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Disable Smart Matching EmailHashBase table population for Dataverse environments

April 7, 2021 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

For anyone that has been using Server-Side Synchronization and automatic email correlation, you may be familiar with the term Smart Matching. I won’t go into detail on what Smart Matching is, but you can take a look at this document HERE. Smart Matching is a legacy email correlation method from as far back as CRM 4.0. Now, there are newer methods of Email Correlation that use an Exchange item’s ConversationIndex to correlate that email to an existing thread. This does not require Smart Matching or Tracking Tokens. I cover this setting in more detail HERE.

You can disable Smart Matching, but even though you have Smart Matching disabled, by default, we still populate the EmailHashBase database table in the event anyone was not using Smart Matching and decided to in the future. This would allow Smart Matching email correlation to work on historical items. However, for those that never intend to use Smart Matching, this will continue populating this table, impacting storage consumption. Additionally, with the newer Email Correlation option, Smart Matching is not necessary for proper correlation.

What is this setting?

We created a new OrgDbOrgSetting, DisableSmartMatchingEmailHashCreation. Changing this setting to true, will stop population of the EmailHashBase table. However, it will not remove the data from this table. You will need to contact your dedicated Customer Engineer or Microsoft support to complete that process.

Important Note:

If you set DisableSmartMatchingEmailHashCreation to True or if the EmailHashBase table is cleaned out/truncated and you were to choose to enable Smart Matching in the future (not recommended), email correlation would only work on emails from that day forward.

Verify you are not using Smart Matching

First, you will want to go to System Settings, in the Email tab, to double-check you are not configured for Smart Matching and that you have only Use correlation to track email conversations checked. Also make sure you check with any relevant team members to ensure there is no plans to enable Smart Matching. If not, you are good to proceed.

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Change the setting

Once you have confirmed this, you can disable the Smart Matching feature and table population. Go to Settings| Solutions and open the OrganizationSettingsEditor solution. It will likely prompt you that you are not on the latest version and to download version 1.0.2103.1201. Please download and import this solution. If you do not yet have this solution installed, you can install it from here

Once imported and upgraded, open the solution and find the following two settings.

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Click Add for each of these and choose Yes

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Then click Edit for each of these and change to true and click Update

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If you have questions, please feel free to comment.

Thank you for reading!

Aaron Richards

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6 Smart & Essential Capabilities You Need to Sustain a Competitive Edge

March 16, 2021 TIBCO Spotfire

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To win in today’s data-driven competitive battlefield, you can rely on data scientists to understand not only what’s happening in the business in real-time—but more importantly—what is going to happen in the next second, minute, day, week, month, or even farther into the future.

However, there is a notable shortage of data scientists, which can limit your ability to benefit from the data-driven insights you need. Rather than spending time and money finding and hiring additional data scientists, or training business users to be data science do-it-yourselfers, maximize the impact of your current workforce with the most advanced data science tools.

Hyperconverged analytics is the fastest and easiest way to generate profound business insights in a tailored way, regardless of your team size or makeup. It allows data scientists to be more productive with technologies like automated machine learning (auto ML) without requiring them to be coding experts. Here are six capabilities of this technology to transform your business into a strategic leader:

1. Democratize Insights

You need to deliver actionable insights to the right individual, at the right time, within the right context. AI-infused applications go beyond the rearview mirror; they provide you with foresight, optimization, and what-if scenario analysis to ensure that you and your organization make the best possible decisions.

2. Eliminate Mundane Processes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) quickly surfaces insights from your data to automatically correlate and provide best-practice visualizations, eliminating the need for human intervention. This automation allows for fast insights for all business users and citizen data scientists.

3. Accelerate Productivity

Give your data scientists complete flexibility with an end-to-end data science and machine learning platform like TIBCO Data Science. This accelerates productivity by eliminating the need for code, allowing data scientists to collaborate with machine learning (ML) engineers efficiently.

4. Collaborate with the Cloud

Many data scientists look to platforms like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to accomplish a variety of AI projects. With hyperconverged analytics, you can seamlessly use resources from any and all cloud providers, providing your organization with the ultimate flexibility.

5. Scale ML Ops

Create models with a data science and ML platform, and deploy, distribute, and monitor the models to target business systems. With model ops, you can create AI-infused business applications for any area of your company.

6. Take Visualization to the Next Level

Many business events and corresponding data are focused on specific locations. Visualizing the data on a map brings it to life, but new technology can do so much more. Depending on your use case, advanced spatial analytics can be used to understand and customize actions for factory floors, store layouts, human bodies, and much more.

