built by Reza Rad.
Power BI Desktop exponentially grows with massive impressive features. Keeping an eye on your model, cleaning it up, documenting it, and ability to navigate between object can be a challenge for a Power BI developer after developing a model for more than year with many pages and tables. Or you may have a new developer joining your team wants to adopt the solution quickly and you need a way for him/her to explore the solution quickly. You may suffer some performance issues or clean-up issues, which you want to resolve quickly. Power BI Help is a free tool that helps in all these scenarios. In this session Reza explains how he uses this tool for his day-to-day work with Power BI solution, and how the tool helps speeding up the development. To learn more about Power BI Helper or download it, you can read here: http://radacad.com/power-bi-helper
enCloud9 Webinar Series – Dynamics 365 Unified Interface, Outlook App, and Hubs
Microsoft Dynamics 365 continues to evolve. Among the most impactful changes for users are the new Unified Interface, the Outlook App, and Hubs. Join enCloud9 in these three webinars to understand how these changes will affect how your organization uses Dynamics 365 and how to plan for these updates.
Introduction to Dynamics 365 Unified Interface
FRI, DEC 7, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
One of the changes in Dynamics 365 that affects every user is the new Unified Interface. Designed from the ground up to replace the classic user interface, UI provides a single interface for users across mobile, tablet and traditional computer access to Dynamics 365.
Brian Begley, Chief Dynamics Consultant at enCloud9 will walk through how the Unified Interface works, what is missing, and offer hints and tricks to help you get the most out of this new experience. We will also discuss best practices for moving your organization to the Unified Interface.
Introduction to the Dynamics 365 for Outlook App
WED, DEC 12, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
The Dynamics Outlook Add In is old news – The Dynamics 365 for Outlook App is the new way to integrate your emails, tasks and appointments with Dynamics 365. Built on the Unified Interface, the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook works wherever you use Outlook – Computer, Mobile or Tablet.
Learn what you can do, what you can’t, and how to bridge the gaps. We’ll also discuss how to customize the Outlook app to meet your organization’s needs.
Appify your Dynamics 365
WED, DEC 19, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CST
The Unified Interface now has hubs – What is a hub? It is a way to build unique user experiences for Dynamics 365. Your sales team can have a hub that gives them visibility only to the records that they need to see – keeping them focused and on task. Learn how to build a hub for your CRM in this one hour webinar.
Webinar 11/27: Paginated reports for Power BI Report Server -Meet the team and ask them anything
Paginated reports are a new feature for Power BI Report Server that enable the creation of reports in a fixed format and offer precise customization. You can now store and manage paginated reports in the Power BI Report Server web portal, just as you can in the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) web portal. This AMA will be focused on this exciting new offering and give folks a chance to ask questions and meet the team virtually. If you are not familiar with Power BI Report Server, Power BI Report Server is the on-premises solution for reporting today, with the flexibility to move to the cloud tomorrow. It's included with Power BI Premium so you have the ability to move to the cloud on your terms. In this week’s webinar the Report Server team will answer your Paginated reports for Power BI Report Server questions AND show you the answers live. Don't have any questions? Not to worry we will have the team pull out their favorite demos and show why you should start using paginated reports now.
When: 11/27/2018 10AM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4ucoPPPDY
About our host Chris Finlan: Since its introduction in 2013, Christopher Finlan has been one of the top evangelists for Power BI in his role at Microsoft. As the lead Business Intelligence Technology Solution resource in the Mid-Atlantic Region, he was responsible for helping over 140 enterprise customers align their specific requirements to the Microsoft Cloud and Data Platform. His unique presentation style and background in “shadow IT” has made him a highly sought-after speaker for customer presentations from the server room to the board room on a wide variety of BI-related topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris led the transition for his team to a fast and flexible reporting and LOB solution that integrated Microsoft Technology with SAP Data. By creating and implementing customized mobile and desktop applications that supported hundreds of internal users across diverse lines of business, he saw first-hand how Microsoft’s tools could transform a business in record time and generate millions of dollars of savings from lost productivity and wasted investments in technology that had ten times the cost while providing a fraction of the value. He spoke about some of that experience during his appearance on the popular .Net Rocks! internet talk show. Currently a Senior Program Manager on the Power BI team, Chris has been working in the software industry in various roles, from the product team to pre-sales, technical training, database administration and sales operations. He holds a B.A. from Temple University in Philadelphia.
CRM for Distribution Webinar
is a Microsoft Certified Solution that is built specifically for Wholesale Distributors and based upon the industry leading platform. This solution was built from the ground up to enable Wholesale Distributors to market more effectively, expertly manage their sales process and provide world-class customer service. It is Certified by Microsoft for Microsoft Dynamics and provides tight bi-directional integration with your ERP system enabling you to have a centralized Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Field Service Database.
CRM for Distribution includes Data Sync Cloud which is a subscription based bi-directional integration engine that puts all of your mission critical ERP data to work within the application. This includes Customers, Ship-to’s, Vendors, Suppliers, Sales History, Orders, Quotes, Contacts, Invoices, Items, Inventory, Pricing and much more. Every thing that a sales person requires to see throughout the sales cycle.
Join us for a more in depth look at CRM for Distribution on Thursday, November 15th at 11:00 AM ET/8:00 AM PT.
