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August 2019 update of Dynamics 365 Layout simplifies room-scanning process

August 19, 2019

By Dynamics 365 Team

Applies to: Dynamics 365 Layout The Dynamics 365 Layout team is pleased to announce the August 2019 update, which makes it quicker and easier to scan a room when you start creating a layout. The previous process required that you scan a ceiling to start the layout design process. This can be an impediment in...

Customer centricity: A key priority across lines of business

August 19, 2019

By Dynamics 365 Team

In todays content and product-saturated marketplace, personalization is the key to standing apart from the competition. According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan, by 2020 customer experience is expected to overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator, and companies globally lose over $300 billion each year due to poor customer experience....

Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions

August 19, 2019

By Azure Team

Python support for Azure Functions is now generally available and ready to host your production workloads across data science and machine learning, automated resource management, and more....

Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better

August 19, 2019

By Azure Team

Since launching Azure Archive Storage in December 2017, we have seen unprecedented interest and innovative usage from a variety of industries. Archive Storage is built as a scalable service for cost effectively storing rarely accessed data for long periods of time....

Important changes for the Dynamics 365 Business Central connector for Microsoft Flow

August 16, 2019

By Dynamics 365 Team

An update to the Dynamics 365 Business Central connector for Microsoft Flow will be released in the coming weeks. The existing triggers and actions were modified to improve the overall performance in the connector. Your existing Flows will continue to work until October 1, 2019. Even though the same connector is used to build PowerApps,...

On-premises data gateway August 2019 update is now available

August 15, 2019

By Power BI Team

August release of Gateway...

Eureka chatbot helps California stay open for business

August 15, 2019

By Industry Team

A new cloud and AI-driven chatbot called Eureka is answering commonly asked questions about business registration and compliance 24/7. The post Eureka chatbot helps California stay open for business appeared first on Microsoft Industry Blogs....

Key use cases for modern and intelligent loss prevention in retail

August 15, 2019

By Industry Team

The National Retail Federation completed a loss prevention survey of 63 retailers in 2019. The top two risks (and therefore priorities) for 50.8 percent of retailers in the last five years were internal theft and cyber-related incidents (such as data breaches). Retailers reported an average inventory shrink of 1.38 percent, which is on pace with...

Azure Ultra Disk Storage: Microsoft’s service for your most I/O demanding workloads

August 15, 2019

By Mark RussinovichChief Technology Officer, Azure

Today, Tad Brockway, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure, announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage, an Azure Managed Disks offering that provides massive throughput with sub-millisecond latency for your most I/O demanding workloads....

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