Community Webinars in March and April: Flow Best Practices, Common Data Services, Surprise Feature Release, and more!

We have an exciting selection of webinars coming up over the next few months! Whether you're new to Flow or an automation expert — or anyone in-between — we've got the perfect free webinar for you, featuring experts from both Microsoft and your community.

In the past you've asked for us to try some different platforms for our webinars, and this Spring we're pleased to announce the addition of YouTube live video to our lineup! Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get automatic updates and reminders, or use the "Subscribe and join live" links below to be taken right to the event. Please note that all webinars are listed in Pacific Time.

Microsoft Flow Best Practices and Examples for Business Analysts by Jon Levesque

Microsoft Flow can create workflows, notifications, automation, collect data and synchronize files between practically any application, services and most data sources. In this webinar, Jon Levesque, Senior Program Manager Flow team, will focus on those activities and talk about design patterns that enable business analysts to get the most out of this do-anything software tool.

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When: 5/2/2017 10:00AM

Introducing a New Flow Feature to Better Enable People-based Automation

This is an exciting webinar — we'll be debuting a new feature live, on-screen! Microsoft Flow helps you automate a variety of business processes, including streamlining approvals. In this webinar, Merwan Hade, Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Flow team, will announce and walk through a brand new Flow feature that you can use to quickly set up personnel-dependent workflows, enabling time savings through automation. The specific feature details are being intentionally withheld for pending announcements — join us to be the first to find out.

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When: 4/20/2017 10:00 AM

 

Getting Started with the Common Data Services by Jono Luk

This topic is based on requests from early webinars! The Common Data Services (aka CDS) is a relatively new and unique opportunity for managing data. We will learn about the value of CDS for many purposes and how to make the most of the out-of-the-box entities, as well as learn some basic principles around when to, and how to, create your own custom entities!

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When: 4/18/2017 10:00 AM

About Jono Luk

Jono is the Group Program Manager for the Common Data Service, the data and app platform for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 service and applications. The CDS is tasked with enabling the broad spectrum of business customers and partners, from citizen developers to high-end ISVs, to adopt and thrive on the Microsoft business app platform. As GPM, Jono is responsible for the definition, development and execution of the product vision and usage of the CDS, with a focus on feature and business development for the Core Entity Model, Data Access, Data Integration & Connectivity, Security/Trustworthiness and Collaboration & Productivity, Admin and ISV scenarios.

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Getting Started with PowerApp Forms by Audrie Gordon

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When:  4/11/2017 10:00 AM PT

 

Getting Started with PowerApps Controls

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When 4/25/2017 10:00 AM

 

Getting Started with PowerApps DevOps Workflows by Laura Onu 

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When: 5/4/2017 10:00AM

 

Power Apps in-depth by Archana Nair

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When: 5/16/2017 10:00AM

 

Using R Script with Power BI by Leila Etaati

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When: 3/30/2017 12:00PM

 

Marketing Insights with Power BI webinar by Ken Puls and Miguel Escobar

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When:  4/06/2017 10:00 AM

 

Deep dive into data modeling using Power BI desktop and SQL Server Analysis Services

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When: 4/13/2017 12:00PM

 

What’s New, Exciting, and Coming Next for Power BI Embedded by Aviv Ezrachi

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When: 5/18/2017 10:00 AM

Power BI visualization best practices by Marco Russo

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When: 5/2/2017 10:00AM