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In this episode, we talk about how you can live in the future through the magic of delayed send email. Give yourself some more breathing room and get a better response to your emails, even when writing and responding to emails at 2 AM.

Joel reviews Boomerang for Outlook, a great app that will help you become a delayed send ninja.

In the "That's not productive" segment, we debate the productivity merits of Siri/Cortana/Alexa.

Follow us on twitter @ mcanderson and joellindstrom and Matthew's blog Connecting The Data.

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In this episode (sponsored by Kingswaysoft and AlexaCRM) we welcome Andrii Butenko to North America and the podcast, and Neil Benson stops by to talk complex solution management. Other topics in this episode:

• What's new with Business Process Flow 
• Azure blog storage
• Windows Server 2016 is now supported for on premises
• Dynamics 365 service admin role
• Responding to the negative feedback on the mobile app 
• Andrii's favorite XRM Toolbox tools

In this episode, Scott Sewell discusses some of the ways he has used the KingswaySoft Premium Slowly Changing Dimension component with Analysis Services and Power BI to look at Dynamics 365 changes over time.

It's the episode we've been putting off . . .

This week we discuss procrastination. Why do we procrastinate, how to tackle big hairy tasks without procrastination, and how procrastination can sometimes be a good thing.

In the "That's not productive" segment, some tips from this HuffPo post may not increase your productivity without a little more context.

Follow us on twitter @ mcanderson and joellindstrom and Matthew's blog Connecting The Data.

This episode is a production of CRM Audio. Subscribe to the CRM Audio network of podcasts on Itunes.

In this episode (sponsored by Alexa CRM and KingswaySoft), we discuss the following topics:

• What did George eat in Lisbon
• Update from Extreme365
• Is the SOAP endpoint going away?
• Social Engagement
• Social Selling Assistant
• Social Engagment connector for Power BI
• What is Customer Engagement
• Solution management--should you break up your solutions?

In this episode, we answer a question from listener Erwin Sanders about Power BI licensing. When can you use the free version, and when do you need to pay for professional? Scott explains several scenarios where you can you regular PowerBI, and scenarios where you need to have a Professional license. 

In a follow-up to the last episode, Matthew and Joel dig into how to be more productive with email, and two great tips around effective use of categorization and Outlook search folders to help tame the email beast.

We also introduce a new feature called "That's not productive," looking at some popular "life hacks" that may actually decrease your productivity. This week: using sticky tabs in game player handbooks.

Follow us on twitter @ mcanderson and joellindstrom and Matthew's blog Connecting The Data.

This episode is a production of CRM Audio. Subscribe to the CRM Audio network of podcasts on Itunes.

In this episode (sponsored by KingswaySoft and AlexaCRM), we discuss the following topics:

• How orphaned document templates broke mobile
• The easiest way to send SMS text messages from Dynamics 365
• SLA's
• Fantasy Sales Team vs. Gamification
• Hardware tool of the week: LIZone QC Series battery
• Software tool of the week: XRM Toolbox Attribute Usage Inspector
• App Designer
• Listener feedback
• Our sister podcasts

In this episode (sponsored by KingswaySoft) we get into the Dynamics 365 Data Export Service, a great now option to take Dynamics 365 data to a SQL database, from which you can use Power BI or other analytical or reporting tools to analyze the data.

See Scott Durrow's video that covers the process for configuring the Data Export Service.

In this episode of ProdCast, Matthew and Joel discuss email and how to keep it from sapping your productivity. How can you reach inbox zero, be responsive to your colleagues and clients, and get control of your mailbox?