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DC Digest – 2021 Edition 8

New Perspective  If you are like me, you are seeing that the temperatures are cooling off and you are probably wondering where did the summer go?  Early this spring, I was dreaming of getting back to normal after the previous 12 months of COVID.  However, now with the recent renewed concerns…

New Perspective  If you are like me, you are seeing that the temperatures are cooling off and you are probably wondering where did the summer go?  Early this spring, I was dreaming of getting back to normal after the previous 12 months of COVID.  However, now with the recent renewed concerns…

Supercharge Power BI Desktop with Windows 365 Cloud PC

Power BI Desktop is a great tool, but it has few aspects that are frustrating: It’s a memory hog. Refreshing data can take a while. Syncing large .pbix files to and from the cloud can take a while. It’s not compatible with MacOS. Introducing Windows 365 Cloud PC Microsoft recently…

Power BI Desktop is a great tool, but it has few aspects that are frustrating: It’s a memory hog. Refreshing data can take a while. Syncing large .pbix files to and from the cloud can take a while. It’s not compatible with MacOS. Introducing Windows 365 Cloud PC Microsoft recently…

DC Digest – 2021 Edition 7

Intro I enjoy pondering about disruptive innovations and trends. One of the fascinating aspects of disruptions is how growth happens on an “S” curve. With a disruptive trend, change and growth is not linear, it’s exponential.    IT Disruptions  There’s always something being disrupted in the IT space. In the…

Intro I enjoy pondering about disruptive innovations and trends. One of the fascinating aspects of disruptions is how growth happens on an “S” curve. With a disruptive trend, change and growth is not linear, it’s exponential.    IT Disruptions  There’s always something being disrupted in the IT space. In the…

DC Digest – 2021 Edition 6

Intro Watch out, everyone – Christmas came early! Under my tree in May, I found a 693-page Dummy’s Guide to Implementing D365 – something Microsoft named the Success by Design Implementation Guide. Based on the experience of Microsoft’s FastTrack team in over 100 projects, this guide breaks down frequent problems,…

Intro Watch out, everyone – Christmas came early! Under my tree in May, I found a 693-page Dummy’s Guide to Implementing D365 – something Microsoft named the Success by Design Implementation Guide. Based on the experience of Microsoft’s FastTrack team in over 100 projects, this guide breaks down frequent problems,…

DC Digest – 2021 Edition 5

Intro  Ah, Spring.  We talked about it during last month’s Digest; depending on where you live, we may have been a bit premature – it certainly was for me in Wisconsin.  Regardless, it is finally starting to warm up consistently in the Midwest, and people are beginning to return to…

Intro  Ah, Spring.  We talked about it during last month’s Digest; depending on where you live, we may have been a bit premature – it certainly was for me in Wisconsin.  Regardless, it is finally starting to warm up consistently in the Midwest, and people are beginning to return to…

DC Digest – 2021 Edition 4

Welcome to our April newsletter dear readers!  Depending on where you are as you read this, I hope Spring has sprung!  For me, the weather is starting to warm up, and plants are beginning to bud while birds and animals are bustling around, getting ready for their new year.  Some of you might be…

Welcome to our April newsletter dear readers!  Depending on where you are as you read this, I hope Spring has sprung!  For me, the weather is starting to warm up, and plants are beginning to bud while birds and animals are bustling around, getting ready for their new year.  Some of you might be…

Premium work from home setup for information workers in 2021

Recently I was on a Teams call with a friend in the industry, and they commented on the quality of my video chat.  I explained a few of the steps I was taking to improve my work from home setup, and he asked if I’d send over a few specifics…

Recently I was on a Teams call with a friend in the industry, and they commented on the quality of my video chat.  I explained a few of the steps I was taking to improve my work from home setup, and he asked if I’d send over a few specifics…