The MSDW Podcast, May 1 2016: GP 2016, PowerApps, SLAs, AX Upgrades, Supply Chain Innovation

In this week's MSDW Podcast, we look at new products, new upgrade strategies, and gain some perspective on the evolution of supply chain technology.

Among the stories:

• Microsoft announced the PowerApps Public Preview and Microsoft Flow on Friday. These tools put important business process controls in the hands of business users rather than developers or IT.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 hit RTM, with at least two major updates - the browser-based interface and improved PowerBI integration. Many other enhancements were also tucked into the release, ranging from the bigger things like expanded all-in-one document viewing to functional improvements.
• We review one company's journey to the new Dynamics AX. As presented by Raphael Tagliani, CIO of Swiss manufacturing firm Egger,, the company had to find a cost effective solution that could eliminate paper-based information and reach across several geographies.
• Learn how to calculate different SLAs, as defined by Microsoft and other cloud providers to understand how much downtime is too much.
• With new Microsoft Dynamics AX now available on Azure, and with private cloud and on-premise versions to be released in the not-too-distant future, now is the right time to prepare your customers for the big move, writes Agnė Pelanienė of 1ClickFactory. But the right approach might not be what partners or their clients expect.
• Top priorities in manufacturing ERP include better customer service and response times, cost reductions, and technology that can do all of that,

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