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Over the last two years, I have discovered several tricks to make Power BI a financial reporting tool. It gives your managers access to financial information, on a “real-time” basis. It changes the delivery method from "push" to "pull". It allows them to filter by dates, types, and entities. IT can give you measures that highlight key metrics. It also offers drill-down from a summary number to the transaction details.

Do you love Power Apps? Are you tired of plain and boring interfaces? Do you want to design beautiful user interfaces? Then you do not want to miss this session. In this session, you will learn about design guidelines and recommendations to build engaging and productive apps that your users will love. Additionally, you will learn about Power Addicts and resources that will get your design inspirations flowing.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has come to center stage after the summer of 2020, but it may still seem like something only giant companies have to think about. In this session, we will cover what DEI is, why it's so important for every size of organization, and tips to get started.

LifeHacks are designed for the end user to save time and be more efficient. Join me for this session to learn better ways to get the job done and show off your new Excel skills back at the office! We will cover everything from formulas to charts - and we will have a blast doing it too! Join me for this fast and fun session to cover over FORTY tips and tricks for Excel!

An insight into what it takes to be awarded and maintain Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status. David Musgrave takes you through his long journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP and describes what lessons he learned along the way. Warning: This session includes lots of Microsoft Dynamics GP history, old computers and robotics.

Are you struggling to create a SharePoint Site (or even an entire Intranet) that is beautiful, simple, dynamic and that keeps your users coming back? In this how-to, follow-along workshop, you’ll learn how to create a beautiful and functional SharePoint site using Teams, SharePoint and more!

Join this panel discussion to learn how simple shifts can create a safe and welcoming environment for all women in your industry. Hear stories illuminating some common, but largely unnoticed or un-acknowledged behaviors which contribute to the lack of representation today….and, more importantly, how we can all change the trajectory and create a better environment for everyone.

How Clarkston helped Consumer Product clients to leverage data as an asset, built user-intuitive dashboards and KPIs that can be easily shared with their external partners via PowerApps Portal. This session will focus on a case study where the overall solution includes integration of PowerBI with PowerApps Portal, and customizations, followed by a live demo & key learning from such implementation.

How do we translate our data into something we (humans) can understand? The answer is data visualization, although a lot of the data visualizations are unfortunately not optimized for human consumption. Let’s stop wasting valuable time. You’ll learn how to recognize misleading data visualizations and how to avoid them. Based on practical examples you’ll learn 9½ tips for awesome visualizations in Power BI. You can instantly apply them to all your Power BI reports and dashboards.

Are you looking to improve your budgeting and forecasting process? Attend our session for tips, tricks and best practices that will help you continue to use Excel while also showing you how to streamline your budgeting and forecasting cycle, capture more meaningful information, and reduce the work required to manage the process.

What does Synapse contribute, how do we use it, and how does it interact with Power BI? Learn how these two data technologies synergize together with a demo, some best practice advice, and tips and tricks for supercharging your data analytics.

We will talk through how certificates work, what you need, and how EVERY organization can start doing this correctly, today. This is already used and expected for most of your applications and services but there are a number of areas where it requires a little interaction. Here we will start with an understanding of what a certificate is, and then explain how you can go about working with them.

In this session we discuss what to expect after going live on Business Central, drawing from 20 years of implementing Microsoft products. Topics include, how to control support costs, data stewardship, continuing education, and what to do with those left-over initiatives from the project. The session begins with surviving your first month end and first bank reconciliation, then moves on to discuss SaaS upgrades and post-go-live best practices.

While we often consider digital transformation projects ‘technical’, the change success formula reminds us that successful change is 50% people dependent, 30% process, and only 20% about the tool/technology. If your people aren't on-board, the technology won't be used, and that's money down the drain. Enterprise projects need a designated “Change Manager” to be the voice of the project to all stakeholders AND to be the voice of the stakeholders to the project team.

Learn how to make custom connectors with field values that depend on other fields, with connector field inputs that are dynamically generated at runtime, with type-sensitive fields that allow advanced validation, and how to use policy templates to stretch Power Automate to meet the unique needs of your API. Learn from examples in real-world published connectors using all of the techniques above.

It seems that we have come full circle, with most companies today selecting best-of-breed apps and then integrating them to work together. But there are integrations and then there are kick-ass integrated solutions! In this session, we will cover five elements of an integration that you should always consider in order to have your company singing your praises for generations to come.

For those who are considering a new software implementation. This session is for anyone who has never implemented, or has failed at implementing, software. Suzie, an ERP solution consultant, and Tiffany, a project manager, will share key lessons learned, tips, tricks, and gotchas to prepare for in an implementation. Through this session, we will explore the importance of requirements gathering, clean data, testing, and other elements that may bring better success to the project.

Let’s talk about how to get started with infusing AI into your Power Platform environment. We will cover what AI…