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Enhancing Business Performance with Dynamics 365 Project Operations and a Low-Code CRM Platform

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, companies across industries are seeking agile, scalable, and integrated solutions to optimize operations, manage customer relationships, and drive growth. As digital transformation becomes a strategic imperative, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations and low-code CRM platforms have emerged as essential tools for organizations aiming to enhance business efficiency and project management performance. When combined with expert Dynamics 365 consulting services, these solutions provide a powerful ecosystem that can significantly streamline processes and improve outcomes.

This article explores how businesses can leverage Dynamics 365 Project Operations alongside a low-code CRM platform to maximize operational efficiency, increase collaboration, and deliver better value to customers and stakeholders.

Understanding Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a comprehensive solution from Microsoft designed to unify project-based businesses by integrating capabilities across sales, resource management, project planning, time tracking, expense management, and project accounting. It enables organizations to deliver projects on time and within budget, using real-time insights and optimized workflows.

Key features of Dynamics 365 Project Operations include:

Project Planning and Management: Utilize Microsoft Project’s scheduling capabilities directly within Dynamics 365 to create detailed work breakdown structures and allocate resources effectively.

Resource Management: Gain visibility into resource availability and skillsets, allowing for better alignment of talent to project needs.

Time and Expense Tracking: Empower employees to track time and submit expenses via intuitive interfaces, simplifying the billing process.

Financial Management: Connect project operations with accounting systems to automate invoicing, manage budgets, and ensure accurate revenue recognition.

Analytics and Insights: Leverage AI-driven dashboards to monitor project health, forecast outcomes, and support data-driven decisions.

By aligning teams and processes in a single platform, Dynamics 365 Project Operations fosters collaboration and eliminates silos that traditionally hinder project success.

The Power of a Low-Code CRM Platform

Customer relationship management (CRM) is no longer just about storing contact details or tracking sales leads. Modern CRM platforms are dynamic tools that help businesses engage with customers across multiple channels, automate workflows, and personalize experiences. However, traditional CRM implementation can be costly and time-consuming, often requiring extensive development resources.

This is where a low-code CRM platform enters the scene. A low-code platform allows users to build, customize, and deploy CRM applications with minimal hand-coding. It empowers both developers and business users to rapidly innovate and respond to changing business needs without being constrained by IT bottlenecks.

Advantages of using a low-code CRM platform include:

Speed to Market: Build and deploy CRM solutions quickly, reducing time-to-value.

Customization: Easily tailor the CRM system to unique business requirements without complex coding.

Cost-Efficiency: Reduce reliance on traditional development, lowering implementation and maintenance costs.

Integration: Seamlessly connect with other enterprise systems, including ERP and project management tools like Dynamics 365 Project Operations.

Agility: Adapt to market changes with flexible, scalable architecture that supports continuous innovation.

When paired with Dynamics 365, a low-code CRM platform becomes even more powerful—combining Microsoft’s robust project management capabilities with customizable customer engagement tools that drive business success.

The Role of Dynamics 365 Consulting Services

While the benefits of Dynamics 365 Project Operations and low-code CRM platforms are compelling, maximizing their potential often requires expert guidance. This is where Dynamics 365 consulting services play a crucial role.

Dynamics 365 consultants bring a deep understanding of business processes, industry standards, and Microsoft technologies. They help organizations design and implement tailored solutions that align with their goals, ensuring a successful transformation journey.

Key benefits of engaging Dynamics 365 consulting services include:

Strategic Planning: Consultants assess current workflows and define clear objectives, ensuring that the implementation supports business goals.

Customization and Configuration: Experts configure Dynamics 365 modules to match specific business processes, leveraging low-code tools where appropriate.

Training and Adoption: Effective user training and change management strategies are provided to drive adoption and maximize return on investment.

Ongoing Support: Post-deployment support ensures the system continues to evolve with the business, incorporating new features and improvements over time.

Partnering with experienced consultants helps businesses avoid common pitfalls, accelerate deployment, and achieve tangible results.

Integrating Project Operations with CRM for Maximum Efficiency

The real value emerges when organizations integrate Dynamics 365 Project Operations with a low-code CRM platform to create a unified business management environment. This integration offers a holistic view of customer engagements, project performance, and financial health—enabling smarter decisions and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Here’s how this synergy benefits organizations:

End-to-End Visibility: Sales, project, and finance teams can access a single source of truth, improving communication and reducing errors.

Proactive Customer Engagement: CRM insights inform project planning, allowing businesses to anticipate customer needs and tailor solutions accordingly.

Efficient Resource Utilization: Resource availability data from Project Operations can be incorporated into CRM workflows, ensuring the right people are assigned to the right tasks.

Faster Quote-to-Cash: Automate the entire project lifecycle—from quoting to billing—reducing administrative overhead and improving cash flow.

Data-Driven Decisions: Real-time dashboards combine CRM and project data, enabling leaders to monitor KPIs, predict outcomes, and optimize strategy.

With the flexibility of a low-code platform and the depth of Dynamics 365 Project Operations, businesses gain a competitive edge through streamlined operations and enhanced customer engagement.

Real-World Application: A Case in Point

Consider a mid-sized professional services firm struggling with disconnected systems for sales, project delivery, and finance. The sales team uses one CRM, project managers rely on spreadsheets, and finance operates on a standalone accounting solution. As a result, projects are delayed, invoicing is inconsistent, and customer satisfaction suffers.

By implementing Dynamics 365 Project Operations and integrating it with a low-code CRM platform, the firm achieves the following:

Unified customer and project data

Improved collaboration across departments

Real-time visibility into project status and profitability

Automated billing and accurate financial reporting

Increased responsiveness to customer needs

With support from a certified Dynamics 365 consulting services provider, the transition is smooth, adoption is widespread, and the return on investment is quickly realized.

Conclusion

Efficiency, agility, and customer focus are the cornerstones of successful modern businesses. By embracing Dynamics 365 Project Operations and a low-code CRM platform, organizations can break down operational silos, streamline project delivery, and enhance customer engagement—all while adapting to evolving market demands.

