Monday, January 31, 2022
ESNEFT Customer Success Story
See how East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) has transformed the way they engage with staff and patients using Microsoft Teams and Surface devices to deliver on their #TimeMatters digital program.
Azure Arc—the future of hybrid and multicloud
What is Microsoft Azure Arc? It's a game changer for developers, IT, and database administrators. Now, rather than managing separate resources individually, they can be collected in Azure Resource Manager—unlocking governance and policy tools across the entire disparate infrastructure. Fully manage on-premises, edge, and hybridcloud from one place.
Why Windows Virtual Desktop
Setting up Windows Virtual Desktop enables users to increase productivity and security. Learn how you can develop and scale your products and services on demand with Windows Virtual Desktop.
Employee engagement soars as Shell energises internal communication with Office 365
Royal Dutch Shell is an international energy company that strives to deliver more, cleaner energy solutions for its customers around the world. To help engage and unite its 84,000 employees to achieve this goal, Shell deployed Microsoft Office 365 and used Microsoft Stream, Yammer, and SharePoint Online to communicate with employees in a more personalised and collaborative way. With these solutions, they also grew thriving internal communities and revitalised its intranet. These changes empower staff to generate interactive, significant communications that drive corporate allegiance, productivity, and innovation.
Transforming the way we work
This infographic highlights the benefits that make Surface the top choice for today's organizations and employees.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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Activate Digital Selling: A holistic approach
Customers have changed more than we realize. They have a ton of access to information via social and digital channels, and they use it to make better, more informed decisions.
How has selling changed as clients' research and engagement capabilities have become more digital and advanced? To compete effectively, businesses must take a more holistic approach to accelerate revenue outcomes by transforming selling with an intelligent, comprehensive digital sales collaboration platform. Tools like Dynamics 365, Office 365, Azure, and Power Platform work to integrate data and AI.
Review the infographic to learn how Microsoft is approaching digital sales to integrate marketing, commerce, and sales to deliver modern customer experiences.
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Cloud migration essentials
The key to successful cloud migration is breaking the process into steps—regardless of why your organization wants to move or how complex your current environment is.
The benefits of migration can be immediate in terms of time and budget. Just remember, whether you're in the early stages of assessment or fully planning your approach, migration is always easier with a trusted provider like Microsoft.
Sign up to download the "Cloud migration essentials" e-book and discover an essential guide to successful migrations of servers and virtual machines.
Enabling your remote workforce infographic
More organisations are using virtual environments to increase productivity and save money. Learn about the benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop below.
Enable remote work faster with new Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities
Windows Virtual Desktop meets the needs of an increasingly distributed and remote workforce. Organizations of all sizes have had to quickly shift focus and support users who need to stay connected from new locations and devices. Learn what new capabilities Windows Virtual Desktop added to make remote work more efficient and secure.
10 ways Frontline Workers can use Teams
Microsoft Teams is tailored with capabilities to connect everyone in your company from the C-suite to the Frontline in one digital workspace. These capabilities are built for your customer support staff, IT help desk, store associates, and more. In this article, learn 10 ways that shift workers can use Teams to improve communication and collaboration while saving time and costs.
(Tools) Digital tools to empower Frontline Workers
Frontline Workers are behind the counter, on-site, in clinics, on the phone, and working directly with customers. In this infographic, learn how Microsoft digital tools can help empower this workforce to maximise their impact.
Windows Virtual Desktop
Get all the tools and resources you need to migrate your apps, data and infrastructure at your own pace with confidence. In the video below, learn how Windows Virtual Desktop expands capabilities with the best virtualised end-user experience.
Monday, January 24, 2022
What's New in MS Teams Platform
In May 2020, Microsoft Teams announced new meetings, calling, devices, chat, collaboration, platform, and industry features that are not to be missed. Read this article to stay up-to-date on the smart, simple, and flexible ways to stay connected, productive, and to further expand your workplace collaboration.
How Microsoft and Grundfos work to provide safe drinking water to the world
GRUNDFOS is looking to play a key role in helping cities reduce their energy usage and hit environmental sustainability targets. Learn how Microsoft Azure plays a crucial role in this effort.
Customer stories showcase traction for Microsoft's business apps division
Rapid digital shifts in the business market have forced organizations to up their cloud game and application services. Sales teams need to discover changes in customer intent and act quickly to remain competitive. Business apps such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform have been successful because of the pre-trained AI models within the application, which makes it easier to deliver in right time experiences (RTE).
RTE are products, services and applications which provide the right information to the right person at the right time on their device of choice. To create RTEs, a company must connect real-time data, partner with, and open data via AI-driven analytics.
Microsoft Teams for Frontline Workers
People build a relationship with your company, products, services, and brand through Frontline Workers. Make sure that your Frontline Workers are empowered to maximise their impact. One way you can do that is through Microsoft Teams, which has features to help your employees achieve even more. Check out this video to learn what Teams can do for you.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Three simple ways to migrate your web applications to Azure App Service
Migrating your applications using Microsoft Azure App Service can be simple. Redeploy code using your existing CI/CD pipeline, containerize your application, and deploy using Docker Imager—or use the Migration Assistant tool.
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Mitigating the hidden risks of digital transformation
As companies plan their digital transformation strategies, it is crucial to keep in mind four key areas where these efforts can introduce risk: multicloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure, digital supply chains and sales channels, Internet of Things (IoT), and automation and analytics. Discover how risks can be mitigated to prevent innovation from becoming a hazard.
Activate Digital Selling: Connect with customers through their preferred channel
The global pandemic gave way to new priorities shaped by a year (and then some) of crisis. With the acceleration of hybrid work, sellers now understand they need to help customers be better buyers. But how? The shift in B2B buying has reconfigured B2B selling, and sellers can focus on connecting with customers through their preferred mechanism. Review the infographic to learn about individualizing selling at scale, including ways to unlock data to discover opportunities.
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Putting the Team back in Teamwork
Microsoft Teams has quickly become the ultimate collaboration and teamwork application where users can easily add, customize, and find everything they need in one place. In this article, learn the basics around navigating Teams, discover new features for stronger collaboration, and examine business scenarios to understand the benefits as it integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective.
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Empower employees for secure remote work with Windows Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktops can provide great security to organizations and allow remote employees to access safely confidential organizational data. Learn how Windows Virtual Desktop makes your workflow secure in addition to optimizing services.
Cerner drives customer confidence, improves security and compliance posture with Microsoft 365
Cerner's life blood is healthcare information - data that is subject to some of the most stringent security and privacy regulations in the world. Working at the intersection of healthcare and information technology, Cerner helps shape the industry by delivering solutions to providers - from physicians to integrated delivery networks and large hospital systems - that empower them to transform healthcare delivery. Cerner turned to Microsoft cloud technologies to meet their own high standards and to assure clients who have concerns about the use of public cloud services for processing and storing their health information. Read more here.
Empowering and securing your Frontline Workforce
This eBook is geared towards helping you proactively equip Frontline Workers. With access to the tools and technology, they'll be able to be productive and start with a strong foundation. Learn how Azure Active Directory from Microsoft can help.
Windows Virtual Desktop intro
Windows Virtual Desktop creates best-in-class productivity across various devices and platforms. In this video, learn what these features can do for you and how they are important in an ever-changing work environment.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Stay productive while working remotely
Microsoft aims to keep teams connected while they work apart by making Microsoft Teams available to as many people as possible. In this article, learn how Teams allows you to chat, meet, call, learn, and collaborate all in one place. You will also find resources on getting started with teams for free, best practices on running virtual and inclusive meetings, and tips to foster community while working remotely.
