More Microsoft Clouds for Industries, Including Nonprofits Skip to main content The Townsend Report From James Townsend, vice president of Sylogist, thoughts on digital transformation, marketing automation, customer relationship management, Power Apps , Microsoft Dynamics 365, government contracting, customer service and more. Search Search This Blog More Microsoft Clouds for Industries, Including Nonprofits February 24, 2021 by James Townsend Today Microsoft announced three new industry computing clouds for financial, manufacturing and nonprofit. The new clouds join the healthcare and retail clouds. Based on Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and other Microsoft services, the industry clouds consolidate components, tools, solutions, and data models that are geared toward industry needs and standards. Since my focus is public sector, I am most interested in the nonprofit cloud among these three new clouds. According to Justin Spelhaug, who leads Tech for Social Impact at Microsoft, "Specifically, we are bringing together the power of Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure and LinkedIn. This will make engagement and fundraising, staff collaboration, volunteer engagement and management, and program design and delivery more efficient. In addition, Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit is underpinned by a Common Data Model for Nonprofits, making it easier and less expensive for nonprofits to integrate with existing solutions and share data across the organization." The nonprofit cloud builds on the Microsoft nonprofit solution accelerator as well as the fundraising and engagement solution which contain data models and templates for Dynamics 365 / Power Apps. The Common Data Model is an effort to create a de facto standard to simplify integration of applications across products and vendors. Some of the data model is derived from government and nongovernmental organization standards that are relevant to nonprofits. When you combine the intellectual property that Microsoft is creating and funding through Microsoft implementation partners with the free and discounted software offered by Microsoft to charities and other nonprofits, Microsoft is developing a rich ecosystem of software solutions that can work together for the nonprofit sector. Learn more from this session at Microsoft Ignite: Read more: Microsoft 365 for Nonprofits: Software Grants Introducing Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Register for Microsoft webinar on nonprofit cloud Sign up for updates on the Microsoft nonprofit cloud Microsoft unveils three more 'industry clouds' for financial, manufacturing and nonprofit What does the cloud have to do with philanthropy? A Q&A with Justin Spelhaug on helping nonprofits with digital transformation Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Popular posts from this blog Key Concepts for Microsoft Dynamics 365: Tenant, Instance, App and Solution August 22, 2022 Updated 8/15/2022 To understand Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Dynamics CRM) and Power Apps, you need to learn some new terms and concepts that may be a bit different from what you know from databases and solutions that are hosted on premises. These concepts also apply to Power Apps. The main difference is that with Power Apps you are not starting with a Microsoft app but more of a blank canvas for your custom apps. This post introduces some key terms and how these concepts are important for planning your implementation. While Dynamics 365 is still available on premises, it is most commonly deployed on the Microsoft cloud. 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This post explains three administrator roles: Office 365 Global Administrator Dynamics 365 System Administrator Dynamics 365 Service Administrator You may think that the Dynamics 365 system administrator would have power to do all the actions needed to manage Dynamics 365, but this is not the case. What's different in Microsoft cloud deployments is that licenses and user accounts are managed in Office 365 by an Office 365 Global Administrator. This role is analogous to a network administrator for an on premises Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Read more Switching from Microsoft Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central September 10, 2021 Updated 4/6/2022 Register for our webinar "Great Plains to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for Nonprofits." Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-gp/terms/lifecycle This year Microsoft announced a date for the end of mainstream support for Dynamics 365 GP 2018 accounting software. This spurred some blogs and customers to think that they must switch from Dynamics GP to another product by January 10, 2023 when mainstream support ends. It turns out that this announcement does not cover the latest version which is named simply Dynamics 365 GP (without a year in the product name). Dynamics 365 GP will continue to be developed and supported indefinitely. Without support, customers cannot continue to use accounting software because it must be maintained in order to comply with changing tax and regulatory requirements. Microsoft ships these updates in the June and December releases, and adds hotfixes and other new features in an October update. 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