Furthermore, with expert Dynamics 365 consulting services, businesses can ensure they are making the most of these powerful tools, avoiding implementation missteps, and driving lasting value.

Whether you are a growing enterprise or an established organization looking to modernize your operations, the combination of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and low-code technologies represents a strategic investment in future-ready business excellence.

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Integrating ChatGPT with the Microsoft Power Platform could revolutionize how businesses develop and engage with their applications. This combination of advanced conversational AI and the versatile Power Platform enables organizations to create business apps that are not only powerful but also intuitive, helping companies enhance user experiences and automate critical processes more effectively. Microsoft PowerApps has become a cornerstone for businesses looking to develop custom applications quickly and with minimal coding. By integrating ChatGPT, companies can unlock new capabilities in their apps, allowing users to interact using natural language. This integration provides an innovative way to communicate with systems, retrieve information, and perform tasks, all through simple conversations. For example, users can ask a business app to generate reports, pull up customer data, or even schedule appointments, all by simply typing or speaking commands. This ease of interaction makes applications more user-friendly and efficient, especially for non-technical users. Regarding Power Apps development, integrating ChatGPT empowers developers to build more innovative apps with conversational interfaces. These apps can leverage AI to provide real-time insights, automate repetitive tasks, and even assist decision-making. An everyday use case for this integration might be customer service. ChatGPT can act as an intelligent virtual assistant to answer customer inquiries, suggest solutions, or provide status updates on support tickets. This improves overall productivity and satisfaction by cutting down on response times and freeing up customer support teams to concentrate on more complicated problems. Moreover, combining ChatGPT with Microsoft Power Automate takes automation a step further. Natural language interactions can automate routine tasks such as generating invoices, processing data inputs, and sending reminders. This reduces manual effort and ensures accuracy and consistency, freeing valuable resources for more strategic work. For businesses considering this integration, partnering with a Power Apps consulting firm can streamline the process and help maximize the potential of ChatGPT within the Microsoft Power Platform. These experts can assist in designing the app architecture, integrating AI features effectively, and ensuring that the app meets the business's unique needs. Whether enhancing customer support, optimizing internal workflows, or improving data management, integrating ChatGPT with Power Platform can significantly elevate the functionality and efficiency of business applications, paving the way for better results.

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Leveraging AI in Salesforce Development

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing Salesforce development by infusing intelligence into traditional CRM processes. AI allows Salesforce to evolve from a static data management platform into a dynamic, insight-driven system that can predict, recommend, and automate key functions. With AI, Salesforce development is now more about building solutions that are not just reactive but proactive.

Know more at: https://www.cyberswift.com/blog/leveraging-ai-in-salesforce-development/

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Unleash the potential of Microsoft Power Platform with us. We offer customized solutions, seamless integration, and dedicated support for your business needs.

[fanfic-obsessed]

Feral Tim

I have found I have a great love for Feral Tim Drake. This is a Tim Drake who has built his own moral code in an echoing, empty house and tracking vigilantes across rooftops. First it should be noted that Tim’s loyalty is tied closer to Robin than it is to Batman.  That his motivation for blackmailing Bruce to become Robin was more toward saving Robin’s Dad and Robin’s legacy than saving Batman. 

Little Tim Drake is Obsessively, Desperately, Dangerously protective of the Robin legacy and his predecessor Robins, particularly Robin #2 Jason Todd.  It becomes well known in Gotham, really quickly that it is not a good idea to insult Robin while Robin #3 is around.  

As always, I have no idea what is cannon here.

Like, if you insult Robin #3 to his face, you will get a laugh and an agreement-He will still stop you from your crimes but you won’t end up extra hurt. If you insult Robin in general, Robin #3 will be more aggressive in taking you down and you will get some extra bruises. If you insult Robin #1, you can expect at least one additional broken bone, which bone depends on the insult. However if you insult Robin #2, Robin #3 will bite and he will bite to the bone; you will be mauled and chances are Batman will have to pull Robin #3 off you. 

Count of Bites, before all of Gotham got the point: 4 low level criminals, 3 civilians (all of which were drunk, belligerent, and woke up the next day confused about their injuries), no less than 16 assorted Goons, and The Penguin. 

I want you to take a moment to picture Batman, who got a bit less violent after getting Robin #3 but got substantially less violent because he had to be a tired dad prying his little gremlin’s jaws off The Penguin. Everyone is distinctly uncomfortable with Batman apologizing to The Penguin. 

So Gothamites, no matter the type, learned that one does not insult Robin #2 ever. In fact avoid insulting Robins, unless you are specific enough to be insulting Robin #3 (Though they would not have cause to know for several more years, this protectiveness extended to both Robin #4, the girl Robin, and Robin # 5, the Stabby Robin). Batman gets less violent by virtue of now chasing after a child with negative fear responses (Seriously, Scarecrow once dosed him with his latest fear gas and Robin #3 did not even appear to notice). Gotham, as a whole (Goons, Civilians, all of the other Rogues, other vigilantes) and without consulting each other, decides that Robin #3 and The Joker cannot ever meet. There is a herculean, sustained effort by all of the Rogues and Goons to keep the Joker distracted until Batman can send Robin away whenever the Joker breaks out. Consensus is that no one quite knows which will come out victorious, but there would be substantial damage. Also, Robin would end up biting the Joker and no one is sure what the Joker’s blood would do to him.

We fast forward to Red Hood taking over Crime Alley. He does not notice but the first time he ranted about Robin every one of his subordinates, plus the three Black Mask Goons in the room, flinches. They all relax when it becomes clear that the Robin Red Hood takes offense to is Robin #3.   No one quite knows how to tell Red Hood that, for his health, he should stop insulting Robins (there had never been any real discussion about it). Black Mask and Ivy, at separate times, try to awkwardly pass on the warning but did not quite get the message across (there really is no way to phrase “The tiny child in the traffic light colors is dangerous and will do you actual damage if you disparage his personal hero, the dead Robin”). 

