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Business Applications
Dynamics 365 -- Microsoft's combination cloud CRM and ERP system -- saw 65 percent growth during the first three quarters of the company's fiscal 2018 (Microsoft's fourth-quarter results come out Thursday). That makes it one of Microsoft's fastest-growing businesses, even faster than Office 365. Microsoft executives this week announced a number of new ways they're working to assist partners with getting involved with Dynamics 365, as well as with other business applications such as Power BI data visualization. During his Inspire keynote, Nadella said that Power BI is "one tool that's changed the culture inside the company," thanks to the way that it helps bring the focus to leading indicators rather than lagging indicators.
"When you think about business process in particular, the one thing that is going to be true is more things are going to be digitized. As we see the power of IoT and other tools that are going to be used, every workflow is going to be automated," Nadella said. "That means we need to have a set of tools that allow us to reduce the total cost of these customizations and automation. And now we've built a complete new app platform, which I think represents a tremendous opportunity for everyone in the room -- Power BI, PowerApps and Flow. The combination of it is just going to change how applications are built and deployed."
