Field Service Operations: How to Stay Competitive
Field Service Operations is evolving as fast as customer expectations. If you’re still running on outdated systems, you’re working with the digital equivalent of a corded phone. This blog explores why constant evolution is the only way to stay competitive—covering AI-powered scheduling, predictive maintenance, IoT-driven asset tracking, and the tools that help you future-proof operations. Learn how modern cloud platforms like Business Central and WennSoft keep teams agile, connected, and ready for whatever the day brings.
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Better Software for Field Service Teams
Field service teams play a critical role in keeping construction projects on track. From coordinating resources to ensuring safety and efficiency on-site, these teams bridge the gap between planning and execution. With the right tools and strategies, field service teams can reduce downtime, improve communication, and drive operational excellence—ultimately ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
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Field Service Software for Real-World Agility
You don’t always know how good your field service software is—until your day goes sideways.
A last-minute cancellation. A technician down sick. A rescheduled job before 7 AM. In field service, agility isn’t a luxury—it’s a requirement. This blog explores how cloud-based field service software helps you stay responsive and in control when the unexpected hits. From centralized dispatch to mobile tools and offline access, we break down how modern platforms like Business Central and WennSoft empower teams to work smarter, not harder—no matter what the day throws at them.
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Dynamics GP to Business Central Migration: What Field Service Leaders Need to Know
Navigating a Dynamics GP to Business Central migration can feel like trading in your well-worn work truck for something newer, faster, and more connected. Sure, the old one still runs—but how much more could your team accomplish with the right upgrade?
This article outlines the biggest concerns field service teams face—data migration, system adoption, and operational disruption—and offers practical strategies to ensure your move to Business Central is smooth, smart, and tailored to the way your team works. Whether it’s improving mobile access, syncing field and finance, or prepping for long-term growth, this is your roadmap to a future-ready ERP.
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Take Your Field Service Operations to the Next Level with Business Central
Modern Field Service Operations demand more than legacy systems can deliver.
As expectations grow and teams become more mobile, the need for real-time visibility, smarter coordination, and flexible tools is greater than ever.
In this article, I explore how migrating from Dynamics GP to Business Central—with the right mix of tools like WennSoft Service and MobileTech—can transform field service operations from reactive to ready.
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Dynamics GP to Business Central Migration 101: What to Expect and How to Start for Field Service
Dynamics GP to Business Central Migration isn’t just an upgrade—it’s the pivot that puts field service, finance, and mobility on the same cloud‑powered page. In this quick read, you’ll discover why now is the moment to retire GP’s workarounds, what Business Central adds to a modern field‑service stack, and the phased roadmap WennSoft recommends to keep technicians moving and margins healthy. Get the insider tips on data cleanup, user adoption, and avoiding costly detours—then dive deeper in our full guide, Dynamics GP to Business Central Migration 101: What to Expect and Where to Start for Field Service.
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Better than Data Analytics: Data Insights
Begin with the End in Mind
The saying goes: “Begin with the end in mind”. Its good advice, one of the 7 habits of highly effective people. But it can be difficult to interpret. The implication is that before setting out, we should know where we’re going, but how do you interpret where to go? This question haunts many businesses…
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What Are Smart Buildings, and Where Can They Be Found?
Smart buildings offer valuable building services, such as controlled lighting, optimized temperatures, and top indoor air quality. They may be designed from the ground up with building intelligence in mind or retrofitted with integrated systems. Although this sounds similar to a building automation system (BAS), smart buildings expand a BAS by offering additional tools, such as 24/7 remote monitoring and proactive maintenance based on analytical insights.
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How Can You Effectively Manage Building Energy Remotely?