As soon as it got around that Red Hood hunts Robins, with Robin #3 specifically being a target, Batman does ship him out to Titan Tower at once, but not for the reason that Red Hood thinks.  It is not actually to protect Robin, not really. It’s because Batman has figured out that Red Hood was once Jason, and he knows down to his bones that Tim’s moral compass stays on this side of the killing line because he believes that both Jason and Dick would have a problem with him killing.  If he finds out that Jason, the preferred of the two, is ok with killing, that line goes out the window.  And then Batman is going to need to put Robin on a child leash. 

So Red Hood goes to attack a Robin far from the nest and it starts about how he expected. He got in a few good hits, and his replacement actually does have some decent moves. Then Jason makes a disparaging remark about ‘the Robin that died’ that, had he been allowed to finish his sentence, would have circled back around to insulting Tim. However he was not allowed to finish his sentence because instead of fighting on human teen, he was suddenly fighting some kind of demon (metaphorically), who in between mauling him (and how the fuck is this kid biting through kevlar, Jason would like to know) is screaming about how Red Hood was not allowed to talk about Tim’s Robin like that. 

For a few moments Red Hood gets to realize Robin is not locked in with him, he is locked in with Robin.  Then one of Robin’s attacks pulls off the helmet (no bombs at this time, thankfully). As soon as Tim sees Jason’s face he stops attacking and hugs him tightly, babbling about how good it is to see him alive and apologizing for attacking him as Tim thought it was just some villain being disrespectful.  Tim pulls him through to the med bay to treat his injuries. 

While Jason is being treated, and they wait for the lockdown to lift, Jason is struck by the realization that if he even implied he wanted it, Tim would go try to collect the Joker’s head for him.  This is quickly followed by the terrifying realization that Jason is 45% of this child’s moral compass (With Dick being about 30% with the remaining 25% being all Tim). 

The Pit Rage is practically running from this level of crazy. 

Jason finds himself escorting Tim back to the Cave, with Jason low key panicking.  While there is some sympathy in the form of Dick, it turns out that Dick and Tim have a similar way of thinking (except where Tim imprinted on the two Robins, Dick imprinted on Bruce and Alfred) and the same recklessness. It’s Bruce that Jason finds himself bonding with (Is Jason weirded out by the fact that, of his siblings, Jason-with his supernaturally enhanced anger and the bag of heads- is the most stable? Yes, Yes it does) as he desperately tries to keep Tim from doing damage (both physical and psychic) other people.

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At my last job, we sold lots of hobbyist electronics stuff, including microcontrollers.

This turned out to be a little more complicated than selling, like, light bulbs. Oh how I yearned for the simplicity of a product you could plug in and have work.

Background: A microcontroller is the smallest useful computer. An ATtiny10 has a kilobyte of program memory. If you buy a thousand at a time, they cost 44 cents each.

As you'd imagine, the smallest computer has not great specs. The RAM is 32 bytes. Not gigabytes, not megabytes, not kilobytes. Individual bytes. Microcontrollers have the absolute minimum amount of hardware needed to accomplish their task, and nothing more.

This includes programming the thing. Any given MCU is programmed once, at the start of its life, and then spends the next 30 years blinking an LED on a refrigerator. Since they aren’t meant to be reflashed in the field, and modern PCs no longer expose the fast, bit-bangable ports hobbyists once used, MCUs usually need a third-party programming tool.

But you could just use that tool to install a bootloader, which then listens for a magic number on the serial bus. Then you can reprogram the chip as many times as you want without the expensive programming hardware.

There is an immediate bifurcation here. Only hobbyists will use the bootloader version. With 1024 bytes of program memory, there is, even more than usual, nothing to spare.

Consumer electronics development is a funny gig. It, more than many other businesses, requires you to be good at everything. A startup making the next Furby requires a rare omniexpertise. Your company has to write software, design hardware, create a production plan, craft a marketing scheme, and still do the boring logistics tasks of putting products in boxes and mailing them out. If you want to turn a profit, you do this the absolute minimum number of people. Ideally, one.

Proving out a brand new product requires cutting corners. You make the prototype using off the shelf hobbyist electronics. You make the next ten units with the same stuff, because there's no point in rewriting the entire codebase just for low rate initial production. You use the legacy code for the next thousand units because you're desperately busy putting out a hundred fires and hiring dozens of people to handle the tsunami of new customers. For the next ten thousand customers...

Rather by accident, my former employer found itself fulfilling the needs of the missing middle. We were an official distributor of PICAXE chips for North America. Our target market was schools, but as a sideline, we sold individual PICAXE chips, which were literally PIC chips flashed with a bootloader and a BASIC interpreter at a 200% markup. As a gag, we offered volume discounts on the chips up to a thousand units. Shortly after, we found ourselves filling multi-thousand unit orders.

We had blundered into a market niche too stupid for anyone else to fill. Our customers were tiny companies who sold prototypes hacked together from dev boards. And every time I cashed a ten thousand dollar check from these guys, I was consumed with guilt. We were selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price, but they shouldn't have been buying these products at all! Since they were using bootloaders, they had to hand program each chip individually, all while PIC would sell you programmed chips at the volume we were selling them for just ten cents extra per unit! We shouldn't have been involved at all!

But they were stuck. Translating a program from the soft and cuddly memory-managed education-oriented languages to the hardcore embedded byte counting low level languages was a rather esoteric skill. If everyone in-house is just barely keeping their heads above water responding to customer emails, and there's no budget to spend $50,000 on a consultant to rewrite your program, what do you do? Well, you keep buying hobbyist chips, that's what you do.

And I talked to these guys. All the time! They were real, functional, profitable businesses, who were giving thousands of dollars to us for no real reason. And the worst thing. The worst thing was... they didn't really care? Once every few months they would talk to their chip guy, who would make vague noises about "bootloaders" and "programming services", while they were busy solving actual problems. (How to more accurately detect deer using a trail camera with 44 cents of onboard compute) What I considered the scandal of the century was barely even perceived by my customers.

