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 Principles of cloud computing and deployment Introduction Microsoft business applications are intelligent solutions that supply a comprehensive view of an organization’s business. These solutions include the Microsoft Dynamics 365 products  that are connected by data and intelligence and are supported by Microsoft Power Platform.    Dynamics 365 revolutionizes CRM and ERP by applying intelligence to all forms of data. It enables organizations to evolve from reactive business decisions to proactive insights that allow your employees to accelerate business results.  What Is Cloud Computing?  cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases,  networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services  you use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure mor...

  Manage Dynamics 365 model-driven app settings and security  Introduction Microsoft business applications are intelligent solutions that supply a comprehensive view of an organization’s business. These solutions include the Microsoft Dynamics 365 products that are connected by data and intelligence and are supported by Microsoft Power Platform.   Proper controls on access to data are a vital part of any business. When you understand the security architecture of Dynamics 365 model-driven applications, you can more easily customize security to fit the requirements of your business. Security in Dynamics 365 is based on security roles, which are created within business units. • A Business unit is all or part of an organization. • A security role is a collection of privileges and access levels defined by entity. • Privileges allow users in a role to take actions on records in an entity. • Access levels determine the scope of entities and records a user can take actions on, fr...

  Get started with configuration in Dynamics 365 Introduction Microsoft Business Applications are a set of intelligent solutions that provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s business. These solutions include Dynamics 365 products that are connected by data and intelligence and supported by Power Platform.          One of the key features of a Dynamics 365 model-driven app is its ability to be extended and customized without code. In this learning path, we will explore Microsoft Power Platform's configuration abilities and how to leverage them for a model-driven app.  Model-driven apps These Dynamics 365 apps are derived from Customer Relationship Management (CRM). These Dynamics apps are model-driven apps built on the Microsoft Dataverse platform. •  Dynamics 365 Sales enables you to build strong relationships with your customers, take actions    based on insights, and close sales faster. •  Dynamics 365 Customer Service a...

  Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Introduction Microsoft business applications are intelligent solutions that supply a comprehensive view of an organization’s business. These solutions include the Microsoft Dynamics 365 products that are connected by data and intelligence and are supported by Microsoft Power Platform. Dynamics 365 revolutionizes CRM and ERP by applying intelligence to all forms of data. It enables organizations to evolve from reactive business decisions to proactive insights that allow your employees to accelerate business results.  Digital transformation is business transformation Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business. The goal of digital transformation is to change how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. Digital feedback loop The digital feedback loop refers to the framework that is used to highlight how digital transformation is enabled. At the center of the framework is data. D...

  Use visuals in Power BI Introduction                      Microsoft Power BI is a collection of apps, software services and connectors that come together to turn unrelated data into visually impressive and interactive insights. Power BI can work with simple data sources like Microsoft Excel and complicated ones like cloud-based or on-premises hybrid Data warehouses. Power BI has the capabilities to easily connect to your data sources, visualise and share and publish your findings with anyone and everyone. Visuals allow you to present data in a compelling and insightful way, and help you show the important components of it. Power BI has many compelling visuals and many more that are released frequently. Create and customize simple visualizations Two ways to create a new visualization in Power BI Desktop are: • Drag field names from the Fields pane and then drop them on the report canvas. By default,  your visualizati...

  Model data in Power BI Introduction          Power BI is simple and fast enough to connect to an Excel workbook or a local database. It can also be robust and enterprise-grade, ready for extensive modeling and real time analytics. This means it can be used in a variety of environments from a personal report and visualisation tool to the analytics and decision engine behind group projects, divisions, or entire corporations.         As Power BI is a Microsoft product and has built in connections to Excel, there are many functions that will be familiar to an Excel user. A data model can be defined as the organisation and relationships of a set of two or more data tables. There are several ways to represent data models, one of the most commonly used method is the Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD). Power BI’s data model view represents the report’s data model with an ERD: In power BI desktop The Model view in Power BI Desktop allows yo...

