Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience
We’re announcing the preview of a new generative AI-powered experience in Microsoft Viva Sales that helps sellers communicate more effectively with prospects and customers. Read more
Blog posts for Artificial Intelligence
Bringing more intelligence to sales teams with Dynamics 365
By embedding AI directly into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and the newly released Microsoft Viva Sales, we’re making it easier for every seller to apply intelligence directly in their flow of work. Read more
Personalize your customer lifetime value predictions with customer profile attributes
When you’re crafting marketing and sales strategies, personalizing your marketing campaigns, journeys, and content to your customer segments is an important way to drive engagement and purchases. One method for segmenting your customers is by their potential value. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help predict the potential lifetime value of your customers to create segments of Read more
Dynamics 365 Sales release wave 1: Simplifying the things that matter
Selling isn’t easy. If you were to take five minutes to ask a salesperson what makes selling so challenging, you’d quickly find that you don’t have nearly enough time to cover it all. One thing is constant for sellers—time is in short supply. In a day, sellers are managing leads, tracking performance metrics, and collaborating Read more
Microsoft AI-assisted bracket exceeds 99.9997% of others in basketball tournament
Every year, millions of basketball fans fill out brackets for the Division I Men’s College Basketball Tournament hoping to predict the team that will win it all. The Microsoft Business Applications Applied AI group has joined in on the fun, leveraging AI to help guide our bracket picks. So far, we’ve had a pretty good Read more
4 ways to accelerate revenue with Dynamics 365 Sales and AI
If sales were simple, then every seller and every sales organization would be successful. But there’s more to it, especially in the current landscape. We’re seeing a fundamental shift in the way customers want to engage—instead of relying only on direct contact with sellers, customers more frequently use digital channels to get answers to questions Read more
Redefining what it means to understand customer sentiment
According to a recent survey by Gartner, companies that have seen a positive revenue growth collect more customer experience data than non-growth companies. However, collecting direct feedback from customers is only half the story of customer sentiment, especially with increased opportunities for the customer’s voice to be heard through multiple channels. Unsolicited feedback, such as online reviews on e-commerce platforms, Read more
5 insights on how to connect experiences with customer data platforms
If you’re familiar with customer data platforms (CDPs), you may know that they provide a unified view of individual customer records. It’s a tool every marketer needs, but what role should your CDP play in helping to improve customer experiences? We sat down with Sheryl Kingstone of 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Read more
2020 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available
Today, we published the 2020 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between October 2020 and March 2021. This second release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements, demonstrating our continued investment to power digital transformation for our Read more
How Microsoft and American Express help merchants battle fraud
Many of us have experienced a rejected credit card transaction when shopping online. Questions flood the mind such as “Did I pay my bill?” “Have I exceeded my credit limit?” “Was my card stolen?” Too often, fraudulent activity alerts triggered for card-not-present transactions (those conducted online or over the phone) result not from customer actions, Read more
Derive actionable insights from your customer service data
We’re introducing a new homepage within Dynamics 365 Customer Service Insights that deciphers data into a more consumable view. By surfacing key topics discovered and generated by AI, customer service managers can more easily discover issues and monitor progress. Organizations today are often faced with the challenge of information overload that might hinder their path Read more
Improve efficiency and quality with AI-infused finance processes
AI is going to transform the finance function. This common platitude is typically backed with little or no substance. However, when addressing common finance challenges, the opportunities for transformation become abundant. Workstreams are often hindered by legacy technology and traditional processes. Employees are expected to work quickly and accurately, but have a huge workload of Read more