In the end my employer was killed by the pandemic, and my customers seamlessly switched to buying overpriced chips straight from the source. The end! No moral.

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[May 17, 2021]

Newsweek:

The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies. The unprecedented shift has placed an ever greater number of soldiers, civilians, and contractors working under false identities, partly as a natural result in the growth of secret special forces but also as an intentional response to the challenges of traveling and operating in an increasingly transparent world. The explosion of Pentagon cyber warfare, moreover, has led to thousands of spies who carry out their day-to-day work in various made-up personas, the very type of nefarious operations the United States decries when Russian and Chinese spies do the same. Newsweek's exclusive report on this secret world is the result of a two-year investigation involving the examination of over 600 resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense decision-makers. What emerges is a window into not just a little-known sector of the American military, but also a completely unregulated practice. No one knows the program's total size, and the explosion of signature reduction has never been examined for its impact on military policies and culture. Congress has never held a hearing on the subject. And yet the military developing this gigantic clandestine force challenges U.S. laws, the Geneva Conventions, the code of military conduct and basic accountability.

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consult required

the brain runs on impulse, instinct, and input. and it responds best to consistent, hands-on care.

pairings: neurosurgeon!nanami x trauma surgeon!reader content warnings: mdni, unprotected piv sex, fingering, oral (f receiving), desk sex, semi-public sex, established relationship (married), creampie/slight breeding kink if you squint, overstim, aftercare, cum-eating :p, mutual obsession, grey's anatomy realm of believability, code of conduct violations (professionals not being professional) <3

“You’re going to give yourself another headache.”

Your arms are crossed as you lean against the door frame of his office. It’s past midnight, and the hospital has gone still– only the occasional squeak of rubber soles and the low hum of fluorescents break through the silence. Nanami doesn’t look up. He’s seated at his desk, back impossibly straight despite the hour, jaw set. 

He looks too casual– just a fitted black compression shirt, sleeves pushed to his elbows, blue scrub pants slung low on his hips. No lab coat. No tie. But you’re not surprised. A nurse mentioned he’d come out of surgery less than thirty minutes ago.

He flips a page in the chart, but his focus clearly isn’t on post-op notes anymore.

“You should be home,” he replies. “Or in the OR. Heard another case came in.”

You arch a brow, tilting your head at him. “What, keeping tabs on me now?”

His fingers still against the page, eyes flicking up beneath tired brows. “I know your schedule better than mine,” he says. “You’ve been on the board since six this morning.”

You smirk. “Jealous?”

“No.” He closes the chart– slowly, deliberately. “Concerned.”

You scoff, closing the door behind you and stepping closer to where he sits, leaning in just enough for him to notice the shift in heat. “Hard to sleep alone, you know,” you murmur. “Might be easier if my husband came home before sunrise for once.”

Nanami’s gaze holds steady, but something softens around the edges– like guilt slipping through a crack in the armor. “They paged me in for a tumor resection,” he replies, and you see his shoulders start to slump as he brings a hand up to rub at his eyes. “Midline. Pediatric. I couldn’t push it.”

Your teasing fades a little at that, but you don’t move away. You brush your fingers along the edge of his desk as you rest against it, voice quieting. “I’m not mad, Kento,” you say as you glance at him, eyes warm. “I just miss you.”

After a long pause, he stands, chair scraping softly beneath him. He steps in close and his hands find your waist– steady, grounding.

“I miss you too,” he says, voice lower now. Closer. “Every hour I’m here.”

You let the moment stretch, then loop your arms around his neck and smile– soft, a little wicked. “Then maybe you should start sneaking me into the on-call room again. For old times’ sake.”

“Do you flirt like this with all of your colleagues, or am I just lucky?”

“What can I say? I’ve got a thing for men who operate on brains for a living.”

His hands slide up beneath your scrubs, resting just beneath your chest– warm. “How coincidental– I’ve got a thing for stubborn, brilliant women who don’t know how to take a break.”

You huff a quiet laugh, tilting your head. “Bold words from a man who calls four hours of sleep and a protein bar a full recovery. What exactly did they teach you in med school?”

Nanami doesn’t smile, not really– but something shifts in his gaze. He closes the distance, lifting you onto the desk with practiced ease, stepping between your thighs like it’s routine. His hand settles at your hip– light, but firm.

“That people like us don’t stop until someone makes us.” His hand glides past your chest, fingertips brushing your collarbones under your top. “Which is why I’m staging an intervention.”

“Yeah?” You lift a brow, lips tugging into something a little dangerous. “And what does that look like, Doctor Nanami?”

He doesn’t answer right away. Just watches you for a long, weighted second– like he’s measuring the risk, the timing, and the rule he’s about to break for the second time this week.

Then his hand trails from your chest back to your thigh. “Well, Doctor Nanami,” he says low, “it looks like me doing my job… taking care of my strong-willed, overworked, impossibly beautiful wife.”

He kisses you– firm, focused, like he’s been holding this in since morning rounds. His hands slide down over your hips, gathering the soft fabric of your scrub pants as he pulls you against him.

There’s no rush– but there’s urgency. The kind that simmers hot and quiet beneath long days and longer nights, under passing and fleeting glances across the surgery floor. His mouth trails down your neck, hot and open, and when his fingers slip beneath the waistband of your scrubs and underwear in one fluid, practiced motion, he groans against your skin like it hurts to finally touch you.

“Still so wet for me,” he breathes, voice raw with restraint. “You’re going to be the death of my self-control.”

You gasp when his fingers slide through your folds– slow and thorough, like he’s trying to memorize you again after too long apart. Your hips twitch forward, instinctive, chasing the drag of his touch. He gives you more– just barely– enough to make you ache for it.

“You say that,” you whisper, breath stuttering, “but I think you like losing control sometimes.”

