Microsoft Innovation Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/299Ana Inés Urrutia de Souza talks about what she does during her free time.  How does COVID 19 impact Ana's life?  Talks about Ana's Pilot License – what made her decide to get this license.  A conversation about Ana's career background   Interesting career switching story of Ana.  Projects Ana is working on, and what's her involvement?   The challenges Ana is facing working in a different time zone.  Ana's recommendations or tips to people working in different time zones.  A discussion about Ana's journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP.  How Ana's nomination happened  Dynamics 365 Human Resources integration with LinkedIn Talent Hub  The changes happened in Dynamics 365 HR functionality  Recommendations to people wanting to become Microsoft MVP.   Talks about the Business Applications community in Uruguay. Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/298 Oli Ward’s life, educational and career background.  Discussions about Oli’s journey within Microsoft and with Customer Insights?  What does Oli’s current role involve?  What skills do people need to succeed in Pre-Sales?  What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)?  The benefits of using a CDP app, and what makes a CDP different?  What is the difference between a CDP and CRM?  What is Customer Insights, and what is its purpose?  How do you enable AI in Dynamics 365 customer insights?  What Is Master Data Management, and how is it related to CDP?  How MDM and CDP work together?  The importance of MDM?  What MDM does?  What level of expertise should people have before engaging in customer Insights?  Has Covid19 affected the demand for CI?  An overview of what Microsoft Synapse is.  Talks about Microsoft Synapse and how does it work with Customer Insights?  The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on your customers and in business? CREDITS Music by: StockSounds Title: Energetic Upbeat Pop Summer Licensee: Cloverbase Limited Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/297 A brief talk about Roma Gupta’s life, family, country of origin. Covid19 situation in India and how is that affecting her and her family members. How Roma’s IT journey started A conversation about Roma’s career background. The projects she’s working on in Africa. Romas focus and area of specialization when it comes to technology. Roma’s experience in Dynamics 365 marketing and Click Dimensions. Describes the differences between the products and which is popular with customers. What excites Roma the most about the future of Power Platform. Power Automate as the best Integration platform for moving data. Roma’s story and her journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP and her involvement with the MVP community. Roma’s thoughts about Microsoft's user group platform. What was the biggest surprise and impact to Roma since becoming a Microsoft MVP? Roma’s recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. Roma’s future plans, and she is looking forward to attending the MVP summit. Music CreditsI dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, MorusqueSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/296 Find out more about Chris Huntingford’s origin, family and career background. A conversation with Chris about his career journey from Microsoft to Avanade As the Director for Global Power Apps Lead and a Power Platform COE,  what led Chris into this field? What’s Chris’ role and responsibilities? Talks about Chris’ involvement with the Power Platform Community in the UK. The relationship of Accenture and Avanade The goal, history and how Avanade come about? What is a Power Platform and Platform? A discussion about what an App is? Platform and building Apps stories. How are companies using it in building multiple solutions? What is a Strategic Platform, and why does it matter? Discussions on Chris’ thoughts about the Power Platform Centre of Excellence kit Chris’ thoughts about building Apps that solve business solutions. What is Offline Canvas Apps? Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/295 Kasun Rajapaksha Pathirana country of origin and his story of moving to New Zealand. Best places, food recommendations and good things about Sri Lanka The impact of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka Kasun talks about his involvement with the Singapore community – Dynamics and Power Platform Community. A conversation about Kasun’s area of specialization and skills when it comes to Microsoft tools. Talks about Kasun’s interest in Dynamics – how did it start? Learning and training experience - how did Karun learn more about Dynamics? How Kasun managed to move from one job to another. The steps involved in Kasun’s journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP. Discussion about Kasun’s first MVP Summit as a first time MVP. Recommendations to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/294Find out more about Frank Weigel’s life and family background. What Frank does when not working. A conversation about Frank’s educational and career background. Frank Weigel’s journey within Microsoft. Talks about Frank’s role and what’s involved. Understanding Customer Insights. A discussion about the two elements of Customer Insights. What is a Customer Data Platform (CDP)? Tell me about Microsoft's CDP product? Why do originations want to achieve a 360-degree view of their customers? How does Master Data Management system differ from CDP? An overview of Microsoft orchestration. How has Covid impacted the way customers look at CDP? What Frank is seeing from Partners when it comes to CDP? With most products licensed by those who can access the software, how does this work with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights? Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/293A brief introduction about Julian Sharp’s life.  How Julian spends his time when not working before and during the COVID19 pandemic.  Talks about Julian’s involvement with Dynamics since CRM v1.0. Julian shares his thoughts about the training and product certifications in the past two years.  Julian’s involvement in preparing for written exams.  A conversation about different ways and other sources of learning  The process and requirements involved on how to become MCT.  Listen to Julian’s story and his journey into becoming a Microsoft MVP.  Talks about Julian’s involvement in the MVP community and user group.  Learn more about Julian’s role and contributions to the community.  Speaking experience of Julian at an event.  Julian’s advice to people wanting to join and become a Microsoft MVP! Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/292Show NotesHardit Bhatia talks about his country origin – originally from Mumbai, India.  The impact of the Covid19 pandemic in India and how does this affect his family?  How did Hardit got involved in technology?  Talks about Hardit's educational and career background.  Discover the culture and the importance of education in India with Hardit.  How did Hardit start working with technology, and how did he get involved with PowerApps, Canvas Apps and Microsoft Dataverse?   A story about Hardit's moving to another company.  What did the first 6months look like for Hardit in learning PowerApps, and what are the things he has done to help him?Talks about the Apps that Hardit built for Microsoft and the things he learnt working on these projects.  Hardit's experience in building these Apps?  What role does UI play in designing apps, and how to make outstanding UI's? Hardit's journey to becoming an App maker.  How to be an App Maker Introduction to UI and UX design  The App Hardit has recently built that he is most proud of.  Hardit's thoughts on Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams  The difference between Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams  The advantages, disadvantages and limitations of Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Dataverse in Teams Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/291A brief introduction about Diana Birkelbach and her hobbies. Talks about how Diana started in IT. Career and educational background of Diana.  Diana's involvement with Microsoft Dynamics – when did it begin?  The key changes Diana has seen with Dynamics that improve the product.  Talks about Diana's involvement in PCF.   A conversation about Diana's engagement in PCF Community Forums. A discussion about Diana's journey to becoming a Microsoft MVP – who nominated her? What does community mean to Diana's – the Global Power Platform Bootcamp and Scottish SummitDiscussion about the importance of community in developing one's skills and growing one's career as an individual in this Microsoft space.  Diana's advice to people considering becoming a Microsoft MVP. Support the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith

FULL SHOW NOTEShttps://podcast.nz365guy.com/290A brief introduction about Taiki Yoshida’s family and life background.  Educational and career background of Taiki. Explore Japan’s tradition and culture with Taiki. How did Taiki get into technology, and how did he get involved in Business ApplicationsHow did Taiki learn about his Dynamics NAV and ERP skills?  Taiki’s involvement with the implementation of the Dynamics NAV. Learn more about how did Taiki’s journey to Microsoft start?  Taiki’s MVP journey and his involvement with the MVP community start?  The real value of MVP. What was Taiki’s area of expertise?    Taiki’s story and his learning experience as a Microsoft MVP.  How did Taiki build his own community - the PowerApps User group - and what was his goal?  Recommendation to people considering starting a community group.  As a member of the CAT team – how did it start?  Taiki’s role, responsibilities and the projects he is working on at Microsoft.  What led Taiki to his current position?  Introduction to Express Route – what is it and how to use it.Options and benefits in implementing Express Route. The future of Power PlatformA brief talk about Robotic Process Automation – RPA.What are the benefits and the type of industries that can use RPA Solution? Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoptionSupport the showIf you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on Linkedin.Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith