December 29, 2021
Drive innovation with insights: engage customers, empower employees, and transform business solutions
Drive innovation with insights to engage customers, empower employees, and transform business solutions.
Understand Your Customers and Strengthen Relationships Remotely
The world has changed, and the workplace continues to evolve post-pandemic. Understanding your customer is essential for personalizing sales—knowing your client wants and needs leads to effective engagements. With increased work happening in the cloud, products like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365 Sales help you stay agile, meeting customers wherever they are.
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Transition to Cloud: A journey to Modern Work with Microsoft 365
The digital transformation of the business world has pushed businesses to address new challenges: remote work, cloud migration, and device security is the new normal. Today's decision makers need to create people connections, address burnout, and work toward consolidating apps.
With Microsoft 365, you get a platform boosted with industry-leading apps, intelligent cloud services, and world-class security. You can download and sync devices, detect threats before issues occur, simplify through vendor consolidation, and so much more.
This infographic explains the 6 ways Microsoft 365 apps and services can ease your organization's journey to modern work.
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December 28, 2021
The best way to add value to your growing business? Invest in supply chain leadership
This article from Forbes discusses the importance of removing silos and focusing on cross-functional leadership. Key practices include thinking long-term, encouraging workforce development, and investing in technology.
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Employ flexible, open hybridcloud solutions—transform customer engagement
Enable remote work, take advantage of cloud innovation, and maximize your existing on-premises investments by relying on an effective hybrid and multicloud approach. Sign up to stay connected so we can help you modernize your .NET apps on Microsoft Azure and stay up to date on the latest cloud computing trends.
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This LinkedIn Tool Could Boost Your Sales
LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a premium subscription-based app specializing in prospecting and tracking sales prospects. Its advanced search engine helps identify ideal candidates by looking for leads or accounts—filtering search results based on geography, industry, company size, role, seniority level, and more.
With Sales Navigator, marketers can engage new leads and connections and discover new ones automatically. The Team version connects popular CRM applications and captures your Sales Navigator activity.
How the Atlantic is preserving published history with Azure AI
The Atlantic is using Azure AI to preserve 160 years of published history. Specifically, the Atlantic is using Azure Cognitive Search to transition from hard copy to a digital system where its archives can be perused by the public. Writers can use these services as a resource to build connections between stories and enrich their content.
December 27, 2021
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.
Britax Römer Creates a Unified E-Commerce Solution with Dynamics 365
Child car seat and stroller engineer/manufacturer Britax Romer designs and delivers its safety products to retailers across Europe. To innovate and keep ahead of the competition, it needed to automate, digitize, and give savvy customers and retailers the information they needed in one place—as well as fulfill deliveries in record time. Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions enabled the retailer consumer guidance toward the best safety products for children.
Modernize your supply chain with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Automate and streamline your supply chain with advanced warehouse and inventory management to improve fulfillment, material sourcing, and logistics. Discover how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can modernize business logistics, deliver proactive customer responses, and unify processes from sales to fulfillment.
Helping customers across every industry prepare for the future
Seven of 10 board directors accelerated digital initiatives due to COVID-19, executing two years' worth of digital transformation in two months. Learn how Microsoft is helping customers across every industry prepare for the future.
Transition to Cloud Deployment checklist
Businesses rely on cloud transformation for the stability and agility it offers to their operations. Microsoft 365 enables this transformation by realizing modern work environments where users are productive and secure while working from anywhere. Review the infographic and get started today with this 5-step deployment checklist. Learn how you can rapidly deploy Teams, secure access, provide employees with adequate support, and more.
December 22, 2021
Intelligent, Trusted, Flexible
This infographic offers an in-depth look at how Microsoft business analytics and AI is intelligent, trusted, and flexible. This service produces faster, more accurate insights and predictions. It also offers the most secure, compliant, and scalable system. Finally, it works with what you have.
December 21, 2021
Security and privacy with an integrated portfolio of cloud services
Businesses rely on cloud transformation for the stability and agility it offers to their operations. Microsoft 365 enables this transformation by realizing modern work environments where users are productive and secure while working from anywhere. Secure your business with technology you can trust, ensure only the right users have access without affecting productivity, and protect your data through security best practices and easy-to-use policies that prevent accidental data leaks.
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What's driving application modernization?
Digital transformation—the adoption of leading-edge technologies to improve business value and increase customer success—is seen by most organizations as more critical than ever and accelerated by the effects of the pandemic.
Application modernization is driven by the need for transformation, privacy, remote work, government regulation, risk assessment, worker productivity, data growth, and the need to stay competitive.
