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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
3 Smart Ways to Exceed Your Customers' Digital Expectations
Customer experience (CX) is taking the forefront as businesses discover its strong correlation to revenue growth. The drive to become an experience-focused business doesn't just come from the C-suite. Anyone with a deep understanding of today's digital mandate and a strong vision for what digital experiences can do for customers and the business can lead the charge. Sign up now to stay connected to show you the three smart ways to exceed your customers' digital expectations, along with real-world success stories, to help unlock your organization's potential.
Empowering the assembly line
Toyota was already planning to deploy Microsoft Teams to connect its diverse lines of business and improve productivity, when the pandemic hit. A six-month launch plan was reduced to three weeks, connecting 40,000 people across the company and enabling a more efficient method for virtual troubleshooting of processes. Learn how Teams supports the company's culture and ideals.
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Breakthrough teamwork tools: 4 tips to identify what works for you
As a business leader, you need to make sure your organization provides collaboration tools that suit different personalities, skillsets, and needs. Individuality means that what works for one person or team may not work for another. You also need to accommodate the diverse workstyles of the multiple generations now in the workforce. This guide provides insights to succeed through communication, customization, integration and working in secure confidence. Subscribe here.
Up-to-date infographic
Azure SQL databases are always up to date. When you migrate SQL Server databases to the Azure cloud, you can adopt Azure SQL Database managed instance for evergreen SQL that never needs to be patched or upgraded along. At the same time, you gain end-to-end SQL Server Engine compatibility for migration without code changes.
Transblue modernizes their business with Microsoft Teams & Microsoft 365
In this video, Transblue shares their modernization process from outdated paper processes to working in the cloud with up to date customer data with Microsoft 365.
Productivity: Increasing productivity with Microsoft 365 + Microsoft Surface
Lower your total cost of ownership and make faster decisions with the combination of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Surface devices.
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Social Asset B: Reduce up to 80% in administration costs by offloading server/storage infrastructures
When you offload server/storage infrastructures to Azure, you can reduce up to 80% in administration costs.
Financial tech company gains SQL Server performance and scalability on Linux
The dv01 financial reporting and analytics platform offers institutional investors transparency and insight into consumer lending markets. Based initially on PostgreSQL and Redshift data warehouse, the dv01 applications began to run slower as complexity increased. After exploring multiple solutions, dv01 eventually moved to Microsoft SQL Server 2016 running on Azure Virtual Machines. This move provided the scalability it needed to handle rapid growth, reduce query response time from 30 seconds to 1-2 seconds, and cut management time by 90 percent.
Monday, November 29, 2021
CTTI transforms the Generalitat de Catalunya with Microsoft Dynamics 365
The Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CTTI), a public company that brings together the computer and telecommunications services of the Generalitat de Catalunya, is using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform to manage in a unified way all the information related to its customers. This enables personalization and omnichannel attention for better customer experiences and improved customer satisfaction and retention.
ESNEFT Customer Success Story - Microsoft Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop
Using Windows Virtual Desktop, the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust removed unnecessary stress and frustration with IT. This empowered them to devote more time providing excellent patient experiences and healthcare services. Listen to their experience and learn how you can apply these solutions to your business.
Proactively prepare for and readily respond to disruption
The pandemic created havoc across nearly every industry. How will you continue to adapt as it continues to affect supply chains, how employees work, customer behaviors and demands, and various other aspects of the business landscape? Will you be ready for the next major disruption to your business? With the right tools, you can prepare and flex more efficiently as new challenges (and opportunities) emerge.
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Microsoft Surface - Productive, Powerful, Protected
With today's cyber-threat environment, cutting-edge security is critical. Surface was built to be a revolutionary on its performance and versatility, and Surface is one of the top devices in the security landscape. We know you need to empower your team to be their best without compromising security. Get to know Surface, and rest assured that your team's mobility and creativity are backed by best-in-class security.
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Built-in Hybrid infographic
Microsoft is committed to enabling a seamless hybrid approach to cloud adoption. Azure was designed and built to natively support hybrid environments from its inception. This infographic introduces more about the hybrid value you can benefit from when you choose Azure.
Azure App Service
Microsoft Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps. Work with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, and PHP—in containers or running on Windows or Linux. Subscribe to stay connected so we can help you build your app services on Azure—all while meeting rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance requirements.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
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.