  How to build a basic chatbot Introduction Power Virtual Agents are adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, at your service. They can solve common customer and internal-facing issues automatically, freeing up staff to focus on complex requests and high-value interactions. You can easily create your own virtual agents, powerful chatbots, without the need for developers or data scientists, by using a guided, no-code graphical interface.    Power Virtual Agents allows you to create bots that can help answer questions from your customers, employees, or viewers of your website. These powerful chatbots use built-in content building blocks, trigger phrases, and pre-authored bot conversations to keep you connected in real time. Create a chatbot 1) Open Chrome, and Firefox. On the website, select Start Free, and then sign in with your work email       address.  2) Next, you’ll choose a name for your chatbot.  3) Once you select Create, the p...

  Introduction to Power Virtual Agents Introduction Power Virtual Agents are adaptable Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, at your service.  They can solve common customer and internal-facing issues automatically, freeing up staff  to focus on complex requests and high-value interactions. You can easily create your own virtual agents, powerful chatbots, without the need for developers or data scientists, by using a guided,  no-code graphical interface. Power Virtual Agents allows you to create bots that can help answer questions from your customers, employees, or viewers of your website. These powerful chatbots use built-in content building blocks,  trigger phrases, and pre-authored bot conversations to keep you connected in real time. What is Power Virtual Agents? - Power Virtual Agents empowers teams to easily create powerful chatbots using a guided, no-code graphical    interface without the need for data scientists or developers.  - Power V...

    How to build a simple dashboard Introduction We need data to help us make these decisions. Power BI Desktop is a free application for PCs that lets you gather, transform, and visualize your data. Power BI Desktop and the Power BI  Service work together. You can create your reports in Power BI Desktop and then publish them to the Power BI Service for others to consume. In this module, you will: • Learn to connect to data in Power BI desktop • Transform and model the data you import • Build basic visualizations • Create and share a dashboard • Discover how to collaborate in Power BI Connect to data Power BI Desktop connects to many types of data sources, including local databases, worksheets,  and data on cloud services. Sometimes when you gather data, it's not quite as structured, or clean,  as you want it to be. To structure data, you can transform it, meaning that you can split and rename  columns, change data types, and create relationships between co...

  Analyze data with Power BI How do you analyze data in Power BI? Report authors can use more features to enhance their reports for analytical insights in their data with features like Q&A and exporting. In this module, you will closely examine your data and Power BI reports and then extract value with deeper analysis.   Filter data with Power BI Data is the core of Power BI. As you explore reports, each visual draws its underlying data from sources that often contain far more data than you need. Power BI offers several ways to filter and highlight reports. Knowing how to filter data is the key to finding the right information. Slicers A simple type of filtering that you can use directly on the report page is called a slicer. Slicers provide clues to ways you can filter the results in the visuals on a report page. There are several different types of slicers: numeric, categorical, and date. Slicers make it easy to filter all the visuals on the page at once. Explore the Fil...

         Publish and share in Power BI Introduction :- To publish a report to the web, you have to navigate to Power BI service → My Workspace. Once you open the report that you want to publish, navigate to the File tab → Publish to Web. Once you select this option, it opens a new dialog that creates an embed code for this report to include in the website or email.  you will want to share your reports and dashboards with your coworkers and friends at some point. With Power BI, publishing and sharing your reports and dashboards is straightforward. Publish Power BI Desktop reports Publishing your reports to the Power BI service is fast and simple. After you've completed writing your report, select the Publish button on the Home tab. Power BI packages your report and data, including visualizations, queries, and custom measures,  and uploads them to the Power BI service.  Print and export dashboards and reports In the Power BI service, select File in ...

  Explore what Power BI can do for you Introduction                      Microsoft Power BI is a collection of apps, software services and connectors that  come together to turn unrelated data into visually impressive and interactive insights.  Power BI can work with simple data sources like Microsoft Excel and complicated ones like  cloud-based or on-premises hybrid Data warehouses. Power BI has the capabilities to easily  connect to your data sources, visualise and share and publish your findings with anyone and everyone. Types of Power BI tools  1.Power BI Desktop 2.Power BI service 3.Power BI Data Gateway 4.Power BI Report Server 5.Power BI Mobile Apps Power BI users role:- There are basically two types of user who works  or uses Power BI  1)Power Bi Consumer- The way you interact with Power BI depends on your job role. As a user or consumer,  you're the person who receives dashb...