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Kent Water Sports Pivots During COVID-19 with Dynamics 365
As people spent more time outdoors during COVID-19, Kent Water Sports experienced a huge spike in product demand for its outdoor water and snow activities equipment. Improving its e-commerce experience was essential to keep up with orders.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce and Microsoft Power BI allowed Kent to thrive during the pandemic. The solution enabled employees to access, manage, and share data with ease to fulfill customer needs. Kent had a record sales year and is going strong—just like its active clients.
HP uses AI to transform its customer support experience
HP Inc. handles more than 600 million technical support contacts each year, and the company strives to make every single one a satisfying experience for the customer. To improve both self-service and contact center support delivery, HP built a virtual agent using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI solution for customer service. Customers can now interact conversationally with the assistant to solve common problems, support staff use the Microsoft AI solution for instant access to a wealth of troubleshooting information, and the company gains deeper insights into common customer issues.
December 20, 2021
Schneider Electric How Microsoft Teams helped create a successful HR marketing campaign
How open communication created a successful HR marketing campaign: Schneider Electric had already established a culture of diversity and inclusivity, and Microsoft helped to put on a lens on that for their HR marketing campaign. Using Teams provided the backbone for the preproduction work of commination, deciding ideas for production, and having the tools needed to share ideas and keep it all running smoothly. Teams has been the key tool used for the company to keep those collaborations and contributions going.
5 Reasons to Start Using Teams
Since its launch, Microsoft Teams has become the fastest growing app in Microsoft history with more than 330,000 companies worldwide using it. Learn new ways to use the app on a daily basis. Here are 5 reasons why you should start using Teams today for enhanced workplace connection and collaboration. Don't wait, collaboration brings innovation and success.
Goodyear drives more remote collaboration to keep plants running with Microsoft Teams
As a company dedicated to keeping people moving, Goodyear tire company wasn't about to slow down because of global travel restrictions due to COVID-19.
When engineers could no longer travel to factories for equipment installation or troubleshooting, Goodyear turned to Microsoft Teams running on RealWear voice controlled, assisted-reality wearable computers to bring the engineering experts into the plants virtually—enabling instantaneous collaboration from remote locations, and saving money on travel costs.
The future of cloud in a post-pandemic world
COVID-19 dramatically changed the way people work. There were severe shifts in the cloud sector caused by changing work patterns, and this forced C-suite executives to fast-track their cloud migration plans. While the cloud was a lifeline for many of these organizations, they now must prepare to continue this transition. Companies must work towards cloud modernization in partnership with their CIOs and IT departments.
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates ensures business continuity with Dynamics 365
With Microsoft, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates has been able to adapt easily to the disruption of COVID-19 and ensure business continuity. Dynamics 365 enabled them to completely change their distribution model to accommodate the increase in e-commerce and continue work seamlessly from home.
December 15, 2021
Savvy SMB Leader's ERP Buyers Guide
When everything is moving so fast, and you are constrained by time and resources, it can be difficult to stop and think about the business systems that your operations rely on. Business continuity and success depend on effective operations, productivity, quality, speed, and the customer experience that you deliver.
Connect your data across all lines of business in your organization—from financials to sales, services to projects, and even across warehousing, supply chain, and manufacturing. A modern solution can enable real-time data access, visibility, and insights across your entire company.
Sign up to stay in touch and download the e-book "Savvy SMB Leader's ERP Buyers Guide." When it's time to digitally reimagine your business and gain the competitive edge you need, we can help.
Improve performance with faster, more accurate insights and predictions
Microsoft Analytics and AI takes innovation to the next level with faster, more accurate insights and predictions. Subscribe now to stay informed!
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December 8, 2021
Fluid, Dynamic, and Cloud-Powered Solutions
Microsoft is uniquely positioned for partnership with any organization's modern digital transition journey. Solutions like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions. Built on a foundation of security and privacy, the Azure platform helps businesses in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line. Communication is seamless, dynamic, and collaborative.
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Spotlight on Teams
Don't miss out on the latest technology news. This Forbes article outlines the latest announcements for the Teams Platform at Virtual Microsoft Build 2020. Key points include integration with Microsoft Power Platform and further opportunities with Power BI, Teams app development, and scheduling management improvements with the platform. Subscribe now.
AI Cybersecurity Training
Discover how Azure Government provides government agencies and their partners world-class security, protection, and compliance through cloud services. In this video, Keenan Skelly talks about the benefits of a scalable, AI-powered, gamified, persistent cybersecurity training environment on the strength of Microsoft Azure.
