QBS Hackaton 19.-20. september 2018

Now it’s time to get your inner “Hacker” out!

For the first time ever in the history of QBS Group we are ready to welcoming you to the first Hackaton.

This training will be two days were coding is the key focus.

You will be challenged in everything from coding extensions to coding in flow and power apps.

These days are for the skilled developers that is on the hunt for a challenge and wishes to become even better.

The training is given on the 19-20th September 2018 at 09.00-16.00 o’clock in the facilities of Microsoft Denmark, Kanalvej 7 i Kgs. Lyngby and is targeted at the skilled developer.

Freddy Kristensen,  Technical Evangelist, Microsoft and Sven Noomen, PTS, QBS group will be your hosts and be present for the full two days.

This training will be in English.

A detailed program will follow.

 

QBS Partner price: 2 Training Vouchers per. person.

Non-QBS price: 11.500 NOK for the entire course.

 

We look forward to welcoming you to two days full of new knowledge and experiences that will challenge the the inner “hacker” in you!

 

Update on Dynamics 365 Business Central

This series of webinars is intended to share the latest information on Dynamics 365 Business Central. Both from a technical, functional and business perspective. Besides sharing information, we will also update on the services portfolio from QBS group to assist on the road to Dynamics 365.

Don’t miss this opportunity to stay on track with Dynamics 365 Business Central and sign up here.

When Signing up you will be notified when the next webinar takes place (see dates on this page). Please note, that webinars are not identical, we will build upon along the way with knowledge on Dynamics 365 as it becomes available from Microsoft.

Date

Time

Recording

7 February 2019 Watch here
14 March 2019 Watch here
11 April 2019 Watch here
9 May 2019 Watch here
13 June 2019 Watch here
27 August 2019 Watch here
14 October 2019 Watch here
18 November 2019 Watch here
12 December 2019 Watch here

 

The impact of the higher update frequency on customer satisfaction (and your own business!)

Microsoft is moving all her business solutions into the cloud. One of the impacts is a much higher update frequency. As we speak, this frequency is changing from every two years to every year to every half year and even every quarter. Have you already figured out what the impact is on aspects like your knowledge levels, your support liabilities and the quality of your support?

In this edition of QBS Talks we’ll discuss the impact of this new update frequency on the long-term satisfaction of your SaaS customers. And on various other aspects of your business. After this session, you’ll walk away with a good understanding of the impact of frequent SaaS updates and a series of ideas to turn this into smart strategies.

Hot news from the eXtreme365 EMEA event

The most important Microsoft Dynamics partner event in the CRM domain is called eXtreme365. The EMEA edition will be delivered this year in Dubrovnik, Croatia from March 19th till 21st. Microsoft Dynamics partners can expect announcements, updates and new strategies around Dynamics 365.

Like every year, QBS group is attending eXtreme365 with a team of people. And for sure we will write another edition of our famous series of Business Reports for Dynamics partners.

But before doing that we want to inform you at first hand via QBS Talks about all this news just a few days after the event. You definitely don’t want to miss this webinar!

How to effectively present your winning proposal

Too often, proposals for new Microsoft Dynamics solutions are purely measured on price. And this increases the chance of discounts and the postponement of the decision. One of the main reasons for this is the way most sales people present their proposals.

In this edition of QBS Talks you’ll learn how to present your proposal in a more effective way. One that moves your prospect’s focus away from price towards quality and business value. We will discuss the main characteristics of the decision-making process and the role that buying emotions play. After this session you’ll walk away with a good understanding of how to win more deals by effectively presenting your proposal.

Why should I care about IoT as an Microsoft D365/NAV partner?

Adoption of Internet of Things solutions across industries continues to accelerate, and Microsoft is leading on innovation to power these solutions.

Please join us in this hosted Microsoft webinar by Tony Krijnen around IoT and which business opportunities this might bring you as an NAV partner today. During this webinar you will get some insights on how easy it is to build and set up Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with Microsoft Azure. You will learn and see some vertical business IoT examples and which commercial opportunities this might bring you for your existing customers or future customers.

 

Agenda

  • Introduction IoT
  • Vertical IoT business examples
  • Live demo; building an IoT solution in Azure
  • Call to action
  • Q&A

The CSP Direct model is like an iceberg | Webinar

At QBS group we believe that our partners deserve the best. The best support, the best software and the best stories. A couple of months ago we have asked one of our UK partners, Creative Business Systems, to share their thoughts and experiences with you on their journey to the cloud. We asked Amit Wason if he could share his experience with you on the matter of a direct or indirect approach. We wrote a blog about his experience.

CSP inDirect

On the 19th of February Nelson Tavares da Silva will be the host of our webinar explaining what it all means when you are considering to collaborate with an Indirect Cloud Solution Provider for your Microsoft cloud offering. Amit Wason from Creative Business Systems will share during the webinar his findings with you becoming an Indirect CSP.

A smart choice, because selecting an Indirect CSP means that you can start reselling Dynamics 365 and Office 365 directly without big investments upfront. On top of that, selecting QBS group as your Microsoft Indirect CSP is the perfect match!

