This Week in Tech (Apr 1 - Apr 8)
Antje-Kathrin Schumann ?
Managing Director at NORDA Advisory | Leadership | Program Management | Software and Integrator Selection | CRM and ERP
Welcome
Hej! Welcome to "This week in Tech" providing you with weekly tech messages, capturing the mood and the moment with storytelling and insights.
Each week our newsletter focusses on
—????Tech tip of the week,
—????Tech companies in the news this week,
—????Tech trainings this and next week, and
—????Tech tools in focus this week.
This week it deals with Generative AI.
No clickbait, just smart advice.
Tech tip of the week
Microsoft
?? Benefitting from real-time tips and suggested answers during sales meetings via MS Teams from Microsoft Sales Copilot. Thus, you do not need to switch context and search for information. This distraction can disrupt the entire sales process and potentially jeopardize the deal.
?? Using Excel to reconcile financial data and managing communication with debtors in Outlook via Microsoft Copilot for Finance.
Salesforce
?? Using Einstein Copilot (Beta version), your conversional AI assistant.
SAP
?? Empowering your users to execute everyday tasks more efficiently with the help of SAP's AI Copilot, Joule (Early adopter stage), e.g., how to change sales document entries, how to check the status of sales orders.
Tech companies in the news this week
Read about the latest initiatives of tech companies, and other top tech company news.
Microsoft
Salesforce
SAP
Tech trainings next week
There is currently an incredible hype among the big software companies to win the race for the best generative AI software.
They are therefore pushing into the market with great pressure, which is reflected in the fact that they offer free training courses, among other things.
That is why we have decided to include other products in addition to the familiar software products depending on the situation.
Nevertheless, as always, we think you should stay in the product family. If you are on
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In our opinion, there is not yet a fully developed product. However, this does not mean that the current status is bad. We would call it a first release. Expecting more releases to come.
Gradually enabling departments and teams with a new topic and/or software product or extension is always a good way to go.
This does not mean that we recommend an immediate and comprehensive introduction of any of the software in this phase.
Microsoft
?? AI Skills Challenge (19 March - 19 April 2024). Register here: ? Registration | Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge ??
?? Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Defend Against Threats with Extended Detection and Response (11 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )
?? Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Transform Your Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva (12 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )
NVIDIA
?? Generative AI Explained | Learn more here: ? Course Detail | NVIDIA
Salesforce
SAP
Starting on April 16th.
Starting on April 30th.
?? This is a friendly reminder downloading and saving your documents (records of achievement, confirmations of participation, and digital badges) from openSAP as the platform will be discontinued in July 2024.
Nevertheless, the training contents will be incorporated into the SAP Learning Site.
Tech tools in focus this week
Each week our newsletter focusses on different technology tools.
This week it deals with Generative AI.
Based upon our 20+ years’ experience in Business and IT Transformation projects, we recommend the following tools: Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP as well as "staying in the product family".
Nobody currently has decades of experience with AI software. Nevertheless, we believe that our guideline "stay in the product family" is also a good maxim with regards to AI.
GENERATIVE AI
?? AZURE AI and/ or NVIDIA
as Microsoft and NVIDIA announced that their partnership continues to deliver on the promise of AI (Source: Microsoft, March 18, 2024).
?? Salesforce Generative AI
?? SAP Generative AI and/ or NVIDIA
as SAP and NVIDIA announced their partnership expansion focused on accelerating enterprise customers’ ability to harness the transformative power of data and generative AI across SAP’s portfolio of cloud solutions and applications.
As the development of AI is progressing so rapidly and there is something new every week, this topic will certainly be with us in the newsletter for some time to come.
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Ha en trevlig vecka. (Swedish for "Have a good week")
//Antje