Supply chain maturity: Harnessing the power of data and AI
Over the next seven years, AI and Machine Learning will spur the industry toward supply chain maturity. This infographic outlines the various digital technologies respondents plan to invest in in the next three years, including analytics, AR/VR, and cloud.
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6 ways digitalization Is empowering women around the world
Digitalization is breaking the barriers for women across the globe. From rural education to entrepreneurship, digitalization is giving a voice to those who previously didn't have one—reducing the gap between men and women and empowering them to build communities, develop ideas, and strive for excellence in all areas.
December 7, 2021
Realizing results with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Financials, sales, services, supply chain, project management, analytics—they're all separate departments but they no longer need to be silos. Thanks to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can connect them through a single, unified application.
Today's marketplace is more competitive than ever. With every day bringing a new technological advancement, you'll need the best business solutions to keep pace. Review the infographic to explore your options and unlock the possibilities.
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How To Get Your Cloud Migration Strategy Right
Industry leaders are working hard to compete with digital upstarts that develop their business exclusively in the cloud. Business infrastructure has become more complex, and to keep up to date, companies are digitizing their operations—looking for agility and insights from data and analytics.
IT business partners must demonstrate the ROI of switching from ""owning"" to "renting" infrastructure. It's now critical to monitor performance across different cloud frameworks with tools that collect and correlate data from every location. Leaders understand there is a before, during, and after migration strategy for making the switch successful.
Security Analytics and Operations: Industry Trends in the Era of Cloud Computing
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American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Ignite 2019
The American Red Cross deploys a suite of Microsoft products to streamline operations, allowing them to focus on their core mission of alleviating human suffering. From sharing information and organizing work in Teams, to coordinating with other relief agencies through Microsoft Power BI during a disaster, watch this video for the full story.
Fluid, Dynamic, and Cloud-Powered Solutions
Microsoft is uniquely positioned for partnership with any organization's modern digital transition journey. Solutions like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions. Built on a foundation of security and privacy, the Azure platform helps businesses in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line. Communication is seamless, dynamic, and collaborative.
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December 6, 2021
5 Technological Innovations Changing Medical Practice
Game-changing technological innovations are having profound repercussions in almost every industry across the world. The health sector in particular is embracing innovations that offer significant business opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors. And with tech developers, engineers, and researchers regularly breaking new ground and achieving what was once thought impossible, it seems that the question to ask now is not if a given breakthrough can be achieved, but when.
Read this article to learn about the five key areas in which digital transformation is enabling providers to drive breakthroughs in healthcare and deliver improved patient experiences.
Urbaser case study
Urbaser, world leader in environmental management, opts for Windows Virtual Desktop so that their employees in Spain can continue developing their work activity from any location, with their own computers and with the highest levels of security.
3D Tour: ThinkSystem ST550 Server
This website tour enables customers to see the components of the tower server and learn about its many key features. Please contact High Tech.2.0 for more information about the ThinkSystem ST550.
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.
December 1, 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.
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November 30, 2021
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.
How Starbucks is using AI to improve the customer experience
At Microsoft's Build conference, Starbucks showed how artificial intelligence is helping them better predict what customers may be in the mood for by considering such factors such as weather, location, and user preferences.
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.
Emerging data trends in supply chain management
This infographic visually describes the findings from a 2019 report, "putting customers at the center of the OEM supply chain." Ninety-nine percent of OEMs believe that the digital transformation of their supply chain is important to meeting their organization's strategic objectives.
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.
November 29, 2021
Toyota Motor North America Migrates 40,000 to Microsoft Teams in Three Weeks
How does a company respond to the challenge of remote work when they are already managing a major digital transition? Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) made the decision to move their original Teams deployment schedule four months ahead, and as a result, thousands of TMNA employees migrated from Skype for Business to Teams over three weekends. Teams Only mode included a superior audio conferencing and calling experience, including Teams Phone for external calls. Employees appreciate the dynamic emergency calling feature. All meeting rooms are now Teams-ready.
Leveraging Tech to Improve Customer Experience: 11 Smart Techniques
The importance of customer experience has taken off in recent years. As competition becomes the norm in many digital and application spaces, the interaction that the consumer has with a company becomes more important. CX is vital in helping a company retain its customers and grow its customer base through organic referrals.
Luckily, technology offers several ways for businesses to improve their customer experience. In this article, 11 members of the Forbes Technology Council explain some techniques businesses can use to improve their customers' experience.
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.
Solution overview video
This video highlights how building a resilient supply chain with Microsoft can help your organization stay on track during a crisis, providing end-to-end visibility that allows for data-based decisions that improve response time.
