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Advanced Find is gone! Introducing Modern Advanced Find
With the 2022 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365, we are getting an update to Advanced Find. This is currently available for Public Preview, and General Availability is expected (as of today) in April 2022. At first glance, I was not at all thrilled with this change....
Dynamics 365 Release Wave 1 2022
Missing Jump Bar In the last release wave of 2021, you may remember that there was a bug with the entity grid views and that the alpha bar, or Jump Bar as it’s known in Power Platform, was missing. Microsoft fixed this issue, however you may still notice that it is...
Healthcare Client O365 Case Study
Our Healthcare Client has a very complex O365 environment with over 30,000 users. Providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 support to address and resolve identified and reported issues was problematic with delated resolution of user issues as well as overall low user satisfaction with the resolution process. The delated user resolution caused operational issues resulting in reduced efficiencies and effectiveness of our client's operations.
How Microsoft Viva Can Help Your Business
The shift to remote work came abruptly, and many organizations turned to Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools to help them with their companies’ objectives. While the tools to get the work done and collaborate have been a game changer, the results have led to...
Teams Voice Workshop – Microsoft AppSource
Organizations today are searching for the perfect collaboration suite that enables their workers to chat, share files, make calls, and hold conference calls securely. Some are combining services with Zoom or Slack in their quest to achieve this goal. But what is...
Power BI Success Story
We successfully matured & transformed the organization's reporting solution. We migrated them from MicroStrategy to PowerBI which, in turn, provided them much more robust reporting capabilities while increasing their return on investment.
Clayco Gains Time Entry Efficiencies Using Power Platform
A Construction company gains Time Entry efficiencies using Power Platform.
Clayco Gains Employee Response Form with Power Platform
Clayco works with Covenant Technology Partners to gain employee response form with Power Platform.
Microsoft Teams Updates For February 2022
Desktop and Web Pin a Message in Chat Pin a specific message to the top of a chat so that it is always visible to the members of the chat—regardless of the number of messages that come afterwards. Pin or unpin any message and select the pinned message to...
Power BI February Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the February 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce a variety of new and highly anticipated features such as new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters support for more data sources, deployment...
Microsoft Teams vs Slack
Using Slack? If you own Office/Microsoft 365 then we can help you save significant money while improving your end-user experiences. Not only does Teams (Service within Office/Microsoft 365) offer the same or similar capabilities, but it is also offering new and...
Still Using Zoom? Try Microsoft Teams
Are you still using Zoom? If you own Office/Microsoft 365 then we can help you save significant money while improving your end-user experiences. Most of us have day jobs that prevent us from staying up to date on the latest features being released by our Software...
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1 Dynamics 365 Marketing continues to invest in collaboration by enabling collaborative content creation with Microsoft Teams. Marketers can use content fragments and themes to improve authoring efficiency. Investments in...
Power BI January Updates released by Microsoft
Optimize your Processes and Gain Deep Insights with Process Mining Process mining, provides direct data insights across an organization’s daily business processes, helping identify inefficiencies to improve how they work. Now with the preview of process mining in...
Covenant Welcomes New Partners
The Partners of Covenant Technology Partners are thrilled to announce that Doug Neff and David Friedrichs have joined the partnership as of January first. Both Doug and David are proven leaders who have been instrumental in the growth and success Covenant has...
Cloud Computing Conceptions Clarity
Cloud computing has become a challenge for business and IT alike. How an IT application can be developed and deployed has more choices than ever before. Cloud software and service providers always report Cloud computing costs less than On-Premises computing....
CRM Latest and Greatest Updates December 2021
During our webinar Pamela Beste went over the latest and greatest features in Dynamics CRM! Items that were covered: Sales Accelerator Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 CE Integration Voice for Customer Service And more! If you have any questions please contact...
Power BI Jumpstart
Our Power BI Jumpstart is an end-to-end engagement to accelerate your organization’s Power BI implementation. There is no one-size-fits-all approach with Power BI and, while there are several solutions we typically suggest, it is entirely based on your...
Microsoft Ignite Recap
Microsoft Ignite features four main themes: empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work, building a hyperconnected business, innovating anywhere from multi-cloud to edge, and protecting everything with end-to-end security. Keep reading to learn more about...
Covenant’s Client Appreciation Event
Covenant held a client appreciation event at Novellus on Main Street where we had lively conversation, tasty food, and an enriching mixology class with our wonderful clients! We will be hosting another one early in 2022 and hope to see you there!...