Don’t Get Behind the Competition

Companies like Norfolk Southern and AA Ireland are already increasing operational efficiency, lowering costs, and making better business decisions with hyperconverged analytics. What are you waiting for?

Whether you are beginning your analytics journey, or are already an expert, hyperconverged analytics technology will help you accelerate your business. Check out this whitepaper to read more about how you can embed analytical findings and intelligence into all your business processes and empower your data scientists to outpace the competition.

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Attach2Dynamics Or SharePoint Security Sync – Choose your smart app for effective document management in Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps.

March 4, 2021 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Document management lets users manage common document types, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and create folders to save and manage those documents. However, when it comes to document management, the native SharePoint integration within Dynamics 365 CRM is rather limited. Our productivity apps offer two solutions for document management within Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps –SharePoint Security Sync and Attach2Dynamics.

What does SharePoint Security Sync do?

SharePoint is a document management and storage system that has native integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM. With SharePoint Security Sync, an additional layer of security is also added to the base of SharePoint that allows it to sync the security privileges from Dynamics 365 CRM to SharePoint for ensuring secure and reliable access to confidential documents stored in SharePoint.

What does Attach2Dynamics do?

Attach2Dynamics is a popular document or attachment management productivity app that allows integration between Dynamics 365 CRM with cloud storage like Dropbox, SharePoint, and Azure Blob Storage.

SharePoint Security Sync Or Attach2Dynamics?

Each app addresses a particular problem and has its own set of functionality. Here is a quick list of features that can help you determine which app seems like the best fit for your requirements. This list of features for both Attach2Dynamics and SharePoint Security Sync is long, with each app purposeful in its own ways. Following are the key features of both.

Key Features of Attach2Dynamics

Native Integration with Multiple Cloud Storages:

The biggest advantage of Attach2Dynamics is that is allows native integration between CRM and the today’s leading cloud storages like Dropbox, SharePoint, and Azure Blob Storage! Users can choose their choice of cloud and start managing and storing attachments/documents in the integrated Cloud Storage using Attach2Dynamics.

Easy File Management:

Users can easily manage their files with simple-to-use features like Drag & Drop, Upload, Download, Copy Link, and more within the CRM. Attach2Dynamics has a very intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows users to simply drag and drop multiple files and folders from CRM to SharePoint to move/upload folders easily, as well as email the files as attachments or links of the documents.

Move/Copy Attachments:

Quickly move or copy attachments like Notes/Email/ Sales Literature to Dropbox, SharePoint or Azure Blob Storage in Real-Time. This enables users to have better control over their attachments.

Document Location:

There can be multiple locations within SharePoint Site for a record. Attach2Dynamics allows users to select which folder (Document Location) they want to upload the file using an easy-to-use dropdown UI. This makes document saving convenient, smart, and fast!

Bulk Migration:

Time saved is productivity earned. Attach2Dynamics allows users to migrate multiple documents at once. This bulk migration allows more space to be freed at once from Dynamics 365 CRM. While the files are moving, users can also see the details as well as the status of the migrating Emails, Notes, and Sales Literature Attachments.

Security Templates:

Security Templates allows to grant the necessary user privileges according to requirement. Actions like Download, Upload, Delete, Email, etc. can be granted using Security Templates. With the necessary permissions, a user can perform such actions from the configured cloud storage. This feature allows managers to maintain control by granting only the required access to user actions in configured cloud storage for selected files and folders.

Key Features of SharePoint Security Sync

SharePoint Security Sync has all the above features as Attach2Dynamics except the integration with other cloud storage. SharePoint Security Sync is focused on the native integration of SharePoint within Dynamics 365 CRM while expanding the default feature set. Following are the additional features it has including the above Attach2Dynamics’ features.

Auto-Sync Privileges:

The biggest advantage of SharePoint Security Sync is that it allows users to auto-sync security privileges in SharePoint upon changes in user privileges in Dynamics 365 CRM. This sync triggers in situations such as record sharing or adding users to a team. Further, another level of security is added to this because any addition or changes in the security role of a user in Dynamics 365 CRM will be replicated and synced in SharePoint immediately.

Modify Security Role:

Along with the provision to auto-sync privileges, users can also very easily modify the security roles in Dynamics 365 CRM that will be replicated in SharePoint. This enables an easy transition from beginner to advanced level of accessibility to users as well as a quick way for admins to manage and modify the security roles according to requirements.

SharePoint Security Sync Tool:

Users can save their time by using the SharePoint Security Sync Tool to sync previous records in bulk. This means that the syncing of security privileges in record will be quick and hassle-free. What if ever sync fails? SharePoint Security Sync is smart enough to understand and quickly intimates you with details of failed syncs so you can restart the sync with just one click.

DocuSign Integration:

Smart integrations are the true catalyst of productivity. E-signatures are a commonly required service today while dealing with documents and attachments. Therefore, SharePoint Security Sync integrates seamlessly with DocuSign, a popularly known eSignature app that allows users to sign and annotate documents in different formats like PDF, Word, Excel, Images, Text, and so on. This feature makes it simple for users to electronically sign their documents/attachments stored in SharePoint and skip all the hassles.

Which one is right for you?

The choice is ultimately on your business requirements, the only assurance we can give is that both the solutions do an excellent job at solving problems through their own feature sets.

Please go ahead and download 15 days free trial forAttach2Dynamics and SharePoint Security Sync from our website; both our apps are Preferred Solutions on the official Microsoft AppSource.

We hope the above list helps you make the decision easier. Further, even if you require a demo or any help to make that final decision, kindly contact crm@inogic.com any time for instant assistance!

So until next time –stay safe and choose wisely!

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Inogic Preferred apps – 15 smart solutions to get the best of Dynamics 365 CRM / Power Apps

December 25, 2020 CRM News and Info

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It’s finally here, the end of the year 2020. The onset of an unforeseen lockdown made us all stop, question, think and reflect on our goals, priorities, and the pressing question of what’s next? Despite the barriers and challenges this new reality bought, businesses all around the globe showed the spirit of adaptation and emerged stronger, savvier, and even profitable in many ways.

Just like the champion spirit our Dynamics 365 CRM / Power Apps community exhibited, we strapped down and committed to keep moving forward to solidify and enhance our Inogic productivity suite. So before 2020 fades away and we see the dawn of 2021, we would like to share a roadmap of everything that you can do supercharge with Inogic’s suite of preferred productivity apps.

Integrate Seamlessly (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

Maplytics™ – What if you could have all your CRM data conveniently and accurately plotted on the map right within Dynamics 365 CRM/ Power Apps.? How about then using these powerful visualizations with features that could allow you to increase your efficiency, optimize your productivity, and extract geographical insights? Say hello to Maplytics™!

Maplytics is a geo-mapping and geo-analysis app that seamlessly integrates with Bing Maps within Dynamics 365 CRM/ Power Apps that enables you to make the most of your CRM data. Maplytics comes packed with features like Territory Management, Radius Search, Appointment Planner, Optimized Routing, PCF Controls, Census Data, Heat Maps, Truck Routing, and much more! All in all, there is no going back, once you’ve got the Maplytics pack.

InoLink – If accounting and sales data in QuickBooks and Dynamics 365 CRM proves to be a hurdle for you, it’s time to step over the entire hassle. With our cloud-based productivity app InoLink, you can integrate Intuit QuickBooks with Dynamics 365 CRM. You’ll realize the real value of Inolink when you will have a complete aerial view of your entire customer accounting information right within your Dynamics 365 CRM!

Enhance productivity with a single click (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

There are some basic operations users need to perform frequently. But the absence of a way to optimize the monotony is painfully inefficient for us. Therefore, we created our line of 1 click apps that minimize inefficiency and maximize results.

Click2Clone – Clone/Copy any one of your Dynamics 365 CRM entity records. You can have simple parent-child records or 100+ line-item records, Click2Clone is up for cloning any record you throw at it.

Click2Export – Exporting your data can be as simple as a click. With one click, you can export and email any Dynamics 365 CRM document such as Reports/CRM Views/Document Templates (Word, Excel), etc. Moreover, the format will be of your choice, you can choose Excel, Word, PDF, CSV or TIFF for your exported files.

Click2Undo – Undo your mistakes instantly with ease. Whether you made a simple error or deleted some very important records in your CRM, Click2Undo can restore anything that slips through the cracks of mistakes.

Get Hassle Free Attachments (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

Attach2Dynamics – Ever wondered if there was a comprehensive attachment management solution that could allow you to integrate with multiple storages like SharePoint, Dropbox or Azure Blob Storage? Imagine no running out of storage space, having a hard time managing documents in could or dealing with a single integration! Attach2Dynamics can achieve all of this for you by allowing you to store & manage your documents/attachments in a cloud storage of your choice within Dynamics 365 CRM.

