Microsoft’s hot topic lately has been the newest 365 trio—
SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 (Sales). Whether your organization falls into enterprise level or small-business, these three major solutions work together to make your company communicate and work more efficiently. Steve will cover each solution’s depth while honing in on how they integrate, communicate, and ultimately offer you a full solution experience.
365 Degrees: Looking at Office 365, SharePoint, and Dynamics 365 by Steve Reid
1. 365 Degrees:
Looking at Office 365,
SharePoint & Dynamics 365
Stephen Reid
KTL Solutions
May 17, 2017
Dynamics 365
2. Today’s Agenda
Microsoft’s Cloud for Business
Office 365
SharePoint – The New Way to Work Together
Dynamics 365 – Customer Experience Matters
Case Studies
Questions
3. < Partner Logo >
Microsoft Cloud for Business
Platform
Business Apps
Productivity
93%
45%
81%
5. Data backup Disaster recovery
Virtual machine
deployment
Website hosting
SharePoint SQL Server
Databases
Orders
Product
AP
Business
Applications
CRM Acct
HR
Virtual
Machines
Key Azure scenarios
.
Provide easy, scalable
data backup services
in the cloud
Quickly deploy and
manage applications
in the cloud
Offer peace
of mind with ongoing
cloud-based DR
services
Grow your business
helping customers
move their websites to
the cloud
6. Get the tools you need for
today’s business.
Worry
less
Work
easier
Work
together
Always up to date, best-in-class productivity tools from Office 365 can help you:
7. Protect what you value most.
Your data – secure
and in your control
All the compliance features
you need, in one place
Access to 24/7 real-time
support for critical issues
Worry less.
8. Work the way you want to.
Consistent, familiar and
synced experience across
phone, tablet and desktop
On-the-go access to files,
emails and conferencing
1TB online storage
Create and edit documents
in real time with colleagues
Work easier.
9. Secure platform allows
private IMs with approved
customers and vendors
Multi-location meeting access
and hosting via HD Video
Seamless document review,
creation and collaboration
Flexibility for your collaborative workforce.
Work together.
10. What is Office 365?
Office 365 applications Online services
+ Skype for Business
11. Key Workloads and Questions
Access files in one
secure, reliable place,
with 1TB of storage.
Manage your business communications across
devices, share easily and securely with 50GB
mailbox storage
Share ideas and work. Organize
information, people and projects.
Get messaging, audio and video calls, online
meetings and sharing capabilities – in one app.
16. SharePoint is a Platform
• Is not a desktop application like Word,
Excel, & PowerPoint.
• Accessed from a browser
• Desktop, Laptop, Tablet & Phone
• Information stored in the cloud
• Collaboration is one of the key
workloads:
• Organizing information
• Sharing content
• Organizing teams
• Building sites
• Building workflows & automating tasks
28. Common application platform: PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Common Data Service
Microsoft AppSource
Microsoft Dynamics 365
29. Are you making the
most of your customer
opportunities?
Are we focusing
on the right
opportunities?
How can we
manage our sales
pipeline better?
Who are our
most profitable
customers?
Do I know my
customers better
than my
competitors do?
Where will the
next big
opportunity
come from?
How can my sales
team work better
on the road?
Is everyone able to
access the same
customer history?
30. Why should a smaller business care?
Because customer experience matters now more than ever
…and in an increasingly connected
world, your reputation is more
important than ever.
of all internet users are
now active on social
media
72%
of internet users trust
consumer opinions
posted online
68%
of consumers are willing
to pay more for a better
customer experience
86%
of customers have left a
brand due to bad
customer service
65%
It’s what differentiates you
It’s how you win and keep customers
It’s how you grow your business
31. What if you could easily manage customer experience as
an extension of familiar tools like Office 365?
