On this episode we talk with Josh Greenbaum (@josheac) of Enterprise Application Consulting. Josh has covered Microsoft and other major players in the enterprise business solutions space for many years now and was at Microsoft's recent Business Applications Summit as part of an analyst briefing that coincided with the event.

Josh chats with us about the state of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations in the context of the competitive landscape, and he shares his latest new perspective on where some of the technology cycles are at more broadly in areas including citizen developer trends, integration, and automation.

Show notes:

• 1:40 – Impressions on the revealed data about the Dynamics 365 user adds and implementation times
• 10:00 – An inflection point in the market, and how D365FO faces the competition and nails their validity in the market.
• 12:00 – Pressure to deliver cloud projects quickly and successfully
• 14:00 – Faith in the extensibility drive?
• 22:00 – Buyer advice – where the big problems and opportunities exist today (and how LCS fits in)
• 25:30 – Why Microsoft has an opportunity to differentiate from Google and Amazon on cloud solution management
• 29:30 – AI and process automation – where is that segment of the market today?