SharePoint Security Sync – Syncing Dynamics 365 CRM security privileges with SharePoint. You can ensure secure and reliable access to confidential documents stored in SharePoint. This has similar attributes to Attach2Dynamics and allows attachment management in SharePoint from within Dynamics 365 CRM.

Visualize to Optimize (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

Kanban Board – Say goodbye to the old grid view and say hello to the new Kanban view. With Kanban Board you can visualize Dynamics 365 CRM data by categorizing the entity records in lanes and rows as per their status, priority or Business Process Flow stages. This is a proven and effective way to keep track of on-going projects and assignments.

Map My Relationships – Visualization makes everything easier. Even when it comes to complex relationships between entities. With Map My Relationship you can visualize the relationships between entities or related records in a mind map view. This allows you to have an overview of all the related entities. This is truly information in an instant.

Use Independent Stand-Alone Apps (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

Alerts4Dynamics – Notify your team about the upcoming sales meeting or monthly sales target, or even wish everyone celebratory greetings, you can do all this and much more with Alerts4Dynamics. Set and alert your team members through pop-ups, email or form notification anytime, anywhere, all within Dynamics 365 CRM.

User Adoption Monitor – Motor and keep track of all user actions and performances in Dynamics 365 CRM! Monitor common actions and special messages of all users in your organization on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. For the results, you can view the dashboards and leaderboards to analyze the performance of each user. This allows you to implement measures to improve the user adoption of Dynamics 365 CRM.

Lead Assignment and Distribution Automation – Assign your pending workload or incoming leads to your team members easily and automatically. Automation also means fair and balanced assignments. With Lead Assignment and Distribution Automation, you can be assured that there will be no mismanagement, no cherry picking, and no biased working styles when you are creating a plan for your future business.

Accurate and Easy Billing Management (Preferred Apps on Microsoft AppSource)

Recurring Billing Manager – Automate your billing processes through Recurring Billing Manager. Generate invoices, send payment reminders, calculate charges on delayed payments, all with a click of a few buttons. Human inaccuracy and slow seeds are no more an obstacle for Recurring Billing Manager users.

Subscription Management – For Software Publishers and Value Added Resellers (VARs), our Subscription management app can create flexible billing schedules, payment reminders and penalty calculations. Also, create invoices for the entire Accounts Payable department, or to a single contact, all with assured accuracy and reliable calculations.

Auto Tax Calculator – Automate your tax calculations with Auto Tax Calculator you can leave manual calculations by automating your calculations to the brain of the software. This increases accuracy, saves time for the entire team, and improves productivity!

Quite the list, isn’t it?

Did you find something that caught your interest? If you did, you’re in luck, you can try any of the above apps for free with our 15 days free trial! Just go to our website or Microsoft AppSource and get started in 15 minutes.

If you need a walkthrough of any of the apps, we are just a mail away, shoot us a quick inquiry at crm@inogic.com and one of our productivity apps experts will get in touch with you.

So until next time – we wish you a safe and innovative and productive new year

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Microsoft Launches Lists, A New Smart Tracking Application — Formerly SharePoint Lists

November 23, 2020 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Your CRM system gives you a better way to manage your external business interactions and relationships. Everything you need to know about your customer interactions is readily available at any time. While your external processes may be organized, what about your internal processes? If you’ve found that your internal business processes are unorganized and chaotic, Microsoft Lists, the latest information tracking tool from Microsoft, is the solution.

Lists is a new tool that helps you to keep track of the information that’s most valuable to your team with smart, flexible features. We’ll review each of the tools available within Lists and how it can help you better organize your business processes.

What is Lists?

Lists is a tool that allows you to better track, organize, and manage the large amounts of data coming into your office each day. Using pre-made templates and customizable views you can track information all the way up the organization ladder, helping you to keep tasks and projects more organized. Additionally, Lists allows you to easily manage issues, routines, contacts, and inventory and notify staff members of any changing information or updates using alerts and rules.

Unlike Microsoft ToDo, Lists allows users to do more with information and features smarter tools. Additionally, while Microsoft ToDo is available to everyone, Lists is only accessible with a paid subscription to Microsoft 365.

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What You Can Do Within Lists

Within Lists, you can do the following:

Use pre-existing templates to create lists on both mobile and web platforms.
Create unique views and rules to help teams stay connected.
Use native integration that can be embedded in a channel.
Create smart rules, filters, views, and choices.
Create and manage share links.
Integrate with Power Platform as well as Power Applications.
Access favorite tasks from anywhere.
Share personal lists throughout your organization.
Create alerts and reminders to keep teams on schedules.

