Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations extends out-of-the-box country coverage in Latin America

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations extends out-of-the-box country coverage in Latin America

by | Mar 20, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Our customers run Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations applications globally and must meet multiple tax compliance and other regulatory and local business practice requirements (we call them localizations). These requirements are complex and change frequently, especially in many countries within Latin America (LATAM).

As a part of our continuous commitment to customers and partners and following our strategy of expanding the out-of-the-box country coverage, in 2023 release wave 1, we will ship localizations for seven additional LATAM countries: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay.

Microsoft localizations for these new countries were built in collaboration with Finnie, S.A., an affiliate of Artware SRL based on their LATAM localization solution. To better align with other Microsoft out-of-the-box localizations, this third party localization solution was redesigned utilizing the rich capabilities of Globalization Studio tools and services and integrated into  Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Dynamics 365 Project Operations applications.

This expansion helps LATAM and global partners to focus more on delivering extra value to customers by extending these out-of-the-box localizations from Microsoft to meet more specific vertical or other customer requirements which might be different in each country. Our flexible, easy-to-use Globalization Studio tools and services make localization easier to extend and maintain for Microsoft partners and customers.

With this release, we are extending the out-of-the-box support to 51 countries/regions and 67 languages. Together with partner localization solutions and our no-code/low-code Globalization Studio tools and services, this expansion makes it easier for our customers to run their businesses globally (currently our customers use Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations applications in over 200 countries/regions).

LATAM Country Localization Overview

The new LATAM localizations have over a hundred new features covering key globalization areas in Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Dynamics 365 Project Operations, including:

  • tax determination and calculation,
  • electronic invoicing and invoicing processes,
  • tax audit and reporting,
  • banking and payments,
  • business documents,
  • and other areas (like fixed assets localization, etc.)

Our solution also contains cross-LATAM features which have common functionalities for the new countries in LATAM. These common features include tax setup and master data, invoice processing from various sources (sales orders, purchase orders, projects, etc.), common tax reports, and check and payment processing among other features. These cross-LATAM features reduce duplication, so only country-specific features, like electronic invoice formats, reports and business document layouts belong to a given country localization.

A sneak peek on localization for Chile

The first country localization released is Chile. We made it available in Public Preview in version 10.0.33 (the “May” release).

As for any localization, localization-specific fields, and functionality work on a LE (Legal Entity) basis, so to enable the Chilean localization you need to choose Chile as Primary address for your LE. As any new functionality in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, the new localizations for LATAM are under Feature management, so you will need to enable “(Preview) LATAM globalization expansion” feature to see it.  

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Sales Order in Chilean Legal Entity

After you have completed the setup, you will see LATAM and Chile-specific user interface elements in your LE. For example, a LATAM tab is displayed on the Sales Order form in the associated screenshot. Within the LATAM tab, region-specific fields for processing the invoice have been added.

The feature populates all required data to produce an Electronic Invoice for Chile and generate required tax reports.

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Sales tax report for Chile

Timeline

We are releasing the localizations for the Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay as Public Previews first. Later, based on customer and partner feedback, we will make them generally available. You can find more details on the timeline and the list of features in the 2023 release wave 1 plan.

Call for action

We value your feedback please take part in Public Previews as the new LATAM localizations become available per our release plan! And stay tuned we are planning a Tech Talk to cover these localizations in more detail and more!

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How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business

How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business

by | Mar 20, 2023 | Business, Hybrid Work, Microsoft 365, Technology, Work Trend Index

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Digital collaboration has become the norm, and more promising apps and tools are available daily. The benefits speak for themselves: increased productivity, convenience, innovation—the list goes on. But there are still challenges to address.

The post How Microsoft Teams helps ISVs like ServiceNow expand business appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

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Transform your business with automated insights & optimized workflows using Azure OpenAI GPT-3

Transform your business with automated insights & optimized workflows using Azure OpenAI GPT-3

by | Mar 19, 2023 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 AI applications have become a buzzword in the industry. If you’re looking to boost your business operations and maximize productivity but are encountering technical barriers and resource limitations, the app highlighted in this article may be your answer.
It smoothly integrates Azure OpenAI into various business workflows, showcasing a spectrum of AI-powered demos. This demo highlight the technology’s capabilities and can help streamline your business operations while optimizing productivity.


