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Meet Columbus Digital Experts at Community Summit North America 2024
Columbus is excited to return as an exhibitor at Community Summit NA 2025, the largest independent event dedicated to innovation, education, and training for Microsoft business applications.
Our experts will be leading a series of educational sessions detailing how the latest digital transformation tools can create operational efficiencies, strengthen your customer relationships, and increase revenue across your organization.
Sign up to reserve your session seat and learn first-hand how to utilize AI and ML to overcome your company’s biggest challenges, and more. Join us at Booth #1837 to meet with our experts and explore how we can accelerate your journey toward successful digital transformation.
Columbus Sessions
Monday, October 20
Customizing Dashboards
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Room: Suwannee 3 – Convention Center, Mezzanine
Learn how to personalize dashboards in D365 F&O to create focused, role-based user experiences. This session will show how simplifying the interface for new users can improve adoption and surface meaningful metrics.
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Speaker: Evan MacWhorter
Automating Tasks with Power Automate
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Room: Suwannee 3 – Convention Center, Mezzanine
Explore how Power Automate, a key component of the Microsoft Power Platform, can streamline business processes by automating repetitive tasks and integrating various applications. Learn the fundamentals of building automated workflows, leveraging connectors, and implementing approval processes. Real-world demos and use cases will highlight how automation can enhance productivity and reduce manual effort.
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Speakers: Michael Simms & CJ Combs
Tuesday, October 21
101: New to D365 F&O Fixed Assets – Master the Basics and Take Control of Your Assets!
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Room: Desoto 2 – Convention Center, Mezzanine
New to Fixed Assets in D365 F&O? Learn the foundational setup, full asset lifecycle—from creation to disposal—and how to generate key reports like the fixed asset statement. Whether migrating data or starting fresh, you’ll leave with practical tools to manage assets with confidence.
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Speakers: Jason Wilson
All Roads Lead to Fabric: A Strategic Deep Dive into Microsoft's Unified Data Platform
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET | Location: Coastal 7 - Convention Center, Level 2
Microsoft Fabric is redefining the data platform by unifying analytics and management in one solution. This session shows how Fabric simplifies architecture, reduces costs, and drives collaboration, with seamless adoption through native Excel integration. We’ll close with a strategic discussion on whether to stay with Power BI or scale to Fabric for future needs.
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Speaker: Michael Simms
Wednesday, October 22
Netting Know-How: Navigating Offsets, Settlements, and Cash Flow
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Room: Desoto 2 – Convention Center, Mezzanine
Curious about netting in D365 F&O? This session breaks down clearly—how to set it up, when to use it, and how it can simplify reconciliation and improve cash flow.
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Speakers: Jason Wilson
Thursday, October 23
Image Tagging AI Case Study: A Customer Story
8:15 AM – 9:15 AM | Room: Osceola 2 – Convention Center, Level 2
Discover a real-world implementation of AI to solve a business challenge. This session walks through the full lifecycle—from discovery to go-live—highlighting architecture, decisions, milestones, and outcomes. Co-presented with a customer.
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Speakers: Michael Simms
Now Boarding: Microsoft’s D365 F/SCM FastTrack to Accelerate Solution Design and Achieve Business Value
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Room: Lafayette 2 – Convention Center, Mezzanine
Learn how leveraging Microsoft’s FastTrack program accelerates D365 implementations. Explore how workshops, process libraries, and milestone reviews help ensure your solution is right-fit, aligned with Microsoft best practices.
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Speakers: Juanita Shoen
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Who is Columbus?
A proven digital transformation partner delivering core business technology and solutions.
Columbus is a global digital advisory and IT services agency with 30 years of proven success leading companies through seamless digital transformation. We offer a deep industry knowledge, extensive technical expertise, and profound customer insight that will maximize your value chain and position your company for long-term, sustainable success.
Our comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions includes:
- Best-in-Class Cloud ERP Solutions: We’ll lead you through a fluid implementation process of migrating your ERP to Cloud to help you reduce TCO, leverage intelligent analytics, strengthen security, and more.
- CRM/CXE: We’ll help you choose and integrate the perfect digital tools for enhanced customer visibility and analytics that optimize your personalization, create more engaging customer experiences, nurture ongoing loyalty, and reduce churn.
- Data Analytics/AI/ML: We’ll help you build scalable, future-proof data platforms that uncover new growth potential, predict trends, and provide actionable insight through the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Delivering and Supporting Managed Services: Our team offers proactive, 24/7 monitoring, support, and optimization to ensure your systems run smoothly, allowing you to focus on strategic business growth.
Are you ready to begin your transformation journey?