Differentiate your business by delivering
exceptional customer experiences
Focus efforts on opportunities with the
best immediate and long-term potential
Close sales faster with more efficient
processes and more productive teams
32. Microsoft Dynamics 365
Get visibility into your
organization to make
informed decisions and grow
your business
Business
Insight
Make it easy for people in
your organization to get the
information needed to deliver
great customer experiences
Opportunity
Management
Empower your sales,
customer service, field service
team to do their best work
from virtually anywhere on
any device
Mobile
Productivity
33. Challenge
Everyone in your organization needs to have easy access to consistent,
detailed customer information—all in one place.
Opportunity
Management
34. Opportunity
Management
Make it easy for everyone in your organization to
access complete, consistent customer information.
Solution:
With Dynamics 365 and Office 365, your
teams can easily access information
using tools they already know
Give your team a single, centralized
source of the truth with all their
customer information in one place
Build trust with customers by delivering
personalized experiences no matter who
they talk to in your organization
35. Opportunity
Management
Review customer information, plan your
day, and connect with customers
in a few clicks
Use Outlook and Dynamics 365
together for scheduling, tracking,
and emailing customers
Maximize opportunities by engaging
customers in real-time with online
meetings in Skype for Business
Make staying in touch with customers a seamless
part of your sales team’s day-to-day activities.
Solution:
36. Challenge
The workforce is becoming increasingly mobile, with a need to be productive
anywhere. Your teams need tools that make it seamless to work across
multiple locations, whether at the office, at home, or on the road.
Mobile Productivity
37. With Dynamics 365 for Sales on mobile
devices, your team can access up-to-
date customer info anywhere
Enable employees to work seamlessly
across their tablets and phones
Let employees update information from
the road in real-time
Let your team connect with customer information
wherever they are, on whatever device.
Solution:
Mobile Productivity
38. Use consistent, streamlined processes
that help sales, customer service and
field service teams be more productive
Automate repetitive tasks and free up
more time to help customers
Onboard new staff and get them up to
speed quickly and easily
Build winning teams by boosting productivity,
freeing up more time to spend with customers.
Solution:
Mobile Productivity
39. Challenge
Business leaders need quick visibility into areas that require attention.
They need to understand what is and isn’t working, make decisions quickly,
and take corrective actions to ensure they meet the goals of the business.
Business Insight
40. Business Insight
Use live dashboards and interactive
reports that let you visualize how your
business is doing
Identify and act on troubled areas, such
increasing sales efforts in a region where
products are not selling well
Take corrective actions fast to optimize
sales operations and ensure you’re
meeting revenue goals
Stay on target with real-time visibility into your
business.
Solution:
41. Business Insight
Reveal hidden opportunities with the
ability to visualize new sales trends
Anticipate customer needs and sell them
new products and services they are likely
to purchase
Ensure your sales team is focused on
opportunities that are most
profitable—and most likely to close
Uncover new opportunities and drive business
growth with deeper insights.
Solution:
42. Dynamics 365
Part of a family of products from Microsoft designed to work together across all the areas
of your business
Access customer history, set up meetings, and
connect with anyone in a few clicks
Use business apps that work seamlessly with
familiar tools, like Outlook and Excel
Rely on an affordable enterprise-class cloud
infrastructure from Microsoft
Manage financials, streamline operations, and grow
your business
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Microsoft
Dynamics 365
for Financials
Microsoft
Dynamics 365
for Sales
43. Solves their immediate
upgrade needs, but gives
them room to grow into the
cloud
It appears they need a solution that:
25 employees
Mix of Office XP and 2010
Have email but not ready for cloud
Some usage of mobile devices
Customer profile
1. I would like to be using the latest Office applications
44. 25 employees
Mix of Office XP and 2010
Have email but not ready for cloud
Some usage of mobile devices
Customer profile
1. I would like to be using the latest Office applications
Fully installed Office on up to 5 PCs/Macs per user
Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher
Office apps on tablets and phones
1TB storage per user with OneDrive for Business
Office 365 Business
45. Gives employees maximum
flexibility to work anywhere,
while enabling the owner to
maintain control of business
activities
It appears they need a solution that:
2. My employees are remote. I need more consistency.
45 employees – often working remotely
Mix of mobile devices - BYOD
No consistent platform for email and sharing
Using QB online & No-CRM (Staff use Excel)
Systems & Information siloed
Customer profile
46. 2. My employees are remote. I need more consistency.
45 employees – often working remotely
Mix of mobile devices - BYOD
No consistent platform for email and sharing
Using QB online & No-CRM (Staff use Excel)
Systems & Information siloed
Customer profile
Fully installed Office on up to 5 PCs/Macs per user
Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher
Office apps on tablets and phones
1TB storage per user with OneDrive for Business
Exchange Online email with Unlimited email storage
HD videoconferencing with Skype for Business
Team sites with SharePoint
Fully integrated ERP and CRM System
Office 365 & Dynamics 365 Financials & Sales
47. They can depend on, and
that provides additional data
management capabilities
This customer needs a solution that:
50 employees
Legal business – always on the go
Cloud oriented – no internal IT staff
On-Prem email & file storage
Using Office 2013
Customer profile
3. I have a lot of data that needs to stay secure no matter what
48. Fully installed Office on up to 5 PCs/Macs per user
Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher
Office apps on tablets and phones
1TB storage per user with OneDrive for Business
Exchange Online email with unlimited storage
HD videoconferencing with Skype for Business
Team sites with SharePoint
Enterprise Mobility Suite
Advanced email with archiving and legal hold
Unified eDiscovery center
Rights management, data loss prevention, and encryption
Office 365 Enterprise E3
3. I have a lot of data that needs to stay secure no matter what
50 employees
Legal business – always on the go
Cloud oriented – no IT staff
On-Prem email & file storage
Using Office 2013
Customer profile
Introductions
Microsoft Intros
KTL Intros
Gift bag or Party favors
Presentation agenda and follow-up and Demo’s
Introduce the O365 platform as the best-in-class, integrated, cloud-based productivity tool for small and medium-sized businesses trying to serve their customers, protect their businesses and keep ahead of the competition.
Goal here today is a high level overview.
Will not be deep diving in any area and only scratching the surface of these important solutions
At the end we will take question
Azure – is open and flexible cloud platform. It provides data and infrastructure services that can be managed, and deployed quickly
Office 365 – is the gold standard cloud productivity suite – Content creation tool, Collaboration and Sharing
Business Apps – powerful and easy-to-use business apps in Microsoft Dynamics GP CRM and others that are quick to deploy and that deliver process efficiency by streamlining finance, operations, and human resource management.
Azure, Office 365, and Microsoft Dynamics —are all great in themselves, but together they create more value for customers than they do independently.
Cloud Adoption is growing rapidly:
87% & 92%
Azure revenue growth up 93%
Office 365 up 45%
Dynamics rev up 10% and specifically Dynamics 365 up 81%
Microsoft is the only cloud provider that Gartner indicates as leader in all four magic quadrants: IaaS, PaaS, Private and Public Clouds.
Reference Azure Momentum statistics
Microsoft’s network is one of the two largest in the world – the only one larger is the US Governments!
In addition, Azure offers more compliance certifications than any other cloud and >85% of fortune 500 companies using Microsoft cloud.
Azure is the platform for O365 & D365 but there are some key scenarios where Azure benefits companies.
1. First there’s the story about cloud apps
SMBs want to know about building apps in the cloud. Azure helps customers quickly build apps in the cloud by hosting them in Azure virtual machines. Customers design, develop, test and then deploy their cloud apps in a much more streamlined manner than on-premises. Best of all they do so while saving the cost of purchasing hardware and without worrying about limitations in size and scope.
2. Second, there’s data backup
A lot of SMBs backup their data and apps on-premises or on tape. In order for backup to be truly effective, it needs to be in another location and in sync with the work you do. With Azure, you can provide easy, scalable, and encrypted backup in the cloud. In addition to backup in another location, the cloud datacenter that houses your information also backs up your information to another separately located datacenter.
