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Plan your Construction Schedule with Calendar 365

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Construction projects often cause delays due to their difficulty and complexity. They involve a lot of moving parts, resources, equipment, etc. To manage everything, businesses need a project management tool. However, project management tools with features like Gannt view and resource management only facilitate the process. Construction scheduling is the backbone of any project management software. It’s essential to create a schedule for everything as it helps you define the resources and the team required to accomplish the task. Is scheduling enough to keep up with the plan? You need a calendar to stick to the schedule. And that’s exactly what our client, a leader in the UK housebuilding industry, did. They integrated our Calendar 365 to their Dynamics CRM. Making 700 people stick to their schedules and routines was a bit challenging at first due to the nature of the business. Hence, they had specific requirements: Color code activity to avoid confusion Ability to use resource booking

5 Tips to Plan Your Holiday Shipping 2021

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Experts predict that the 2021 holiday season sale is going to be record-breaking. According to Deloitte , the holiday sales will total $1.3 trillion from Nov to Jan timeframe. Ecommerce sales will increase by 11 to 15 percent reaching between $210 and $218 billion. Amidst these huge sales volumes, order fulfillment and delivery challenges are still disruptive. We are still witnessing delays in delivery. Limited containers, shipping shortage, freight congestion, and higher-order volumes have caused shipping carriers to work beyond their capacity, resulting in delays. It’s necessary to mitigate these delays to deliver products to customers on time. An extension like Magento 2 delivery date can help you streamline your order deliveries. Here are a few more tips to ensure your products reach customers by holidays. 1. Forecast Demand and Performance Most businesses start preparing for the festive season during the Q3, i.e., around September. The first thing you need to do is evaluate the de

Calendar 365 for Financial Services: A Case Study

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Finance is one such industry where accuracy is paramount. Even a small mistake of 0.01 cents can cause huge losses to the businesses. Hence, being alert and up-to-date with every activity is essential. Talking about Calendar 365, it helps finance industries manage their time in the best way possible. It keeps them updated about the upcoming meetings, appointments, events, etc., along with financial statistics. With Dynamics Calendar 365 , finance industries can obtain important data and analyze the performance in a specific quarter or a fiscal year. In this article, we will explain the benefits of Calendar 365 with an example of our client. Client Overview They help small and mid-sized energy companies with funds. Their investment sizes are structured in different layers such as credit facilities, unsecured debt, net profit interests, etc. With a daily cap limit of $25 to $75 million, they wanted a solution that would help them track every minute detail, including the team’s performanc

How Dynamics 365 Map Help Nonprofit Industry

When most people think about nonprofits, they mostly think about a small, earnest office with a few people working with limited resources towards a shared goal that’s more about a cause than profits. Though there’s some truth to it, most people – volunteers, members – are attracted to nonprofits thinking they make the world a better place. In reality, a nonprofit is as sophisticated as a for-profit industry. To be effective, they need to bring in tools like Dynamics 365 map to maximize the benefits they are working hard to create. A Dynamics CRM map can help them identify leads, send invites to donors, visualize the effects of campaigns, and more. Let’s understand it better with an example. Consider the scenario of Emily; she is a fundraising manager at an NGO. She is responsible for strategizing fundraising activities and managing the events and teams that go on-field to communicate with donors and leads. Recently, they have organized an event to raise funds for orphans. Apart from ma

Calendar 365 – Sharpening the Performance Edges of Fenestration Industry

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Design, manufacture, and installation of high-quality windows, doors, and shutters require a great deal of work. And if you have to serve multiple clients, the work increases multifold. In such a scenario, managing operations, clients, and staff together become challenging. You can use Google Calendar to keep up with the meetings and tasks. But again, you will have to switch between CRM and calendar. If you have a plugin that can integrate with your CRM, it’s great! Calendar 365 is exactly what you need. It syncs all the data from the calendar into the CRM. You don’t have to add your tasks or schedule appointments twice. Plus, you can directly manage your employees’ activities, performance, leaves, etc., from the calendar. If you’re wondering how Dynamics 365 Calendar can benefit the fenestration industry, keep reading. We will share the experience of one of our clients from the fenestration industry. About Our Client They are the leading name in the fenestration industry that control

6 Advantages of Choosing Shopify for Your Ecommerce Store

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  In this world, where everything is going online, your business must have an online presence for its growth. For business owners with zero technical knowledge, it is difficult to understand the complexity of website development. To eliminate this complexity, you can choose Shopify. Yes, Shopify is so easy that anyone with no technical expertise can launch an ecommerce store. Shopify Application Development is gaining popularity and has become the first choice of business owners planning to take their business online. In Dec. 2020, Shopify accounted for 3.2 percent of all global websites. There are reasons why businesses are choosing Shopify for their websites. Here are some advantages that will make you choose Shopify as your ecommerce platform. Easy to Use To take your business online, you don’t need to be tech-savvy. Shopify provides you a platform where you can run an online store without understanding coding or any technical stuff. You just need your product list and the name of

5 Features of Dynamics 365 Mappy Field Plugin to Elevate Your Sales Performance

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  With most sales going online, there are still industries that rely on a sales representative. For example, the health industry has Medical Reps, Banks and Insurance companies have Sales agents, Sales reps for Consumer Packaged Food.   There are a lot of difficulties sales representatives face on a daily basis, like traveling from one place to another and coming back to the same place to meet another client. This happens because they don’t have optimized routes and configured data that will highlight nearby routes to cover them in one go. To minimize such day-to-day troubles and save time, you can integrate Dynamics 365 map plugin .  Want to know how? Keep Reading. Heat Map Visualization With heat map visualization, you can set the saturation levels from low to high and indicate the different colors. You can use this feature to target the high sales area as they bring in more sales. And with a low sales area, you can make strategies to improve the sales. You can filter the records to