David Laster

David Laster

GraVoc| Director | Software Solutions (GP/BC/PBI)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Microsoft MVP | Business Central |
Dynamics GP| Power BI Enthusiast and Team Lead
Bullhorn GP/BC Connectors Product Manager
Experienced Accountant & ERP Systems Implementation and Reporting Expert
Summit Legend
BC/NAVUG All-Star
GPUG All-Star
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Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Dynamics ERP

Managing and Reporting on Receivables in Business Central

Cash is king!! This new session will cover how you can take advantage of the native attention-grabbing features Business Central has to offer that can formalize your customer collection efforts and improve your collection rates! The cost of borrowing is going up, and nobody wants to make write offs, so we'll discuss how to use the customer activity and balance reporting options, setup and produce Statements, Reminders, & Finance Charges that help bring the cash in the door! Watch out for the Power BI Reporting capabilities as well.

Ignite Your Implementation Teams: Turning Projects into Masterpieces

- Know the contract – lessons from calling balls and strikes on scope creep
- Maintain a Professional Image – a guiding set of principles I rely on daily to foster highly effective interactions
- Your Hidden Mickeys – create that special something that nobody else has
- Difficult conversations – strategies for handling project and people alignment

Guardrails, Guideposts and Milestones: 10 Critical Migration Best Practices to Guide your BC Project

To achieve a successful implementation of Business Central requires a lot of different things to go right and converge on the cutover date. However getting there requires an enormous amount of energy and organization.

This session covers 10 elements and events for every BC implementation project, and will help ensure you have a great sense of what you need to get the project off the ground and into the air!

Modern Support for Modern SaaS: Rethinking Managed Services for Dynamics in the Cloud

SaaS customers expect always-on support and proactive service.

In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Partners can build a scalable and profitable managed services practice for Dynamics 365 and related applications.

Learn how to position and sell managed service contracts, structure billing models, and leverage the right tools to deliver consistent value.

Breaking into the Benefits of Telemetry for BC

This introductory session will cover how and where to get started with BC Telemetry reporting with Power BI. We'll view reports and discuss key approaches to uncovering helpful information living inside BC that will help administrators, implementation specialists, and developers understand more of what is happening inside the system.

25 Tips and Tricks for Maximizing the Power BI Apps for Business Central

Deploying and setting up the BC Power BI Apps for reporting is only the first step in onboarding these new gems. Are you and your team ready do to this efficiently and get the most out of them? What should you expect after you make them available for general use?

There are literally thousands of clicks a user can make after deploying these powerful new reports, however which clicks are the most effective clicks for impacting the visuals in a meaningful way? for impacting decision making and overall usefulness?

This session demos and covers 25 practical, useful and hot tips and tricks in 60 minutes that I use for preparing BC, deploying the new reports, using them interactively, and training the implementation team and end users alike.

From Mystery to Insight: A Practical Telemetry Playbook for Business Central

Have you ever wondered what your users are actually doing in Business Central, why performance suddenly changed, which integrations are generating errors, or what happened before a support issue was reported? Telemetry can help answer those questions.
This session explores how Business Central telemetry, Application Insights, and Microsoft's Power BI reporting tools work together to provide greater visibility into system activity. We'll review reports, dashboards, and techniques that help administrators, consultants, developers, and support teams understand usage patterns, troubleshoot issues, monitor changes, and gain insight into the overall health of a BC environment. You'll see how telemetry can be used throughout the lifecycle of a Business Central implementation, from training and testing through long-term support and optimization, and learn why so many BC professionals consider it one of the most valuable tools available today.

David Laster

GraVoc| Director | Software Solutions (GP/BC/PBI)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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