Dynamics 365, Power Platform now generally available in Mircosoft Africa datacentres

Dynamics 365, Power Platform now generally available in Mircosoft Africa datacentres

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform services are now generally available in the Mircosoft Africa datacentres. The Microsoft Business Applications will provide organizations with solutions to cut costs, improve efficiencies, drive business continuity and disaster recovery. The services are available in the Microsoft South Africa North and West datacentre regions located in Johannesburg and Cape Town respectively.

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform services feature the ability to rapidly store, analyze, and act on data with intelligent software. While maintaining data residency and sovereignty and meeting compliance and regulatory requirements.

Dynamics 365 customer service geographical map showing countries where the service is available including the Mircosoft South Africa West and North datacentre regions

Microsoft notes the continued upgrade of services shows its commitment to investing in Africa. As well as increasing cloud capacity and capabilities to enable organizations in the public and private sectors in the region to accelerate growth through innovation, agility, and resilience.

Leaders in organizations across industries and sectors are focused on finding ways to improve the flow of innovation and knowledge across the business in order to respond to market changes, customer needs, and specific business and industry challenges at speed. They need digital solutions that break existing silos between data sources, people, processes, and insights,” says Karin Jones, Director of Business Applications GTM at Microsoft South Africa.

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This will accelerate digital innovation in the country by enabling businesses to become more agile, resilient, and competitive,” says Jones.

With this Microsoft now offers Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform online services to organizations in the region.

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Dynamics 365 Business Central is now available in Africa and the Middle East

Dynamics 365 Business Central is now available in Africa and the Middle East

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Dynamics 365 Business Central the Microsoft business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations (SMBs) is coming to Africa and the Middle East. The solution will launch in Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon over this month.

Dynamics 365 Business Central lets SMBs automate and streamline their business operations. By connecting their financials, sales, services, shipping, manufacturing, project management, operations and more to improve customer interactions.

Maher Al-Khaiyat, Regional Business Applications Director for Microsoft MEA Emerging Markets, says what businesses get with Business Central is an end-to-end view of their operations. With built-in intelligence when and where they need it. He notes that the application is easy to tailor and extend to meet any unique business or industry-specific needs.

With digital transformation now a necessity, SMBs are seeking cost-effective, streamlined systems that will make their transition seamless. Multiple, disconnected systems are now easily combined under one secure, centralised application. Using Dynamics 365 Business Central, efficiency is boosted through automated tasks and workflows. All from within familiar Office tools like Outlook, Word, and Excel.”

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The new solution will launch in Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon over this month AL-Khaiyat adds.

Business Central is easy to integrate with applications like payroll, banking apps, or custom APIs. It has the same consistent and secure experience across all devices no matter where teams are accessing the application from.

SMEs will be able to deploy Dynamics 365 Business Central in either the cloud, on-premise, or with a hybrid approach. No matter the requirements for data residency, compliance, or security, companies can run their business wherever and however needed.

Business Central was previously known as Dynamics NAV. The solution is now a SaaS and comes in the Dynamics 365 suite.

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Coca-Cola is unifying operations, streamlining pricing with Microsoft tools

Coca-Cola is unifying operations, streamlining pricing with Microsoft tools

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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) is collaborating with pricing and rebate management experts Flintfox, and Microsoft to modernise how it uses technology. This is part of an ongoing digital transformation programme at its bottling plants. The collaboration will help the bottling giant retire legacy solutions, to better manage pricing and overcome existing challenges at all stages of the supply chain.

The collaboration between Microsoft and Flintfox helps CCBA to accelerate its digital transformation journey, via seamless digital systems that enable the entire business to operate as one.

Flintfox’s Trade Revenue Management and RMx pricing extended the capabilities of our Finance and Operations solutions. Enabling CCBA’s digital transformation“, notes Gavin Holme, consulting services director at Microsoft South Africa. “With Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Azure, CCBA will achieve their goal to unify operations and intelligently adjust processes in real-time. He adds.”

Trade Revenue Management and the RMx pricing engine provide CCBA with the ability to manage advanced pricing and promotions, reduce operating costs and monitor margins. By extending the capability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and integrating with existing e-commerce and sales force automation platforms, Flintfox will enable real-time hyper-speed pricing and help deliver accurate pricing across the supply chain.

It’s an exciting time to be working with CCBA, as they bring their digital transformation vision to life via Microsoft Dynamics 365 and set out on a path of accelerated growth“, says Flintfox EMEA Director Mark Conway. He adds,  “Our intelligent solutions will reduce operating costs, create productivity gains and future-proof operations. What’s more, we will provide real-time pricing accuracy across CCBA’s channels and deliver significant, measurable ROI to the business.”