While Lists is still relatively new, the application is powerful, smart, and flexible, helping you to create business solutions in a faster, more efficient way without a lot of coding.

Views Available Within Lists

Presently, Lists features four default views: calendar, gallery, grid, and list.

Calendar: For projects or tasks that have a tight schedule or deadline, you’ll want to use the calendar view. Everything from the project’s start date to its finish is displayed on a visual calendar, helping team members see when work is due and plan accordingly. This ensures that all work is moving quickly down the workflow and finished on time.
Gallery: If you’re working on a list or project that features a lot of images, the gallery view helps you to arrange information within the card in organized rows.
Grid: This is the primary view within Lists. Rows and columns can easily be changed or reconfigured depending on the specific task you’re working on. Grid view is best used if you need to quickly edit or update information.
List: The list view has a similar format to retired SharePoint lists; however, this view doesn’t feature point and click capabilities as of today.

Lists is designed to track information and tasks based on the unique needs of your team. To help you do so, each view can be further modified for better, more efficient tracking. Color coding is just one example. Say you have a specific approval process for tasks. You could use various colors to show where each task is in the approval process. Items that are currently being reviewed by stakeholders could be colored red and approved items could be colored green.

Color coded comments can also help keep your team organized. For example, each staff member could be assigned a specific color. Should a question or concern arise that they need to review, you can color code it their color so they’ll know to take a look at it. You could also use color coding to alert your team of changes to a task or deadline. This helps to keep your entire team on the same page and ensures work is finished on time.

Ready to Get Started with Lists?

Setting up Lists is very straightforward: just access it from the left-hand menu bar of Microsoft 365. It will be included on the list of Microsoft additional applications.

As soon as you’ve opened Lists, you can start creating customized lists with ease. However, should you need assistance with some of its features or further customize views or features to meet the needs of your team, reach out to a JourneyTEAM representative. We’re a Microsoft Gold Partner with extensive knowledge and experience with Microsoft products. We’ll show you how to make this new tool work for you and provide the exact amount of support you need. Contact us today!

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Baidu’s smart home group seeks to raise capital at a $2.9 billion valuation

September 30, 2020 Big Data

Baidu today announced that it will seek to raise funding for its Smart Living Business (SLG), the internal group that maintains Baidu’s DuerOS voice platform and DuerOS-powered smart devices. Baidu expects a series A funding round valuing SLG at approximately RMB 20 billion ($ 2.9 billion) to close in Q4 2020, with definitive agreements from CPE, Baidu Capital, and IDG Capital. Baidu will hold super-voting rights in SLG and will continue to consolidate SLG’s financial results as a majority shareholder.

The pandemic has supercharged voice platform usage, which was already on an upswing. According to a study by NPR and Edison Research, the percentage of voice-enabled device owners who use commands at least once a day rose between the beginning of 2020 and the start of April. Just over a third of smart speaker owners say they listen to more music, entertainment, and news from their devices than they did before, and owners report requesting an average of 10.8 tasks per week from their assistant this year compared with 9.4 different tasks in 2019.

DuerOS, a suite of tools developers can use to plug Baidu’s voice platform into speakers, refrigerators, washing machines, infotainment systems, and set-top boxes, hasn’t quite reached the storied heights of rivals like Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service. But Baidu, which claims DuerOS now has over 4,000 third-party apps, continues to work with heavy hitters like Huawei, Vivo, and Oppo to build the framework into future flagship devices. The company has partnerships with automakers like BMW, Daimler, Ford, Hyundai, and Kia, as well as with hotel chains such as InterContinental. Just this summer, Baidu inked a strategic agreement with Midea — China’s largest smart device manufacturer with 70 million smart home appliances on the market — to sell bundles of appliances with Baidu-powered products.

During its Baidu World 2020 conference earlier this month, Baidu said over 60 automakers and more than 40,000 developers are working to integrate DuerOS with their products. As of March, DuerOS was handling 6.5 billion voice queries per month and 3.3 billion from Baidu’s Xiaodu smart speakers and displays alone. As of July 2019, the platform was on 400 million devices, in 500 vehicle models (and over a million vehicles), and in over 100,000 hotel rooms.

