As digital estates continue to grow in complexity, and organizations adapt to the realities of hybrid work while ramping up their use of cloud architecture, cloud governance is becoming increasingly important and complex. What is cloud governance? In short, it’s a set of rules which applies specific policies or principles to the use of cloud…
Microsoft 365 protects data and digital resources from ransomware in multiple layers. The Microsoft 365 apps themselves come with baked-in defenses that protect customer data from phishing, spoofing, data corruption, and ransomware encryption. OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint online include built-in virus protection, built-in versioning, and recovery tools. Microsoft Teams lets admins define data loss prevention…
Do you want to better leverage data that is generated within Dynamics 365 Customer Insights? Actionable Audit can help. Actionable Audit is a free tool built by Microsoft Labs available in AppSource. The tool runs based on the auditing settings set up via Dynamics 365 Customer Insights administration. To set up auditing in Dynamics 365…
Overview of “Data Templates”, which will help you accelerate the data configuration and export/import management in your Dynamics 365 Implementation
Private equity firms and growth-minded leadership teams are pushing portfolio companies to integrate faster, simplify faster, and find efficiencies sooner. The pressure is understandable. Deal activity picked up sharply in 2025, and many companies are still using acquisitions to add capabilities, enter new markets, and build scale. Once the deal closes, though, the real work…
What One Company’s Years of ERP Discipline Made Possible Almost Overnight When AI deployments go well, there’s usually something in the background that made it possible. Often, that something is a modern ERP platform, a common data structure across business units, and years of quiet infrastructure work that nobody celebrated at the time. You can…
Ask a room full of senior leaders to rate their organization’s AI maturity on a scale of one to five, and most will fall between a two and a three. Ask the same group to rate their ERP maturity, and the numbers shift — a three or four is more common. That one-point gap may…
Most CEOs feel disappointed by ERP modernization because the promised returns fall short. Software cost savings are marginal, and efficiency gains rarely translate into meaningful growth. But the real ROI has never been about saving money. It is about creating operating leverage. Legacy ERP systems quietly impose a Technical Debt Tax that forces high-value employees…
Customer Overview The Port of Longview is a public port in Washington State responsible for importing and exporting a diverse mix of cargo, including bulk commodities, steel products, grain, scrap metal, wind turbine components, and other break-bulk materials. Operations span vessel unloading, rail and truck logistics, and highly complex billing scenarios involving multiple customers per…
Procure-to-pay (P2P) rarely fails with a bang. Instead, it quietly slips. A plant needs parts to keep the line running, so someone purchases from a familiar supplier and forwards the invoice to AP. A department makes a “quick” purchase on a card because the formal process feels too slow. A budget owner sees the spend…