Podcast Archives - Beyond Key

Digital Sovereignty & the Future of Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:18:19 +0000

In Episode 5 of Tech Leadership Insights, host Lara explores how geopolitics, global regulations, and sovereign cloud models are reshaping enterprise IT decisions across Europe and beyond.

Drawing insights from Gartner, Forrester, and recent Microsoft developments, the episode explains what digital sovereignty truly means and why it has become a strategic priority for modern organizations. The conversation highlights how CIOs can balance regulatory requirements, innovation, and operational resilience while designing cloud strategies that support global growth.

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Turning Microsoft 365 into a Platform for Leadership Execution

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:14:19 +0000

In Episode 4 of Beyond Leadership Lounge, host Lara explores how CEOs and CXOs can move beyond basic productivity and transform Microsoft 365 into a platform for faster decisions, stronger execution, and scalable growth.

Many organizations already use modern tools yet still experience friction in daily operations. This episode discusses why the real gap is digital enablement, not technology. The conversation highlights how leaders can design for clarity, workflow efficiency, and actionable insights while avoiding common mistakes that limit adoption and ROI.

Bridging this gap often requires a structured approach to implementation, governance, and user adoption. This is where SharePoint consulting plays a critical role in helping organizations turn Microsoft 365 into a truly scalable digital workplace.

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Scaling AI with Microsoft Fabric for the Future of Work

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:13:12 +0000

In Episode 3 of Beyond Leadership Lounge, host Lara speaks with Darren, a senior Data & AI expert, about how leaders can scale AI responsibly, securely, and profitably as they prepare for 2026 and beyond.

The conversation explores why AI maturity is becoming a core leadership competency and how Microsoft Fabric is transforming the way organizations unify data and embed AI into everyday decision-making. The episode also highlights how strong data foundations eliminate silos, and enable real-time intelligence that drives operational and financial advantage.

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Scaling Multi-Location Businesses with D365 Business Central

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:01:30 +0000

In Episode 2 of Beyond Leadership Lounge, host Will Carter explores how leaders can successfully scale and manage multi-location organizations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

As companies expand across regions, they often face fragmented systems, and operational inefficiencies. This episode discusses how modern ERP decisions can bring centralized control, real-time insights, and standardized processes across multiple locations. The conversation also highlights leadership strategies for managing finance, operations, and reporting at scale while maintaining flexibility for local teams.

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AI Revolution: Lead the Future of Work (2026)

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:42:06 +0000

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how organizations operate. In the first episode of Beyond Leadership Lounge, host Will Carter speaks with River Collins, an AI Adoption & Transformation Expert, about what the AI revolution means for modern leaders.

The discussion explores the sharp rise in AI adoption, why many implementations fail despite strong intent, and the “parallel path strategy” that helps organizations successfully integrate AI. The episode also highlights key leadership challenges while offering practical insights.

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Create a Dynamic Data Analytics Strategy

Beyond Key Team — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:42:34 +0000

It is crucial to demonstrate the potential impact of data analytics projects or tools to earn stakeholder buy-in. You can achieve these goals through key metrics and how they will improve with the introduction of data analytics.

The key to getting stakeholder buy-in for data analytics projects or tools is to focus on the impact on the business and involve stakeholders in the process from the beginning. By demonstrating the potential benefits and keeping stakeholders informed, you can build support and ensure the project’s success.

It is essential to focus on the outcomes that matter to get stakeholders interested in data analytics. While they may not be interested in the technical details of how ML improves Power BI (Business Intelligence) or what platform to use, they care about data analytics’ impact on the business.

To build interest and buy-in, you must show stakeholders how data analytics can help them achieve their objectives and key results (OKRs) for the project. This requires understanding the stakeholder’s priorities and how data analytics can help them solve genuine business problems.

One practical approach is to start with a specific business problem or challenge the stakeholder faces and then show how data analytics can help solve that problem. This could be improved customer satisfaction, increased operational efficiency, or better decision-making.

Another approach is to provide examples of how data analytics has helped other businesses achieve their goals. This can help stakeholders see the potential benefits and get excited about what data analytics can do for their business.

Finally, involving stakeholders in the process from the beginning is important. This can help build interest and ownership in the project and ensure that the final solution meets their needs and expectations.

Final Thoughts

Data analytics is great for helping stakeholders leverage data analytics for their operations. If you have additional questions about how to use data analytics for your organization, schedule a free consultation with our team today.

