To find out fantastic information about Dynamics 365 Talent, check out this blog from my colleague, Tom Elliott.
Blog: http://www.tomstalentblog.co.uk/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0HjqVlr6BwGZzy7E-6wAg
Tom does blog posts, walkthroughs, videos, and tips for this product. He is absolutely crushing it on Talent content!
I wanted to highlight some of my partners in crime presenting at AXUG/D365UG Summit next week. (Ok to be honest I wanted to highlight myself as well.)
I won’t take Excel away until you’re ready. Promise.
Joel Leichty | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 122A – North
Josh is juggling in the session picture – I can only assume he will do this entire session while juggling flaming knives.
Josh Knox | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 121C – North
Sherry won a big AXUG award last year, so I’ll retitle this session “Award Winning Data Migration Information”.
Sherry Moran | Tuesday, October 16 | 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | 121A – North
I’m co-presenting with Gina Pabalan on this presentation. Fun fact: Gina and I didn’t know each other until we started collaborating for this session. That’s my favorite part of AXUG!
Joel Leichty and Gina Pabalan (Edgerwater Fullscope) | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 122A – North
Should be a good one. And how many presenters do you know that can rock orange pants?
Alex Song | Tuesday, October 16 | 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | 121C – North
Come to our Partner Showcase where we promise to not sell you anything! Bring your questions, we’ll have experts on hand to answer anything: F&O, AX, CRM, Talent, Power BI, baking at higher altitudes, average airspeed of unladen swallows – we’ll do our best!
Wednesday, October 17 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM | 125A – North
See how our customer, M3, is using Talent.
Nancy Graver and Trish Mallon (M3) | Wednesday, October 17 | 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | 126A – North
Budget your time wisely (#dadjokes) and attend Steve’s project budgeting session.
Steve Dobbs | Wednesday, October 17 | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | 126A – North
Microsoft has a generic program called FastTrack which enables direct collaboration with customer projects and initiatives. The D365 Operations group has its own take on this program. The Operations program provides services via technical talks, customer specific workshops, and recurring status calls. Agust Bjornsson, FastTrack Operations EMEA Lead, shared some of Microsofts goals at the Tech Conference.
The bottom line of the FastTrack program is for Microsoft to enable consistency of implementation across the partner channel, and for customers (and partners) to have a feedback mechanism back into Microsoft if they encounter questions or issues.
I think this is a fantastic concept – these types of programs are so crucial to knowledge and idea sharing between Microsoft, partners, and customers. It’s still a fairly new program, so I anticipate tweaks to the concepts going forward. And to be frank, part of this program’s purpose is for Microsoft to monitor for implementations going off the rails – thereby protecting their future revenue streams. But keeping the communication channels open is a critical part of any long term product investment.
The company I work for, SAGlobal, has participated in this program both for our internal implementation, and on customer implementations. We’ve been happy to have a go-to person for each implementation. Olaf Traustason, Senior Technical Lead, said about FastTrack
I enjoy the Technical Talks because they are to the point and on point.
