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Charles Lamanna
Corporate Vice President, Business Applications & Platforms—Microsoft
Charles leads the product development and engineering teams responsible for creating business applications and low-code platforms that empower everyone to achieve more. This spans products and services across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance Enterprise. These products include low-code/no-code tools, robotic process automation, conversational AI, customer experience platform, customer service, finance, and supply chain applications.
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The future of customer engagement is bright with Microsoft and Nuance 

This post is co-authored by Tony Lorentzen, Senior Vice President and General Manager Intelligent Engagement, Nuance. Since Microsoft and Nuance joined forces earlier this year, both teams have been clear about our commitment to putting our customers first. Microsoft and Nuance are dedicated to ensuring our products complement each other, accelerate better business outcomes, and
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Build differentiated SaaS apps with Microsoft Industry Clouds 

The past year has brought dramatic change to almost every facet of our lives. We have seen the same disruption play out across every industry, from retail to healthcare to financial services. Customer expectations are fundamentally altered, and it’s hard to imagine things going back to the way they once were. As organizations work to
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Announcing the timeline to move to Unified Interface 

Over the last two years, our customers have been experiencing the benefits of the new user interface client for Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, Project Service, Field Service, and Marketing. Many of our largest customers have successfully made the transition. As we’ve reached the milestone of over 80% of organizations enabling Unified Interface, we’re announcing
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Power Platform & Azure enable developers to build apps faster than ever 

At Build this year, I’m excited to announce investments for professional developers on our Power Platform. The Power Platform is a low code platform that enables organizations to analyze data, act on it through applications, and automate business processes. It allows everyone, from the professional developer to the frontline worker, to participate in driving better

October update brings new user experience to Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement 

The next update to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement on-premises apps is coming in October, bringing a brand-new user experience among a host of new and updated capabilities. The Unified Interface is a new metadata driven client interface that provides consistent experiences across all applications, devices, and form factors. Whether you are on a