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Chief Information Officer Joshua Motsuenyane notes: “Because CCBA was born out of a merger of different companies, there are a number of infrastructure redundancies, supply duplications, and lines of accountability that were blurred. We needed to perfect the overall business’ ability to operate as one and improve pricing transparency and visibility. Flintfox and Microsoft helped us strategize how to better manage advanced pricing, promotion management, and complex supply chain pricing, as well as provide a roadmap for the future. This integration with Flintfox and Microsoft modernizes the way we use technology across our entire IT landscape and allows us to completely retire legacy systems“.

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Egypt to accelerate justice delivery at Economic Courts with Microsoft digital justice platform

Egypt to accelerate justice delivery at Economic Courts with Microsoft digital justice platform

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The Egypt Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ) Economic Courts (EC) will be able to provide quicker and more accessible justice to Egyptians using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 based digital justice platform. This is a collaboration between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Microsoft Egypt and local Microsoft partner, Link Development.

Egypt’s EC is a specialized court that focuses on resolving economic and commercial disputes. Entrusted with serving citizens and safeguarding local and foreign investments in Egypt. The EC is the first judicial body to take a full digitalization leap to boost the justice system’s performance and improve the county’s worldwide bank ranking.

Based on D365, Link Development has delivered a flagship digital justice platform with a powerful backend that automates and integrates end-to-end judiciary processes and services. Including legal case filing, assignment, scheduling, distribution, transfers, management, and others.

Through an integrated online portal, citizens, lawyers, and legal case stakeholders can register, e-file new cases, follow up on cases’ progress, set appointments, receive judges’ decisions, make e-payments, and more.

Automating Egypt’s Economic Courts is part of the government’s digitalization strategy to create a more productive and transparent justice system that citizens and investors can rely on“. Says, Counselor Ahmed Khairy, Assistant Minister of Justice, Egypt Economic Courts. It’s a national project driven by his excellency Abd El Fatah Al Sisi’s directives to realize Egypt’s 2030 vision. We are happy with the measurable performance improvements delivered by the digital justice platform since its launch. We are very impressed too with Link Development for facilitating our digital transformation”, he adds.

Mirna Aref, General Manager, Microsoft Egypt: “We believe that Egypt Economic Courts’ Digital Justice Platform is a key milestone in accelerating digital transformation across the judiciary system in Egypt.  The digital justice platform will empower EEC’s and the Ministry of Justice to serve justice with greater efficiency and transparency, in an integrated, secure and intelligent way. At Microsoft, we stand ready to partner with government entities in Egypt to promote the adoption of digital services across all sectors, enabling a competitive digital economy in line with Egypt Vision 2030. We trust that our partners, such as Link Development, can achieve more success stories in driving the government’s digital transformation.”

We are honored to cooperate with Egypt’s Economic Courts“, says Joseph Sameh, Business Solutions, General Manager, Link Development. He adds, “The automation, customization, and integration of such a matrix of mission-critical judicial processes and legal case practices have been an invigorating mission. We will continue to enrich the D365 e-justice platform and put our resources, knowledge, and expertise to help Egypt’s Economic Courts achieve their digital vision and growth.”

The first phase of digitalization of the Economic Courts was launched during Cairo ICT 2020. The fresh milestone includes the roll-out of new e-services and tools.

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Microsoft Interns4Afrika Dynamics 365 Internship in Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Botswana

Microsoft Interns4Afrika Dynamics 365 Internship in Senegal, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Botswana

We are listing open Microsoft Interns4Afrika Dynamics 365 Internship available positions in South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Uganda, Botswana and Kenya.

Microsoft 4Afrika‘s internship initiative provides real employment opportunities to talented young professionals in Sales, Marketing and IT Technical Support tracks. A response to demand from its software distribution and development partners across Africa and the Middle East.

Do you live in any of the mentioned countries? Get to be a Technical Support, Sales or Marketing intern. Microsoft’s Intern4Afrika initiative will offer you a unique experience with a dynamic and agile technology organization. Learn and work at the same time.

You will get the opportunity to work for 6 months with a Microsoft partner organization on real projects. Get to collaborate and learn from your colleagues.

You can also get to be hired by the firm depending on your performance and if you are interested in being hired after the internship program” a participant shared.

After 6 months, the session came to an end and I was lucky enough to be retained by the company” Elizabeth Chege shares.

For Edwin it was an amazing opportunity that leads to great things. Read to Find out more.

For more question about the Interns4Afrika program, check out the program FAQ’s 

Kindly click on links below to apply on the Microsoft 4Afrika Interns4Afrika FUZU page. Read the position requirements and sign up and fill away. All the best.

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