Cloud Security and Windows Virtual Desktop
Keeping your work secure is paramount. Windows Virtual Desktop can help. Learn the protocols Microsoft takes to ensure data privacy, network protection, and more.
Low Code
Create at the speed of innovation with Power Apps low-code tools. This infographic shows how you can build custom apps in hours—not months—that connect to your existing data and systems to solve problems faster and drive efficiency.
Empowering a Frontline Worker
This three-minute video outlines a day in the life of a retail associate using Microsoft 365 to make his job easier. This associate is able to use Teams, swap shifts, communicate with the manager, and more. See examples of how these solutions could be right for your organisation.
Activate Digital Selling: Four steps to accommodate the new buyer reality
The customer journey has changed. Almost all B2B exchanges are done digitally today, and research suggests today's buying groups are more diverse than ever, with millennials making up the single biggest B2B buyer group. To stay relevant, sellers need to guide and collaborate with customers remotely, understand their customers and strengthen relationships, optimize processes to reduce costs, and help teams adapt to rapidly changing environments. Review the infographic for bullet points and fast facts about the new buying reality.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Optimize processes and help teams to adapt
In today's digitized world, gaining insights-based, collaborative engagement is the solution to optimizing sales processes. Learning about your customer and understanding sales data to identify ideal targets, recommend best actions, and collaborate with peers, will result in accelerated revenue. Interactive digital selling provides a genuine opportunity for sales teams to gain real-time data and insights to build strong, long-term customer relationships—and to help customers adapt and transition to the cloud. Tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales help pave the way.
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Alcoa puts Firstline Workers at the center of its digital transformation
Alcoa, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is a global leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminum production with locations in 10 countries. Alcoa deployed Microsoft 365 to improve communication and processes as part of the company's priority to reduce complexity. Employees at the company's Iceland facility embraced Microsoft Teams, using it to access business information from any location and on their own mobile devices. Alcoa uses Teams and Microsoft 365 to become more operator-centric with solutions that enable their employees in Iceland to manage schedules efficiently, streamline processes, and improve communication.
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The Art of Teamwork Guide
Team building is fundamentally important for your business to thrive. This article provides activities designed to enhance the interpersonal dynamics essential to a team's ability to bond together. Every core element has thought starters for those ready to dive in and a facilitator guide for those who want to take it to their team.
Microsoft accelerates telco transformation
Security, agility, collaboration, and productivity—learn why telecommunication companies are embracing the cloud to take their industry to the next level.
City speeds emergency services, controls spending with Microsoft 365
The City of Corona, California, had an aging IT infrastructure that didn't adequately serve the government's or the public's needs. To address the issue, Corona deployed Microsoft 365, which includes Windows 10, Office 365, and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security. With its modern solutions in place, the city now resolves many IT issues in 10 to 20 minutes versus four days, saves up to $1,000 in IT maintenance per incident, and has a foundation for future improvements. Read more here.
Qantas Airways uses Microsoft 365 to better connect airline personnel and people on the move
"A modern workplace allows people to do their best work anywhere, anyplace, anytime," says Susan Doniz, Qantas Group CIO. When Qantas Airways wanted to collapse the distances between employees and enable teams to deliver great customer experiences, they turned to Microsoft 365. See the story here.
Monday, January 10, 2022
Why Integrated Technology Systems is choosing Windows Virtual Desktop for their customers
Customers have been asking for a user-friendly Remote Desktop Service for years, and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is it. As the only affordable virtual desktop solution that allows you to deploy a native Windows 10 experience, it's been identified as one of the biggest partner opportunities in 2020. Read more in this blog post.
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Firstline Workers are often the first to engage with your customers, to represent your brand, and to see products in action. Empower your Firstline Workforce with @Microsoft Teams, which empowers your entire organization.
Microsoft Azure supports your Java workloads and processes
Microsoft Azure can help achieve your goals with the freedom and flexibility to build, manage, and deploy Java applications anywhere. Sign up to stay connected so we can help you modernize your Java apps and stay up to date on the latest cloud computing trends.
