In this week’s webinar Ted Pattison will be covering how to develop Custom Visuals for Power BI.
Power BI has supported the development of custom visuals since its initial release. However, the custom visuals platform has been constantly evolving and has recently been updated to support dynamic module loading which makes it possible to develop custom visual for Power BI using the latest versions of D3.js including D3 version 5. Join Ted and Chuck as they discuss the current state of the custom visual platform and explain how you how to take advantage of the most recent enhancements.
When 1/17/2019 10AM PST
Ted Pattison is an author, instructor, co-founder and owner of Critical Path Training, a company dedicated to education on Power BI, Office 365 and SharePoint technologies. He is a 12-time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and for last three SharePoint releases Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring training material for early adopters. Ted has already taught hundreds of professionals how to get started building custom business solutions using Microsoft technologies.
Join Charles Sterling and Power BI MVP Leila Etaati, in this webinar as she covers how Text Recognition (OCR) using Cognitive Service, Microsoft Flow, and Power Apps.
Webinar details:
Cognitive service is a pre-build AI tool that can be used with Microsoft Flow and Power Apps to create intelligence applications in an hour. In this one hour session, an end-to-end demo on how to create a mobile application for detecting text from an image such as a picture of an invoice and then send to share point folders of shows in Power BI service. The process of how to create this application using Power Apps, Microsoft Flow, and cognitive service will be shown and demonstrates. The audience also gets some understanding of cognitive services, Flow and Power Apps.
Leila is Data Scientist, PhD, MVP, and BI Consultant, and Speaker. She has over 10 years’ experience working with databases and software systems. She was involved in many large-scale projects for big sized companies. Leila has PhD of Information System department, University of Auckland, MS and BS in computer science.
She worked in Industries including banking financial, power and utility, manufacturing … She is a lecturer and trainer in Business intelligence and data base design course in University of Auckland.
Leila speaks in international SQL Server and BI conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, PASS Summit, PASS Business Analytics, PASS Rally, and many SQL Saturdays in USA, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on Machine Learning and Analytics topics.
You have millions of rows of data stored in your data warehouse, you have it accessible and available for business users and report users, but how do you effectively tell a story using all that data? How do you unlock the secrets and the potential your data has? In this session Power BI MVP, Ruth Pozuelo Martinez join, Charles Sterling to go through tips & tricks on how to effectively visualize your data, what are the do’s and don’ts and how to present your data so questions can be asked and get answered in the same report. Empower your business with data using Power BI.
Ruth Pozuelo Martinez is the MD and owner of Curbal AB, a BI consultant company based in Sweden. Ruth has a Mechanical Engineering degree by the University of Oviedo (Spain) and a Aeronautical Engineering degree by the University of Wales. Ruth is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP mainly for her contributions to the Power BI community. She publishes weekly videos on her YouTube channel (http://aka.ms/Curbal) where she has more than 17k followers (at the time of writing). She also contributes on her own company blog: curbal.com as well as Microsoft Power BI community. Ruth is the Power BI User Group leader and arranges around 4-5 meetups every year in Stockholm. Besides from that, she also speaks at other meetups, the latest one was the IoT meetup in Stockholm and Microsoft TechDays.
I recently did this webinar for Power BI in the studios in Redmond. The webinar goes into details on the data model with Power Query, importing data, relationships and DAX. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to get more out of their Power BI models so I am blogging about it today.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 is a Microsoft Certified Solution that is built specifically for Wholesale Distributors and based upon the industry leading Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM 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.
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, please get in touch with us today.
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