A few of the scenarios we will walk through:
- Giving your Sales Team easy access to ERP data
- Identifying your ongoing costs to serve your customers and knowing your profitability
- Ranking your customers in a manner that makes sense for your organization
- Exploring Sales History and Identify Trends based on Quotes, Orders and Invoices natively in Dynamics 365
- Automatically update Account and Contact data in your ERP system via built-in bidirectional integration
- And more!
If you have any questions about CRM for Wholesale Distribution, how ERP to CRM Integration works, or about how we can implement this great product into your existing infrastructure, .
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What’s new in the October 2018 release webinar for Business Central?
Back in October, Microsoft launched a massive update for Business Central and we want to tell you all about it. In this webinar, we’ll be reviewing the updates and demonstrating how they can change the way you run your business. We’re excited to share the newest updates in Business Central and keeping everyone informed of the latest industry news. Some of the updates that we’ll be discussing are:
1.New Search Experience
2.List enhancements and smart list smart list-type functions
3.New G/L entry user experience
Date: Wednesday November 21, 2018
Time: 2:00PM-2:30PM EST
Power BI 101 Webinar Series: Sales Reporting Dashboard with Power BI
In the third part of our webinar series, we’ll be demonstrating how to build a Power BI sales reporting summary from scratch. The sales dashboard will provide not only an overview of your business’s sales performance but also make it easier to drill into sales performance analytics. You will learn all the steps needed to connect your sales data from within Microsoft Dynamics and transfer it into Power BI. Watch us step-by-step as we show you all the calculations needed to make a sales reporting dashboard. By the end of this webinar, we’ll show you how to create the following:
1.Product
2.Customer by Location
3.Sales by Customers
4. Top Salespersons
Date: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM EST
Webinar 10/23: Advanced data prep with Power BI dataflows for unified data and powerful insights
Look at the all new Power BI dataflows with Program manager Anton Fritz
Power BI dataflows’ public preview is just around the corner, in this session the product team will introduce you the new and advanced capabilities for data-prep in Power BI. Preparing and defining ETL for insights is significant challenge for businesses today—ingestion, cleansing, transformation, and enrichment are labor-intensive and time-consuming tasks, which require deep technical skills. Power BI now introduces advanced data prep with dataflows—a suite self-service low-code/no-code features and capabilities for business analysts to easily process and unify their data and store it in Azure-based data-lake storage. With these new capabilities, Power BI offers a solution for any business need—whether you want to prep your data with ease, using a familiar built-in Power Query experience, or to leverage the full Azure stack for more advanced use-cases. Join this session to learn how to easily prep your data, leverage Microsoft’s standardized schema, improve time-to-value, eliminate data silos, and create one source of truth for your organizational insights
When: 10/23 8:00AM PST
About Anton Fritz
Anton is an experienced program manager, nowadays focused on delivering innovative problem detection capabilities in cloud applications and infrastructure monitoring domain, leveraging machine learning and data mining technologies. Before coming to the Power BI team Anton worked on the Azure Monitoring team, working on advanced detection and diagnostics capabilities powered by ML algorithms for monitoring hybrid workload environments.
Webinar 10/18 Group Program Manager, Josh Caplan, and the Power BI team host an Ask Anything around managing and monitoring Power BI Premium
Power BI group program manager, Josh Caplan will start the webinar covering the latest enhancements around Power BI Premium such as the new monitoring app and Multi-Geo, a new feature that helps multinational organizations address their data residency requirements. If you aren't already familiar with Power BI Premium this enhancement to Power BI enables more consistent performance, support for large data volumes, and the flexibility of a unified self-service and enterprise BI platform for everyone in your organization. To kick off the session and to start the questions/conversations Josh will start with a demonstration of the all new the Premium Capacity Monitoring App; this app supports capacity in monitoring the health of premium capacities and making sound decisions about the best use of them and when to scale them so that your users get the best possible experience.
As this session focused on Q&A don't forget to bring your questions and get ready for some interaction!
When: 10/18/2018 12PM PST
Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhvGQ7C2m0
About the Presenter:
Josh Caplan is a Group Program Manager in Power BI Team, focused on Power BI Premium and Azure AS features of Power BI. In this Microsoft Ignite 2018 interview, we will go through tips that you need to consider when you want to switch to Power BI Premium. To learn more about Josh Caplan please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuptN1UpmsE
Webinar 10/16: Build Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI with Avi Singh
Crowd Favorite Avi Singh is back next week presenting on his favorite topic:
Building Impactful Financial Dashboards Using Microsoft Power BI
As a Financial analyst, rather than wrestling with data and queries, wouldn't you rather focus on serving your customer—the business—by providing smart analysis, insights and financial guidance? Meet Microsoft Power BI: the latest and greatest BI tool by Microsoft that's making waves. Power BI makes it super easy to clean up messy data; combine data from multiple sources (e.g., general ledger, personnel); define magical measures that you can use everywhere—say goodbye to filling your sheets with endless formulas; and create beautiful and impactful visualization that you can interact with and ask questions (no more walking out of the meetings with 20 action items). Discover all of this and more as we walk through building an actual financial dashboard using Power BI.
When: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada).
About Avi Singh
Avi Singh is a Power BI trainer and consultant based out of Seattle. He is a Microsoft MVP, co-author of the top-selling book “Power Pivot and Power BI: An Excel User’s Guide” and a regular speaker at conferences and user events. Avi has personally experienced the transformation and empowerment that Power BI can bring, going from an Excel user to building large-scale Power BI solutions. His mission now is to spread the word and share his knowledge about Power BI. You can follow him on his blog at www.avising.com or video blog http://www.youtube.com/c/AviSingh