 


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Let’s build your business process with OpenAI


Resources 




  • Azure OpenAI – Summarization & gain insights



  • Power Apps – To build front end

  • Power Automate – To build the process


Getting Started


1. Azure Open AI – Summarization & Gain insights



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3. Create 2 SharePoint Lists 



  • Prompts for your custom questions (change questions & prompt types as per your business requirements)

  • Conversation insights to save Open AI generated insights from the email text (change column names as per your business requirements)


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Scenario 1: Lets start with conversation insights. Assume you have an email enabled conversation. You want to get some insights from the email text.


To generate insights, PowerAutomate is used and then results are saved in SharePoint.

3. Create a PowerAutomate




  • Here are the steps to create a Power Flow:



    1. Go to flow.microsoft.com and click on “Flows”.

    2. Visit https://make.powerautomate.com/

    3. Click “New Flow” and name it “OpenAI-Insights“.

    4. It has many variables for multiple prompts at once and save insights from one conversation in SharePoint List.

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    6. When a new email arrives-Choose email trigger if email’s conversation you want to use as a source to gain insights. Else you can use any other trigger depends upon where your conversations stores. e.g. Teams chat, SharePoint, blob storage or any other storage solution.

    7. HtmlToText-Get email body as a plain text using html to text connector.

    8. Get items– SharePoint Connector to get the prompts list to run on your email text to gain additional insights

    9. Initialize Variables-# of variables are initialized based on number of prompts

    10. initialize a variable called summary to store output.

    11. Apply to each -OPEN AI step loop through each prompt question on original conversation text to get the insight and save the result via case statement in the initialized variable.
      HTTP Connector

      Method: POST
      URI: https://resourcename.openai.azure.com/openai/deployments/davinci003/completions?api-version=2022-12-01
      Headers content-type:application/json
                      api-key:  [Azure Portal -> OpenAI resource -> Keys & Endpoints]
      Body   {
      “prompt”: @{variables(‘promptPhrase’)},
      “max_tokens”: 1000,
      “temperature”: 1
      }

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      ParseOpenAIOutput-Parse the response from OpenAI HTTP output.
      Click Generate from sample in Parse step and paste the below sample json to parse the response from HTTP output


      {
      “body”: {
      “id”: “cmpl-xxxxxxx”,
      “object”: “text_completion”,
      “created”: 1678909613,
      “model”: “text-davinci-003”,
      “choices”: [
      {
      “text”: “nThe main reason of the conversation is to give credit to travel company for their gracious refund of the cost of the no-show.”,
      “index”: 0,
      “finish_reason”: “stop”,
      “logprobs”: null
      }
      ],
      “usage”: {
      “completion_tokens”: 27,
      “prompt_tokens”: 91,
      “total_tokens”: 118
      }
      }
      }


      SAVITAMITTAL_0-1679199886668.pngAfter parsing we need to loop the array and assign the text to the variable
      Apply to each action. Select Choices from parse step output as the array property.
      Set  Output – variable “Summary” 

      Switch: It has 6 case actions based on number of prompts to set the each variable based on each HTTP Post call.


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       end of Apply to each -OPEN AI step #11 (loop through each prompt question and call OpenAI endpoint to get insights. Parse the response and save it in each prompt related variable)
       



    12. Create Item – Once all the variables are set then create an entry in the SharePoint Conversation insights list with original text and additional insightsSAVITAMITTAL_3-1679200897367.png




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How to utilize insights into a process
PowerApps can be created with SharePoint list to create a business process around insights generated by OpenAI on each customer conversation.
Dashboard->Details screen-> Process each conversation with Insights
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/app-from-sharepoint



 Dashboard – Vertical galley in PowerApps with SharePoint list ‘Conversation Insights’ as a Data Source 


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 Item details page with OpenAI insights to accelerate the customer service – Display form in PowerApps


 


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Stay tuned for more exciting blog content as we explore various potential scenarios.
Effortlessly extract text from documents, audio, and video files to generate valuable insights.

How to Create Your Own Portfolio Website in Minutes with GitHub Codespaces and Blazor

How to Create Your Own Portfolio Website in Minutes with GitHub Codespaces and Blazor

by | Mar 18, 2023 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Create, customize, and deploy your own portfolio website in minutes without installing any tools. All you need is a GitHub account and a few minutes to get started. We will use GitHub Codespaces and Blazor to build the website and Azure Static Web Apps or GitHub Pages to deploy it. 