Baidu recently detailed DuerOS 6.0, which brings support for low-power voice processing chips and neural beamforming, a technique that employs algorithms to amplify the sound recorded by microphone arrays. Voice recognition error rates are now 46% lower compared with DuerOS 5.0, Baidu claims, and DuerOS 6.0 incorporates a more efficient text-to-speech model (WaveRNN).

Baidu also recently unveiled Xiaodu Pods, dual-microphone earbuds that last up to 28 hours on a single charge. Xiaodu Pods have a noise-canceling feature and can translate between several languages. Via voice command, they relay timely information like the weather, turn-by-turn directions, answers to math problems, and local news on command. A special Wandering Earth mode available in English and Chinese allows two users wearing one earbud each to translate conversations into their preferred language in real time.

The smart home device market is projected to reach $ 135.3 billion by 2025, according to a report by Markets and Markets. By 2026, the global voice assistant market could reach $ 5.6 billion, VynZ Research anticipated in a May 2020 survey. Amazon’s Alexa business is already estimated to be worth billions of dollars.

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Build Your Smart City with TIBCO

September 22, 2020 TIBCO Spotfire

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Smart Cities Are the Future

With the rise of COVID-19, many countries are realizing how a smart city framework could help ease the spread and control of the pandemic. For example, sensors to track contacts and monitor those under quarantine have helped keep the spread under control in places like South Korea.

So, if a connected, responsive, data-driven city can help improve people’s health and well being – why don’t we have this tech everywhere? The answer: it’s hard to do.

Why Are Smart Cities Hard?

First, you need to note that a smart city is a system of systems. For instance, you have assets (let’s say cars or temperature tracking cameras) and those assets need to be able to run updatable software to make them ‘smart’ and then connected to individual systems. All of these individual systems are incredibly complex systems to build and, to make a true smart city, the many individual systems also need to be interconnected, which makes it even harder.

Plus, remember, there are lots of different applications of these interconnected systems: from economic development and civic engagement to sustainable urban planning or intelligent transportation. You might want to target data-driven public safety or focus on resilient energy and infrastructure. It can be challenging to address all these different use cases.

Thankfully, TIBCO has the capabilities to enable the smart cities of the future, with solutions that can:

Seamlessly connect systems and application sources all the way out to the edge where data is collected on IoT devices.
Unify disparate datasets, both static and real-time, so you have well controlled access to trusted, well-governed data.
Use that data to confidently predict outcomes with real-time data-driven machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)I.

TIBCO provides all these capabilities and is already powering smart city components around the world. Let’s look at some examples in just one area: intelligent transportation.

Making Intelligent Transportation Possible

In the intelligent transportation realm, TIBCO is helping CargoSmart look at over 5500 vessels using visual analytics and data science capabilities to optimize their journeys to save fuel and manage arrival times. As a result, CargoSmart developed a vessel speed and route monitoring application that analyzes the vessel’s speed and distance against a complex variety of factors. The application has helped ocean carriers reduce fuel consumption by up to 3.5% over the past two years.

Another great example comes from an Australian Capital city that used TIBCO for a quick win pilot to track real-time car park occupancy and notifications as well as car park optimization and parking anomaly detection. These solutions are, more and more, being powered by data science, AI, and Machine Learning that is able to recognize moving objects – such as cars – and then use that to track traffic going into, or out of, different places such as car parks. Staff from the TIBCO office in Sydney, Australia, recently demonstrated just how that might work using a public webcam looking out on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

One last example is seen in how Aeroporti di Roma uses TIBCO to integrate and correlate all its information sources, in order to effectively analyze passenger flow & behavior, improve customer experience, and support operational awareness to better mitigate problems. In 2018 and 2019 Rome Airport won EUROPE Best Airport Award in the ‘over 25 million passengers’ category.

Need More?

To learn more about how TIBCO is enabling cities of the future and how these capabilities can help your business, please download the How to Build a Smart City & Smart Nation whitepaper, watch the “How to Build a Smart City in 40 Minutes (or Less)” on-demand webinar or contact us today.

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Z-Wave Long Range protocol supports up to 2,000 smart devices on a mesh network

September 9, 2020 Big Data

The Z-Wave Alliance today detailed a new specification intended to accommodate setups with thousands of devices in environments stretching hundreds of feet. The Alliance says that Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR), which supports things like door locks, garage door sensors, thermostats, and smart lightbulbs, is backward-compatible with both existing Z-Wave networks and previously installed Z-Wave devices.

