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DynamicsCon 2025 - Chicago

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I am honored to be presenting at DynamicsCon 2025 in Chicago - May 13 - 16.  https://dynamicscon.com/ I have two sessions: On Wednesday, May 14th at 3:45pm - I am co-presenting with Kent Nielsen.  Our topic is Canvas vs. Model-Driven Power Apps. You can find our slides here:  On Thursday, May 15th at 9:45am - I am presenting one of my most popular sessions - Getting started with Power Automate for D365 F&SCM.  Even if you have seen this session before, there is some new info on environment variables, building solutions and storing approval information in D365. You can find my slides here : 

Smart Narratives - a quick and easy way to get your message across

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 I was recently working with a client on Power BI visualizations.  We were talking about various visualization techniques as well as the options for Power BI visuals.  As I was going through the different options, I touched on Smart Narrative.  The client had never seen or tried this visualization, so if made me wonder, how many other were not aware of this visualization option and how to use it. The Smart Narrative visualization became generally available in June, 2021.  The purpose of the Smart Narrative visualization is to help quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights that are customizable.  As the name applies, the visual adds narratives to the reports to address key takeaways and point out trends.   Initially, I was not too excited about this visualization, because I often feel a picture is worth a thousand words, so I would rather look at the chart or visualization and draw my own takeaways and tren...