 


You can find all these instructions and more in our GitHub Codespaces Repository.


 





 


GitHub Codespaces 


Now, with GitHub Codespaces you can create your own portfolio website in minutes without any extra tools or lengthy environment setup! All you need is a GitHub account. Follow these instructions to create your free GitHub account. 


 


GitHub Codespaces is a development environment that is hosted in the cloud. This means that you can get started coding right away in your browser – we set everything up for you ahead of time! You do not need to worry about setting up the right coding editor or tools.  


 


.NET Portfolio Site with GitHub Codespaces  


With the .NET Blazor Portfolio Site project template, all you need to do is launch your Codespace then follow the README instructions to customize your website. The goal is to give you a template you can immediately utilize to create your own website through GitHub Codespaces. 


 


This template shows you how to build your website using Blazor. Blazor is a UI Framework that lets you build frontend web applications with C#. The template is within the GitHub Student Developer pack, but anyone can access and use it! 



  • Who is this for? Anyone looking to create a portfolio site, learn web development, or test out Codespaces. 

  • How much experience do you need? Zero. You decide how much you want to customize based on your experience, and time available. 

  • Tools needed: None. No need to install anything! All you need is a GitHub account and web browser. 



  • Prerequisites: None. This template includes your development environment and deployable web app for you to create your own site. 


Get Started with the .NET Portfolio Website Template 



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  • Create a copy of the repository in your GitHub account. You can keep the repository name the same or change it if you would like.

  • At the top of the README, click on the Open in GitHub Codespaces buttonKatie_Savage_1-1678811758385.png

  • You should now be in a GitHub Codespace! Notice that it has the same layout as VS Code.


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  • Follow the readme on how to run a simple command to start up your website. In your terminal, you will need to run swa start.


 


Congratulations! You just ran your portfolio website!!


 


Next Steps: Customize and Deploy 


From here, you can continue to follow the instructions in the README to customize your portfolio website and deploy it! 


 


This project is built to be easily customizable. Each section of the site is a separate component, and your information needs to be set in only one spot. For each step, open the project in Codespaces, then you can make and commit your changes while within your Codespaces.



See Using source control in your codespaces for more Codespaces source control how-tos



To deploy your website, you can use Azure Static Web Apps or GitHub Pages. The README includes instructions for both deployment options.


 


Learn More


Check out our learning resources and coding curriculums to take these learnings to the next level!



 


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Manage your resource’s efforts with the new Assignments view!

Manage your resource’s efforts with the new Assignments view!

by | Mar 17, 2023 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

When a Project Manager develops a resource-loaded work-back structure (WBS), the linear distribution of effort between resources is typically acceptable as a starting point to estimate effort and costs.   However, there are scenarios where a PM will need to be more granular in the definition of effort within a given time span for each resource (day, week, month) to reflect how the work will be accurately executed.


 


This precision influences two key components of the project planning: Resource Requirements and Financial estimates – which can be achieved with assignments tab. To access the contour editing grid, the project manager first selects the Tasks tab on the project main page and then selects the Assignments tab.


 


When the grid is initially rendered, it starts at the earliest assignment contour. If your schedule doesn’t contain any assignments that have effort, the grid will be blank and won’t render anything. The minimum value of a resource contour is zero, and the maximum value permitted is 9,999,999.


 


 


How to access?


 


Once you have created a new project and assigned the tasks to team members, Click on the three dots, “…” -> Assignments.  


 


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  1. Unlike in the Grid view, columns aren’t configurable. The only visible columns are: Assigned To, Task Name, Assignment Start and Finish date.

  2. Supports two methods for grouping: Group by Resource and Group by Task.

  3. Two views to update the efforts required: Weekly and Daily.


 


How to update task effort assigned to resources:


 


By default, when resources are assigned to a task in the schedule, their effort is linearly distributed to each resource, based upon that resource’s working hours and the project’s schedule mode.


 


 A project manager can use the resource assignment grid to refine the effort estimates of each resource that’s assigned to one or many tasks across the different time scales. This feature helps project managers produce more accurate cost and sales estimates, which are driven by the resource assignment contours that are generated when a resource is assigned to a task. Additionally, project managers can easily reflect the resource demand that’s required to build the demand in a resource requirement.