As more building owners and mechanical service providers (MSPs) deploy smart sensors on equipment, there’s a growing need for effective remote building monitoring systems. As a result, the market research firm, MarketsandMarkets predicts the global market for Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled remote asset management solutions will grow from $16.5 billion in 2020 to $32.6 billion by 2025…
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Building Analytics Comparison Guide
It’s 2021 and in the last decade, we have experienced unprecedented technology changes that have effectively re-engineered how we live our daily lives. However, there are still industries, like commercial buildings, that are struggling to adopt and implement new technology…
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Easy Ways to Improve IAQ
Indoor Air Quality Seems Easy to Understand, But (without an automation system like BOB) It’s Really More Complicated than You Think
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) serves occupants with both physical and emotional comfort. Humans are constant temperature creatures with a normal internal body temperature of 98.6 F [37 C] and are continuously producing…
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5 Overlooked and Untapped Energy Conservation Measures
When faced with budget shortfalls and rising expenses, facility managers may feel pressure to reduce operational costs. One approach is to optimize the building equipment to increase efficiency gains which can lead to decreased energy expenses. But finding and diagnosing inefficiencies, or even knowing where to start, can be challenging.
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5 Things to do Today to Save Energy
Eliminating commercial building energy waste can enhance comfort levels, reduce equipment wear and tear, and lower monthly energy costs. However, not all energy conservation measures (ECM) are obvious or created equal. Ryan Lewton, Director of Energy Consulting & Certified Energy Manager at Key2Act, encourages facility managers to identify the underlying causes contributing to energy waste and incorporate lesser-known ECMs to prevent reoccurrence.
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Building Optimization Made Easy: Start with the Basics
In the ever-expanding world of building data and analytics, a common question that arises is not if Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) has value, but rather how to best maximize the value of FDD with the least amount of upfront cost and effort? To harvest and intelligently utilize all the data a building has to offer, businesses must evolve the way they work, along with the process of ingesting…
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ENERGY STAR Benchmarking: What is It & Why is It Important?
Although up to 30% of building energy is wasted, you can’t know where your facility stands without historical data. ENERGY STAR benchmarking turns your raw information into a baseline, making it easy to compare, understand, and explain energy use.
But your benchmark is only as good as the data you put into it, and manual entry can be tedious. Fortunately, tools exist to automate the process and ensure you’re working with the latest, error-free information.
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How to Reduce Energy with a Building Operations Center
24/7 Remote Building Monitoring Cuts Costs
A Building Operations Center (BOC) is similar in many ways to a Network Operations Center (NOC). The primary difference is instead of focusing on network performance, it focuses on the building performance of any number of building operations ranging from energy management to mechanical systems and comfort control to performing monitoring-based commissioning.
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Why Automate Central Plant Diagnostics?
Cutting Costs and Headaches with FDD
In the ever-expanding world of building data and analytics, a common question that arises is not if the increased use of building data and Field Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) has value, but rather how to best maximize the value of FDD with the least amount of upfront cost and effort? To harvest and intelligently utilize all the data a building has to offer, businesses…
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Six Trends Impacting Commercial Real Estate Technology Strategy
Recently, I listened to a very insightful and interesting podcast from Smart Building Academy. During the episode, Phil Zito, Founder and CEO of Smart Buildings Academy, interviews Maureen Ehrenberg, CEO of Blue Skyre IBE, about commercial real estate (CRE) and the strategies a listener could consider as they navigate the ever-evolving post-COVID world.
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Are You Reactive or Proactive When Addressing Your Building’s HVAC Issues?
Imagine this scenario: You are a building owner and you receive a call from a tenant that their space is too cold. It’s the middle of the winter and you need to react quickly before the comfort complaint becomes a dangerous situation. You check your building automation system and it confirms that the space is indeed cold. But what exactly is causing the problem? Is it a piece of equipment? Which one? And what other units might be affected? Who is going to call to complain next?
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Why You Should Encrypt and Secure Your MobileTech and Schedule Connections
If you’ve spent time in our documentation, you may have noticed a reference to securing your ports with an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate for applications like MobileTech or Schedule, or a note that some devices won’t allow you to even connect without one. Information like this sometimes appears to be just another ingredient in the…
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