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When One Agent Tried to DO Everything

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When One Agent Tried to DO Everything The second article in my Finance Agent series My first Collection Manager Agent worked well - until I kept giving it more jobs. What started as a customer-review assistant grew to hanle automated credit-hold analysis, collection-call preparation, and customer email drafting. Each addition made sense. Together, they created a problem. In my first article, I mentioned the importance of narrower scope. This time, I want to show you what happened when I ignored that lesson. Watch: Why I Split One Agent Into Three What the First Version Was Asked to Do The first Collection Manager Agent started with a simple job. Review a customer. Pull the aging, the credit limit, the open invoices. Tell me what to do next. It did that well. Then I started adding to it. • I wanted it to react automatically when a sales order was placed on credit hold. • I wanted it to prepare me for a collection call. • I wanted it to review disputes and promises to pay. • I wa...

Big news from Microsoft on paginated reports

To follow up on my earlier posting about using the right tool for the right job, I had to share the latest announcement from Microsoft.  On November 14, 2022, Microsoft announced support for paginated reports in Power BI Pro.   Yes, this now means without acquiring a premium license or premium workspace, you will be able to create paginated reports.  No longer will you just have a scrolling table or matrix that you have to export to Excel, you will be able to create more traditional operational reports as well as document-like reports. I am excited to see how everyone puts this new functionality to work.  I have a lot of ideas on how I will use this with my clients, especially with some of their common ERP (Dynamics 365) report requests.