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(Overview) Empowering Frontline Workers drives impact
Frontline Workers form the backbone of many of the world's largest industries. Organisations that empower their Frontline Workers reap the benefits: 83% see higher levels of customer satisfaction, 82% see increased job satisfaction among employees, and more! See all the benefits in this stats-driven infographic.
Create human connection with Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Connecting with customers and building trust to create strong relationships is essential in today's digital era. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator have joined forces to offer an adaptive solution that anticipates customers' needs as they change.
With LinkedIn Navigator's vast network of business decision makers, you can find the right customers, better understand what they care about, and connect in a more meaningful way. Put the human touch back into every customer interaction.
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
The top 9 ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees
As COVID-19 cases continue to spread around the world, millions of people have moved to remote work. We're right there with them.
Understanding the Virtual Environment
Microsoft continually innovates to empower best-in-class experiences, no matter where you're located. Learn how you can maximize productivity in the virtual environment with Windows Virtual Desktop.
HRI uses Microsoft Teams to streamline research
Heart Research Institute (HRI) is conducting innovative, world-class research to prevent, detect and treat cardiovascular disease. See how Microsoft Teams has fundamentally changed the way HRI works. Teams helps researchers collaborate internationally, and as they streamline that process, it opens up their time so they can spend more energy on what they do best. The benefits include greater exploration of latest technology, as well as creating a faster path from making discoveries all the way through to positive patient outcomes.
How to migrate to the cloud
The transition from local servers to the cloud is a multistep process that requires preparation. The steps are similar—they just vary depending on the size, infrastructure, and cloud migration goals of each company. Compliance with this basic checklist should ensure a smooth transition. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to correctly migrate to the cloud.
Four strategies for modernizing your business applications
Among the options for application modernization is a spectrum—running from a simple lift-and-shift of the application to a new platform to a full rewrite. Each of these strategies responds to specific situations and requirements, so it's important to understand which one is best for your business.
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BYL Social Asset C: Empower the workers who engage customers first
Learn more about Frontline Workers - those who engage customers first - and how they can drive transformation in your organisation with the right solutions from Microsoft. Subscribe now.
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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.
Monday, January 3, 2022
Advances in digital behavior analytics are transforming how retailers sell online
COVID-19 accelerated the predominance of online sales. The result is an increased need to personalize the shopper experience—not reduce it. Real-time segmentation that factors things like location, gender, and age are still important, but what's more important is understanding specific consumer intent.
AI-driven solutions unleash insights about individual interests, motivations, and potential conversions.
Instead of bombarding customers with information based on common characteristics, personalization using AI makes shoppers feel seen and heard.
Windows Virtual Desktop Solution Overview
Get all the tools and resources you need to migrate your apps, data, and infrastructure at your own pace with confidence. Learn how Windows Virtual Desktop expands capabilities with the best virtualized end-user experience in the video below.
Integrate
This infographic shows how app integration lets you do more in Teams. Think about the tools, files, and dashboards you already use. Many of them can be added right into Teams and can be found by right in the Teams app store. Bring the apps and services you love into Teams to create your organization's hub for teamwork.
Solution overview video
Frontline Workers are frequently the first to engage customers, the first to represent your brand, and the first to see your products in action. It's crucial that this workforce has the modern tools and devices they need to increase productivity, streamline communication, and do their jobs successfully. This video provides an overview to the solutions Microsoft offers to empower your team.
The Partner Opportunity For Microsoft Business Applications ISV
The Microsoft Business Applications ISV Connect Program offers ISV partners a framework to assess potential business opportunities related to building, managing, and selling Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner—capturing multiple revenue opportunities.
Access platforms, tools, resources, and support designed to help you develop, publish, and market your business apps. Be a Microsoft partner and obtain the tools to fully develop your selling potential.
Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help you navigate the world of Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner.
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