Wednesday, July 28, 2021
How to avoid cloud migration pitfalls
While most businesses rely on the cloud for their storage and innovation needs, many are not using it to its full potential. Most businesses are only at the beginning of their cloud journey. This article from Forbes explains how to develop a full vision and plan for your future cloud migration and innovation.
Cloud Migration Checklist: Simple steps to start your migration today
This migration checklist provides easy, step-by-step guidance on the tools, planning and resources you'll need to migrate your apps, data and infrastructure to the cloud with confidence - no matter where you currently are in the process.
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Security and Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams follows all the security best practices and procedures, as part of the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services. This article details how Teams handles common security threats through defense-in-depth, customer controls within the service, security hardening, and operational best practices. Teams is trustworthy by design and provides details of its security framework to keep users well-protected.
J Walter Thompson breaks new ground with Microsoft collaboration tools
J Walter Thompson has been successful in business for over 150 years and recognises everyone in their company has different work styles. Because they are such a major distributor across many different countries, they've embraced virtual forms of communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams. This allows them to move at the speed of culture to help position its clients' brands. The value it brings to clients is being brand pioneers, and Teams is a lifesaver in connecting and interacting, and is easy for their user base to adopt.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
5 ways to lead effective virtual meetings with your remote teams
With virtual meetings, your team can connect from across the globe. In this article, read 5 tips to help you ensure high productivity and efficiency during your virtual meetings. You'll also learn techniques for keeping cameras on, connecting with your people with empathy, asking if there's anything they need, ensuring there's space for attendees to share their thoughts, and setting an agenda with an outline.
Supply chain maturity
Read the data: the top digital technologies being invested in over the next 3 years include Analytics and Cloud. It took 30 years for the industry to get from Reactive Identification to Management by Exceptions. Since technology refresh cycles are becoming rapidly compressed, Frost and Sullivan estimates that continued investment in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will spur the industry to reach level 6—analytics driving self-loop optimization—within the next 7 years. Check out the infographic for details.
9 pro tips to get started with low code
Developing apps is often seen as complex, costly, and time-consuming. However, using an innovative approach known as low-code development, anyone can create powerful business apps without requiring traditional coding skills.
The low-code approach is simple enough for beginners to build high-value apps—and sophisticated enough to meet the needs of professional developers tackling complex challenges. In both scenarios, it dramatically reduces the amount of work involved in getting an app up and running. Read here for more:
How to fortify your supply chain in an era of escalating disruption
This article highlights the dangers of supply chain vulnerability and the importance of preparing for times of disruption. It offers three key approaches to protect and support your supply chain: diversify, invest in digitisation, and develop a disruption mindset.
Streamline solutions with Microsoft Teams
Using Microsoft Teams helps you save time by having all solutions in one place for improved collaboration and information sharing. Foster a collaborative environment and embrace the upside of teamwork - frictionless sharing that makes good ideas exceptional.
(Create) Why build an app for Teams?
Why build an app for Teams? 20 million people collaborating daily, harnessing the possibilities through collaboration. This infographic shares how apps built on Teams platform focus on increasing collaboration and productivity.
Transform your business with Azure migration
Learn why companies like Albertsons, H&R Block, and Carlsberg Group chose to migrate to Azure and how the move has helped them transform their businesses. Microsoft provides tools for successful migration that work flexibly within the company's chosen migration process. Microsoft data platforms provide scalability, high availability, and security to accelerate your journey.
Why choose .NET?
Learn the basics of .NET with Microsoft's .NET Core 101. This eight-video series discusses what .NET is, what its benefits are, who builds it, and more. Learn how .NET helps you develop high-quality applications faster. You will also learn how to install, debug, and publish apps.
Deliver intelligent supply chain with Microsoft
In this video, learn how Microsoft is helping retailers anticipate and exceed customer expectations, avoid delays in production, and keep the business humming without interruptions. Microsoft empowers retailers of all categories and sizes to re-imagine the way they bring together all aspects of their business, from the factory to the store floor, enabling intelligent retail experiences that customers love.
