Category: Vendors

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Kurt Juvyns. Customers often chose Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central because it's updated regularly with major and minor releases. These updates provide customers with a business application that is up-to-date with new compliance, security, platform, and application functionality.Partners who extend the Business Central experience for their customers with Microsoft AppSource apps or customizations as per-tenant extensions are responsible for continuously aligning their added code to Microsoft's release rhythm that is expected for all Business Central online customers. Not aligning to that rhythm may prevent customers from getting important security or compliance updates in time, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Georg Glantschnig. Empower your services organization to deliver success with a single, connected solutionfrom prospect to payment to profit.The wait is almost overMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations will be generally available on October 1, 2020. This highly anticipated application connects sales, resource management, project management, and accounting teams to provide the visibility, agility, and collaboration needed to deliver on-budget and on-time.Today's service-based businesses operate in a highly competitive market where winning new deals, retaining the best people, and increasing profit margins are significant challenges. Success requires a solution that truly reimagines the project delivery ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Manoj Swaminathan. Companies often struggle with latency and connectivity when running operations in remote facilities. In fact, network latency is a top connectivity challenge for 30 percent of manufacturers, according to the IDC1.A leading cause of latency is high volume and resource-intensive processes running in parallel, resulting in reduced productivity.Operations without interruptionsThe new Cloud and Edge Scale Unit add-ins for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, coming to preview in October, brings the power of the intelligent cloud to the edge. It allows organizations to run critical warehousing and manufacturing workloads on the edge ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Jeff Comstock. We are announcing the expansion of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service omnichannel capabilities to include a new voice channel, built on Microsoft Azure Communication Services. The addition of this channel gives businesses the scale and reliability of the calling platform that powers Microsoft Teams worldwide today. With native voice, businesses receive seamless, end-to-end omnichannel experiences within a single solution, ensuring consistent, personalized, and connected support across all channels of engagement. This end-to-end solution unifies all points of customer interaction data, enabling businesses to simplify and streamline their processes, gain instant insights into ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. There are some options in Azure Synapse Analytics that are not obvious that I wanted to point out. While in Azure Synapse Studio, going to the Data hub and clicking the “+” at the top to the right of Data brings up: Under “Workspace”, choosing “Synapse SQL Database” gives you the ability to create a database in a SQL on-demand pool. A SQL on-demand pool (which you access via an endpoint) can have multiple databases. Note that SQL on-demand has no local storage so only metadata objects are stored in the databases. After ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. We live in demanding times, and change is happening faster than ever before. Data has always provided important insights into changing contexts, but to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape, adding layers of intelligence where AI advances decision making and applies predictive analytics at the edge to unlock new possibilities is pivotal. At Microsoft Ignite, we shared a number of announcements to help organizations rebuild in a changing world. Following the announcement of Azure Arc in November 2019, we are announcing the preview launch of Azure Arc enabled data services. With this preview, customers ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Amanda Silver. Over the last six months, organizations of all shapes and sizes have had to suddenly pivot to serve customers, employees, and partners exclusively via digital channels. In this uncertain business environment, we have seen resilient organizations adapt in three dimensions: by supporting remote application development; improving business agility with a focus on Developer Velocity; and by driving cost savings. At Microsoft Ignite, we've shared new capabilities that enable developers and the teams they support to become more resilient with Microsoft Visual Studio, GitHub, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Power Apps. Creating resilient development teams ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Companies such as Church and Dwight and Altair are migrating their Windows Server apps to Microsoft Azure to transform how they run their business, optimize costs, and increase IT efficiency and security. Today, we are excited to share new capabilities that continue to make Azure the best place to run Windows Server apps. Increase IT efficiency with Azure Automanage We often hear from customers that maintaining and operating servers on-premises is complex. Windows Server admins are responsible for day-to-day administration tasks such as backup, disaster recovery, and security updates. With growing security threats ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erin Chapple. Organizations including ASOS, Keiser University, and Manulife trust and build services on Azure to run their business-critical workloads and support their customers across the world. It’s customers such as these that fuel our desire to innovate. While this desire is ever-present, given the impact of the pandemic in recent months, organizations now more than ever are looking to adopt Microsoft Azure more rapidly to enable remote work, optimize costs, increase efficiency, and innovate. Today we’re announcing several new Azure infrastructure capabilities that unlock cost savings, increase efficiency, and extend innovation anywhere—directly addressing the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Entering its third era, IT outsourcing is at a significant inflection point. Its first 20-year era was marked largely by the quest for operational excellence. Much of the next 20 years was dominated by the rapid, widespread adoption of offshoring and labor arbitrage. Now, the as-a-service era sees consumption-based outsourcing becoming the norm.Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has rattled the IT outsourcing environment as well. IT leaders are rethinking their sourcing approaches. “In effect, everything is on the table,” says Jimit Arora, partner at Everest Group. “Every aspect of the solution portfolio is being re-validated and the ... Read More