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With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can connect operations across your business and supercharge your growth.

Legacy systems can't always manage the complexity of a growing business. Incomplete data and tedious reporting can create blind spots that lead to faulty decisions. With Dynamics 365, you can create a single source of truth by seamlessly sharing data across every line of business, helping your employees work faster and smarter.

This detailed infographic shows what's driving the need for new ERP systems and the advantages of Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Connect your business to drive productivity and profits Many businesses fall into common traps: • siloed data • poor pricing decisions • unsecured data • inability to pivot or keep up with faster-moving competitors With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can connect operations across your business and supercharge your growth. Legacy sys...

It's possible to build a successful business on one-off sales, but nowadays it can be tough to make this traditional model sustainable. If you're thinking about starting your own business or taking the one you currently have to a new level, then you should give serious thought to the recurring revenue model, where customers pay a monthly or yearly fee.

Whether you're in the business of software, content creation, physical products, or productized services, the recurring revenue model is based on predictable revenues occurring at regular intervals—and that might just be the secret to success.

Why Your Business Should Be Based on the Recurring Revenue Model One-off sales is the most straightforward business model out there. You have a product, the customer gives you money, you give them the product. Simple,

is a rapidly-growing restaurant franchise in the UK, and to support its ambitious growth, the franchise is consolidating business operations starting with financial management on Dynamics 365. Check out the processes and benefits of their innovative strategy in this video!

Rapidly-growing UK restaurant chain migrates key business processes to Microsoft Dynamics 365 TGI Friday's popular and rapidly-growing restaurant franchise in the UK wanted a more scalable, flexible platform for core business processes. To support its ambitious growth, the franchise is consolidating business operations starting with financial management on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Built-in fu...

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in society, it will not only change the businesses that adopt it -- it will also have significant economic, social, and civic effects on citizens and consumers.

Spectrum Consultants is here to guide you through these exciting and uncertain times. Download this eBook from Microsoft to explore the transformative potential of AI on markets and societies across the developed and developing worlds.

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Distributed Application Runtime or is a new, event-driven runtime, open-source project that simplifies cloud-native development. Dapr is based on containers, integrates well with Kubernetes, and does the plumbing and heavy lifting involved in developing a modern, highly distributed application. Developers can now focus on what they want to: business logic and migrating legacy code. They can lean on Dapr to provide their applications with the required scale, resiliency, and elasticity of cloud-native architectures.

Microsoft Aims To Simplify Cloud Native Development With The Dapr Project Dapr is a promising open source project that simplifies microservices and cloud native-based application development. It brings portability, modularity and composability to modern applications based on containers and microservices.

With GitHub you can deliver software faster and more securely by combining the practices and tools that support the largest developer community in the world with seamlessly integrated Microsoft Azure products and services.

From automating code-to-cloud workflows to accelerating developer velocity, GitHub and Azure combine the best tools to create your next great solution.

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GitHub Actions for Azure With GitHub you can deliver software faster and more securely by combining the practices and tools that support the largest developer community in the world with seamlessly integrated Microsoft Azure products and services. From automating code-to-cloud workflows to accelerating developer velocity, G...

Thanks to , Spectrum Consultants is able to provide better customer service and better products and solutions to our customers. Read this article to see how leveraging can transform the future of your company.

The AI-Enabled Future The future world of AI will have much greater impact in a much different way than what we might be assuming today.

Microsoft Visual Studio, coupled with GitHub and Azure DevOps, can help you build, manage, and deploy your applications anywhere—with speed and security. Use your preferred languages, frameworks, and infrastructure, even your own datacenter and other clouds, to solve challenges large and small.

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Is your AI technology improving lives?

New technologies can have inadvertent effects on people in society. Watch this video to see why it is important to consider whether new AI technologies align with people's values and ethics.

Our approach to responsible AI This video highlights six important principles Microsoft considers before pushing their AI products to production.

Whether it's the latest pandemic news or the risk that a competitor might overtake you, flexibility is more critical than ever. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central provides key insights and helps you adapt quickly to disruption by connecting finance, sales, service, and operations within a single easy-to-use application.

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Adapt faster—gain flexibility to create adjustable financial and operating models The world today moves fast, and you need the flexibility to adapt quickly to disruption, the competition, and daily challenges. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central connects teams across finance, sales, service, and operations so you can monitor insights and pivot when needed. Sign up to stay con...

AI represents a growing opportunity to transform your business. This infographic illustrates how Microsoft has turned its AI breakthroughs into ongoing momentum with predictive analytics, the responsible way.

Contact us today to gain visibility into your models, explain model behavior, and detect and mitigate unfairness.

Predictive Analytics This infographic is an overview of how Azure Machine Learning is the best way to transform your business with the power of AI. This tool highlights the growing market opportunity and how Microsoft itself has leveraged AI into ongoing momentum for its own business.

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Modern ERP systems offer built-in intelligence to help guide users to optimal outcomes. However, selecting the best business management solution isn't always a straightforward task—factors like digital transformation, partners, and mapping should be considered.

Review the Empower Process infographic to learn the 7 steps for selecting the right business management solution.

The Empower Process Modern ERP systems offer built-in intelligence to help guide users to optimal outcomes. However, selecting the best business management solution isn't always a straightforward task—factors like digital transformation, partners, and mapping should be considered. Learn the 7 steps to help select the...