Protecting the delivery of mental health services in Greater Manchester
With Covid-19, the way the Trust operates and the services it provides needed to be delivered remotely wherever feasible. Microsoft were able to rapidly speed up their move to Teams from Skype Voice and the intended broader deployment timescales accelerated, by supplementing existing licensing with E1 trials licenses made available for free to the NHS within a week. This meant they were able to use Teams at a much broader level and continue to deliver and collaborate more widely on their service. The trust has approx. 2500 Surfaces, 1 Surface Hub and 1 Surface Hub on loan, which they are using for corporate and clinical staff to use for control management and crises response during Covid-19.
Monday, July 26, 2021
How NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports uses Microsoft Teams to win races
For the 2018 racing season, NASCAR imposed new regulations on competitors, including limiting the number of team members allowed on the track during races. For legendary race team Hendrick Motorsports, this meant that many of the race-day crew would now need to perform their critical duties remotely from the team headquarters in Concord, NC. Hendrick Motorsports adjusted to the new regulations with technology, by making Microsoft Teams their new hub for all race communications and decision making.
Office 365 and Dynamics Relationship Analytics for Sales
See a demonstration of how Microsoft's Office 365, Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn are better together and give sales teams a unique advantage that drives more revenue.
The video showcases how Microsoft business applications give sales teams an advantage to close sales, specifically for Office 365, Dynamics 365 App for Outlook, Dynamics 365, Power BI, Relationship Analytics, Relationship Health, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Who Knows Whom.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Find lightning fast innovation, elastic scalability, cost savings, and better performance
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Why use .NET on Azure?
When you use Microsoft .NET apps, you get Visual Studio tools and over 100 cloud services. You also benefit from faster, simpler development.
Reduce time and costs by optimizing everyday tasks with intelligent automation
Optimize with intelligent automation. To learn more about agile business processes to enhance your operations, subscribe now.
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Social Asset A: Connect your team and transform your workplace collaboration in one secure hub.
Connect your team and transform your workplace collaboration in one secure hub with Microsoft Teams. Enhance virtual communication, collaborate and build with deeply integrated apps, customise and extend with 3rd party apps and devices, all while working in confidence using enterprise-grade security Subscribe now! Subscribe now!
Thought Leadership: Teams Future Features
This article describes various new features in Microsoft Teams, including enabling calls in separate windows and pinning meeting controls to the top of your screen.
Social Asset 1: Improve decision-making with data and replace manual business processes
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Carlsberg Group successfully migrates SAP to Microsoft Azure
Discover how the Carlsberg Group has successfully migrated SAP to Microsoft Azure. Migrating their environment to the cloud has helped them drive business performance and achieve digital transformation by streamlining their IT infrastructure.
How to Use Microsoft Teams
In this step-by-step tutorial for beginners, learn how to use Microsoft Teams - the collaboration app with all your chats, meetings, and files in one place. Learn what it is, how you can get it, and how you can use it, as well as advanced tips and tricks.
Monday, July 19, 2021
Chipotle builds new website with .NET Core, Visual Studio Code, and Azure
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. In this video, learn how Chipotle's ordering service is built in .NET to provide customers with a more efficient, coordinated service.
A company crazy about chocolate, serious about people, uses Microsoft Teams to build personal relationships
Dutch startup Tony's Chocolonely grew out of a journalist's exposé of child slave labor in the cocoa industry and his dream of making the chocolate trade slavery-free. The Amsterdam-based company grew quickly, but its original collaboration apps didn't support its international expansion or its work-life balance ideals. Teams enables Tony's Chocolonely workers to communicate on a personal level with their colleagues in Europe, America, and Africa. Adding telephony capabilities makes it even more powerful, with everything available in one single interface.
Tivoli Gardens delights guests with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
Tivoli Gardens, the second oldest amusement park in the world and the most beloved in Europe, continues its long tradition of imagination and innovation with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. With more than 4.5 million guests each year, Tivoli Gardens prioritizes and continually looks for ways to improve the customer experience. In this video see how Microsoft tools help them achieve this goal.