He chuckles softly against your neck, lips brushing your pulse. “Only for you,” he murmurs. Then his thumb circles your clit– tight, measured pressure that makes your thighs tremble. “Only ever for you.”

He pushes two fingers inside you, slow and deep, curling them just right like he already knows where you're falling apart. Your breath hitches, back arching into his body, and he presses closer, hand at your spine to keep you upright as he fucks you open with steady, calculated strokes.

“God, look at you,” he groans, watching the way your mouth parts, the way your hips roll. “Falling apart already.”

“Kento–” Your voice is half-whimper, half-warning.

He silences it with a kiss– messy and consuming, lips sliding over yours like he needs it as much as you do. His fingers pump into you harder, your slick soaking down his hand as he grinds his palm against your clit.

“So beautiful,” he murmurs into your mouth, voice breathless. “I’m so lucky.”

You’re shaking– legs trembling, body unraveling, clutching the back of his shirt like a lifeline, the fabric bunched and twisted between your fingers. You reach down blindly with your free hand, palming him through his scrubs, and the soft, strangled groan it earns you is reward enough to make your thighs twitch.

He’s so hard for you– thick and straining beneath the fabric, the shape of him hot and heavy against your hand. You rub your palm over him again, slower this time, and his hips stutter into the movement, but he doesn’t stop. He never stops. His fingers keep fucking into you, curling just right, fingertips brushing that spot inside you over and over while his palm presses hard and steady against your clit.

“That’s it,” he rasps, eyes locked on your face like it’s the only thing keeping him upright. “Let me feel you.”

Your whole body tenses, thighs clenching around his wrist, the heat coiling low in your stomach about to snap. It’s too much– his mouth on yours, his hand deep inside you, his cock hard and hot under your touch, his voice in your ear like a prayer.

You gasp, and it breaks. Pleasure floods you in a wave so sharp it steals your breath, white-hot and blinding as you cum hard around his fingers, hips bucking, a cry caught between your lips and his. Your grip on his shirt tightens, the world narrowing to the rhythm of your pulse and the warmth of his mouth and the way he groans your name as you fall apart in his arms. He doesn’t stop– just slows, eases you through it, holding you upright while you shake against his chest.

You’re still catching your breath when he withdraws his hand, and you hear the slick sound of your release as he brings his fingers to his mouth– sucks them clean without breaking eye contact.

“You taste like home,” he says, voice barely there.

Then he undoes the tie on his pants.

There’s nothing rushed about it– just the soft hiss of fabric sliding down his hips, the flex of his jaw as he wraps a hand around himself and strokes once, twice. His cock is flushed and heavy, the tip already leaking, slick with the mess you’ve made of him. You can see the way his breath hitches as he fists himself– slow, controlled, like he’s restraining the urge to lose it right then and there.

He leans in, pressing his forehead to yours, voice strained.

“Do you want me, baby?”

“Yes,” you pant, voice shaking. “Please.”

He tugs your scrubs down, pulling them off and tossing them to the floor without a second thought. He lifts one of your legs, opening you up for him, his gaze dragging down to where you’re wet and aching for him.

His cock twitches in his hand at the sight.

“You sure?”

You meet his eyes– darker than you’ve seen them in weeks, pupils blown, expression ruined. “I’m yours, Kento. Always.”

The thick head of him pushes in slowly, stretching you inch by inch until you’re clenching tight around him. You gasp, one hand clawing into his back, the other gripping the edge of his desk like it might anchor you.

He’s so deep it burns in the best way– thick and hot, the slide of him dragging against every sensitive inch inside you. He groans low in his throat as he bottoms out, forehead dropping to your shoulder.

“You’re perfect,” he breathes. “Always are.”

He pulls back just enough to thrust again– harder now, smoother, the wet sound of your bodies colliding echoing off the office walls. The desk creaks under the force, your breath catching with every impact as he finds a rhythm– filthy, focused, relentless.

Each stroke slams into you at just the right angle, hitting deep, pressing against that spot that makes your vision blur. The sound of him– grunting through clenched teeth, breath hitching, skin slapping against yours– is almost enough to push you over the edge again.

“No one else gets this,” he grits out, hand locked on your waist, the other holding your thigh to keep you open. “No one else ever will.”

And all you can do is nod, whimper, dig your nails into his back more as the coil inside you tightens again– faster, needier, hungrier. He’s fucking you with practiced precision– precision born from obsession, from every late-night memory, every time he’s taken you apart and put you back together again.

He knows your body better than he knows his own.

Every thrust is fervent, deliberate– merciless in the way his hips slam against yours, and you swear you can feel him in your chest, in your bones, curling like heat around your spine.

“That’s it,” he groans, jaw tight, sweat beading at his temple. “Just like that– fuck, I love you.”

Your walls clamp down around him and he stutters– just once– hips faltering, muscles twitching, as if the feel of you pulling him deeper is enough to break his control completely.

“Kento– please–”

You’re too close to form words, every nerve on fire. Your body tightens, your nails drag red lines across his back, and he fucks you through it– hard, desperate, entirely his.

A second orgasm slams into you– shattering and sharp, stealing your breath like a rip current. You cry out, sobbing his name, head thrown back as your legs shake around his waist and your body clamps down around his cock.

He groans– wrecked, raw, guttural– as you milk him.

“Fuck– you’re everything– perfect. Take me so well– fuck, gonna fill you up, baby.”

He thrusts once, twice more, then stills completely, buried to the hilt as he spills into you with a strangled moan, forehead pressed to yours, breath catching as he cums hard. His hand trembles where it grips your thigh, the other sliding to your lower back to hold you close.

You feel the warmth of it inside you, thick and deep, the pulse of him still twitching as he gasps your name against your cheek. The only sound for a long moment is your breathing—ragged, uneven, tangled together like your bodies still are.

When he finally pulls back to look at you, his gaze is soft. Tender. Like you’ve broken something in him just by loving him like this.

“Couldn’t do this without you,” he whispers, voice hoarse, fingers brushing along your cheekbone with a tenderness that makes your chest ache.