3. Third, there’s disaster recovery in the cloud
Disaster recovery is mentioned by a lot of SMBs as a key need, but not nearly enough follow through with the idea out of fear of cost and complexity.
4. Lastly, there’s hosting websites on Azure
Azure offers a perfect platform for leveraging the cloud to deploy scalable websites. Hosting a website on Azure means that infrastructure management is covered, and customers get the peace of mind from leveraging Microsoft’s global network of managed datacenters.
When we think about productivity and how to provide the best solution for you.
There are three core principles that we and Microsoft consider when looking at O365.
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(Worry less) Protect what you value most
Office 365 helps you be secure in knowing you’re managing and protecting
your company’s devices, data and budget while staying competitive.
(Work easier) Work from anywhere
With O365, let everyone work the way they work best (in and out of the office).
Accomplish this with trusted business applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Exchange
And have the same experience across all devices.
(Work together) Collaborate
O365 gives you the flexibility to easily access and edit documents across devices and platforms (so you and your team can work together
These collaboration tools help you share documents securely and conduct productive meetings from multiple locations
You can feel secure with Office 365 helping you manage and protect your company’s devices, data and budget while simultaneously giving your company a competitive advantage.
With features like mobile device management, data loss prevention and rights management services your data will be secure and controlled, by you.
You’ll have access to proven and reliable tools. Most other cloud-service providers don’t have the financially backed SLA or guarantee that there will always be someone to help you – 24/7 – if you have critical issues.
If you have specific compliance needs within your organization, Office 365 gives you the compliance features all in one place to meet regulations in your industry.
Now it’s time for audience participation. Let me ask you a question.
How do you like to work? – office on certain things; at home on others?
How do your employees work and where are they geographically?
Solicit Ideas: Show of hands
Coffee Shop – one of my favorites Panera
The park
Let’s talk about what kind of devices you like to work on?
What kind of work do you get done on your tablet or your phone
From your browser to your desktop to your phone or tablet, Office 365 is your integrated best-in-class productivity tool powered by the cloud.
Whether your collaboration needs are simple or advanced, Office 365 makes working together smooth, secure and productive.
Exchange is the business-class e-mail solution that facilitates collaboration across all platforms and devices to keep you in sync with your customers and colleagues, 24/7.
Outlook and Skype for Business are integrated so you can add audio/video conferencing to a new or existing meeting with just one click.
Host or join a meeting from all of your favorite devices. Easily present, share and collaborate on documents (or a virtual whiteboard) within the meeting space.
Office 365 supports broader collaboration with services that allow teams to share content and videos.
SharePoint is an easy drag and drop intranet for documents and files.
SharePoint Online enables team and project sharing sites or portals
You can use it to share files and resources outside of organization as well.
Let’s clear up a common–and big–misperception about Office 365.
Many people incorrectly assume Office 365 is simply a version of Office accessed by a web browser. This, as you know, is simply not true.
As a Microsoft partner we work with 100’s of SMB clients each year. I want to take a moment to focus on some key questions and workloads that I clients want to discuss.
Exchange Online: (Mission Critical) Usually first workload
Why this is issue; Give Example
Uptime and support issues
Back up and business continuity
Storage Space
Accessibility
Exchange can be tailored based on your companies unique needs.
Move to the cloud easily, deploy on-premises, or manage a hybrid deployment with mailboxes that are both online and on-premise.
OneDrive for Business:
Storage Space & Accessibility
Back –up and
Security and Secure Sharing
With OneDrive each user get’s 1 TB of personal cloud storage.
This information can be accessed from anywhere and it can be sync’d with their PC/Mac for offline access.