DevOps methodologies provide businesses with a faster and more efficient way to do code—and organizations are turning to DevSecOps as the solution to harden security and address compliance at the same time.

Starting DevSecOps practices can be challenging, especially when working with siloed teams, or when there is reluctance to add security and compliance checks to the delivery pipelines—but we are here to help.

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6 ways to kickstart DevSecOps DevOps methodologies provide businesses with a faster and more efficient way to create and deliver code—and organizations are turning to DevSecOps as the solution to harden security and address compliance at the same time. Sign up to stay connected. We'll show you 6 ways to kickstart DevSecOps and...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is empowering small-to-medium-sized businesses to disrupt the way they bring products or services to market and transform their customers' experience.

These days, digital transformation to the cloud has become essential for any business to thrive in their industry. With Business Central, SMBs can unify assets in a single location to adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better. Business Central offers flexible deployment options and innovative solutions that grow with your business for limitless possibilities and potential.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central overview The business landscape is changing, and you need a system that allows for change. To stay on top in your industry, it's essential to be prepared to take on anything that comes your way, including meeting customers' needs. Successful SMBs are embracing digitalization with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Busin...

Learn how AI is helping transition and preserve 160 years of published history on a new digital system. Thanks to Azure Cognitive Search, writers can use these services as a resource to build connections between stories and enrich their content. Watch this video to learn more:

How the Atlantic is preserving published history with Azure AI The Atlantic is using Azure AI to preserve 160 years of published history. Specifically, the Atlantic is using Azure Cognitive Search to transition from hard copy to a digital system where its archives can be perused by the public. Writers can use these services as a resource to build connections be...

Low code and no code platforms make application and software development accessible to businesses or projects that may not always need a full development team. The low code technology market is predicted to grow 23 percent globally in 2021—providing opportunities to save money and time.

Council Post: Low-Code Versus No-Code And The Future Of Application Development What do these terms mean, and how will they shape the future of app and software development — especially for business leaders with less software development knowledge?

With business analytics and , your team can get faster, more accurate insights on the most secure, compliant, and scalable system. Equip your business with intelligence, trustworthiness, and flexibility. Check out this infographic to learn more.

Intelligent, Trusted, Flexible This infographic offers an in-depth look at how Microsoft business analytics and AI is intelligent, trusted, and flexible. This service produces faster, more accurate insights and predictions. It also offers the most secure, compliant, and scalable system. Finally, it works with what you have.

There are DevOps tools for every phase of the app lifecycle. Use Azure to implement DevOps practices throughout application planning, development, delivery, and operations. By applying the right combination of DevOps technologies, culture, and processes, you can achieve continual software delivery and offer better value for your customers.

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Improve observability, strengthen security, and proactively remediate vulnerabilities There are DevOps tools for every phase of the app lifecycle. Use Azure to implement DevOps practices throughout application planning, development, delivery, and operations. By applying the right combination of DevOps technologies, culture, and processes, you can achieve continual software delivery a...

For HP Inc., customer service is a huge priority. analytics and allow them to better serve customers, answering common questions with virtual agents and providing support staff with a wealth of troubleshooting information. Learn more about AI solutions at with this video:

HP uses AI to transform its customer support experience HP Inc. handles more than 600 million technical support contacts each year, and the company strives to make every single one a satisfying experience for the customer. To improve both self-service and contact center support delivery, HP built a virtual agent using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI soluti...

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Traditional approaches to development aren't keeping up with the complexity, pace, and scale of change in today's digital landscape. With a DevOps strategy, teams work iteratively, delivering real-time responses to threats and opportunities. Scaling DevOps successfully means automating key areas of IT and operations—boosting sales and productivity. And that's just the beginning.

Learn why every enterprise needs a DevOps strategy for 2021.

10 Reasons Why Every Enterprise Needs A DevOps Strategy In 2021 DevOps continues to prove its value by combining software development and IT operations' strengths to deliver new applications faster and with higher quality than before

Around the world, AI is intensifying the race to identify, nurture, and transform customer prospects into long-term relationships. Microsoft Dynamics 365 leverages the power of Azure AI to unify your siloed customer data and extract valuable hidden insights for a more meaningful customer relationship. Check out this video to learn how you can do more with Dynamics 365!

How to use AI in Sales & Marketing This video illustrates how to get the most from Dynamics 365 - the unified platform powered by Azure AI and natively integrated with your favorite Microsoft 365 applications. Learn how to enable an intelligent sales and marketing approach for your organization with AI from Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Throughout the years, software development practices have evolved to serve the needs and the speed of business. However, digital leaders are still facing challenges with security and development. The solutions to these challenges are collaboration, tooling, and DevSecOps best practices.

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Overcoming security challenges with DevSecOps Throughout the years, software development practices have evolved to serve the needs and the speed of business. However, digital leaders are still facing challenges with security and development. The solutions to these challenges are collaboration, tooling, and DevSecOps best practices. Sign up to s...

Microsoft is dedicated to an ethical approach to AI. This infographic details 6 principles to responsible AI and the commitment made to further these advances.

Analytics and AI Microsoft Principles This infographic details the Microsoft philosophy toward responsible and ethical AI through a set of core principles. These principles include maximizing efficiencies without destroying the dignity of people and guarding against bias. It additionally, it advocates for accountability against intended...