4Sight Alliance & Channel Partner Connect Newsletter | August 2024

A practical guide urging businesses to move beyond the hype of AI in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (D365 CE) and focus on using AI where it truly adds value—across Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and Field Service—by ensuring clean data, intentional use, and a mindset shift from features to outcomes.

Microsoft Business Central Online is a cloud-based ERP solution transforming retail by streamlining operations, enhancing customer experiences, enabling agility, and supporting data-driven decisions. It empowers retailers to innovate, adapt quickly, and stay competitive in a fast-changing market.

OneLake is Microsoft Fabric’s unified data lake that uses Shortcuts to abstract and access data across multiple clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP) without duplication. It promises centralized governance and seamless integration, but comes with trade-offs in performance, security complexity, and ecosystem limitations. It's a smart virtualization approach, not a universal solution.

Acronis Partner Day South Africa 2025 brought together top MSPs, distributors, and tech leaders to explore the future of cybersecurity. With sessions on threat intelligence, strategic scaling, Microsoft integration, and partner success stories, the event emphasized innovation, collaboration, and empowerment — showcasing Acronis as a key driver of secure, scalable…

Microsoft 365 is now a powerful platform for industry-specific innovation. In FY26, resellers can drive digital transformation by customizing Microsoft 365 for sectors like healthcare, finance, education, and retail using tools like Microsoft Cloud for Industry and Copilot Studio. This approach enables faster value delivery, stronger customer relationships, and new…