It seems like Microsoft adds new AI capabilities to Power Apps or Power Automate every day. Keeping up can be challenging and starting to use AI can sound a little scary. In this session we'll cover all the AI capabilities currently available in the Power Apps and Power Automate. We'll show you how to easily train AI to recognize images, and provide some additional "learning bite demos" of other AI features.

This presentation will start with a connection between Visual Studio and SQL Server to get some tables, then make a relation between those tables, add some calculated columns and measures in DAX, then deploy the project and make the connection to Power BI as a Live connection, then back up the project in Azure DevOps. To finalize will show some examples of projects with lot of data and relationships.

Gigamon uses D365 Finance & Operations alongside Salesforce to run its business. To gain a complete view of the sales forecast and customer activity, data from both systems is housed together. Through a robust Azure architecture, Gigamon has built powerful analytics and reporting through Power BI.

Much focus, resources and planning are built into enterprise implementation projects. Diverse teams come together to tackle huge challenges, all with the focus on a successful go-live. What happens AFTER go-live? Where does all that momentum on elevating efficiency and effectiveness go? Let’s share stories and discuss a simple blueprint for collaborative long-term continuous improvement for all your business processes, tools, and most importantly for the teams that leverage them.

The purpose of this sessions is to give attendees in Power BI best practices with looking at Power BI licensing and subscriptions. This course will also take a deeper dive into various features that users can use to maximize their experience in Power BI. Real life examples will be used to help better understand the various features within Power BI.

Are you looking for guidance on how to maximize your investment/time over your next few days at Community Summit? If so, this session will provide a variety of tips and lessons learned from a panel of Community Summit veterans to ensure you leave the conference with the tools you need to succeed. The panel will conclude with ample time for audience Q&A. If you are newer to the conference or simply eager to learn best practices from Community Summit veterans, you do not want to miss this session.

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.

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.