Is your organization feeling stale?  Do you have data, but don't know how to leverage it?  Do you need more data, either from your team or external sources?  Does your team lack efficiency?  If you've answered "yes" to any of these, then you should definitely check out the Microsoft Power Platform.

Dynamics 2020 Release Wave 1 JavaScript Updates
Each new release for Dynamics brings a host of new and useful functionality. Microsoft has dedicated serious resources to making sure Dynamics is a best of breed application that offers developers a robust tool set to improve business processes and end-user adoption.

The force to the new Unified Interface is coming soon and with it, many organizations will be deploying this feature for testing. A major issue we have come across is entities are no longer editable that were before the Unified Interface was switched on.

Your everyday end users have the biggest impact on data integrity. How do you ensure they’re doing their best work and leveraging the tools of the system? If possible, involve end users early in the decision-making process when upgrading or converting to a new system of record.

Scaling Data Load with Azure Data Factory
Fine tuning an integration to optimize speed is more of an art than a science, especially when you are looking for the sweet spot of diminishing returns. One of the biggest challenges when migrating large data sets is optimizing the integration to run as fast as possible, without running into resource limitations.

Changes Are Coming to Dynamics
You may have recently received an email from Microsoft stating that change is coming and your Dynamics 365 environments will be automatically transitioned to the Dynamics Unified Interface within the next 30 days. While this may seem alarming, this is only an optional early transition; you still have control over when your environments are transitioned to the new interface before the final deadline of October 1, 2020.

What is the Dynamics Unified Interface?
As you may already know, the Unified Interface is the new user experience that Microsoft is mandating all Dynamics 365 environments put into use by October 2020. This interface ensures a smooth, consistent experience across all devices, whether you access Dynamics from your PC, phone, or tablet.

Channel Properties in Dynamics
Automatic Record Creation Rules are a great way to evaluate and take action on items that enter queues in Dynamics. They allow you to create and update records, send emails, and start child workflows. This functionality is powerful enough on its own, but if you've ever worked with Automatic Record Creation Rules in Dynamics you've probably noticed the option to use Channel Properties in Dynamics.

This holiday season, there are many things to be thankful for: our families, our friends, good health and so much more. So while we reflect on all the things we are thankful for this year, I would like to share what I am most thankful for in CRM for Distribution.

Fields
Dynamics makes it easy to extend its out of box standard field set to meet your company's needs. You can add your own custom fields to the out of box entities as you need, but you'll want to be sure to follow these best practices!
No Duplicates
The system will not allow you to create two fields with the same field name however, you can create two fields with the same display name.

Multiple Forms
If you're familiar with using multiple forms in Dynamics, then you know that you can create different forms and assign security roles so that different users see a different form for a specific entity.  This can get rather complicated depending on how many forms you are using and if you are using a layered security approach where a user may have multiple security roles that are applied to different forms.