Customers are accustomed to integration at every level. Virtual home assistants connect everything from refrigerators and thermostats to your customers’ phones. They fully expect a smooth technology experience when making purchases from you, including accurate inventory, correct pricing, and up-to-date product information. If that doesn’t happen, your sales and your bottom line will suffer. If…
If you have multiple silos of customer data—Excel spreadsheets, a marketing database, an e-commerce website, and an accounting system—it’s difficult to get a 360-degree view of customers. You spend endless hours trying to identify buying habits so you can target customer segments with specific messaging. Think about the time you spend in a day, a…
When business is booming, growers sometimes overlook how efficiently their operations are running. In horticulture operations, there’s enough revenue coming in the door to make up for any slim margins. But during market uncertainty, improving efficiencies so margins increase is paramount. Consider the uncertain situation the industry was facing in 2021. When COVID broke out…
Today’s business landscape is treacherous. In order for professional services firms to thrive, they need information—up-to-the-minute, accurate data about what is happening and how it’s affecting the bottom line. One of the most crucial, but underutilized, tools among professional services is real-time data reporting. To say that the business world is volatile is nearly an…
The CFO sits in the sweet spot where finance meets strategic planning. They're perfectly positioned to fuel growth and meaningful, sustained change through digital investments. In this guide, we'll discuss six ways digital transformation has changed the CFO role, and what that means for companies moving forward.
Azure and Azure DevOps provides the infrastructure, environment, and tools that help users — technical or not — innovate, collaborate, and share institutional knowledge. Together, these 200+ tools empower users to solve problems on their own, and help their colleagues and clients do the same. Users can share insights, lessons, and reusable components that accelerate…
Most companies today prepare some sort of financial budget. Budgets can be built at a very high level (Sales, cost of sales and expenses), or built-in detail (sales detail by type, expenses by department, capital spending, projects). Some companies also budget the Balance Sheet to be able to prepare budgeted cashflow statements. Company budget preparation…
In the world of application development, many are calling it the Low Code/No Code Revolution. Gartner says 70% of applications will be developed using no-code/low-code technology, and Microsoft is leading the way. The Power Platform now generates $2 billion in revenue and has more than seven million active users. Power Apps, playing the low-code/no-code starring…
We often tout the advantages of being part of the Microsoft family — specifically the ability to leverage complementary products that boost functionality and add real value. In this case, the value is in combining actionable data from multiple applications into useful reports and dashboards. These reports and dashboards enable your marketing, sales, and customer…