 



  1. View effort distribution of a resource across tasks and timeline (Grouped by Resource)image B.jpg

     



  2. Updating efforts required for a task (Grouped by Task)


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Resource calendars


 


The ability to edit a contour for a specific day is governed by the resource’s working days, as reflected in their calendar. If a cell is disabled for a given resource, that resource doesn’t have working days during that period.


 


A resource’s contours can extend beyond the assigned task’s current start and end dates. If a contour is updated so that it’s after the latest end date of a task or the earliest start date of a task, the task’s end date or start date will be changed as appropriate. However, if a contour is updated so that it’s earlier than the start date of a task that’s linked to a predecessor, the update will fail because the assignment will trigger the task to start before its predecessor is completed, and that behavior isn’t currently supported.


 


Co-authoring


 


Changes to the resource assignment grid are automatically reflected in any associated views, including the Chart, Timeline, Board, and Grid views. If multiple users are reviewing the project at the same time, any changes that one user makes will be reflected in the grid. Conversely, any changes that are made in the resource assignment grid will be shown to all other users who are viewing the project in the same session.

Introducing New Asset Management Mobile App for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

Introducing New Asset Management Mobile App for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

by | Mar 17, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

We are thrilled to announce the public preview release of the Asset Management mobile app for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. The app is available for all commonly used mobile platforms, devices, and form factors.

The app enables maintenance workers to review their assigned jobs, mark tasks as complete, enter notes, and log the time and materials consumed. Other staff can use the app to quickly file maintenance requests by scanning a barcode, entering notes, and submitting photos.

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The Asset Management mobile app in action

Jody, a production manager at Contoso Inc., is preparing a presentation and notices that the monitor cable in the meeting room is broken. She immediately launches the Asset Management mobile app so she can report this incident. She scans the bar code on the monitor to identify it in the system. Then she fills out the required information, marks the issue as high severity, and takes some photos to document the damage. Finally, she selects Submit to file the report.

Roger, the maintenance supervisor, is working in Supply Chain Management and receives a notification about Jody’s maintenance request. He notices that it is high severity, so he immediately creates a work order from the request and assigns it to Peter, who is the maintenance worker responsible for that office.

Peter has just finished his previous assignment, so he opens the job list on his mobile app to see what his next job should be. Jody’s request appears right at the top of the list because it’s marked as high severity. When Peter selects the job, he can see the details, including Jody’s description and the pictures she took of the broken cable. Peter opens the job check list and goes through each step, marking them complete as he works. When the job is done, he logs the time it took and the materials he used. The monitor is now ready for use for Jody’s presentation.

Architecture and licensing

The Asset Management mobile app is built as a Canvas app in PowerApps, and doesn’t require any additional licenses to use. The app leverages the security roles already established in Supply Chain Management to grant the appropriate users access to the maintenance request and/or job management functions as needed.

System requirements

To run the Asset Management mobile app, you must be running Supply Chain Management version 10.0.32 or higher. The app is available for all commonly used mobile platforms, devices, and form factors.

More information

For more information about how to deploy and use the app, see Asset Management mobile app overview on Microsoft Docs.

Not yet a Supply Chain Management customer?

 Take a guided tour. to see what Supply Chain Management can do for you today.

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Azure Marketplace new offers – March 16, 2023

Azure Marketplace new offers – March 16, 2023

by | Mar 16, 2023 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 103 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:


 


































































































































































































































































































































































































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Optimizing Supply Chain Performance through Collaboration using Generative AI

Optimizing Supply Chain Performance through Collaboration using Generative AI

by | Mar 16, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

The advent of next-generation Artificial Intelligence(AI) is ushering in a new era of heightened productivity and efficiency. This is spurring novel breakthroughs in the supply chain domain. With AI’s transformative influence, the conventional ways of operations managers collaborating with suppliers, vendors, and third-party service providers are being revamped to streamline the entire process.

By collaborating with suppliers and utilizing state-of-the-art AI, Supply Chain managers can enhance supply chain performance and avert logistics disruptions triggered by diverse external factors.

We’re excited to launch Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center,  which harnesses generative AI to assist Supply Chain managers in real-time communication with suppliers regarding specific news.

Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center

Over the last few years, numerous companies have realized that their existing supply chain technologies are inadequate to cope with the current environment marked by frequent disruptions, limitations, and scarcities. By leveraging AI-powered supply chain management, businesses can gain unparalleled visibility and invaluable insights, enabling them to proactively address potential disruptions before they materialize.

Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Centerallows for proactive identification of external issues related to weather, finance, and geopolitics that could impact critical supply chain processes.

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Predictive insights surface impacted orders, and Copilot helps take action on this insight with contextualized email drafts. This enables supply chain users to collaborate with impacted suppliers in real-time to quickly identify new estimated times of arrival and reroute purchase orders based on weather disruptions or geopolitical tensions.

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Organizations can collaborate with their suppliers through customized and contextualized responses to fulfill high-priority customer orders via alternate distribution centers, which ultimately streamline operations and save time. By harnessing the power of generative AI and collaboration, Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center helps Supply Chain managers maintain optimal supply chain performance while also mitigating potential disruptions.

Understanding the functionality of Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center

At present, we are leveraging Copilot to streamline communication regarding supplier news. However, our plan is to expand its application to other areas of our product in the future.

Experience the capabilities of Copilot in Microsoft’s Supply Chain Center by viewing the demonstration video below

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Uncovering the Technical Mechanism: How it Works

The following four-step process outlines how supplier news communication is facilitated, as shown in the accompanying diagram:

  1. Relevant AI-driven news articles that may impact suppliers are presented to operations managers through Bing Search and our custom Copilot AI model.
  2. Customers initiate collaboration by selecting a supplier and the message type (ex, confirm impact on orders etc.) that they wish to send via email.
    • Copilot gathers relevant contextual data and calls Azure Open AI (GPT 3.5) for internal processing.  As part of Microsoft’s commitment to Responsible AI, any generated response passes through a series of checks before being returned to a user. These checks include a series of relevance scores to ensure messages are on-topic and Content Moderation to detect any harmful, controversial, or sensitive content. Though they cannot fully replace human review, such guard rails help ensure the quality of communication via Copilot.
    • An email draft is prepared.

    Next-generation AI that is ready for enterprises.

    Azure OpenAI Service offers a range of privacy features, including data encryption and secure storage. It also allows users to control access to their data and provides detailed auditing and monitoring capabilities. Dynamics 365 is built on Azure OpenAI, so enterprises can rest assured that it offers the same level of data privacy and protection.

    AI solutions built responsibly.

    We are committed to creating responsible AI by design. Our work is guided by a core set of principles: fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. We are putting those principles into practice across the company to develop and deploy AI that will have a positive impact on society.

    Try Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center

    Sign up for the limited preview of Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center. This preview is available for instances in North America using the English US language.

    Conclusion:

    In conclusion, the use of generative AI in the form of Copilot in Microsoft Supply Chain Center can significantly optimize supply chain productivity and prevent disruptions caused by external factors. The tool’s ability to proactively identify issues and provide predictive insights allows for swift action and collaboration with suppliers, leading to more efficient and cost-effective supply chain management. Furthermore, the implementation of responsible AI practices ensures the quality of communication via Copilot. Through proactive supplier collaboration, organizations can achieve greater supply chain resilience, agility, and competitive advantage. Interested parties can learn more about Copilot by viewing the demonstration video or signing up for the waitlist.

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    Not a Microsoft Supply Chain customer yet?  Discover more and sign up for the free trial

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    Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work

    by | Mar 16, 2023 | Business, Microsoft 365, Technology

    This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

    Today, we announced Microsoft 365 Copilot—your copilot for work. Copilot combines the power of large language models with your data in the Microsoft 365 apps and Microsoft Graph to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. And it does so within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise.

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    Copilot in Viva Sales available as thousands of customers adopt next-generation AI in Dynamics 365 Copilot and Power Platform

    Copilot in Viva Sales available as thousands of customers adopt next-generation AI in Dynamics 365 Copilot and Power Platform

    by | Mar 16, 2023 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

    This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

    Since first announcing new AI-powered experiences for Microsoft Viva Sales last month, we’ve given these capabilities a nameCopilot in Viva Salesand introduced new sales scenarios and updates.