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How Robotics Process Automation Can Help Your Organization

Beyond Key Team — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:31:43 +0000

The text below is taken from a webinar Beyond Key held on Robotics Process Automation. The speaker Raj Krishnan is not only Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Advisor, but we are also grateful to have him serve on the Beyond Key advisory board.

Robotic Process Automation Overview

Microsoft recently announced they want to invest in robotic process automation (RPA). At their annual conference, Microsoft made some major announcements about their plans with RPA, including some recent acquisitions in the field.

Microsoft’s approach to RPA revolves around using the Power Automate platform. Microsoft is powerful using digital automation, like Logic Apps, Virtual Agents, and things like this.

Plus, artificial intelligence is a powerful area for Microsoft. They have form recognizers, object detection, and speech recognition. They have a lot of what we call the DPA and the IPA capabilities, but traditionally they are not strong in what we call the typical RPA,

To fix this, they added a program called UI flows, which you’re going to see in our demo, through the acquisition of a new company called WinAutomotive. WinAutomotive helps legacy systems by capturing the recording and the systems needed to assimilate human behavior.

Microsoft is filling up the basic needs in RPA, which is the UI flow. Others in the industry like UI automation, Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and Blue Prism are trying to go from the top, filling the gap in artificial intelligence, connectors, and digital process automation.

Microsoft is in a little better position because everything they do in the cognitive world, everything they do with application integration, can all be leveraged. All they must do is make sure they have an excellent story when it comes to legacy system integration, and you’re going to see Microsoft investing in that more and more. Moving forward, it will make Microsoft a viable RPA player.

Three Ways How Microsoft Helps With RPA

Right now, they are more of a DPA/IPA player, but that’s the goal, which is why Microsoft is investing in this area. Here are several ways you can use this for your organization today.

First, the AI Builder uses OCR technologies to recognize forms and extract fields from those forms.

Second, I cannot emphasize enough about the Common Data Service (CDS) importance. The data store keeps all the data with a single definition of the data elements you use in your process orchestration.

For example, when I take a form and use artificial intelligence to extract the field, I store it using the Common Data Service, and then I can connect those fields to Salesforce.

It is easy to pull that field from the CDS by asking the system, “Hey, go and take the invoice ID, go and take the amount, or go and take the case ID.” And now I can add this information in Salesforce. That is why the CDS is an important part of RPA and is part of the Power Automate platform.

If Microsoft can continue to enhance its capability to deal with legacy systems, it will become a great process automation platform. The key will be to look at the connectors.

Third, Microsoft Connectors are a fantastic thing. There are about 300 plus connectors. What do I mean by connector? If I want to connect to Salesforce, I’m not writing a code for it. I open the Salesforce connector, give my credentials, and configure the connection while connected to Salesforce.

You can integrate these connections with Dropbox, SAP, and other services. 300 connectors are out there that I can call, configure, and now start talking to them.

Final Thoughts

We hope you enjoyed the snippet from our RPA webinar. If you want to hear more about RPA from a real Microsoft expert, watch the full webinar here.

If you have additional questions about using RPA for your organization, please schedule a free consultation with one of our Robotic Process Automation experts to help you automate your legacy systems.

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Why would you use Microsoft Teams?

Beyond Key Team — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:40:36 +0000

Microsoft Teams is more than just a communication platform. In our podcast clip of the week, we wanted to share with you how to get the most of your Microsoft Teams. This clip is from our Microsoft Teams webinar. You can watch the entire webinar by clicking the Teams Webinar Link.

Why would you use Microsoft Teams?

The first thing is you want to keep remote teams connected. One question clients ask is why not Zoom? Zoom is great for things like webinars with third-parties. Teams are built for people in your network to connect.

You can use Team for webinars, but it is better for collaborating. That is what makes Teams different from tools like Zoom and Webex. It is also different tools like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger because Teams are not just about communication but communication and collaboration.

It is where you put everything in one place by centralizing employee communication & document sharing.

Not only can you communicate with a co-worker on a chat or do a quick video call, but you can also share documents like PowerPoint, OneDrive, or others. It is all in one centralized location.

If you have additional questions about using Microsoft Teams for your organization, please schedule a free consultation with one of our Teams experts to help you develop the best strategy for communicating and collaborating with your remote team.

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