You swallow, blinking up at him as your fingers tighten just slightly in his shirt. “You don’t have to.” Your voice is quiet. “You’ll never have to.”

That pulls a quiet breath from him– almost a laugh. His thumb strokes your cheek again before he dips down, pressing a kiss to your temple. Then another, lower, at the curve of your jaw. Unrushed.

He eases out of you slowly, carefully, murmuring soft apologies against your skin when you flinch at the aftershock. You feel the slick mix of you both starting to slip down your thigh, and his hands are already there, steadying you.

“Stay still,” he says gently. “Let me clean you up.”

You expect him to reach for tissues, maybe your scrub pants– but instead he kneels, drops to his knees between your legs like it’s instinct, like worship, and rubs his hands along your thighs, gently guiding them apart.

“Kento–”

He looks up at you, gaze steady. “Let me.”

He leans in, tongue dragging slow through the mess between your thighs, licking up his own release with a groan that vibrates through your core. His hands hold you firmly in place, and all you can do is gasp– overstimulated, wrecked, trembling all over again.

When he’s finished, he presses a slow kiss to the inside of your thigh before standing, tucking himself away and pulling your scrubs back up your legs with gentle, almost clinical precision. His fingers linger briefly at your hip, like he’s reluctant to let go.

Once you’re both dressed again, he runs a hand through his hair and glances at his watch.

“I should take you home,” he says, voice low. “Let you sleep in a real bed. With a locked door. And fewer fluorescent lights.”

You smile, stepping into his space again, your hands sliding beneath the hem of his shirt just to feel skin. “Careful,” you murmur, resting your cheek against his chest. “That almost sounds like romance. Might have to report you to HR.”

Nanami exhales a quiet laugh– subtle, but real– and wraps an arm around your waist, anchoring you to him.

“Pretty sure the HR violations started when you sat on my desk,” he says dryly.

“I was checking on my husband,” you counter, not bothering to hide your grin.

“Mm.” His lips brush the crown of your head. “Very professional.”

dr.nanami as promised <3 planning on turning most of these into fully fleshed-out fics, lmk which ones you would want me to expand most!! and let me know which au you want next :p thx for reading ily

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Maximizing Business Efficiency with Dynamics 365 Project Operations and Low-Code CRM

In today’s competitive business landscape, organizations seek innovative solutions to streamline operations, optimize resources, and enhance customer relationship management. Dynamics 365 Project Operations, a powerful project management tool, enables businesses to manage projects efficiently from planning to execution. Additionally, the rise of low-code CRM platforms has transformed the way companies handle customer relationships by providing flexibility and rapid deployment without extensive coding knowledge.

However, selecting, implementing, and customizing these tools requires expert guidance. This is where Dynamics 365 consulting services come into play, ensuring that businesses maximize the potential of these solutions while aligning them with their specific needs.

This article explores how organizations can leverage Dynamics 365 Project Operations, integrate low-code CRM platforms, and benefit from professional Dynamics 365 consulting services to enhance efficiency and business growth.

Understanding Dynamics 365 Project Operations

What is Dynamics 365 Project Operations?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a comprehensive solution designed to help businesses manage their projects, resources, and financials in a unified system. It provides end-to-end project management, allowing companies to efficiently plan, execute, and track project performance while maintaining cost control and resource optimization.

Key Features of Dynamics 365 Project Operations

End-to-End Project Management – From initial planning to execution, it ensures visibility into project timelines, deliverables, and budgets.

Resource Optimization – Enables efficient allocation of resources based on availability, skills, and project requirements.

Financial Management – Provides real-time insights into project costs, revenue, and profitability.

Collaboration & Communication – Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Teams and other collaboration tools.

Advanced Analytics & Reporting – AI-driven insights help in decision-making and performance evaluation.

By implementing Dynamics 365 Project Operations, businesses can enhance project execution efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall productivity.

The Rise of Low-Code CRM Platforms in Business Operations

What is a Low-Code CRM Platform?

A low-code CRM platform allows businesses to build and customize CRM applications with minimal coding knowledge. Unlike traditional CRM solutions that require extensive development, low-code platforms use drag-and-drop interfaces, pre-built templates, and automated workflows to simplify deployment.

Benefits of Using a Low-Code CRM Platform

Rapid Deployment – Businesses can quickly implement and modify CRM solutions without waiting for lengthy development cycles.

Cost-Effective – Reduces the need for a dedicated IT team, cutting down development and maintenance costs.

Customization & Flexibility – Allows companies to tailor the CRM system to their unique workflows and requirements.

Integration with Other Tools – Seamlessly connects with Dynamics 365 applications, marketing platforms, and third-party software.

Enhanced User Adoption – A user-friendly interface ensures that employees can easily navigate and utilize CRM functionalities.

How Low-Code CRM Works with Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Integrating a low-code CRM platform with Dynamics 365 Project Operations enables businesses to:

Automate lead tracking and project pipeline management.

Customize customer interactions and engagement strategies.

Build tailored workflows for project-related CRM activities.

Improve real-time data accessibility for better decision-making.

By leveraging a low-code CRM platform, businesses can create dynamic and scalable CRM solutions that align with their specific operational needs.

The Role of Dynamics 365 Consulting Services

Why Do Businesses Need Dynamics 365 Consulting Services?

While Dynamics 365 Project Operations and low code CRM platforms offer immense potential, businesses often struggle with selecting the right tools, customizing solutions, and ensuring seamless implementation. Dynamics 365 consulting services provide expertise and support in optimizing these solutions for maximum business impact.

Key Areas Where Consulting Services Help

1. Needs Assessment & Strategy Development

A Dynamics 365 consultant assesses the current business processes, identifies pain points, and recommends the best approach for implementing Dynamics 365 Project Operations and CRM solutions.

2. Implementation & Customization

Consultants ensure smooth implementation and tailor Dynamics 365 features to match business requirements. This includes customizing dashboards, reports, and workflows.

