First Meeting

This is our first meeting ever and we have a fantastic lineup. Meetings henceforth will be on the 2nd Thursday of the month.

Since Fusion Alliance will be speaking at Summit North America 2019 in Florida we thought it would be a good idea to give our presentations to the user group for those who cannot attend Summit. Two great presentations:

Title: Flow and Dynamics: Reacting Quickly to the Ever Changing Business World
Speakers: Barret Blake and Pi-Jou Lin
Abstract:
Businesses need to react quickly to the ever changing competitive environment. They need tools that allow them to enhance their business processes without months of development time. One prime tool for enabling companies to react quickly and efficiently is Microsoft Flow. Flow allows companies to quickly create a wide variety of rapid reactions to events across the Dynamics 365 system. Add a new contact to CRM at the touch of the button, automatically notify your production team the instant a new order is created, get warnings when an order is in danger of not being fulfilled, and much more. With Flow you can be up and running in just minutes instead of weeks. And with the Common Data Service, it's easier than ever to integrate these reactions with an ever growing number of third party services and applications, such as Office 365, SalesForce, Adobe and many more. In this session, we'll walk through using Flow to respond to multiple types of events in Dynamics 365 to improve your response time, create more efficient business process and reduce your costs.

Title: Power BI Dashboards for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
Speakers: Rob Watkins and Greg Deckler
Abstract:
Businesses today collect mountains of data about their day to day operations. In the rapidly changing economies of today, they need systems and tools to allow them to analyze and react to that data quickly and efficiently. By leveraging the power and efficiency of the Common Data Service, Power BI is the perfect tool to help businesses analyze their data in a way that provides real, actionable direction to shape their business practices and environment. In this session we'll walk through setting up the Entity Store and creating a Power BI dashboard, which we will then embed into our Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations system.

Please join us for our first ever meeting. We will furnish dinner and sponsor a happy hour afterwards.