If you’re deciding to become a CSP partner, this is a session you don’t want to miss!

 

Creating the winning quotation

Your quotation is the first legal document in any sales cycle – both in a traditional face-to-face sales as in an online sale process.

On the one hand, your quotation is the commercial document that needs to support your proposition and motivates your prospects to take a positive decision. On the other hand, the document needs to limit your financial and legal risks. So how good is your standard quotation today? Our observation is that the clear majority is far from perfect. Often written ‘inside-out’, mainly focused on the partner interests and incomplete where the tasks and responsibilities of the customer are concerned.

In this edition of QBS Talks you’ll learn how to create an attractive and solid standard quotation, that will help you to win more deals and to deliver better projects. After this session, you’ll walk away with a good understanding of the topics you need to address in your quotation. And what can happen if you’re quotation is incomplete. To make things a bit easier for you, we will also introduce a framework that you can use to re-design your current standard quotation, if you want to.

If you’re active in sales or marketing, this is a session you don’t want to miss!

Has your customers ERP gone sour?

When was the last time your customer updated their PC or telephone with the latest update?

Last night? Last week? Last month? But probably not much longer back. And what about their ERP system? Two years ago? Three years? It is more likely that they are running a NAV version that is five years old or more, just like 70% of the companies using NAV.

Each year Microsoft releases a new version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with new powerful features, so each year your customers Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution becomes outdated. But how can they stay up-to-date with this hectic schedule without spending too much time scoping, budgeting, approving, and planning the process?

To be quite honest: updating any ERP system is not as easy as 1-2-3 but we would like to introduce to you as our QBS partner to the process that comes as close to that as possible.

Dynamics Upgrade Service takes care of the upgrade of your customer’s current solution to a new NAV version.


The Dynamics Upgrade Service allows QBS partners to make more money with upgrading old legacy Navision installations (including Add-ons and Reports), release senior employees’ time, create customer end user satisfaction and most importantly, protect your current install base!

We would like to introduce you to a unique approach to upgrade your current NAV environment. We can offer you a fixed-price upgrade quote, including upgrade subscription and a state-of-the-art transformation and creation tool for reports. It even includes upgrading of all your current reports – which sometimes is only included as an afterthought in many upgrade projects. We offer you the full upgrade package, end-to-end.

In this webinar we will introduce to you this unique approach to upgrade your customers current NAV environment  – this is a session you definitely don’t want to miss!

Extensions 2.0 development for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central training – 12-13. September 2018

You can still go to the Extensions 2.0 training in December – Sign up here

Extensions 2.0 development for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central – 12-13. September 2018!

If you want to be able to help your customers in the future you will need to know how to code in extensions.

During these 2 days we will teach you to code in extensions going forward, so you are ready for the new versions of NAV and Dynamics 365 Business Central.

This super essential training will be delivered in collaboration with our close partner 1ClickFactory.

The training will be in English and you are kindly asked to bring your own laptop.

The event will be the the 12-13th September 2018 at 09.00-16.00 in the facilities of Microsoft, Lysaker Torg 45, 1366 Lysaker and is targeted at developers with several years of experience.

Andrius Čyvas NAV Team Lead, hos 1ClickFactory, will be the host/trainer of the event.

Program:

Day 1 Day 2
  • Introduction to Extensions
  • How/When to use Extensions (as a consultant)
  • Mindset for NAV Extensions development
  • Setting up an environment for Group Development of Extensions 2.0:

–    NAV development server

–    Visual Studio Code

–    Source control for Visual Studio Code

–    Customize Visual Studio code for NAV

–    Docker

–    Development

  • Overview of AL development language (and differences from C/AL) with NAV Development
  • Hands-on Extensions 2.0 development
  • Extension Manifest and packaging additional resources to Extension
  • Best practices for building modern user experience in Dynamics NAV
  • Developing extensions for on-premises vs D365

 

  • Events-driven NAV Development
  • Development with Extensions 2.0 toolkit:

–    Web services

–    Working with files (Text, XML, JSON)

–    Customize visual elements

  • Data handling when an extension is installed
  • Azure functions for .NET replacement
  • Reports
  • Case Scenario 2: Upgrade from Microsoft Dynamics NAV C\AL code to Extensions 2.0 in Visual Studio Code AL language:

–    Using Dynamics NAV PowerShell toolkit for working with NAV objects

–    Using txt2al C/AL to AL code conversion tool

–    Refactoring code not handled by automatic conversion

–    Designing and building data migration from an add-on to extension

  • How to get ready for Microsoft AppSource

 

QBS Partner price: 2 Training Vouchers per. person.

NON QBS Partner price: prisen 11.500 NOK for the entire 2 day course

 

We look forward to welcoming you for two days with a lot of new knowledge and learnings and readiness for the future – Hands on.

