Join us for a 90-minute webinar on April 8 at 9 AM Pacific Time to learn about the new capabilities in Dynamics 365 Field Service 2021 release wave 1, including: A simplified set-up experience. New schedule board and map capabilities. How knowledge articles and virtual assistants on the mobile app help technicians. A new portal for your customers to self schedule and view a technician’s estimated arrival time. We’ll discuss how to enable these capabilities in your environment and you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions of product team members. Speakers: David Clarke, Program Manager Vinay Nalam, Senior Program Manager Jason Cohen, Senior Program Manager Jonathan Baker, Senior Program Manager Dhruv Goel, Senior Program Manager Sanjay Jethva, Senior Product Marketing Manager Rag Guru, Program Manager How to watch To watch live, fill out a short form to register. You can also view the recording on-demand after the webinar. Next steps Dynamics 365 Field Service enables organizations to dispatch technicians to customer locations to provide installation, repair, or maintenance services. To learn more, check out the documentation or the Field Service video playlist

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Projects used to be a discrete subset of work people did every day, but the way we work is transforming. Organizations and individuals have taken incredible leaps to implement digital innovations to help employees work better together now that so many are working from home. Today, all work is project work, and everyone works on projects. Projects can range from ad hoc, involving a couple of people, to years’ long efforts and entire portfolios. “Today, all work is project work, and everyone works on projects.” Howard Crow, Head of Product for Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project The transformation of projects from discrete activities to the work each of us does every day requires new approaches and a new generation of tools that can span an organization and meet people where they are working. To answer these challenges, Microsoft’s vision is connected project experiences that are simple enough for everyone to use and powerful enough to be a catalyst for business success across the world’s largest organizations. In a time when projects are the unifying thread woven throughout the fabric of modern work, Microsoft delivers the platform, tools, and capabilities teams need to eliminate complexity, clarify priorities, stay on top of tasks, and work together to achieve key strategic objectives. Our solutionsincluding Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operationsprovide the end-to-end management capabilities that teams and organizations of all sizes need to tackle projects of every level of complexity. Cut through complexity with connected project experiences Cutting through complexity starts with visibility, and Microsoft’s connected project experiences are designed to help you organize and view projects, schedules, and tasksor dive more deeply into all the details. They provide intelligent, data-driven operational insights so you can address emerging issues before they become problems and seize new opportunities quickly. They’re built so it is easy to take advantage of flexible solutions that map to your business processes and adapt to the way your teams work best. Microsoft’s connected project experiences help provide clear expectations about budgets and timelines, enable you to set your teams up to drive strategic outcomes that improve customer satisfaction, increase profitability, and reduce costs. Reducing complexity and increasing clarity will help you take an important step forward toward achieving the kinds of successful results that lead to happier, more engaged teams. We also know that solving today’s complexity challenges alone isn’t enough. Long-term business success is also built on a modern technology platform that supports a culture of innovation and offers the flexibility to grow and adapt. Microsoft’s connected project experiences also deliver a unified approach that brings together all your company’s data, to help you uncover insights. With simplified IT management and the security of Microsoft’s trusted cloud to protect your processes and intellectual propertyPlanner, Project, and Dynamics 365 Project Operationsmark the beginning of a new era of project experiences that will transform how teams and organizations manage their work. Join us for Reimagine Project Management with Microsoft Learn more about the connected project experience at Reimagine Project Management with Microsoft, now available as a free, on-demand event. You’ll learn the latest on Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Project, and Dynamics 365 Project Operationsthree solutions built to address and solve for your unique business needs. Although the event is completely digital, you’ll have opportunities to connect with Microsoft experts, technology partners, and peers to expand your network. Register for Reimagine Project Management with Microsoft to: Discovernew features and best practices from live demos and product walkthroughs with more than six hours of on-demand content. Connect with other attendees through round tables and board rooms. Don’t miss out on an opportunity to find the Microsoft connected project experience to equip your organization with everything needed to cut through complexity and successfully complete your project. Register now and watch on demand

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COVID-19 has had a significant impact across organizations regardless of size, industry, and location. Our valuable, and free, Finance Reimagined virtual CFO summit explored the many implications for finance leaders and their organizations as they attempt to adapt operations in this uncertain time. You can now watch on-demand content from this summit, including more than a dozen sessions from the event, so be sure to log back in or sign up for free to watch the on-demand sessions. From this amazing day, which included more than 2,000 finance leaders, we captured incredible insights to help you steer your organization through this crisis and reimagine the future. Finance leaders shared how they sustained core processes through immediate action, shifting from in-person to remote work, including how to complete a virtual close. Other lessons included how to strategically cut costs during uncertain times, while reducing risk and improving compliance. Leaders shared best practices for understanding and maintaining employee engagement and developing essential skills while remote, as well as for safely transitioning the workforce back to the office. Insights included learning how to adjust for headcount and pay scales for employees spanning across regions. The other focus was reimagining the future. While we may not be able to predict the future, we can work to prepare ourselves for a new normal. Business complexity will continue growing, data will continue surging, and risks, threats, and regulations will continue increasing. Expectations on finance departments to manage these challenges will continue rising, too. Fortunately, changes in technology, processes, and our organizations’ underlying cultures will enable us to address these needs. We explored how finance leaders are leading their company’s through this transformation, leveraging tools like AI-driven insights to improve forecasting and scenario analysis. Leaders shared hard-won lessons and specific, step-by-step tactics that other organizations can successfully adopt. The event is not done yet Take advantage of the many ongoing opportunities. A host of additional on-demand content covering all of these topicsresponse, recovery, and reimaginationis available exclusively to event registrants. Log in today to watch the sessions or sign up for free and watch the sessions. You can also replay any of the CoreNote keynote sessions to tune into the portions that resonated most with you. You can even listen to CFO Microsoft Business Applications Jeffrey York’s on-demand session on lasting finance transformation, where he shares a proven path to finance transformation. It’s meant to provide you with a replicable way to transform your finance team into an optimum operating model so that you can rely on predictable outcomes and gain long-term value through real-time insights. Review many small-group roundtables It was fantastic to see so much direct engagement and participation across our roundtables. In these breakout sessions, CFOs and other peers shared how cost reduction and risk mitigation represent some of the most important and often first actions taken to recover from a crisis. They discussed how they’ve cut costs, ensured liquidity, and managed cashflow. They also looked at how they plan to build on these actions to set their businesses up for ongoing recovery and success. Whether you’re looking to use analytics to support quick decisions or encouraging innovation and automation to simplify and scale financial processes, you can listen in on any of these roundtable discussions to hear how your peers are addressing modern business challenges. We also encourage you to engage with other finance leaders to discuss challenges and topics important to you through ongoing roundtables with other attendees. Keep connecting with others The summit brought together over 2,000 finance leaders. We hope you made new connections, and we encourage you to foster these new professional relationships post-event. Don’t miss out on the on-demand content and other valuable insights. If you already signed up for Finance Reimagined, log back in, or if this is your first time, sign up now for free and watch the valuable on-demand sessions

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