Digital transformation and the customer experience
Seamless communication, creativity, and immediacy are key factors in the digital transformation of the customer experience. As customers face pandemic-induced circumstances driving accelerated digital adoption, companies are finding they must develop a strategy for digital transformation catering to the needs of the modern-day user. That user demands authenticity, personalization, and empathy.
How SMEs can cure their fear of digital transformation
There's a perception that digital transformation is hard. Businesses resisting it are typically concerned about costs or lack of in-house knowledge. However, those who explore digital transformation quickly discover that these fears are unfounded.
To achieve the benefits of digital transformation, you need to set goals and think of costs as investments.
Secure Infographic
Companies choose Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server because of its unmatched security. Azure delivers multiple layers of security, including the secure foundation of physical data centres, operational best practices, and engineering processes that follow industry-standard guidelines.
Modernize digital processes to improve profitability and ensure data security
Improve profitability and ensure data security by modernizing digital processes with Microsoft.
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J Walter Thompson breaks new ground with Microsoft collaboration tools
J Walter Thompson has been successful in business for over 150 years and recognizes 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.
Social asset B: Set your team up for success by providing a platform for collaboration
Cutting-edge Microsoft Surface devices enable unparalleled collaboration, innovation and creativity. Securely connect your workforce in the office, from the classroom, or on the go. Subscribe now!
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How the Surface Hub transforms traditional communication at Carhartt
Whether it's working alongside a supplier or maintaining relationships with a national retailer, Carhartt continues to drive efficiency by making smarter decisions and building stronger partnerships using Surface Hub and Power BI. With Microsoft technology, the Carhartt leadership team streamlined its telecommunication expenses, forged new productivity solutions and refined its analytics model.
Windows and SQL Server: The Best of Azure
Windows Server and SQL Server are best on Azure. This flyer highlights Azure's unmatched intelligent security, seamless hybrid capabilities, unparalleled innovation capabilities and unique cost savings options.
Security with Azure SQL Database in Azure Government
This video highlights the types of security features customers have been asking for and how Azure SQL Database wraps these features into a unified package of intelligent security capabilities. You'll also learn about the three major pillars of this advanced data security: data classification, vulnerability assessments, and threat detection.
Monday, November 22, 2021
Embracing digitalization
Strategy, structure, processes, people, technology—are you agile across all five of these dimensions? Explore guidance for digital transformation of enterprise resource planning (ERP), from tracking performance metrics to adopting a culture of change.
Church and Dwight move Windows Server licenses to Azure for cost optimization
Why run Windows Server on Azure? Find out from Church and Dwight, the major American manufacturer of household products. In this video, learn about the benefits of running their Windows Servers on Azure, the saving on costs by leveraging Azure Hybrid Benefit, and their short and long-term strategic goals.
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.
Microsoft Suffolk Construction Customer Story
Suffolk Construction delivers innovation at its construction sites with Microsoft technology. Users interact with Surface Hubs in ways that are most natural and intuitive to enable efficiency and collaboration.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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, customize and extend with 3rd party apps and devices, all while working in confidence using enterprise-grade security Subscribe now! Subscribe now!
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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.
Lightning-fast innovation, elastic scalability, cost savings, and better performance
Perform better—continuous optimization and visibility drive performance
The world is moving faster than ever, and your organization cannot be left behind. Learn how you can adapt to these changes with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, which delivers new insights across your company and facilitates process optimization—all of which help your business grow .
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Cloud lessons learned: four companies that migrated their Windows Server and SQL Server workloads to Azure
Read the success stories of companies that increased workload performance and cut costs by moving Windows Server and SQL Server to Azure. Download this eBook to learn about the different cloud migration paths that Allscripts, Carlsberg Group, Epos Now, and TraXall France used. See how Azure helps to smoothly migrate legacy data and keep pace with innovation, among other features.
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Photobooth Supply Co. is using Microsoft Surface devices to enhance the capabilities and features of their photo booths and produce unique and memorable photography experiences for customers all over the world.
Carlsberg Group follows a recipe for success with Microsoft Azure, SAP, and a cloud-first strategy
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.
Monday, November 15, 2021
App migration to Azure
In this video, look at strategies to migrate to Microsoft Azure spanning zero to higher levels of coding and when to use which.
