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Microsoft partners like Greater Than, Letsignit, and ZEDEDA deliver transact-capable offers, which customers can purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
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Having spoken to over 300 Microsoft Dynamics 365 on-premises customers, I have a lot of empathy for companies that are faced with the decision to migrate to the cloud. Most commonly I’ve heard that changing business software can appear risky, daunting, and expensive, but the customers that have successfully migrated to Dynamics 365 will tell you that the benefits of cloud far exceed the perceived risks of going through migration, or simply remaining on-premises. For me, I think of cloud migration as buying a house. You can enjoy the benefits right away while investing in your future. Take the first step toward cloud success by migrating your on-premises solution with expert guidance from Microsoft. Below are the three main reasons why you should accelerate your journey to the cloud with Dynamics 365.
COVID-19 has established that having your business applications in the cloud is critical for ensuring business continuity through unexpected external events that are out of your control. Companies that are on Dynamics 365 in the cloud are able to pivot their resources and processes to respond to the unprecedented circumstances. These companies are able to quickly switch to a fully remote work environment, and swiftly manage the variability in supply and demand. Moreover, since Dynamics 365 is a fully managed software as a service (SaaS), they don’t have to worry about upgrades or security enabling them to invest in strategic work rather than managing IT. This is a unique time in history that may become the new normal for businesses, so now is the time to migrate your on-premises applications to Dynamics 365 in the cloud to stay resilient and flexible.
Dynamics 365 provides increased productivity from latest functionality, such as real-time insights and customized modern reporting optionshelping business owners get a 360-degree view of their business. With Dynamics 365 you are always on the latest software version with improved features that address industry and regulatory trends. Dynamics 365along with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Power Platformoffers extended functionality and competitive advantages for you to always stay ahead. With these enhanced capabilities, several companies on Dynamics 365 can fundamentally reimagine their business processes while being more agile and responding to change even faster.
Read additional details how leading recreational vehicle maker, Lippert Components, Inc., advanced scalability by migrating from Dynamics 365 on-premises to Dynamics 365 in the cloud.
Organizations on Dynamics 365 have often observed that they have higher financial returns when compared to staying on on-premises business applications. The primary cost savings come from improved business and IT productivity. Plus, when you compare your on-premises costs to cloud, don’t stop at the cost of software licenseslook at the total economic impact. For example, companies in the cloud don’t have to manage servers, IT-focused maintenance, or periodic upgrades anymore. According to a recent Forrester study, when migrating from Microsoft Dynamics AX to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance + Operations, there was a 109 percent ROI with a payback period of six months. Likewise, when migrating from Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Dynamics CE, there was a ROI of 63 percent with a payback period of 10 months.
COVID-19 has accelerated the cloud journey of many companies. If you are on Dynamics AX or Dynamics CRM then you can apply to take part in the Dynamics 365 Migration Program. The migration program offers access to a dedicated team of migration advisors, no-charge migration assessments, pricing offers, tools, and migration support for qualified customers.
Learn more about the no-charge Standard Migration Assessment. This virtual technical assessment helps you to:
Join many customers who have benefited from the program.
“I was impressed about the information received from the migration assessment. The results will give us confidence for the next steps.”Senior Business Analysist
“Our migration advisor was very thorough. He did great degree of analysis and provided greater insights on the good, the bad, and the ugly. He was knowledgeable and took the time to answer every question my team had along the way.”Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
To apply or learn more, visit the Dynamics 365 Migration Program to take the first step toward cloud success.
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Explore the new role-based learning paths and modules that were released last month on Microsoft Learn. We continually add to our training and certification portfolio to help you build your skills and then validate them by earning certification. Check out our two new Business Central learning paths—one on setting up warehouse management and one on managing warehouse practices—and our new modules on Microsoft Power Platform, Power Virtual Agents, Business Central, and more. You can work through these and other modules at your own pace. Using free, online training on Microsoft Learn, you can develop new skills to use on the job—and to show your employer that you’re ready to advance your career. If you need help figuring out which training to take, check out the Dynamics 365 learning paths page, where you’ll find useful collections, learning paths to get you started, and popular modules.
The following learning paths and modules were released in January 2021.
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Get started with Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence
| Administrator, maker, functional consultant | N/A |
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Get started with the Engineering Change Management Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management | Functional consultant, business user | N/A |
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Get started with Dynamics 365 Human Resources | Functional consultant, business user | N/A |
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Within the Teams app store, you’ll now find two brand new applications published by Microsoft: Milestones and Bulletins. With the Milestones app, you can seamlessly track projects across your company, and with Bulletins, you can quickly publish news articles to the rest of your company.
Both are deeply integrated within Teams, but what makes them unique is that they are built with Power Apps on top of the recently released Dataverse for Teams. By shipping them on top of Dataverse for Teams, we’re making it possible for you to fully customize these apps from top to bottom and to leverage them as inspiration to build your own apps!