3. Integration with Existing Systems

For businesses already using third-party tools, consulting services help integrate Dynamics 365 Project Operations with accounting, HR, and other enterprise systems.

4. Training & User Adoption

A crucial aspect of CRM success is user adoption. Consulting services provide training sessions, ensuring employees understand and utilize CRM features effectively.

5. Performance Monitoring & Optimization

After implementation, consultants continuously monitor performance, optimize processes, and provide recommendations for improvement.

By leveraging Dynamics 365 consulting services, businesses can maximize ROI, streamline workflows, and enhance efficiency in project management and CRM functions.

Use Cases: How Businesses Benefit from Dynamics 365 & Low-Code CRM

1. Professional Services Firms

A consulting firm needed a CRM solution that integrated seamlessly with project management tools. By implementing Dynamics 365 Project Operations with a low-code CRM platform, they automated client onboarding, tracked project milestones, and improved billing accuracy, increasing efficiency by 40%.

2. Manufacturing Companies

A manufacturing business faced challenges in resource allocation and customer relationship management. With Dynamics 365 consulting services, they implemented a custom CRM solution integrated with Project Operations, optimizing their supply chain and improving customer engagement.

3. IT & SaaS Companies

An IT firm used low-code CRM to develop a tailored sales and project tracking system integrated with Dynamics 365 Project Operations. This enabled seamless lead management, real-time collaboration, and better resource utilization.

4. Construction & Engineering Firms

A construction company leveraged Dynamics 365 Project Operations to streamline project execution. Consultants helped integrate CRM tools, ensuring smooth communication with clients and vendors, leading to a 30% reduction in project delays.

Steps to Implement a Low-Code CRM Platform with Dynamics 365

Define Business Goals – Identify CRM and project management objectives.

Consult with Experts – Engage Dynamics 365 consulting services for strategic insights.

Select the Right Tools – Choose a low-code CRM platform that integrates well with Dynamics 365 Project Operations.

Customize & Configure – Tailor workflows, dashboards, and reporting structures.

Train Employees – Ensure teams are equipped to use the system effectively.

Monitor & Optimize – Continuously refine processes for improved efficiency.

Conclusion

The combination of Dynamics 365 Project Operations, low-code CRM platforms, and expert Dynamics 365 consulting services provides businesses with a scalable and efficient approach to managing projects, resources, and customer relationships.

By integrating these solutions, organizations can automate workflows, enhance collaboration, and gain real-time insights that drive informed decision-making. However, successful implementation requires expertise, making consulting services a critical component in ensuring businesses leverage these tools to their fullest potential.

For businesses looking to improve operational efficiency, adopting a low-code CRM platform with Dynamics 365 Project Operations—backed by expert consulting services—is a strategic move toward sustained growth and success.

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Businesses looking to streamline their Power Apps development processes must comprehend the distinction between Model-Driven Apps and Canvas Apps in Microsoft PowerApps. Both app types offer distinct approaches to building applications, with their own sets of advantages depending on the specific use case. Model-driven apps are data-centric and built around the Common Data Service (CDS), making them ideal for applications that require structured data relationships. Users interact with pre-defined forms, views, and dashboards in these apps, which are automatically generated according to the data model. Model-Driven Apps' main benefits are their rapid scalability and smooth integration with other Microsoft products.Businesses that require reliable, data-intensive software for handling intricate procedures like enterprise resource planning (ERP) or customer relationship management (CRM) are especially well-suited for them. Conversely, Canvas Apps offer greater design flexibility.. With Canvas Apps, developers have complete control over the user interface, allowing them to drag and drop various elements to create a highly customized experience. These apps can connect to multiple data sources, from Excel files to SharePoint lists, offering greater adaptability. Canvas Apps are ideal for scenarios where visual customization is paramount and users require more freedom in layout and user interaction. When deciding between the two, businesses should consider the specific needs of their application. Model-driven apps are best suited for scenarios where structured data and complex relationships take center stage. At the same time, Canvas Apps shine in situations where visual design and user experience are a priority. For companies looking to implement these solutions, partnering with a Power Apps consulting firm can provide the expertise needed to choose the right app type based on their development goals. Whether embarking on your first PowerApps project or refining an existing solution, understanding the fundamental differences between these two types of apps can significantly impact your success in Power Apps development.

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Pairing: Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch x F!SeniorResident!Reader Summary: It’s Dana’s birthday, and the ER is buzzing with celebration. But for Robby, the real chaos is internal. 

Word Count: 1K Content Warning: Medical procedures, will most likely be medically inaccurate at times, unresolved tension.

If the Pennsylvanian sky could talk, it would have warned them of the storm that was coming.

Before codes. Before traumas. Before paperwork and bleary-eyed residents and overworked nurses. Before you walked into the ER that morning with your hair down and your eyes soft and tired and quietly luminous.

Dr. Robby had been doing a damn good job pretending. Pretending how it didn’t affect him when you brushed past him before rounds, the side of your arm grazing his. Pretending he didn’t see it the curve of your lips as you turned the corner, just out of sight. Pretending his blood didn’t beat with a kind of ache he hadn’t felt since his thirties.

But today?

Today, he was done pretending. Because it was Dana’s birthday, and the ER was buzzing with cheap cake and caffeine highs, and Dana’s ever-classic demand that “you better show up to The Rusty Tavern or you're dead to me.” And you? You smiled at him like you were exposing a secret.

He couldn’t look at you.

Not without feeling like everything he’d spent years controlling was beginning to slip through his fingers.

So he worked. He over-ordered labs. Checked on consults that didn’t need him. Hid behind his charts and dictation notes, trying like hell to pretend you hadn’t smiled at him like you knew something. Like you had something to offer he was one second from accepting.

By the time he arrived at the bar, the party was in full swing. The Rusty Tavern was half dive, half ER sanctum, all fluorescent lighting and sticky tables. Langdon passed him a beer. Jack was holding court about the Penguins and their third-line defense. The music was loud, the air thick with spilled drinks and tension.

