Microsoft New Commerce Experience in CSP – Office Hours

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Microsoft has released the New Commerce Experience for seat-based licenses in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
There are some important changes compared to the current CSP subscriptions that you as partner should be aware of.
Therefore, we are pleased to invite you to our Office Hours regarding the New Commerce Experience in CSP, hosted by the Partner Care team.
During these Office Hours, we will go through important updates, and give you the opportunity to ask all your questions.

Date Time
Thursday 3 February 2022 13:00 – 13:30 CET
Thursday 17 February 2022 13:00 – 13:30 CET
Thursday 3 March 2022 13:00 – 13:30 CET
Thursday 17 March 2022 13:00 – 13:30 CET
Thursday 31 March 2022 13:00 – 13:30 CEST

 

2021 QBShare Track Sessions

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View the track sessions available for Day 1 and Day 2:

 

 

 

 

2-Day Virtual Event

When: 23rd & 24th June

From 9.30AM – 5.00PM (Both Days)

 

 

 

DAY ONE

9:30 Welcome to QBShare June 2021
10:20 Key Note – Mark Rhodes

How to Develop a Winning Mindset and Achieve Amazing Results. Join Mark Rhodes, a mainstream published author, international speaker, entrepreneur and business mentor to create a foundation for building your business and successful selling in unpredictable times. The foundation of all individual and team success is their mindset, belief, enthusiasm and inspiration to go to work every day. The way we conduct business has changed forever; 2021 mindset – what is yours? Think Your Way to Success.

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DAY ONE TRACK SESSIONS

Break Out Room 1 Break Out Room 2
11:30 Dynamics Business Central Update. During this session William will inform you about the latest developments around Dynamics 365 Business Central. You will be updated on the new roadmap 2021 and the latest licensing models of Business Central.

Speaker: William van Voorhuijen

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 11:30 An OPEN FORUM. The perfect opportunity to learn, share and request information relative to MPN, Incentives, CSP Rebates, OSA/OSU, co-op spend etc. Gain an understanding of how Microsoft programmes work, ways to administer and the commercial implications QBS will be hosting this open forum together with Richard Will from Microsoft.

Speaker: Richard Wills (MSFT)

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12:30 Marketing a Power Apps Practice – Introduction and best practice guide. What has worked well in the past for CRM partners and how best to position the Power Platform vision to your customers? Gain much more through the added support from Microsoft and the marketing resources and tools they can provide to help make you even more succesful.

Speaker: Chris Parkes, Lucy Bourne (MSFT), MarkO (MSFT – TBC)

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 12:30 How to Choose the Right Co-Pilot to Avoid Turbulence on your Customer’s Journey to Dynamics 365 Business Central or Dynamics 365 F&SCM? Understand how you can engage with your customer across the digital transformation lifecycle and align your customer migration engagement strategy to help them succeed along their digital transformation journey. Find out how 1ClickFactory can support your customer and partner digital transformation journey and migration to the cloud.

Speaker: Agne Balkeviciute-Lajiene Director of Strategic Initiatives 1ClickFactory

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14:00 Transformational Leadership in times of disruption. Join Mark Rhodes for an insightful look at leadership that inspires and motivates people to be part of a team that collaborates and communicates well. Transformational Change leadership is key to business owners, leadership teams, and the business as a whole, to address beliefs and mindsets to develop the practices and behaviours that help people adapt to change along with a focus on refining structures, business models and processes to effect transformational change. Leadership through Change, are you ready for the transformation?

Speaker: Mark Rhodes -Mainstream Published Author, International Speaker and Business Mentor

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 14:00
15:00 What does the future of Account Management look like? We live in a rapdily chaging world: relationships with your customers are more important than ever as you take them into the cloud. This session will be focussed on strategies and tactics you should be implementing within your business to drive customer loyalty and create predictable revenues into your business

Speaker: Will McIntee

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 15:00 Driving Operational Excellence. Addressing the challenges every partner will experience when evolving to the cloud. How best to address this using a proven approach. A fine example of how working with QBS bought with it so many special benefits

Speaker: Kick ICT

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16:00 Close Day 1

DAY TWO

9:30 Opening Day 2
9:45 Key Note – Kathleen Parker, Microsoft Territory Manager

Driving the Digital Transformation Conversation with your customers. Identifying with your customers needs, ideas and concerns. Helping them to answer those unanswered questions and assisting our partners with having the right conversations with thier customers about future businesses requirements and planning for their transformational journey

