Category: D365 Sales
2023 Wave 2 Release Notes: D365 Sales
Today is a very exciting day, because Microsoft just published the release notes for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform! I had a chance to look them over and I am working on another series on the new features and updates that are part of this release. I will start the first part of this series with Dynamics 365 Sales. Keep in mind that at the time this article was written,Read More
Copilot for D365 Sales: Collaboration space
Viva Sales (now called Copilot for Sales) has a new feature called collaboration spaces, which will help with collaboration between sales teams. I’m sure you’re already familiar with the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Teams integration, which (among other things) gives sellers the ability to create Microsoft Teams and Teams channels linked to a Dynamics 365 record, but this new feature stacks on top of that functionality. With collaboration spaces sellersRead More
Copilot for Dynamics 365 Sales(preview)
I’m sure you have all heard of the new Copilot feature that Microsoft announced in March of this year. Essentially, Copilot is an AI-powered productivity tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to understand users’ requests and provides personalized recommendations, tips, and assistance. This means that users can ask Copilot questions and get instant answers, guidance, and suggestions to help them work more efficiently. Copilot is designed toRead More
Smart Org Chart (preview)
Most people who have worked with Dynamics 365 Sales before probably know about the org chart capabilities in the application. If you’re not familiar, the name already explains it. We can show the organizational structure of an organization as an org chart, by moving the related account contacts around which visualizes the hierarchy of all the people related to an account in Dynamics 365. The smart org chart feature completelyRead More
Viva Sales: Administrator Settings
I wrote two articles about Viva Sales back in August of last year, when it first became available in preview. If you haven’t read those articles, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Viva Sales has been generally available since October of 2022. Since the release, there have been some enhancements to Viva Sales. Last week I wrote an article about the new suggested email replies capabilities,Read More
Viva Sales: Suggested Email Replies
I am sure you’ve heard of Viva Sales, which was launched by Microsoft last year in October of 2022. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s definitely time you learned about it! Microsoft Viva Sales is an application that makes selling easier. It works with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams to automatically record and view information about customers in a customer relationship management (CRM) system (Currently Viva Sales works withRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 2
Last week I published part 1 of my series on 2023 Release Wave 1. There are so many features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales alone, which is why I decided to split the article for D365 Sales into two parts. If you haven’t read the previous article, you can do that here. Last week I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the featuresRead More
2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 1
It’s that time of year again! On January 25, 2023 the release notes for 2023 Release Wave 1 were published! I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the features to (hopefully) give you a better understanding of what’s coming in this wave. Please note that these notes are a constant work in progress, meaning that some of these features might be removed at someRead More
Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 2
Last week I wrote part 1 of my article on how you can use Power Automate to automatically send a weekly email with data from Dynamics 365 Sales, or Dataverse. If you haven’t read the article yet, I would suggest doing that first. You can access the article here. In today’s article I am going to finish building the Power Automate flow. Last week we left off at the ‘ListRead More
Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 1
In todays article I am going to explain a specific requirement and show you how we can use power automate to satisfy this particular requirement. A few months ago I had to demonstrate a scenario where sales people needed to get a reminder for outstanding quotes they needed to follow up on. The sales people would create quotes on a daily bases, but not all quotes would be completed ‘allRead More