Z-Wave, which was born out of Danish company Zensys and came to the U.S. in 2000, is a wireless mesh protocol for smart home, multi-unit, and hospitality use cases. It’s popular — there are an estimated 100 million Z-Wave devices installed worldwide — but ensuring complete home, building, or yard coverage historically required a repeater (or several).

Z-Wave LR eliminates this need with up to four times greater range than regular Z-Wave signals. Z-Wave LR boasts a range of 400 meters and bumps the number of supported devices to 2,000 on a single network, up from the previous limit of 232, while still operating on such low power that some sensors will last 10 years on a coin cell battery.

Gearbrain reports that three major Z-Wave Alliance companies are in alpha testing with the new specification. A Z-Wave LR beta will launch sometime in Q4 2020 so that other partners can begin developing products ahead of a general release in 2021.

In spite of the improvements, Z-Wave LR, which operates on the 800-900MHz radio frequency range, still falls short of competing protocols including Zigbee and the forthcoming Amazon Sidewalk. The 2.4GHz Zigbee supports up to 65,000 nodes at a range of up to 100 meters, while the 900MHz Sidewalk is reportedly capable of sending data up to a mile away.

But Z-Wave has the advantage of broad vendor support. The Z-Wave Alliance counts Ring, Assa Abloy, Silicon Labs, and Qolsys among its over 700 members, and an estimated 3,300 Z-Wave-enabled devices are available on the market.

The Z-Wave Alliance says the Z-Wave LR specification will be managed and certified under the Z-Wave Plus program and that technical details will be highlighted in a session at Silicon Labs’ virtual conference this week. Z-Wave Plus, which launched in 2004, included features like increased range, extended battery life, over-the-air updates, and additional radio frequency channels.

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5 Smart Ways to Make Dynamics 365 Work Better for You

August 3, 2020 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Your Dynamics 365 is already doing many things for you. But software developers are here for you to make it work even better. Check our suggestions on how you can improve the performance of your CRM, increase security and cut maintentance costs.

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Integrate Dynamics 365 with SharePoint

Documents in the CRM – contracts, invoices, payment orders, etc. – are usually stored as attachments against Notes. But a much better way of keeping them organized is transferring them to SharePoint.

This organization gives several advantages. SharePoint is a great team and document collaboration platform. You receive online editing tools in SharePoint and document versions are taken care of. As it often happens in any kind of organization, salespeople save documents in multiple folders: on OneDrive, Google Drives, on their personal desktops. Documents get lost. Also, chances are, document versions get confused and colleagues have to do double work. Storing sales-related documents in SharePoint relieves all this pain. In addition, SharePoint provides much more storage space than Dynamics 365 Notes, so you will hardly ever run out of space.

The good news is that Microsoft provides a native SharePoint integration in Dynamics 365. And it is straightforward. In this post, we show how to set the integration and move your documents from Dynamics 365 to SharePoint.

Protect sensitive information between Dynamics 365 and SharePoint

Quite a lot of companies use the option of integrating Dynamics 365 with SharePoint. However, not all of them know that security roles in Dynamics 365 don’t automatically apply in SharePoint in such an integration. Why is it important?

Many of us store sensitive documents in the CRM: contracts with values, information about prospects, stamps, etc. With privileges, you define who has access and editing rights for these documents in Dynamics 365. But when the documents are stored in SharePoint folders, they get available to any SharePoint user in your organization, and not only to those who have privileges. Obviously, this carries risks to the information integrity, the trust to your organization, and potentially violates the GDPR.

The lack of synchronization between Dynamics 365 privileges and SharePoint permissions happens because the two Microsoft products have significantly different security models. But this is not helpful for organizations, right? What you can do in this case is customize the integration by writing code, or use an out-of-the-box product CB Dynamics 365 to SharePoint Permissions Replicator.

Remove attachments from Dynamics 365 to an alternative storage

“One of our clients is having a problem with increasing database size very quickly. The huge database size is also becoming a performance issue. Besides, the client is looking for decreasing the storage costs. The current database size is 530GB. We have checked the free add-on from Microsoft but we are reluctant about bringing it in our org full scale. Besides, looking for more functionality like extracting old and new documents”. This request from a D365 admin reflects a typical constraint of the cloud CRM: free storage that is the default subscription capacity runs out sooner or later, especially so if you track emails in Dynamics.

Dynamics 365, just like every other cloud CRM system, has been primarily designed to manage customer relations and not store documents. When too much space is occupied, the CRM performance suffers significantly.

Monitoring D365 health is essential. By doing that, you ensure the system’s optimal performance and enough space for growth.