Dr. Martens "Joins the Revolution" with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Dr. Martens is an iconic British footwear brand loved the world over for its signature style that unapologetically represents freedom, self-expression, and authenticity. Formed in 1947, Dr. Martens made headway as a wholesale business. Now, they have more than 100 stores globally and ambitious plans for retail and e-commerce growth. Recognising the need to evolve to suit the needs of the twenty-first century consumer, the brand embarked on "Project Reboot: Join the Revolution" to replace all its legacy applications with Microsoft Dynamics 365. See the full story here.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Rapidly-growing UK restaurant chain migrates key business processes to Microsoft Dynamics 365
TGI Friday's popular and rapidly-growing restaurant franchise in the UK wanted a more scalable, flexible platform for core business processes. To support its ambitious growth, the franchise is consolidating business operations starting with financial management on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Built-in functionality and ease-of-use mean that TGI Friday's can continue to onboard more business processes while expanding its franchise. Benefits of their innovative growth strategy include lower costs, easier access to data and better insight.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Newcastle University challenges tradition with connected, collaborative culture
Newcastle University has a lot of connections between the different faculties, and it needed a formal way of supporting them. Launching Microsoft Teams provided a very rich, integrated platform that can create work groups dynamically in a multidisciplinary team. They now have up to 5,000 users between the faculty and students, streamlining professional services, research, and support for students.
Reduce costs with unbeatable offers
While innovation has supplanted cost savings as the primary driver of cloud migration for many businesses, moving to the cloud needs to make sense for your bottom line. Microsoft Azure offers unique cost savings options.
The Great IT Awakening
In the U.S. alone, 4.6 million IT workers supervise security, manage software and process data to streamline information for organisations of all sizes. This current period has been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and it has led to massive changes in the ways we live and work. In this in-depth article from the New York Times, look at how the IT industry is looking to cloud technology to modernise and revolutionise.
Power Platform
This infographic shows how to build custom Teams solutions with low code tools that can save money, install efficiency, and engineer innovation. Develop apps, automate workflows, and dashboards with Power Platform and use them in Microsoft Teams for businesses big and small.
eBook: Intelligent Economies: AI's transformation of industries and society
Discover what hundreds of senior executive survey respondents from around the world think about artificial intelligence and how its use transforms industries. Read the Microsoft-sponsored report from The Economist Intelligence Unit to learn how people are using AI to make the production and distribution of goods and services more intelligent.
You'll also see how optimistic industry leaders are about AI and how it:
•Contributes to financial benefits.
•Transforms economies and jobs.
•Encourages growth and productivity.
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Empowering Remote Work with Microsoft Teams
With more people working from home, fostering virtual connection is crucial. This one pager displays tips on how to empower your team to stay connected, inclusive and focused online. It also provides insights on how to share content and keep your business running smoothly using Microsoft Teams.
The AI-enabled future
This article from Forbes explores Cognilytica's four-part AI enabled vision of the future. In that vision, there are four main areas in which AI will impact our future lives: the way we work, the way we live, the way we experience the world and our interactions with each other, and the relationship we have with data.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Five tips to help you save money and manage costs with Azure
Find out how you can take advantage of offers and tools to maximize your efficiency with Microsoft Azure. Watch this video to get 5 tips to help you save on costs and learn about the tools available to help you efficiently move to the cloud.
Solution overview video
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Omnichannel Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service
Omnichannel for Customer Service provides a modern, customizable, high-productivity app that lets agents help customers across different channels via a unified interface. It lets organizations choose the channel that suits their business needs. In this video, get clarity around the current functionality available in one of our newest offerings, Omnichannel for Customer Service.
Customer Story of RLH Corporation, Dynamics 365, Teams
Discover how Red Lion Hotels Corporation uses Dynamics 365 and Teams to digitally transform their internal processes to drive higher guest satisfaction. With a vision to lead the hotel industry with technology, there's been a shift in RLH's reliance on IT. See how this top hotel chain is maximising Microsoft solutions in this video story.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Cloud Migration Essentials: A guide to migrating servers and virtual machines
While migrating to the cloud offers your business greater scalability, cost-efficiency, and improved performance, it can require careful IT planning and strategy. Fortunately, there are resources and tools that can make your cloud migration less daunting and help simplify your path to the clou...