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DAY TWO TRACK SESSIONS

Break Out Room 1 Break Out Room 2
10:40 Cloud Partner Panel Overview , exclusive and just for QBS Partners. Understand how the Cloud Partner Panel, a benefit exclusive to QBS partners can help Power Platfrom and CRM partners: MANAGE IMPLEMENTATIONS IN A SCALEBLE MANNER, MONITOR YOUR CUSTOMERS AT A GLANCE, GET THE INSIGHTS YOU NEED

Speaker: CJP/MvdB

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 10:40 Power BI with Purpose
Listen to Bespoke.xyz, a QBS Partner with Gold status Data Analytics competency talk about and showcase dashboards highlighting how they have helped:
• Bring Insights to D365 Sales by plugging into Google Analytics and SEO/PPC capabilities into basic CRM
• View financial KPIs and core metrics for Business Central for high level overview analysis
• Move a healthcare client from PivotTables to Power saving over four days a month by overlaying NHS prescriptions big data with client specific data to drive meaningful insightsSpeaker: Bespoke.xyzJOIN THE SESSION
11:30 Dynamics 365 Field Service Edge Cases – Spotting opportunity where it may not be obvious. Join Microsoft MVP Mark Christie who will talk about scenarios for Field Service that might not be so obvious whilst also providing a basic Dynamics 365 Field Service overview and product demonstration.

Speaker: Guest Speaker, Mark Christie (MVP) with CJP

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 11:30 What does building an F&O practise actually entail? Is it as hard as you think? Learn from experts who have been there and done this before, gaining an understanding of consierations and pitfalls that will be encountered along the way.

Speaker: Seer365

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12:30 ISV Showcase:
See some of the latest ISV solutions in our ISV Showcase.
Solitea Express Apps: Four innovative financial MS Dynamics 365 Business Central apps for the loan, installment sale, financial leasing and funding management industry
Sana Commerce: The latest in e-commerce developmentsSpeaker: Solitea Talentium
Sana CommerceJOIN THE SESSION		 12:30
14:00 Integrating Power Platform with Business Central. Get an understanding of the options to integrate Business Central with the Microsoft Power Platform. Learn about options to connect, how to create Power Apps to access the data, how to create virtual tables, data synchronisation capabilities and implications together with integrating with Power Automate and what works well and what to avoid.

Speaker: CJP/ TD

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 14:00 Achieving your true potential through our QBS Academy. Discover what we have in store for your resources, from free readiness content in our Academy on Demand, to self-learning programs to 1:many VILTs & bespoke 1:1 training.

Speaker: ADR

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15:00 Power Automate for Business Process Integrations. Learn how to use Microsoft Power Automate to create business workflows to get data in/out of systems and drive automated end user interactions with AI Builder.

Speaker: MvdB/CJP

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16:00 Closing Session, Q & A

 

Dynamics 365 & Power Platform – Special Interest Group

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The Power Platform Special Interest Group is designed to help partners gain a deeper understanding of the capabilities of the Microsoft Power Platform and the business areas that can be positively impacted through adoption of this technology.

Covering a variety of topics including the Microsoft Dataverse, Power Apps (both Model-Driven Apps and Canvas Apps,) Power Automate and others, this group will also be used to provide insights into the QBS Cloud Toolbox and the benefits of using this to monitor and manage customers, deploy managed solutions and protect intellectual property.

Who is it for?

Both strategic leadership, pre-sales and technical roles should benefit from attending these webcasts.

The agenda will usually be split into two sections; Firstly, a value proposition session helping translate technical capabilities into business value and the impact that can be seen relating to specific scenarios.  Secondly, technical overviews, demonstrations, and examples of what can be achieved will also be provided.

Why should I attend?

This series of webcasts will share the latest information on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform and associated applications from a CRM perspective across business, functional and technical areas.

The webcasts are free of charge for partners with active QBS memberships, will last up to one hour in duration, and will also facilitate shared knowledge networking welcoming questions and partner contributions to the forum.

When is it?

The webcast runs on the final Friday of every month, 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT

Friday – February 25 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – March 25 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – April 29 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – May 27 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – June 24 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – July 29 – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT
Friday – August – 15:00 CET, 14:00 BST/GMT

Presenters

Chris Parkes
Chris Parkes
Dynamics 365 CRM and Power Platform specialist

MPN SMB cloud Biz Apps competency Update

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The changes around MPN SMB cloud Biz Apps competency that have been launched by Microsoft on the 14th of January, created quite the commotion for everyone within the Dynamics community. Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions Competency (microsoft.com)

We would like to invite you to kick-off the new MPN SMB cloud Biz Apps competency information sharing with a special webcast.
We invited Maitane Muñoz de los Santos, Power Platform Partner Marketing Manager at Microsoft to give you some insights about the program.

