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3 ways to minimize fraud this holiday season 

Even in challenging times, the holiday season’s irresistible deals attract both customers and fraudsters. A differentiated fraud prevention strategy is essential to keep a merchant’s fraud losses minimized while letting legitimate customers continue to have a smooth shopping experience. Here are three tips for the holiday season to help keep fraud low and maximize gains during these peak sales times.

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Prepare for dimension table changes in Financial Dimension Framework 

Effective December 1, 2020, for all 10.0+ versions of Dynamics 365 Financial Dimension Framework we are preventing deletion from the following Dimension table. This change is applied directly in the database and follows the same business logic that is used within the application. These changes protect the integrity of the financial accounting data. Any customizations or scripts will need to be immediately updated to comply with these changes. Note that updating data to blank values is not a valid solution because this corrupts data.

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Boost supply chain resilience with cloud and edge scale units in Supply Chain Management 

Companies that work with manufacturing and distribution need to be able to run key business processes 24/7, without interruption, and at scale. Challenges arise with unreliable connections or network latency when business processes compete for the same system resources when peak scale is required, or during periodic or regular maintenance for different regions, across time

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Why focus on subscription churn? 

In subscription-based services, repeatable income is core to preserving business continuity and growing your revenue base to build the best service possible. Retaining customers is key to your success. On average, Recurly Research has identified 5.6% of customers churn from subscription businesses. You can retain many of these customers when you apply your retention strategies.

Servicing assets using Dynamics 365 Field Service 

Dynamics 365 Field Service now offers support for scenarios around the servitization business model, rental equipment, and work order management for manufacturers with this feature. You can now create work orders for assets, even if the asset and work order have different accounts. You can watch a demo of this feature on our Field Service

Build targeted user experiences efficiently by using app profiles in multisession apps 

If your service organization needs to create your own targeted combinations of channels and tools for your agents, starting with October 2020 wave 2 release, you’ll be able to take advantage of the app profile manager capability in multisession apps. The capability is included with the Omnichannel for Customer Service preview available for Dynamics 365 Insiders. In

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Build automated tests quickly with Regression suite automation tool (RSAT) version 2.0 

The Regression suite automation tool (RSAT) enables functional power users to record business tasks using the Task recorder in Finance and Operations apps. You can then convert these tasks into a suite of automated tests without the need to write source code. The release of RSAT version 2.0 includes an improved and simplified experience using

Keep an eye on your email bounce rates in Dynamics 365 Marketing 

Everyone who has sent an email message at least a couple of times faced a situation when your email cannot be delivered to the recipient. It is not particularly important if it is just a single email for your friend or family member. But what if the email impacts a critical business function? Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing allows you to send email campaigns to a large number of recipients. But if you’ve ever