Further customizing the apps to fit your needs
Like the existing Employee ideas, Inspection, and Issue reporting Teams apps, these brand new apps are built on top of Power Apps so that you can easily customize them to address your company’s specific needs.
With Power Apps and Dataverse for Teams, you can change things as simple as the branding of your app, all the way to what type of data you want to collect and the business rules you want to enforce.
Using Milestones and Bulletins as inspiration for your next app
If the new Milestones and Bulletins apps have inspired you to build your own apps on top of Dataverse for Teams, check out our documentation on how to get started.
In particular, these new apps take advantage of the recently released share with colleagues functionality. With the new share with colleagues feature, you can take apps like Bulletins and broadly distribute them to the rest of the company. The same feature can allow you to build organization-wide apps like time reporting, invoicing, expense reporting, and more, all on top of Dataverse for Teams.
Governing apps on top of Dataverse for Teams
Lastly, I would be remiss if I didn’t call out the powerful tools we ship to allow admins to govern apps like Milestones and Bulletins. In particular, we’ve shipped a powerful template as part of the Center of Excellence Starter Kit to manage Dataverse for Teams environments. With it, users within your company can provide business justifications for Dataverse for Teams so that admins can approve the usage.
Team owners can provide a business justification for their new environment within X days of creating the environment |
Admins approve or reject the submitted business justifications, and optionally mark them for a later review. |
We can’t wait to see what you’re able to build with Power Apps and Teams
We’re always excited to see what the community is able to build. To learn more about the Milestones and Bulletins, and to get further inspiration for what’s possible, check out the deep dive into these two apps by the Power Apps team.
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When your business depends on you to make informed strategic, tactical, and operational decisions, being able to gain actionable insights from your fraud protection system is crucial. Data should drive everything from reconfiguring rules to targeting new fraud vectors, manually reviewing transactions, presenting at monthly business meetings, or even monitoring and troubleshooting technical issues.
Built on an extensive data platform, Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection enables you to develop a toolkit with custom reports and applications that help you establish a robust fraud management strategy while providing ongoing insights into your business.
Minimizing fraud begins with understanding fraud by identifying trends and patterns. Reporting helps you do just that by providing a historical view of fraud volume for your business. A customized fraud tracker is one example of a report that you can add to your fraud protection toolkit. These types of reports enable analysts to filter historical data and view score distributions by dimensions (for example, country or region, payment instrument type, or product category) to highlight high-risk segments. These reports can then be used to configure new or existing rules to target those events.
Tracking and raising awareness of high-level fraud trends also provides valuable insight for business planning. Reports used for monthly business reviews can be used to drive conversations around monthly targets, how your fraud protection system is performing, areas for improvement, and plans for upcoming product or process changes that could impact fraud rates.
Defining the analytics that matter for your business is imperative. Measuring success and understanding the impact, scale, fraud pressure, and efficacy of your systems will play a large role in influencing your business strategies.
Fraud operations often require multiple touchpoints for members within the organization to either review, monitor, or act on events occurring across various systems. Often businesses choose to develop custom applications to cover these overarching use cases. They will weigh the cost of maintaining these custom applications with the potential improvement in operational efficiency.
For example, if you have an IT organization that manages the service health of multiple business applications, it may be valuable to create a single application to monitor and alert on the health of them all. Sending API request times and errors for your fraud protection solution within the context of all of the other service notifications on a single application would streamline the process altogether. Adding these custom applications to your fraud protection toolkit will not only improve the health of your risk management solutions but also your business all-up.
Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection provides in-app reporting through scorecards, monitoring dashboards, and a virtual fraud analyst. In addition, understanding the power of joining data across multiple business systems and each business’ unique reporting needs, we have also provided a platform to easily extract and manipulate the data available within Fraud Protection.
Event tracing provides both a real-time and bulk data egress mechanism to send data to your own Azure Event Hubs or Azure Blob Storage locations. By subscribing to events to track transactions, portal actions, or API performance through our Event Tracing page, you can easily analyze your service, extract insights, and develop custom reports by using Azure Stream Analytics or Logic Apps and Dataverse. Here you can join to other datasets available within your tenant to create a rich set of real-time reports such as audit logs, fraud trackers, or monthly business reports.
You can also utilize the data available in Event Tracing to create custom mobile or desktop applications to target unique use cases, which support your business with the help of Power Apps. Utilize Microsoft’s low-code app development platform to create fraud investigation tools for your support agents, latency monitoring applications, and more.
Developing a well-rounded fraud protection toolkit that is customized for your business needs will improve your fraud management strategy. The use of custom reports and applications to address unique needs for your business is a great way to extend existing business processes while incorporating insights from your fraud protection solution. Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection and the event tracing capability can provide the data platform to easily enable your business to configure these new experiences.
Get started today with Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection
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