Webinar: Breaking Free from Excel and Paper Workflows to Accelerate AI and Data Utilization

Pitfalls of Digitizing Excel/Paper and Citizen Development In recent years, the importance of Digital Transformation (DX) has increased for corporate competitiveness. The first step is the digitization of paper and Excel-based work. Management through paper and Excel can lead to excessive reliance on individuals and errors due to manual aggregation and data entry. Digitizing these tasks reduces errors, eliminates over-reliance on individuals, and improves business continuity. In addition to utilizing cloud services, low-code and no-code development are widely adopted for digitization, with "citizen development"—which allows field staff to drive business improvement speedily—being a major benefit. On the other hand, development advancing by department often leads to isolated optimization. As a result, system integration may lag, leading to increased data fragmentation. To succeed in citizen development, design based on the overall business process is essential. It is crucial to determine whether to optimize at the departmental level or aim for company-wide deployment and ensure that the necessary data is accessible to those who need it. Otherwise, even if business automation is advanced, data cannot be utilized effectively, failing to achieve company-wide optimal improvement.

Many Companies Fail to Prepare "Usable Data" Despite Advancements As digitization progresses and more companies adopt BI tools for visualization and AI, many report that they "do not see expected results." The background lies in the proliferation of systems built through isolated optimization, which advances data siloization. Consequently, the potential benefits of data utilization are not being fully realized. To solve this challenge, "connecting and integrating data" is indispensable. By making data mutually referenceable, company-wide optimization becomes possible. By utilizing an integrated data foundation optimized for the whole, cross-sectional and multi-faceted analysis of diverse data becomes possible, leading to rapid decision-making in management and operations.

Explaining Business Digitization with Power Platform and Data Foundation Building with Microsoft Fabric In this seminar, we will organize the "pre-data utilization" challenges behind the scenes of stalled visualization and AI initiatives, explaining them practically with demonstrations. Along with this, based on internal and customer use cases, we will introduce the challenges customers faced and how they improved their business using Power Platform. Furthermore, we will explain the points for advancing data utilization with Microsoft Fabric to provide insights for your consideration.

・ Recommended for: ・ Those wishing to advance business digitization or modernization. ・ Those wishing to promote citizen development but feeling uneasy about doing it solely in-house. ・ Those wishing to eliminate data silos and advance data utilization.

・ Key Takeaways: This seminar utilizes Power Platform (tools for creating business apps and automation) and Microsoft Fabric (a foundation for data storage, integration, and analysis) to explain concepts and specific approaches for data utilization. ・ You want to advance AI utilization but do not know where to start. ・ You are worried about how to move from PoC to company-wide deployment. ・ You understand the importance of DX promotion but do not feel the effects. Those with these challenges are encouraged to join.