You can leverage alternative storages like SharePoint, Azure Blob or Azure File Storage to move heavy attachments from your CRM and optimize its performance.

Connect from any on-prem database to D365 Online

With many organizations transitioning to cloud services, it won’t be a surprise if you use Dynamics 365 online. SaaS is a great thing in many ways except for connecting with on-prem databases or applications or migrating to the cloud if you use an on-prem CRM at the moment.

The problem is that, generally, exposing back-end databases of SaaS services to the outside world is considered bad practice and can bring security risks. Therefore, Microsoft does not provide access to the back-end database of D365 online. Instead, to perform data interaction with D365 online, Microsoft offers the official API services, as we explain in this article. Thankfully, there are solutions now that help you to set up the integration easily – like, for example, D365 Database Sync Solution.

Seal Documents in CRM with Blockchain

Now that more document exchange is done online due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and natural processes like digitalization and decentralization, the question arises: how to keep the integrity of your data.

Many organizations look for a solution to prove the integrity and authenticity of documents and processes, ensuring trust in their business, in a fast and cost-effective way – unlike traditional methods that are slow and manual, demanding a lot of resources and interrupting the workflow.

And blockchain comes to help – with a practical application that can be used on a daily basis and in a familiar environment like your CRM. Smart Stamp Document Sealing with blockchain technology is an up-to-date solution to the issues of data compliance, storage and auditability. With one click, you seal a document, and with another click, you can verify if the document is the same as it was at the time of sealing or someone has tampered with it.

Summing up

Security, performance, cost-saving are important factors to consider when working with a CRM system. Dynamics 365, being one of the leading CRM systems on the market and an advanced tool for managing your sales and customers, can be upgraded using Microsoft tools and add-ons from software integrators. Good luck in your quest! We are always here to give a helping hand in your strive for a more productive and compliant workplace.

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Written by Anastasia Mazur from Connecting Software, a producer of synchronization and integration software for business needs. For more stories, visit our blog.

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Document Attachment and Document Management – Dynamics 365 CRM now has a smart app for it!

May 8, 2020 Microsoft Dynamics CRM

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Inogic is one of the leading ISV partners for Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and has been providing solutions to enhance its productivity. Over the years, many applications like Click2Clone, Click2Export, etc. have been developed. These apps have been a huge hit with businesses and industries all around the world. And recently, Inogic came up with a webinar series that gives insight into how these Dynamics solutions work, what they are for and, why everyone should have them installed in their Dynamics 365 CRM environment.

One of the highlights of this ongoing webinar series is the popularity of our Attach2Dynamics app. Viewers showed a great deal of interest in this particular application so its time we quickly summarize all the important features of Attach2Dynamics.

Attach2Dynamics is an application that increases productivity and efficiency of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM by providing integration of cloud storage within Dynamics 365 CRM. It currently supports three different cloud storage – SharePoint, Dropbox, and Azure Blob Storage. This attachment management solution has multiple features that help in managing documents, notes, files, and folders, etc.

Let’s walk through some helpful features of Attach2Dynamics which makes it different and a must-have app for your Dynamics 365 CRM:

Drag and drop single as well as multiple files and folders at a time to the configured cloud storage.
Create anonymous sharable links of files/folders and copy for external use.
It allows renaming of files and folders.
It also allows downloading of documents from configured cloud storage easily.
One can use Deep search filter for entered keywords and also delete files from Cloud storage.
The app allows configuration of multiple connectors and also supports single sign-on.
One can email a file’s link or file as an attachment from within CRM.
Attach2Dynamics supports hierarchy structure to store all the attachments/documents in SharePoint.
User actions can be controlled on Attach2Dynamics by administrator.
Attach2Dynamics supports all types of entities.

With help of these bunch of features, one can organize all documents in cloud storage according to their needs. From bulk migration to using the drag and drop features, Attach2Dynamics is sure to increase productivity of your Dynamics CRM users.

Attach2Dynamics is supported in the latest versions of Dynamics CRM 365 including On-premises, Online, and Partner-hosted.

Safeguard and manage your attachments and documents now by downloading Attach2Dynamics from our Website or from Microsoft AppSource. With the free trial experience the seamless benefits of the application yourself.

To register for our webinar series, click here. We also have provided video links to our concluded webinars on Attach2Dynamics. Click here to watch them.

For a personalized live demo email us for a walk through how Attach2Dynamics makes document management an easy task on crm@inogic.com.

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