What’s New in Microsoft Teams for October 2021
October 8, 2021 Reply to a message in chat You can now reply to a specific message in chat! Hover over the message you want to reply to and select More options Microsoft Teams more options icon > Reply. A preview of the message you’re replying to will show up in...
Blogs
Dynamics 365 Release Wave 2 2022
Release Wave 2 2022 Plan Has Been Released Microsoft released the 2022 Release Wave 2 Plan on July 12, and we have the low down! The features in this release are from October 2022 through March 2023. This release includes new features across Dynamics 365...
Azure Synapse Analytics July 2022 Updates
How to provide statement id in the serverless SQL pool support ticket? Serverless SQL pool is a query service that enables you to analyze data in Azure Data Lake storage, Cosmos DB, or Data verse without a need to manage the resources, tune your queries, or do any...
Power BI July Updates Released by Microsoft
Improved Power BI Experience in Excel The improvements to the Power BI experience in Excel include a new user-friendly UI that helps users easily search for datasets to build reports in the Excel grid. Also, users can now directly navigate from Excel to the Power...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Retail
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Retail Landscape The digital transformation of the retail industry has been going on for years. It has increased speed, efficiency, and accuracy across every branch of retail business. Thanks in large part to advanced...
Disrupting with Innovation
How Traditional Companies Can Disrupt with Innovation “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” — Henry Ford When existing businesses were busy looking for faster horses to fulfill the people’s increasing transportation demand,...
Getting The Most From Your Business Intelligence Investments
Getting more out of your data investments In today’s data-driven world, organizations like yours are driving efforts to maximize data investments to have the greatest business impact possible. This may include implementing data security, unifying data silos, and...
Azure Synapse Analytics June 2022 Updates
CICD Automation in Synapse Analytics: taking advantage of custom parameters in Workspace Templates Azure Synapse Analytics is an integrated analytics platform, which combines data warehousing, big data analytics, data integration, and visualization into a single...
Power BI June Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI June 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the June 2022 update. We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Format Pane, error bars and information protection updates, table navigation improvements, Connect to datamarts and Power BI Data...
Set aside Portals, Make way for Power Pages!
Microsoft has recently announced for preview ‘Power Pages’. Expanding the low-code offerings under the Power Platform, users can now create websites that integrate across the other Power Platform components and data. The potential this provides for further...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Top 10 Best Practices for User Adoption
Establish Goals The goals for the company leadership should be translated to the goals of the sales organization, and then to the goals of the individual sales people. If an organization knows what leadership considers important as it relates to its customer base,...
Microsoft Teams Update For May 2022
Desktop and Web Show as: comes to Teams Now in Teams, when you schedule a meeting, private appointment, or vacation, you can choose how that meeting shows in your calendar. Just like in Outlook, you can choose from Free, Tentative, Busy, Working elsewhere,...
Azure Synapse Analytics May 2022 Updates
Introducing the Azure Synapse Influencer Program We’re pleased to announce the Azure Synapse Influencer program. We’re excited to share this program with the community and begin welcoming new members starting today. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure...
Power BI May Updates Released by Microsoft
Announcing General Availability of Automatic Aggregations Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of automatic aggregations, along with several important improvements. By using automatic aggregations in Power BI Premium, you can unlock...
Our New Partnership with LMS365
We are excited to announce our Partnership with LMS365! Who are they: LMS365, a Microsoft Preferred Solution, is one of the fastest-growing cloud-based Learning Management Solutions in the market today. LMS365 provides a modern, integrated, and familiar...
Dynamics 365 Relaunch
Clayco had previously implemented a "One Size Fits All" Dynamics solution. They were experiencing low adoption and realizing limited value from their technology investment.
Dynamics 365 Field Service Implementation
The tech service company had an outdated Service module that required all manual input, handwriting on tickets by technicians, and manual spreadsheet tracking against service agreements. The business had a sustainable growth rate of over 20% each year and this model was not aligned with their growth.
Company Moves from Old Applications to a Modern Platform
Fast growing "essential" company reduces risk by moving from unsupported applications to a modern platform.
Azure Synapse Analytics April 2022 Updates
CI-CD for Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool using YAML templates Purpose of this blog: 1.Defined end-end process of SQL Pool Deployment from Visual studio SSDT code check-in to continuous integration(Build pipeline) and continuous deployment(Release pipeline) from project...
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