Upgrade campaign with 1ClickFactory and ForNav

This webinar is to give you insights into:

  • Why are upgrades important? For you – and your customers
  • How to tell your customers about upgrades – ready to use campaign materials
  • Process for QBS Upgrade Service

When was the last time your customer updated their PC or telephone with the latest update?

Last night? Last week? Last month? But probably not much longer back. And what about their ERP system? Two years ago? Three years? It is more likely that they are running a NAV version that is five years old or more, just like 70% of the companies using NAV.

Microsoft continuously releases a new version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with new powerful features, so your customers Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementation becomes outdated – slowly, but steadily. But how can they stay up-to-date with this hectic schedule without spending too much time scoping, budgeting, approving, and planning the process?

To be quite honest: updating any ERP system is not as easy as 1-2-3 but we would like to introduce to you as our QBS partner to the process that comes as close to that as possible.

Dynamics Upgrade Service takes care of the upgrade of your customer’s current solution to a new NAV version.

The Dynamics Upgrade Service allows QBS partners to make more money with upgrading old legacy Navision installations (including Add-ons and Reports), release senior employees’ time, create customer end user satisfaction and most importantly, protect your current install base!

We would like to introduce you to a unique approach to upgrade your current NAV environment. We can offer you a fixed-price upgrade quote, including upgrade subscription and a state-of-the-art transformation and creation tool for reports. It even includes upgrading of all your current reports – which sometimes is only included as an afterthought in many upgrade projects. We offer you the full upgrade package, end-to-end.

In this webinar we will introduce to you this unique approach to upgrade your customers current NAV environment  – as well as show you the to-customer campaign materials developed by QBS – free for you to use as a QBS partner.

This is a session you definitely don’t want to miss!

 

 

What’s new NAV 2018 webinar

This new version will contain a new set of functions and features that will be highlighted in this session, as understanding these new possibilities is crucial for your product and / or marketing plans.

This session will be presented by Sven Noomen (PTS at QBS group) and John Speulman (PTS at Microsoft).

The following topics will be addressed.

  • What’s new in the application
  • What’s new from an Office integration perspective
  • What’s new for accountants
  • What’s new in our platform / modern development tools

At the end of the session there will be time for a Q&A 

Want to be the first to be informed about NAV 2018?

Update on Dynamics 365 “Tenerife”

This series of webinars is intended to share the latest information on Dynamics 365. Both from a technical, functional and business perspective. Besides sharing information, we will also update on the services portfolio from QBS group to assist on the road to Dynamics 365.

Since “Inspire” is still a few months away, don’t miss this opportunity to stay on track with Dynamics 365 and sign up here.

When signing up you will be notified when the next webinar takes place (see dates on this page). Please note, that webinars are not identical, we will build upon along the way with knowledge on D365 as it becomes available from Microsoft.

Dates 2018

  • Thursday 27th of May | 16:00 – 16:30 CEST
  • Thursday 28th of June | 16:00 – 16:30 CEST

Update webinar on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and PowerApps

Get the latest and greatest on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement and PowerApps products.

This time focus is on:

Different options in connecting Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement to Business Central using Flow

Connecting Dynamics 365 Business Central or NAV 2018 is easy  using out of the box integration tools which comes with NAV 218 and Business Central – including basic replication of entities.

But – in most cases this is not what the customer needs. We see all kinds of scenarios  where customer demands differ significantly from that ‘standard’ integration scenario. We can have multiple Business Central databases that need to sync with one single Customer Engagement instance to split invoicing for example. Or having stock and pricing changes replicated only on specific dates.

Basically, we’ll need to have flexibility in how to create and manage these (and other) scenarios.

The nice thing is: you can!

In this session, we’ll present several options to set this up using Flow.

Hope to see you there!

NAV Update Webinar

This webinar will address issues, updates and new developments involving Microsoft Dynamics NAV with a major impact on your NAV development.

Want to be the first to be informed about the latest NAV Update webinar? Register now.


Watch here the NAV Update of 17 November 2016

In the November ‘NAV Update’ we will be focusing on changes related to NAV 2017. These subjects will be covered

  • NAV Licensing for 2017
  • Help content availability
  • System Requirements for Clients
  • Demo: Short tour of What’s New
  • Demo: How to set up the Outlook Add-in

QBS Talks

Hva er QBS Talks og hvorfor er det relevant?

“QBS group-partnere er de best informerte Microsoft-partnerne”, er vårt mantra. Men i tillegg til å holde partnerne våre oppdatert, vil vi også inspirere og faktisk av og til provosere litt.

Vi tror på styrken i å dele inspirerende ideer og erfaringer – på den måten mener vi at vi alle kan bli mer fremgangsrike.

QBS Talks har foredragsholdere og inspiratorer fra QBS group, men også fra Microsoft, partnere og personer utenfor Dynamics-kanalen.

QBS Talks er plattformen for deling av ideer om forskjellige emner, både tekniske og kommersielle. Felles for alle emner er at de er relevante for forhandlere av Microsoft Dynamics. Se nedenfor for en komplett liste over våre kommende QBS Talks.