From rehosting your apps by lifting and shifting them to Azure to choosing to refactor your apps for greater efficiency, Azure offers you possibilities. You can also rearchitect your apps to be able to quickly add new capabilities or take a cloud-native approach by rebuilding them from scratch. This video also addresses Azure's new secure options in the wake of the end-of-support for Windows Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2008.
The future of frontline work and devices
Yesterday's tools are not enough to get today's job done. Microsoft Teams brings all the tools you and your workforce need into one app. Discover how to integrate the latest tools designed for today's frontline work and devices, tailored to your specific needs.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 intelligent business applications
When facing disruptive change, a seeming hallmark of these times, agility and innovation are no longer "nice to haves." Microsoft Dynamics 365, boosted by intelligent business applications, is empowering countless businesses worldwide to thrive in this changing business landscape where resiliency is a necessity.
The connected, intelligent applications within Dynamics 365 offer businesses limitless possibilities to innovate, create impact, adapt faster, respond rapidly, and work smarter—all while unifying data to deliver more forward-thinking customer experiences.
Connect your workforce to real-time insights, so you can innovate everywhere. With Dynamics 365, your business will be ready for what's next.
Maximising your ROI from Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Surface
Maximise your ROI from Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Surface. Realise significant cost benefits from reduced security breaches and increased productivity with the device platform built from the ground up to help you get the most out of Microsoft 365.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Realize up to a 406% ROI over on-premises and hosted solutions
When paired with Azure, Windows Server and SQL Server can provide unique benefits that range from unmatched security to better performance. Realize up to a 406% ROI over on-premises and hosted solutions. Learn more about Windows Server & SQL Server on Microsoft Azure. Subscribe now!
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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.
Safer workplaces for frontline workers
The Pandemic has taken a toll on business but it's pushed us to find solutions to overcome obstacles. Learn how the Microsoft Power Platform Return-to-the-Workplace solution is helping customers safely prepare for the return to physical facilities.
Eight Finance Trends Every CFO Should Know
The CFO's role can be summarized with these two truths: 1) If something impacts the bottom line, it's the CFO's responsibility, and 2) Everything impacts the bottom line.
From unified data to intelligent technology powering finance operations, discover the eight key trends that are affecting the CFO's role.
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Reduce Costs Infographic
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. Learn about the unbeatable costs offers and benefits of migration to Azure cloud.
10 reasons to use Azure SQL in your next project
There are many new features that developers don't know exist with Microsoft Azure SQL. Learn why Azure SQL is a post-relational, cloud-native database with these ten simple points, including complete storage control, complete monitorability and full insights.
Microsoft Whiteboard experience on Surface Hub 2S
Microsoft Whiteboard is an endless canvas for people to work together in person or remotely across multiple devices. Surface Hub lights up the Microsoft Whiteboard experience with a gorgeous screen display and advanced inking capabilities, and there are so many great features built into Whiteboard to help you create your content. Customise the background of your canvas, enjoy the seamless inking experience of the Surface Hub 2 Pen, draw a shape and Whiteboard will perfect it for you. And if you want to create a table, start by drawing a rectangle, add some grid lines, and Whiteboard will recognise your intent. Start to add content and the table will intelligently adjust to fit. You can invite your colleagues to contribute to the whiteboard and they can add to it at any time, from anywhere on multiple devices, making this game-changing for teamwork.
Monday, November 8, 2021
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.
Develop your own path on Microsoft Azure
Whether you're developing your apps on .NET or Java, Microsoft Azure offers great benefits for both. From Visual Studio tools, global compliance, and multiple hosting options, Azure is the go-to cloud service for faster, simpler development.
Sign up to stay connected so we can help you develop your own path on Azure and keep you up to date on the latest cloud computing advances.
Commvault boosts capacity and performance with Windows Server and Azure
What are the benefits of running Windows Server and Azure? Learn from Ernie Costa, senior virtualization engineer from Commvault, about freeing up capacity and boosting performance. Also, learn how Commvault saves on cost by leveraging Azure Hybrid Benefit and running Windows Server and Azure services.
Social asset C: Remotely deploy and configure devices in a zero-touch process
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Three ways to take cloud-based ERP to the next level
In today's business environment, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are crucial—especially in a post-COVID world, where meetings are more often streamed, and work is conducted from home. By bringing together functions such as financial management, operations, manufacturing, reporting and analytics, and human resources, ERPs enable companies to be run remotely while maintaining security and driving cost efficiency.