    All of this is happening in conjunction with the introduction of Dynamics 365 Copilotthe world’s-first AI copilot in both customer relationship management (CRM) platforms and finance applications enterprise resource planning (ERP). To date, tens of thousands of customers have used next-generation AI capabilities in Dynamics 365 Copilot and within Microsoft Power Platform. 

    Today’s debut of Microsoft 365 Copilot powers even more ways to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. For sellers, the seamless integration of Copilot across Microsoft 365 and Viva Sales (as well as AI-powered capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales) is a powerful combination. It’s a new way to engage prospects and customers, all while freeing up time previously tied up in “busy work”like composing every email from scratch.

    As we move into a new era for customer experience, we want to ensure that salespeople feel empowered to focus on what matters, which is deeper engagements with customers. Let’s take a closer look at some of the Copilot capabilities in Viva Sales that make this possible.

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    Use Viva Sales to help sellers be more efficient, productive, and effective.

    Copilot in Viva Sales automated email replies is now generally available

    With Copilot in Viva Sales, AI-generated email replies have now moved from preview into general availability, with more features and enhancements built into the generated response. Here are some of the new additions we’ve made:

    • Generate replies with proposed meeting times: Sellers can now generate email replies with proposed meeting times based on their calendar availability in Outlook, making it easier to schedule customer meetings and simplifying the process for finding a time that works for everyone.

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    • Build upon generated replies by providing additional prompts: To make modifications to the generated reply, sellers can refine the results further by providing a new prompt that builds upon the previous suggestion. This allows sellers to more easily fine-tune their email replies according to their unique needs and preferences.

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    • Understand the data sources behind generated replies: Sellers can now hover over any highlighted areas of text to view the data sources behind generated replies. This provides sellers with valuable context and transparency regarding where the embedded information comes from, such as any previous meetings or sales data from the CRM.

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    • Improve future replies by providing feedback: Finally, a new feedback mechanism allows sellers to rate the AI-generated content with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. This helps refine and improve future replies to ensure that Viva Sales continues to adapt to the unique needs of each seller.

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    Meeting summarization: Quickly and easily send follow-up emails after meetings

    One of the best practices for sellers is to follow up on meetings and customer interactions with a clear summary, including the relevant action items or next steps. This takes time to compile, and in the busy world of a seller, manual tasks like this can take days to get to, or are sometimes forgotten. We want to increase the buyer-seller connection by providing quick seller responsiveness, demonstrating the priority of the relationship without needing to hunt out the information to create a personalized response.

    With the help of Copilot in Viva Sales, alongside the insight from the call and CRM, we can automate to help jump-start the seller into action.

    We use the existing conversation intelligence technology in Viva Sales to provide sellers with meeting insights, together with CRM data and the GPT copilot technology. This creates a super-simple way for sellers to generate meaningful meeting summaries:

    • Start composing an email and launch Viva Sales.
    • Confirm the relevant meeting to get follow-up content.
    • Receive the summary email recommendation that refers to topics you discussed and action items you both committed to, and puts all of this in a well-formed email for your review. It even includes relevant data from your CRM to enrich the reference points.
    • Simply add the recommendation to your email, edit to your liking, and send.

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    The major difference between this experience from our intelligent meeting recaps in Microsoft Teams is how the magic happens in the seller’s inbox, connected to CRM data, in the context and tone of a customer conversation. There is no need to switch screens, and minimal email composition is required. The seller can make minor edits, all from within Outlook.

    Watch the Copilot in Viva Sales demo below:

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    Vision for the future of Viva Sales

    With a monthly release cycle, Viva Sales brings innovation to delight sellers. In addition to the above-mentioned features, we have some exciting updates due over the coming months.

    Learn more about Viva Sales

    Copilot in Viva Sales is a powerful AI-boosted application that can help sellers to be more efficient, productive, and effective. By providing personalized insights, automating routine tasks, and helping sellers to prioritize their efforts, the available solutions can help sellers to close more deals and grow their businesses. If you are a seller looking to take your sales game to the next level, consider giving Viva Sales a try.

    If you are not yet a Viva Sales customer, check out our Viva Sales webpage where you can get a free 30-day trial.

    Pricing and licensing can be found here, and note that all Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise and Premium licensed customers will have Viva Sales available at no additional cost.A great reason to get started today!

    Want to stay in the loop? Stay connected to the latest improvements before everybody else. We welcome your feedback and ideas in the community feedback forum.

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