SharePoint Online:
Why this is issue; Give Example
Central Place for files. Where is the most current contract/ prosal version
Team and collaboration sites
Centralize Calendar info
Storage Space
Accessibility – anywhere, anytime
Easily share documents with others, inside and outside your organization
Control who can see and edit each file.
Collaborate on Office documents in real time, and securely store, sync and share files
Use it as a secure place to create team or project sites and store, organize, share information.
Why this is issue; Give Example
O365 give you a familiar consistent experience across your favorite devices.
Familiar, consistent experience across phone, table and desktop;
On-the-go document review, creation and collaboration;
Office for Mac:
Seamless integration with Office 365, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online;
New and improved features for easy collaboration;
Similar look and feel of Office on Windows
Why this is issue; Give Example
Worry less - Regulatory Requirements - Client requirements
In today’s world you can’t talk about any cloud solution without talking about Security!
No provider in the market today is doing more in this area than Microsoft!
Most SMB’s can’t afford this kind of Enterprise level Security
To learn more go to the Trust Center – http://trust.office365.com
This is the place for Security, Privacy and Compliance Information and Commitments for Office 365
As you can see there are lot’s of options that will fit companies of all sizes and very different needs.
At KTL we work with our clients to understand their business and their needs.
We help them define their Technology Vision
After going through this process we match our clients with the best plan or combination of plans to fit their needs.
Likewise, you can mix & match standalone services that are outside of their core plan.
Some of these features can be added ala carte
The main takeaway from this slide is that Microsoft has designed the Office 365 plans and offering to adapt to your growth and needs so you can boost your competitive edge.
Earlier we established the fact that we are working differently today.
One of the core principles of O365 was “Working Together” SharePoint falls under this principle
As outlined SharePoint is one of the key workloads we work on with customer
So in this part of the presentation I will take a moment to briefly answer these 2 questions.
There are 2 key questions that we get from our clients about SharePoint:
What is SharePoint?
What can I do with SharePoint?
First SharePoint is not just one thing – like Word, or Excel or PowerPoint. SharePoint is a Platform in which Teams and people work together and share and store content.
Now let’s take a moment and I will briefly outline what you can do with SharePoint.
SharePoint takes a fresh approach to enabling content creation and organization for teams.
But with SharePoint you still have complete control over managing your enterprise content and data
SharePoint has search capabilities which makes easy to discover and find content across your organization.
SharePoint has records management and e-discovery capability.
SharePoint is your File Server in the cloud, but on steroids!!
SharePoint is focused on creating a brand new and simplified user experience.
SharePoint makes common tasks like document sharing, editing lists inline and create sites in a few simple clicks easy but still keeping you firmly in control of your content.
SharePoint is really focused on making sharing simple.
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You can drag and drop content directly into your document libraries and by hovering over a document you can see live document preview
You can see who you’re sharing with and when the document was last edited.
Without leaving the library you can edit your documents using Office Web Apps, and in one click share it with a colleague.
SharePoint continues to push and redefine the boundaries of collaboration.
A big part of this comes from helping teams organize their content so that they can work together effectively.
SharePoint is truly unique
It’s scalable enough to organize and manage all your information assets so you can access everything you need from one place.
Additionally, SharePoint and Outlook are integrated so you can bring together all your team’s email and documents in one place.
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So if a colleague updates a client proposal or sends an email to the team on new product pricing you see the changes instantly and your team’s always in sync.
Often teams cross company boundaries. You can also work with an external partner or customer.
Sharing documents is easier than ever before.
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You can provide external partners and vendors secure access to SharePoint sites or documents without violating the data governance and protection policies set by IT.
You can enforce sign-in and set permissions at the document or site level to ensure you can work together with anyone securely.
SharePoint gives you a central place to share your organization’s vision and update employees on important news and information.
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With SharePoint you can embed PowerPoint presentations and videos into your team or intranet sites to help communicate business priorities and initiatives.
SharePoint blogs allow you to provide regular updates to your team or the entire organization and get rapid feedback.