But all Robby could see was you.

Standing near the edge of the room, hair down now, soft curls catching the amber light. A drink in hand. Laughing too hard at something Santos said. The sound hit him low in the gut.

Because you never looked like that at work. You never let yourself. And tonight you were unshielded, eyes bright, posture loose, skin warm with color. Not sweet. Not soft.

Alive.

And god help him, he wanted to touch you.

Robby forced a laugh with Langdon and Jack. But his eyes, traitorous, hungry, kept drifting toward the edge of the room. Your dress wasn’t revealing, not really. But it was enough, revealing enough that it left the curve of your collarbone exposed, like an invitation. Enough to undo him.

He didn’t know how long he watched. He didn’t know how long you watched him back.

But then he needed air.

The alleyway behind the bar was quiet, shadowed, the air cool against your skin. He stood near the dumpster, shoulders stiff, hands in his pockets. When he heard your footsteps, he didn’t turn.

“Don’t follow me out here,” he said.

“I already did.”

He sighed, “This isn’t smart, Sheridan.”

“I know.”

“I’m your superior.”

“I know.”

“You’re—”

“Too sweet?” you cut in, voice quiet but sharp. “Too young? Too breakable?”

He closed his eyes, jaw tight. “Don’t.”

“Why? Because if you say it out loud, it makes it real?”

He didn’t answer.

You stepped closer.

“I’m not a kid, Robby. I know what this is.”

“You don’t—”

When he turned, you were standing five feet away. The alley light flickered overhead, catching the curve of your jaw and the wild, brave tension in your posture. Like you’d finally stopped running from the truth, and had turned to face it head-on.

“You’re angry,” he said quietly.

“No,” you replied, voice even. “I’m tired.”

“Tired of what?”

You took a breath. “Tired of pretending you don’t look at me like you want to set something on fire.”

He blinked.

It hit him in the gut.

“And tired,” you added, softer now, “of pretending I don’t feel the same.”

The air crackled.

Robby was frozen. A hundred images of you flashed through his mind, blood on your gloves, ink on your wrist, the quiet way you stayed with a trauma patient long after everyone else had gone. 

He stepped closer before he could think better of it.

“It’s not that simple,” he said.

“It never is.”

His fingers curled at his sides. Your eyes didn’t flinch.

“I’m too old for you.”

“I’m not asking for a timeline,” you whispered. “I’m asking for honesty.”

He could barely breathe. “If I start this...”

You took one step closer.

“I don’t think I could stop.”

Another step.

“Then don’t.”

His restraint shattered.

One hand at your jaw, the other gripping your waist like he was anchoring himself to you, and his mouth crushed down on yours like he’d run out of reasons not to.

It wasn’t sweet. It was desperate. Ferocious. Pent-up silence poured into heat, years of restraint unravelling in a second.

Your fingers clutched the front of his shirt. You felt the tension in him, not resistance, but fear. Fear laced with want.

He tasted like whiskey and winter. His hand slid to the back of your neck. You tilted your head, parted your lips, and let yourself fall.

Your hands were in his hair. His mouth at your jaw. Your body warm and pressed into him like you’d always known he would catch you.

He wanted to lose himself.

But then, he pulled back.

Breathing hard.

“No,” he said. “No, no, no.”

“Robby—”

“We can’t.”

“You already did.”

“That was a mistake.”

Your face crumpled, barely. Just enough for guilt to slam into him like a truck.

“I’m your attending,” he said, shaking. “I have power over you. I can’t, I won’t abuse that.”

“It’s not abuse,” you said, voice trembling.

“You don’t know that. I don’t even trust myself right now.” He turned away. “I want things from you I shouldn’t want.”

A beat.

“You mean you want me.”

He closed his eyes. “I want to corrupt you.”

Silence.

Then your voice, achingly quiet.

“Maybe I don’t want to be good.”

He flinched.

God help him.

“You should go back inside,” he rasped.

“What about you?”

“I’m going to stand here,” he said, “until I can trust myself to look at you and not want to do that again.”

You didn’t say anything else.

You left. He stayed. His hands clenched at his sides, heart racing like he’d survived something, or maybe like he hadn’t.

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Luis Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat without overloading electrical grids or spending money on fans and air conditioners. He came across the concept over a decade ago while researching how to make his own home bearable during a particularly scorching summer in Rio.

Over the next 10 years, his nonprofit was born and green roofs started popping up around the Parque Arará community, on everything from homes and day care centers, to bus stops and food trucks.

Summer heat has been known to melt water tanks during the summer in Rio, which runs from December to March. Pictured is the water tank at Luis Cassiano's house. He covered the tank with bidim, a lightweight material conducive for plantings that will keep things cool.

Luis Cassiano outside his green-roofed home in Rio de Janeiro.

"When the elite build, they plan," says Cassiano. "They already consider putting green roofs on new buildings, and old buildings are built to code. But not in the favela. Everything here is old and goes up any way it can."

Without the oversight of engineers or architects, and made with everything from wood scraps and daub, to bricks and cinder blocks, construction in favelas can't necessarily bear the weight of all the layers of a conventional green roof.

That's where the bidim comes in. Lightweight and conducive to plant growth — the roofs are hydroponic, so no soil is needed — it was the perfect material to make green roofs possible in Parque Arará. (Cassiano reiterates that safety comes first with any green roof he helps build. An engineer or architect is always consulted before Teto Verde Favela starts a project.)

And it was cheap. Because of the bidim and the vinyl sheets used as waterproof screening (as opposed to the traditional asphalt blanket), Cassiano's green roofs cost just 5 Brazilian reais, or $1, per square foot. A conventional green roof can cost as much as 53 Brazilian reais, or $11, for the same amount of space.

"It's about making something that has such important health and social benefits possible for everyone," says Ananda Stroke, an environmental engineering student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro who volunteers with Teto Verde Favela. "Everyone deserves to have access to green roofs, especially people who live in heat islands. They're the ones who need them the most."

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