Please join our Webcast Session on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 17.00 CET

QBS Office hours

Furthermore, we like to invite you to our “QBS Office Hours” where you as Dynamics partner have the opportunity to call in with your questions and have the QBS experts answer.
Your hosts will be Will McIntee, Manon Degenkamp and Anne Jager.

By signing up for this webcast you will automatically receive the login for our QBS Office hours.

Friday, February 5 – 15:30-16.00 CET
Friday, February 12 – 15:30-16.00 CET
Friday, February 19 – 15:30-16.00 CET
Friday, February 26 – 15:30-16.00 CET

The 4 secrets on why the QBS partner should consider subscription billing from Binary Stream

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  1. Keep it all in D365 Business Central – don’t add more systems

The more systems involved in your subscription billing processes, the more complex it becomes and the more possible points of failure there are. For many, this means manually entering data into their ERP from other sources, which may include spreadsheets or third-party applications …

  1. Achieve better visibility of revenue streams

The ability to measure your revenue streams is key to mastering subscription billing. That means you need to achieve as much visibility into these streams as possible, have a clear understanding of each customer’s usage, and be able to forecast revenue for future months easily …

  1. Make IFRS and ASC compliance easy

Having to devote time and attention to ensuring regulatory compliance is necessary for all businesses, and organizations that deal with recurring revenue have their own set of rules to grapple with …

  1. QBS distributes Binary Stream via her CSP Marketplace

In case you have your first sales you can buy the solution on the QBS CSP marketplace and add this to your customer tenant with only one click.

Want to know more? Join the webinar to learn how!

For a limited time, Subscription Billing Suite is available to qualifying partners to use internally on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Attend this webinar and discover the value of having a flexible subscription management system directly integrated into your Dynamics 365 Business Central environment.

Binary is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV with two decades of experience creating solutions for ERP customers, we want to share our insights into how to achieve better subscription billing – and why our Subscription Billing Suite solution enables you to do so – How can QBS and Binary help you to go market.

Webinar: MB-800 exam for Business Central – Introducing the new preparation program

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Very soon, Microsoft is launching the new MB-800 exam for Functional Consultant certification in Dynamics Business Central. This exam will enter the Beta phase on or around the 6th October 2020. Details can be found here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/learn/certifications/d365-business-central-functional-consultant-associate?WT.mc_id=techcom_learn-blog-wwl

 

QBS Group is pleased to invite you on this insightful webinar, where we will disclose important information regarding the Exam structure, expected duration of the exam, how you can sit the exam and what you would need to focus on to pass it.

In this webinar you will hear from our guest speakers who are behind in the design of the MB-800 exam and are able to give more details and cut down on speculation! Our guests will also talk about the revamped Business Central Advanced Product Specialist Program (powered by Business Central Booster) already available via the QBS Academy and how this includes the all the elements required to pass the Exam. QBS Group will conclude by presenting a new offering which is a cut-down version of this Program, aimed exclusively at preparing for the exam, whilst keeping your costs to a minimum.

 

Do not miss this Webinar, the MB-800 is on everyone’s mind at the moment and here is your chance to find out more!

 

When: Wed 30th September @ 11:00-12:00 CET

Where: GoToMeeting

1ClickFactory Hosted Azure for Business Central Webinar

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Business Central is now available on Azure Cloud anywhere in the Gulf & Africa via 1ClickFactory Hosted Azure for Business Central.

Join Brooke and the SA/UAE team for a webinar on this topic!

 

QBS Marketplace and ExtensionAgent explained

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Are you already a QBS Group CSP user or are you interested in joining QBS Group? Then please join this webinar to find out more about the QBS Marketplace and how to benefit as partner and as IP developer.
After following this session, you know how you can market, bill and measure usage of all your Business Central Apps with the help of the QBS Marketplace and ExtensionAgent.

AGENDA

  • QBS ISV program
  • QBS Marketplace terminology
  • ISV onboarding process
  • QBS Marketplace demo Case
  • ExtensionAgent

Boost your IP migration

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How to Choose Your C/AL to Extension Transition Alternatives Wisely

Observing our Business Central Partners, we have noticed that transitioning to Extensions will lead to certain challenges. Starting by selecting the right transition approach.

Our key partner, 1ClickFactory, would be de the ideal guide on this trail. During this webinar Business Central Developer, Mantas Paskevicius, will take you throught the options, provide insights to help you understand the potential and threats, and also recommend how to make the best choice.

Agenda:

  • Options when transitioning to Extensions.
  • Transition approaches for On-prem versus SaaS.
  • The impact of the Dynamics 365 Business Central spring release on your transition to Extensions.
  • How to plan your transitional steps.
  • Limitations you might face when transitioning to Extensions.
  • Tips on how to speed up the transition process with C/AL to Extension Analyzer (demo).
  • Q & A

Let Azure Application Insights work for you

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The rumor around Application Insights has been spread. Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals.

Now it is time to discover what impact this brand-new platform can have on the way you deliver Business Central.

After this session, you will understand more of the way Application Insights allows you to monitor, troubleshoot and improve the performance of instances. The result: happier customers, and more time for you to innovate.

Target audience: Developers and Support engineers

The relevance of Azure in combination with Dynamics 365 Business Central

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At first glance, some customers do not seem suitable for Dynamics 365 SaaS. Here the Azure Services comes into play; with tools to migrate every customer regardless of the complexity of their environment.

We all know Azure as a set of services for cloud computing. However, given the wide range of new developments within this Microsoft Azure suite, it is a real challenge to oversee all functionalities and evaluate the impact they could have on your business as Dynamics partner. The good news is that our PTS team is up to date. In this 1-hour session, you will be introduced to the most relevant solutions within the Azure suite and understand how they are linked to your business.

Target audience: Developers and architects

Digital marketing in uncertain times

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Join our guest speaker Anton Koekemoer, Director and owner of his South African marketing agency Open Circle Solutions.

During the 1 hour webinar, you will be privy to social media faux pas that businesses are getting wrong. He will run through some interesting and topical points in the agenda including how to use social media during these unprecedented times.

  • Steering Clear of Potential Pitfalls
  • Challenges to Overcome
  • Essential Strategies to Embrace Change
  • What Comes Next?
  • The New Normal

D365 Marketing event form TEST

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This is a test event to test our Dynamics 365 Marketing Forms.
This set-up is to test the webcast of 30th July 2020.

Request for contact

test webcast

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Dynamics 365 CRM Webcast

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Get the latest insights from Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

This series of Dynamics 365 CRM webcasts is intended to share the latest information on Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, both from a technical, functional and business perspective.

We hope you find it helpful and visit often.

When signing up you will be notified when the next webinar takes place. Please note, that these webcasts are not identical, we will build upon along the way with knowledge as it becomes available from Microsoft, from ou ISV’s and of course from out our side.

Planning

 

 

Date

Time

Subject
11 May 2020 16:00 – 16:45 CEST Business Application Summit update Watch recording
5 June 2020 15:00 – 15:45 CEST Dynamics 365 CE Licensing
Watch recording
24 June 2020 16:00 – 16:45 CEST Introducing Dynamics 365 Customer and Field Service
Watch recording
4 September 2020 15:00 – 15:45 CEST Dynamics 365 Customer Service
1. Customer Service Hub, Case Management and Queues
2. Managing Knowledgebase and use articles in Case Management
3. Updated Automatic Case creation in the Unified Interface (with Power Automate)
4. Updated SLAs in the Unified Interface (with Power Automate)
Watch recording
16 October 2020 15:00 – 15:45 CET Dynamics 365 Wave 2 Update
Watch recording
6 November 2020 15:00 – 15:45 CET Dynamics 365 Customer Voice
Watch recording

 

QBShare

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How Integrated Ecommerce for Dynamics can help your customers

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“Consumer spending via digital commerce will continue to grow more than 10% YoY in 2020, 2021 and 2022.” Gartner 2020

Your customer’s Microsoft Dynamics ERP system ensures every department always has access to the data they need to make smart decisions. Integrated e-commerce allows them to make those smart decisions with their online sales channel too, and better serve customer’s demands. 

This session will elaborate on why B2B businesses struggle with e-commerce and provide an overview of how the Sana solution helps them succeed.  

    Agenda

  • Introduction to Sana Commerce
  • Why B2B businesses struggle with e-commerce
  • Sana’s architecture
  • Customer Stories

Webinar – Graphical resource and project planning with Dime.Scheduler

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This webinar is hosted by Dime cvba, supported by QBS group.