Learn how to take your cloud-based ERP to the next level while expanding the flexibility and adaptability of your business.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Work smarter—unlock productivity and business insights
By connecting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with Microsoft 365, you can work from almost anywhere using nearly any device. You can videoconference, chat, call, collaborate, and seamlessly share Dynamics 365 Business Central data directly within Microsoft Teams.
Collaborate and take care of multiple business processes in one place. For example, you can check your email and create a quote by surfacing contextual customer relationship information, sales records, and inventory data within Microsoft Outlook. Then, schedule and start a Teams meeting with your customer in a few clicks.
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RACQ transforms customer experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) in Australia replaced a 22-year-old legacy platform with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. This new pipeline delivers streamlined processes and a digital feedback loop with a single source of insights for staff responding to member inquiries.
The result? More engaged workers and better service for its 1.7 million members, leading to improved satisfaction.
COVID shortages: Supply chains must become less efficient
The efficient leanness of supply chains before COVID-19 caused damage during the disruption. To counter this risk, Forbes advises adapting your supply chain to become flexibly risk-free. Efficiency does not always equal resiliency.
.NET Core invests in consistency to accelerate open-source innovation
Microsoft partnering with the open-source community to collaborate on .NET Core proved a valuable learning opportunity for large-scale retooling of its development processes. Consolidating 80 different repositories with more than 800 contributors from inconsistent implementations to a shared toolset required a fresh DevOps approach and the flexibility of Azure Pipelines and its support for GitHub.
The result: Developers can now move between repos without the need to learn a new CI system each time, and tests are more efficiently run which means iterations—and by extension, innovation—is quicker.
Subscribe to stay connected and download the full white paper detailing how the .NET Engineering Services team helped improve developer productivity at scale.
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Benefits of using Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure
This whitepaper highlights why Azure makes sense for applications that rely on SQL Server or Windows Server, based on four themes: security, innovation, hybridity, and cost.
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Transformation journey
From nurturing creativity to boosting productivity and advanced security, Microsoft Surface is the best place to deploy Microsoft 365.
When inspiration strikes, bring it to the Surface
Watch floral artist Maurice Harris bring his ideas to full bloom with the new Surface. From processing power and brilliant touchscreen to all-day battery and stunning graphics, the new Surface family can make your imagination a reality.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Just move it to the cloud
This blog outlines the different methods of data migration and use cases. Your method of migrating data to the cloud will depend on many factors. Migrating large amounts of data can be done with any of the methods explained in the blog, including Azure Data Box, File Shares, Site Recovery service, and more.
Work remotely, stay secure
As businesses have had to quickly pivot to new working environments, cyberattacks 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.
Microsoft Surface devices drive digital innovation at Blue Frog Bar and Grill
Staff at the Blue Frog restaurant chain looked for help modernising and transforming IT operations from the table to the boardroom. Microsoft delivered in the form of a powerful combination of Surface Go and Surface Pro devices, supported by a suite of business and productivity software built around Windows 10.
Copper State Bolt & Nut Co. lays a foundation for simple, seamless growth with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Discover the benefits of migrating from Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications that are housed on-premises to Dynamics 365 in the cloud. Copper State Bolt and Nut Co. sells over 125,000 fasteners, bolts, and nuts every month. By moving to the cloud-based application, Copper State Bolt and Nut Co. can keep up with the complexity and rapid growth of their data. Learn how migrating has helped them run their business more efficiently today and how it can help them to continue to scale in the future.
Digitalization future-proofs business thanks to connectivity and the cloud
Schmitz Cargobull AG is Europe's market leader in manufacturing refrigerated vehicles. Management knew that to fulfill their customers' need to track vehicles and loads at all times required scaling up access to data from multiple databases to one location in the cloud—creating a "data lake."
With Microsoft Azure supported by Azure DevOps, these customers now have access to a portal where they can check the location and condition of each vehicle, regardless of where the underlying data lives. Such a solution would have been costly on-premises, but using Azure turnkey modules reduced time to market and the need for in-house tools
The essential platform for an ambitious FinTech's global expansion
Less than a year later, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain, the Capital on Tap team found itself needing to rapidly deploy new solutions on Microsoft Azure to provide additional support services and products for its customers.
"We've always had a great working relationship with Microsoft and we've received great support from the customer success team. It's been useful to draw on the expertise of architects and support experts and access the help Microsoft has given us through the pandemic," says Jamie Howard.
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