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Collaborate more securely
Microsoft takes a comprehensive approach to delivering an enterprise-grade communication and collaboration experience. Learn more about privacy, security, and compliance in Microsoft Teams with this infographic.
Ullman Dynamics's migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Explore how Ullman Dynamics, the world leader in suspension seats, is transforming their business by migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the cloud.
Our approach to responsible AI
This video highlights six important principles Microsoft considers before pushing their AI products to production.
Social Asset A: Adapt business processes to changing technologies and demand
Modernise, automate and adapt with Microsoft tools. Discover how to update technologies to solve changes, cut costs and save time - transforming your organisation. Microsoft solutions and business applications make the process seamless. For all the latest insights into agile business processes, plus news and tips, subscribe now.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Collaborate with Microsoft Teams
This infographic lists the many ways you can use Microsoft Teams to drive workplace collaboration. It also provides statistics on the success and popularity of Microsoft Teams.
Custom Air Products & Services manage HVAC manufacturing process using the Power Platform
Custom Air Products and Services is an HVAC company that needed a customized solution to track the entire lifecycle of units from "cradle-to-crate." Microsoft Power Platform had the tools they needed to fully digitize without expensive custom software. Read here to learn how the Power Platform transformed their business across 30+ usage needs.
Improve remote productivity by integrating apps
Integrate apps, automate workflows—and never miss a post. Subscribe now for more insights into building agile business processes to transform your organization.
Azure App Service
This infographic illustrates the world-class flexibility, security, integration, and reliability of Azure App Service - a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps.
Predictive Analytics
This infographic is an overview of how Azure Machine Learning is the best way to transform your business with the power of AI. This tool highlights the growing market opportunity and how Microsoft itself has leveraged AI into ongoing momentum for its own business.
CWPS uses Microsoft Teams to reimagine sales project workflows
How can your organization benefit from Microsoft Teams? Learn from Frank Lusko, the EVP of Sales and Marketing at CWPS, to hear how his sales team has benefited from this collaboration tool through features such as notification alerts and planner scheduling.
Work remotely, stay secure
As businesses have had to quickly pivot to new working environments, cyber-attacks become an urgent concern. In this thought leadership article, you can learn some of best practices using Microsoft security that help ensure the best protection. Examples include secure access to cloud applications that protect sign-ins with security defaults, methods to manage and secure corporate data in approved apps on personal devices, and providing clear and basic information, including how to protect their devices, will help you and employees stay ahead of threats so they can remain productive.
The power of AI comes with a powerful responsibility
This blog article from Microsoft discusses how AI has the potential to transform the future of work, and it is critical that businesses foster a culture that includes everyone as they incorporate AI strategies.
The biggest potential that AI holds is its ability to help us work together to tackle our toughest problems and it requires the shared responsibility to think about not just what AI can do, but what it should do.
Modernise sales productivity
Discover how to streamline your sales processes and get seamless Microsoft Office 365 integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional. Focus on what's most important with complete customer interaction history, guidance toward optimal outcomes, and rich interactive dashboards. Streamline seller workflows with sales capabilities embedded in Office 365, mobile apps and built-in collaboration. With Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional, modernising seller productivity is the simpler way to build sales momentum and boost productivity.
Monday, July 5, 2021
Powerful alone, better together
Together the Microsoft Power Platform empowers you to create solutions that accelerate business. The platform connects powerful tools to analyze data, automate processes, create virtual agents, and more. Find out here how your team can benefit from this powerful platform and build end-to-end business solutions.
3 ways Microsoft Teams streamlines business collaboration
Microsoft Teams is a best-in-class hub for team collaboration. The cloud service has been designed to create streamlined and efficient remote teamwork. Teams makes interaction between team members working in different locations as productive as possible. Check out this article from FutureComputers that features three ways Microsoft Teams makes collaboration better, like easily accessible corporate resources, and more. Read on!
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