We’ve made a number of improvements to inline site editing so updating sites and communicate changes to critical business processes can be done quickly to keep everyone up-to-date.
Just like O365, SharePoint is accessible anywhere, anytime and on any device.
Which is how we work.
We’ve covered a lot regarding SharePoint. Let me quickly summarize what I covered
First SharePoint is not just one thing – like Word, or Excel or PowerPoint. SharePoint is a Platform in which Teams and people work together and share and store content.
Read Point – Organize Info
SharePoint enables content creation and organization for teams.
SharePoint gives you control over managing your enterprise content and data
Read Point – Share Content
Common tasks like document sharing, editing lists inline and create sites can be done in a few simple clicks
Read Point – Organize Teams
SharePoint continues to push to redefine the boundaries of collaboration.
A big part of this comes from helping teams organize their content so that they can work together effectively.
Read Point – Share the Vision
SharePoint gives you a central place to share your organization’s vision and update employees on important news and information.
Read Point – Stay Connected
Work with your teams and stay connected anywhere, anytime and on any device.
Microsoft Cloud for Business empowers people and organizations to do more and achieve more.
For business customers, Microsoft Cloud for Business delivers three comprehensive and complementary offerings where the sum is truly greater than the three parts:
Azure – is open and flexible cloud platform. It provides data and infrastructure services that can be managed, and deployed quickly
Office 365 – is the gold standard cloud productivity suite – Content creation tool, Collaboration and Sharing
Business Apps – powerful and easy-to-use business apps in Microsoft Dynamics GP CRM and others that are quick to deploy and that deliver process efficiency by streamlining finance, operations, and human resource management.
Azure, Office 365, and Microsoft Dynamics GP—are all great in themselves, but together they create more value for customers than they do independently.
Dynamics 365 is breaking the business application paradigm. It brings together business applications with the best of Microsoft – in productivity, collaboration, intelligence and platform to give you and your business the right set of tools to grow, evolve and transform.
These applications work seamlessly together to manage specific business processes across
Sales
Customer Service
Field Service
Project Service Automation
Marketing
Financials
We’re all busy—and it’s a common theme in most workplaces
We are trying to get more done with finite time and resources.
One critical area we have to focus is making the most of our customer opportunities.
Discuss call outs on the slide
We have to create great customer relationships
We have to reduce complexity
We have to maximize opportunities
We have to provide excellent customer experiences to grow the business.
Why should a smaller business care?
Because customer experience is increasingly important for companies of all sizes – across all customer interactions.
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…is what differentiates your business
…is how you win and keep customers for the long-term
…is how you grow your business …and in a world where customers are mobile and social, your reputation is more important than ever.
Today you don’t have as many contact points as you used to have
Customers are already 57-70% of the way through the process of making a decision before contacting a potential supplier.
So you have to make every customer touchpoint count.
To thrive in this environment companies of all sizes have to make customer experience a priority.
For a lot of businesses, the tools for managing customer relationships can seem too complicated.
But what if you could easily manage customer relationships as an extension of familiar tools like Office 365?
In this presentation, we’ll cover how you can:
Focus on the best opportunities by understanding who the most promising and profitable customers are.
Close sales faster by making your sales teams more productive
Enable them to follow consistent processes and automate repetitive tasks.
Deliver great customer experiences – be more responsive to their needs – and differentate your business.
And you can do all of this by extending the functionality of familiar tools like Outlook.
So what is Dynamics 365 for Sales and how does it help your business?
Here are 3 key benefits.
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Those are some of the main benefits of Dynamics 365 for Sales.
Now let’s dive into some examples of how Dynamics 365 for Sales can help your business to make it real.
To provide customer experiences that set your business apart,
it’s really important that anyone on your sales team can easily access consistent, detailed knowledge of customer information and past interactions—all from one centralized location.
Example of contacting company and you have to keep repeating your self
On the other hand, think of a company that has your information and are on top of things.
