This Week in Tech (Apr 15 - Apr 21)

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 Manufacturing as Hanover Trade Fair (in German: Hannover Messe) takes place next week.

No clickbait, just smart advice.

Tech tip of the week

Microsoft

?? Benefitting from the new feature of the new mobile environment and mobile Field Service app

• Show bookings in the agenda view
• Embedded instructions
• Configure list view
• New and intuitive user experience

Salesforce

?? Benefitting from the innovations in Field Service Mobile

• Lightning web components
• Scheduling the setting for the mobile extension toolkit (beta)
• Change the application language to support Hebrew (beta)

Tech companies in the news this week

Read about the latest initiatives of tech companies, and other top tech company news.

Microsoft

?? Microsoft and G42 partner to accelerate AI innovation in UAE and beyond

?? AI study guide: The no-cost tools from Microsoft to jump start your generative AI journey

?? A Year with Copilot: What Microsoft Learned About AI at Work

?? Manufacturing for tomorrow: Microsoft announces new industrial AI innovations from the cloud to the factory floor

?? Microsoft unveils AI features for manufacturers at Hannover Messe 2024 (22-26 April 2024)

Highlights comprise:

• Modernize service operations with Microsoft Copilot in Dynamics 365 Field Service???
• Deliver end-to-end personalization to customers and improve efficiency ??
• Improve visibility into product genealogy with traceability???

Please get in touch with us if you have questions about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service, Sales and/ or Marketing.

Salesforce

?? How Data, Trust, and Contextual UX Deliver AI Success

?? Salesforce Brings Slack AI to All Paid Customers, Adds Recap to Deliver Daily Morning Digests

?? New Survey: Data Will Make or Break Workers' Trust in AI ??

SAP

?? 2024 Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems

Everybody knows that NORDA Advisory is the biggest fan of Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP. Nevertheless, we still have an independant, critical, and DACH-related and Scandinavian-specific view on their products.

SAP Transportation Management System is one of the products that we cannot recommend at all.

Please get in touch with us if you want to know the details.

As our recommendations are consistent and we are not just a flag in the wind, here is our corresponding recommendation: CargoWise .

Please see our corresponding Newsletter This week in Tech (Apr 17 - Apr 23) | LinkedIn

Please get in touch with us if you want to know more.

?? SAP Digital Hub Innovations Win 2024 Stevie Awards

?? GROW with SAP: Add-On Packages Expand the Value

?? RISE with SAP: Finance and Supply Chain Add-On Packages

?? Partners Help Navigate Data-Driven World

?? SAP and Icertis Empower Contract Intelligence

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.

Microsoft

?? AI Skills Challenge (19 March - 19 April 2024). Register here: ? Registration | Microsoft Learn AI Skills Challenge ??

Last chance.

?? Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Migrate and Modernize SAP on the Microsoft Cloud (22 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )

?? Microsoft 365 Virtual Training Day: Manage Microsoft Teams?Collaboration Communications?Systems (22 + 23 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )

?? Microsoft?365 Virtual Training Day: Prepare Your Organization for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft?365 (24 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )

?? Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Configure Security Operations Using Microsoft Sentinel (25 April 2024) Learn more here: ? Microsoft Event ( mktoevents.com )

NVIDIA

?? Generative AI Explained | Learn more here: ? Course Detail | NVIDIA

Salesforce

?? Spring '24 Release Highlights

SAP

?? Transform Your Business Processes with SAP Signavio and SAP Build

Starting on April 16, 2024.

?? Unlocking Tax Transformation with SAP

Starting on April 30, 2024.

?? 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 Manufacturing.

Based upon our 20+ years’ experience in Business and IT Transformation projects, we recommend the following tools.

TOP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MANUFACTURING

?? Microsoft Dynamics 365, including Copilot, Salesforce, including Einstein Copilot or SAP CX as CRM system

?? SAP S/4 HANA as ERP system, including Joule copilot

?? Broker technologies replacing MES

Top tips from the Manufacturing expert Edwin Benz from NTT Data:

?? Staying close to the template

?? Using industry best practices to leverage efficiencies

Please get in touch or book an appointment at Hanover Trade Fair next week with Edwin Benz .

Please also get in touch with us if you have further questions about CRM and ERP systems in Manufacturing.

???? ?????? ???????? ?????? ???????? ????????????????????? Do you look for best practice approaches, methods, and tools or simply get an understanding how all these tools fit together into your IT system landscape? Send me a direct message (DM) ([email protected] ) to discuss the options.

Read more?This week in Tech?next week.

Ha en bra helg. (Swedish for "Have a good weekend")

//Antje