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The year that was

Welcome to the end of another year. If yours has been anything like ours, there have been challenges and victories, but I hope you're going into the Christmas break feeling positive and hopeful for 2025.

In keeping with our annual Christmas tradition at Fusion5, we have donated to charity on behalf of our valued customers, in place of sending cards and gifts. We're proud to support the following charities this year with a share of $10,000.

In the spirit of Spotify, YouTube, and everyone else jumping on the 'wrapped' bandwagon, we wanted to share a few of Fusion5's highlights from 2024. We're proud to be growing and providing greater value to our customers year on year. In 2025 we're looking forward to continuing our mission to help more businesses transform and thrive!

 

Upcoming events

We're busy planning a full schedule of webinars and in-person events to showcase fantastic ways to help your business transform and grow in 2025 — be sure to check in regularly in the new year so you don't miss out!

Please visit the AU and NZ events pages to register.

In the meantime, here is a selection of recordings from events we've run for you this year.

Latest news, insights, and resources

Blogs, eBooks, videos... we publish interesting, entertaining, and educational bits and pieces all the time — here's a selection of our latest offerings.

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Workday Old Budgeting Software

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Step-by-step guide Mastering your Azure spend

Dive deep into cost optimisation for your Azure environment with our comprehensive guide. 

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Transforming unstructured data into outstanding service delivery

Like many large organisations which have evolved organically over long periods, a significant proportion of local councils have vast untapped data resources reposing in operational silos.

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One reason to stay on version 7.3 of Dynamics 365 F&O. And six reasons not to

In just four to six weeks we can get you upgraded to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations v8.1 and looking good.

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8 Reasons to invest in ERP

Discover the top 8 reasons why businesses in Australia and New Zealand are investing in ERP solutions. Reduce operational and IT costs, enhance data quality, and react faster to market changes. Download our free infographic

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Project, Services & Asset Intensive Businesses

When working in a project centric business, no matter the industry, it is vital for managers and leaders to have complete visibility across the multiple projects you are working on and ensure agility and collaboration between teams and departments in order to drive success. 

You want to be able to empower your teams to win more contracts, optimise resource utilisation, accelerate project delivery and get business insights from sales to project financials. 

Join Fusion5 Thursday March 10th for this special Live Q&A to hear how you can leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 for success in your project operations. 

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Multiple business teams, one source of truth

Spreadsheets are time consuming and create business risk. Connect multiple data sources across your business. 

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Five CFO tips for better board reporting

CFO Board reports can be better when you know these 5 tips. Download the eBook today.

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Ivanti series: Improving business continuity through a WFH strategy

Managing IT spend whilst enabling a robust business continuity plan is what we discuss in this webinar.

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Adoption: The (not so) secret element for a successful transformation

Our Transformation and Advisory team hosted a dynamic one-hour webinar highlighting why adoption is key to the success of transformation projects.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Schools

In this Education focused webinar we share how Microsoft Dynamics 365 has helped to overcome older problems schools have faced as well as some new ones.  

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Online JDE user update

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