Here we’ll look at a couple of examples of how Dynamics 365 for Sales can help address these challenges…
Dynamics 365 for Sales makes it a lot easier for businesses to give sales staff access to complete, consistent customer information.
This makes life easier for employees and offers a number of benefits to the business. For example…
You can make information readily available to anyone on the sales team with familiar tools.
For example, Dynamics 365 for Sales makes it easy to access customer information,
and it works seamlessly with other familiar Microsoft applications like the Office 365 suite of tools, including Outlook and Skype for Business.
You can make sure everyone on the sales team has a single source of the truth.
A lot of companies have disjointed information
—for example, maybe some customer information is written in someone’s day planner, and other data is on a colleague’s Excel spreadsheet, and more is in a report on the company server.
With Dynamics 365 for Sales, it’s easy for employees to store and access the latest information in one place.
You can give your sales staff the information they need to deliver personalized customer experiences, which goes a long way toward building customer loyalty.
For example, with a complete view of the customers, employees can easily access a customer’s buying history and preferences.
Today, staying connected with customers is the key to building trust and long-term relationships.
One big advantage of Dynamics 365 for Sales with Microsoft is that it extends familiar tools like Outlook to make keeping in touch with customers a seamless part of your sales team’s day-to-day activities.
For example, everyone on your sales team can: Read Points
Perform routine activities, like planning their day, reviewing customer information, and holding online meetings with colleagues in a few clicks.
Use Outlook and Dynamics 365 for Sales together for scheduling customer meetings, keeping track of key milestones, and emailing customers to stay in touch.
Engage customers in real-time with IM and online meetings in Skype for Business. This can really help your business stand apart by enabling sales and service employees to be more responsive and to maintain contact with customers.
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Here we’ll look at some examples of how Dynamics 365 for Sales helps boost productivity, whether salespeople are at the office or working on the road.
With Dynamics 365 for Sales, you can let employees connect with their applications and customer information wherever they are, on whatever device.
For example, your sales team can: Read Points
Enable Sales to get to customer information and act on it wherever they go, with access on the devices they choose, whether PC, laptop, tablet, or phone.
Enable sales reps to get to a consistent Dynamics 365 for Sales experience anywhere, with the ability to work seamlessly across their tablets and phones with Dynamics 365 for Sales mobile apps.
Having mobile access to Dynamics 365 for Sales means the sales team can update information while traveling right from their mobile device.
For example, if a sales rep is on the road, they can update customer history and notes in real-time, so everyone accessing the solution gets the latest info.
A big part of winning more business is helping sales teams be more productive
For example:
It’s easy to create role-specific process guidance that gives sales teams consistent, streamlined processes to be more productive.
Process guidance makes it automatic for salespeople to follow specific best practices.
It also helps keep momentum going and helps ensure nothing slips through the cracks with checklists of key actions for each phase of the process.
Another great benefit is that you can automate repetitive tasks to free up more time to help customers.
Example, let's take a car dealership who learns that after their salespeople do a test drive with a customer, they are 20% more likely to win the business if they run a credit check and send an email or give them a call within 3 days.
With automation, the sales reps can set the credit check and the email to happen automatically, so they don't have to think about it. The sales person can focus efforts on having a great customer interaction and developing a relationship.
You can also onboard new sales staff and get them up to speed quickly.
With process and automation capabilities in Dynamics 365 for Sales, you give your sales reps the tools to do their jobs better,
Take away the mundane tasks and keep them selling.
To keep things on track, business leaders today need visibility into their organization to see what’s on target and what’s not
They identify areas that need attention, to understand what is and isn’t working.
They need the information to make decisions quickly,
For example, a sales manager might see that sales of a certain product are not doing well in a specific region.
With this information, the manager can investigate the problem and quickly identify what’s not working to take corrective action.
Here we’ll look at examples of how Dynamics 365 for Sales helps provide real-time business insight—to make well-informed decisions quickly and keep the business moving ahead.
