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In this session, 3 MVP’s will demonstrate some out of the box uses for the Power Automate.  Most are personal use cases.  The audience will vote on who has the coolest apps, giving that MVP bragging rights for the year. 

This is a great opportunity to help you, the attendee, generate ideas for your own use cases.  We’ll even leave room at the end for Q&A.

Session Level: Basic

Smart is sexy and understanding what’s new in Business Central will make you the most interesting person at virtual cocktail parties. With Business Central at the core, we’ll show you the hottest integrations with Microsoft 365 and Power BI. KPIs are king and at your fingertips. See how you can report available cash, sales profitability, inventory value, and net income. With personalization tools and an enhanced user experience, everyone has the ability to work how they want in Business Central.

Join ArcherPoint’s Gwendolynn Massie, a 21-year Dynamics veteran and lover of all things Business Central, for your tour of the features that make you go “wow!” and make everyone see you for the rock star you are.

Companies are planning on how to safely reopen offices and have employees working safely in-person . During this session, we will cover how the Power Platform can help you decide when it is safe to reopen, manage risk of exposure at your workplace, track who will be in the office, and identify potential exposure. This session will cover Microsoft’s Return to Workplace solutions, custom solutions with Power Platform, and using AI to automatically track occupancy limits.

A collection of useful tips to help you work faster and more efficiently in Power BI. Topics include best practices and recommendations for improving the loading and modeling of data, leveraging parameters, creating date tables, time based calculations, measures vs. calculated columns, using report themes, bookmarks, and templates, ideas for faster creation of reports, and more.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Learn how to add custom UI components for both model-driven and canvas Apps in this new world of the Power Platform. This session will explore the Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) gallery, walk-through the process of adding PCF components to your environment, look at some best practices and provide some resources for reference.

Session Level: Intermediate

You already know that Power BI is a powerful tool for visualizing and presenting your data, but where do you begin? 

In this session,  we’ll provide you with a path for getting started and explain the differences between the desktop and service, Power Query and DAX, and different methods of sharing.  This will be a demo-rich session with our favorite tips and tricks we’ve learned over the years, as well as pitfalls to avoid.  

You will leave with everything you need to get started, including samples and resources to keep you on the path to Power BI success.

Session Level: Basic

In this session learn how to design and deploy external-facing enterprise portal solutions using Power Apps Portals, Azure, and Microsoft 365. 

See how organizations are creating a secure framework for customers, partners, and employees to access Microsoft 365 content today. 

Learn patterns for extending your existing Microsoft 365 and Azure apps and data with secure portals, anonymous portals, or a hybrid approach.

Session Level: Advanced

Do you want to know how to upgrade your career in Business Application? 

Join this session which will give you an overview of the current business application space, types of organizations, careers and how to make the most out of your time to progress in the direction you want to. 

It will feature 10 tips on specific business application careers, where to invest your time and HOW.

Session Level: Basic

Join this session to learn how to leverage Power Automate to transform your business processes. 

Attendees will learn the benefits of using Power Automate, including:

•How to identify processes that need automation
•Power Automate Use cases – Modern workplace
•Power Automate Use cases – Business Apps/D365
•Connecting Apps with Power Automate

Session Level: Basic

Did you know that Microsoft has created a new interface with back end configuration operations of Dynamics 365? Attend this session to learn about the benefits of using the modern Power Apps experience, which provides a lightweight, streamlined way for business analysts and system administrators to configure entities, forms, fields, and more.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner-level knowledge of the subject area.

Did you just say Power BI for GP Payroll?  Well certainly!  The Payroll table structure in Dynamics GP is unlike other modules, but that doesn’t prevent us from using Power BI to support and enhance your Payroll reporting capacity.  Perhaps you have a system that integrates employee and/or timesheet data into Dynamics GP, and you want to review for miscoding, thoroughness, and investigate or highlight any outlier situations or use cases.  Current methods of review rely on SmartLists, Edit Lists, and SSRS reports, but in this session you will learn a new, more visual way of reviewing payroll transactions in Dynamics GP with Power BI.  We will show you some of the possibilities and even show you the steps to create your own Power BI views for Dynamics GP and beyond as well as an introduction to other Power Platform tools.

This session is geared for an audience with an intermediate skill set.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Power BI is a great sandbox environment for report design. However, knowing how to leverage visuals and features in a way that adds additional value can be challenging. New visualizations and features can be created a number of ways including: layering visuals, customizing visual formatting, and/or utilizing DAX measures. 

The session will include a series of visualization and reporting techniques that you’ll be able to leverage in your company’s reports to take them to the next level.

Session Level: Intermediate

A well thought out Power BI data model can make creating a well functioning report a breeze. Relationships form the core of any model, but what if the relationships you have won’t allow the calculations you want? Do you want dimension tables to filter each other? Should a fact table filter a dimension? By getting creative with your DAX measures, it is possible to do this and more, while still keeping the model functional. 

This session will introduce and explain several DAX functions for manipulating relationships including CROSSFILTER, USERELATIONSHIP, and TREATAS.

Session Level: Intermediate

Ever need to look in multiple places to understand a customer’s profile? Ever find that prioritizing leads and nurturing prospects are challenging? Is your customer information lacking?

Customer Insights uses AI and Machine Learning to provide a 360° customer view. With Customer Insights, Dynamics 365 delivers the ability to connect to multiple data sources, model profiles of customers, their interactions and insightful KPI’s.

In this demo heavy session, we’ll demonstrate building a customer profile and show how you can use the results for increasing sales, marketing and service effectiveness. Then display it inside of PowerApps, Mobile, and BI tools.

Learn how to use three simple Power Automate flows within Dynamics 365 Sales to enhance the effectiveness of your sales team and automate your internal processes.  Don’t have the users work for the system let the system do the work for the users.

The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.

Power Apps are a game changer for your company.  Power Apps let you provide Dynamics SL information to the people who need it when and where they need it.  For example, provide salespeople in the field access to their customer order history and inventory on hand on their phone.   Think of a task and you can create a Power App for that and you don’t need a PHD in computer science to build it. The cloud makes it possible to share your creations with co-workers on any device. Attend this session to see which Power Apps are available today in SL 2018 and learn the basics of how to start a new Power App.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

•    Describe the Dynamics SL Power Apps solution.

•    Describe where to get the SL Power Apps solution.

•    Understand the basics of how to create a new Power solution.

This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.

Level: Intermediate

How can one Power Apps application securely meet the needs of more than one user persona without exposing an organization to data privacy risks?  

This session will share techniques successfully used to serve the needs of 3 different user personas – an individual user, a manager and a resource manager – securely providing each with only the information necessary for their role.

Session Level: Intermediate

For many organizations, front line sales and support is owned by employees. What if it didn’t need to be? 

Join us for a session dedicated to how Power Virtual Agents can add immediate value to your Power Apps (or other!) portals.

Session Level: Intermediate

As the adoption of Teams is increasing along with that have increased the Teams sprawl. One of the methods to avoid the Teams Sprawl is to add the governance policies and automate the Teams creation via the approval process.
In this demo-driven session, we will cover how to implement Teams Governance using Power Automate, Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint.
You will learn:
1) Microsoft Teams Governance via Automation
2) Automate Microsoft Team Provisioning using Power Automate, Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint
3) Automate Microsoft Team Provisioning using Logic Apps, Microsoft Graph APIs, and SharePoint

Session Level: Advanced