 

Graphical resource and project planning with Dime.Scheduler

Are you customers losing oversight of their operations and resource allocation?
Do they need a simple planning tool or a more extensive planning solution? Dime.Scheduler can handle both and is able to scale with them while they grow their business.

Being utilized in various industries, Dime.Scheduler allows anything to be a resource and anything to be a task.

What if:

  • you run a project business and a service department?
  • you plan repairs and replacement equipment or rentals?
  • you manufacture products and service them as well?
  • you share resources over multiple planning departments/regions?
  • you run multiple outlets across the country?
  • you plan employees, tools and meeting rooms?

Where most planning solutions are limited to just one part of the business, Dime.Scheduler can easily manage the resource allocation and project planning needs for all companies, business units or teams within an organization and integrate tightly with back-office applications.

=> One planning solution for the entire resource and project planning

=> One planning solution that talks with all applications

=> One planning solution for all departments and business areas

Developed with the latest technologies Dime.Scheduler can run on premise, hosted or in the cloud.

Integration

The flexibility of Dime.Scheduler and its inherent capability to configure it to your industry-specific requirements has made it the planning tool of choice for many different industries.

The FastTrack Wizard allows you to quickly connect with your Resources, Service Orders, Jobs, Assemblies, Production Orders, Sales Orders and Absences in minutes.

The connector can be easily adapted to pull data from your own custom fields and tables which allows you to tightly integrate with your vertical solution.

Dime.Scheduler has been successfully implemented in various industries such as Field Service, Industrial & Commercial Construction, Distribution, Oil & Gas, Transportation, Training & Education, Equipment Installation, Professional Services, Projects, Facility Management, Fleet Maintenance, Rental Services, Medical Care, Pest Control.

 

Key Features that will be demonstrated during the webinar

  • Visual resource planning by drag-and-drop gestures
  • Project planning powered by Gantt Charts
  • Real-time ERP integration
  • Resource filters (languages, skills, attributes, …)
  • Embedded Map with geocoding of fixed and real-time addresses
  • Resource Calendars
  • Capacity Pivots
  • Easy personalization of the UI

 

Exclusive offer for QBS Partners: Register for this webinar and get a full day of free training!

 

Dynamics 365 Update Webcast

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Get the latest insights from Dynamics 365 and get inspired by QBS Group.

This series of webcasts is intended to share the latest information on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, CRM and related ISV solutions, both from a technical, functional and business perspective. Along the year we will keep you informed about the latest news from Microsoft biggest events like Microsoft Inspire, Directions ASIA, North America and EMEA.

Besides sharing information, we will also update you on the services portfolio from QBS Group.
After each presentation, there is room for questions and discussion.

We hope you find it helpful and visit often.

When signing up you will be notified when the next webinar takes place. Please note, that these webcasts are not identical, we will build upon along the way with knowledge as it becomes available from Microsoft, from our ISV’s and of course from out our side.

Target audience

Business owners and Technical people
Planning

Date

Time
January 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
24 February 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
31 March 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
28 April 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
26 May 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
30 June 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
29 September 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
27 October 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET
24 November 2022 13:00 – 14:00 CET

Agenda

13:00 – 13:20 – Dynamics 365 Business Central update – William van Voorthuijsen
13:20 – 13:40 – Dynamics 365 CRM and Power Platform update – Chris Parkes

Presenters

William van Voorthuijsen
William van Voorthuijsen
Dynamics 365 Business Central Partner Technical Strategics		 Chris Parkes
Chris Parkes
Dynamics 365 CRM and Power Platform specialist

QBS Marketplace & ExtensionsAgent Webinar

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Join us for a 1-hour webinar on QBS Marketplace – your platform for making money on your IP
“Why another marketplace?” we hear you ask – and that is a very fair point – the market is crawling with marketplaces…

At QBS we are always taking our partners challenges serious and our continuous focus is to help you grow your revenue and lower your costs. That’s why we had to react when we learned that partners, owning IP or dedicated ISV partners, have a hard time really monetizing their solutions. On top of that, it’s also become clear that a solution built with Extensions on top of Business Central SaaS is vulnerable to misuse. We couldn’t have that. That’s why we’re extremely excited to introduce our QBS Marketplace with the built-in ExtensionAgent, providing a secure and flexible way for you to offer your IP to the reselling channel and their customers.

Reach out to the biggest Microsoft channel of Business applications partners and fastest-growing installed base of Business Central SaaS customers.