D365 for Sales provides the real-time visibility business leaders need to help stay on target.
For example: Read Points
With customizable dashboards and interactive reports, you have an easy way to visualize how your sales team is performing
With the ability to monitor key data and click and drill-down into more detailed information.
One of the main benefits of real-time visibility is the ability to identify and act on troubled areas.
Example you might see that a marketing campaign is not generating the forecasted leads in certain geographic regions.
With this information, you have to modify the campaign creative for those areas to make improvements and try to improve ROI.
You also have the insights to take corrective actions fast.
Example, you might identify certain opportunity types in the pipeline that are taking longer to close
Another great example of how D365 for Sales can help your business is the ability to get deeper insights
and uncover new opportunities that you might not have otherwise seen.
Example:
The ability to visualize multiple types of data can help you spot new trends and reveal hidden opportunities.
Example, you might see that customers of a certain size who have a certain product configuration are highly likely to buy complementary products or services.
With a deeper view of information like customer history and preferences, you can also better anticipate customer needs.
This gives sales reps the ability to look ahead and plan how they might grow accounts in the future.
In addition, you can get visibility into who your most profitable customers are.
Ultimately, this helps sales and account teams take a strategic view and spend efforts on opportunities with the highest potential ROI.
So we’ve talked about how D365 for Sales makes powerful functionality simple and easy to use for any business.
Let’s take a minute to look at one of the biggest advantages of Dynamics 365 for Sales
its ability to work seamlessly with your employees’ familiar tools like Office 365 as well as other tools in the Dynamics family.
The combination of D365 for Sales and O365 makes things like managing opportunities and connecting with customers a natural part of employees’ regular work activities.
For example, you can schedule a customer meeting in Outlook from within your Dynamics 365 for Sales window
Dynamics 365 is part of a family of products that offer consistent, cloud-based tools to help run your business.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials offers any business powerful tools for managing the financial side of the business.
On top of that, like Office 365, Dynamics 365 runs in the cloud,
Let’s begin with the first scenario:
You have a customer who needs to adopt the latest Office applications for his workforce. This customer runs a small business with only 25 employees, and they’re using a mix of Office XP and Office 2010. They have email, but they’re not ready for the cloud. Some employees use mobile devices, but no one has checked how many and how they use them for the business.
What Office 365 solution is recommended for this customer?
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Your customer needs a solution that solves their immediate upgrade needs, but gives them room to grow into the cloud
Office 365 Business is recommended.
This plan will standardize their versions of Office and regularly deliver product feature updates to all users, regardless of whether they’re using desktop, mobile, or tablet devices. They will get the full desktop version of Office on up to five PCs or Macs, as well as rights to use Office on virtually any device for up to five tablets and five phones.
Plus, your customer gets OneDrive for Business to easily share and store documents. And it enables them to collaborate and edit files from a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
When this customer is ready for more robust collaboration tools and email in the cloud, they can easily add-on:
Exchange online.
SharePoint
Skype for Business
Yammer
In the third scenario:
You have a customer who faces a challenge that is becoming more common in our cloud-first and mobile-first world–remote employees. She wants to secure data on mobile devices. They have 45 employees who often work remotely. The customer wants to keep up with the trends, so she encourages her employees to bring their own devices to work. She wants to create a consistent platform for email and file sharing, and she’s ready to buy Office 365.
What Office 365 solution is recommended for this customer?
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This customer needs a solution that gives employees maximum flexibility to work anywhere, while enabling the owner to maintain control of business activities.
We put this customer Office 365 Business Premium & D365 financials and crm
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Your customer has 50 employees and the business is growing fast. They are in the legal business and always on the go. They are using Office 2013, and the owner is a strong advocate for the cloud, but they have no IT staff.
What Office 365 solution is recommended for this customer?
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This customer needs storage solutions that they can depend on, and that provides additional data management capabilities.
Enterprise E3 is recommended.