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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November 24, 2021
Engage employees, improve productivity, and build team cohesion
After so much turmoil and change, employees all want different things. Companies need to support a successful back-to-hybrid-office life—a situation that is here to stay. The capabilities for positive hybrid meetings is possible with modern Microsoft tooling like Teams, Endpoint Manager, and devices like Surface Hub. Immersive and custom engagements that highlight leading guidance and innovation help remote and on-site deployment assistance prepare teams for hybrid work—meeting the needs of employees and increasing productivity and satisfaction no matter where they work.
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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.
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.
Putting your customer at the center of supply chain
The supply chains of original equipment manufacturers have always been complex and often unpredictable, but in today's hyper-connected world, OEMs are encountering new levels of complexity. Research finds that ninety-nine percent of OEMs believe that the digital transformation of their supply chain is important to meeting their organizations' strategic objectives.
November 23, 2021
The Workforce of the Future eBook
New levels of connectivity and advanced technologies like AI enable businesses to process more data on a larger scale. AI plays one of the biggest roles—in terms of disruption and resulting opportunity—for our industry and our workforce. As we look to a future powered by a partnership between computers and humans, we must address these challenges head on: How will AI impact employment and jobs? How do we ensure that AI is designed, used, and governed responsibly? Explore answers to these questions and more in this valuable eBook.
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.
The Role of AI and People Analytics in Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow
While investment in digital business solutions continues to increase, employees remain the lifeblood of every enterprise. This article from Forbes covers key ways AI and analytics help organizations hire the right people and train them for success.
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.
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.
ROI Azure Synapse
This infographic shows how @Microsoft Azure Synapse brings Big Data and Data Warehousing together in a single service to provide limitless analytics.
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.
Maersk safely transports goods around the globe with Azure and IoT
Using Azure and IoT, Maersk uses remote container management to track and monitor 380,000 refrigerated containers around the planet. By leveraging the cloud, they are able to build new solutions and move much faster on data delivered to customers. This ensures that customers always know where their shipments are and goods arrive in perfect shape.
Nebraska Furniture Mart embraces Microsoft 365 to work smarter
The ability to work securely from anywhere already played a role in Nebraska Furniture Mart's (NFM) digital transformation vision, but COVID-19 pushed that goal to the forefront. Decision makers at NFM chose Microsoft 365 to advance a cloud-first strategy and standardize on a single solution. Consolidating communication on a single solution like Microsoft Teams helped drive efficiency and collaboration—all while saving costs. NFM implemented Teams Rooms systems at its Omaha headquarters, and the company will soon roll out the solution across all its stores, as well as integrate Teams Phone capabilities in the future.
November 17, 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.
How to build autonomous systems with AI
This video is a powerful example of how autonomous systems can be aligned to intelligently perform routine tasks. Toyota Material Handling partnered with Microsoft using AirSim (an open source simulation platform originally developed to teach drones or robots to learn in high fidelity simulated environments) to train a forklift on tasks like picking up a pallet. This video illustrates the vision for a future warehouse with pre-trained, intelligent forklifts assisting people in everyday activities.
November 16, 2021
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 digitization, and develop a disruption mindset.
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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Building the AI-Powered Organization
The business world is rapidly changing. It is estimated that AI will add $13 trillion to the global economy over the next decade-and yet from thousands of executives surveyed, only 8% of firms are adopting core practices that fully support implementation. Businesses arrive at progress slowly, reflecting a failure to rewire within the organization. This article from Harvard Business Review demonstrates how companies can make a successful shift to utilizing AI and setting themselves up for success.
To Make Hybrid Work, Solicit Employees' Input
Driven by the state of the world today, more companies are committing to hybrid work. But how do you build out the model in a way that's right for your business and those who are conducting it?
Simple: Talk to employees to tailor the program to their specific needs. Easier said than done? Learn what questions to ask and scenarios to consider, and then maintain flexibility so you can quickly pivot if necessary.
November 15, 2021
2 Types of Artificial Intelligence
Bring the future into your business today with AI. Explore two types: Pre-Built and Custom Built. Pre-Built AI has cognitive services - deep learning cognitive capabilities ready to use (vision, speech, knowledge, translation, etc.), whereas Custom Built AI uses machine learning capabilities to analyze data to build and an artificial neural network to address specific problems not covered by Cognitive Services.
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 reimagine the way they bring together all aspects of their business, from the factory to the store floor, enabling intelligent retail experiences that customers love.
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.
Hybrid Work: A Guide for Business Leaders
The pandemic has fundamentally transformed the way we work, do business, and meet customer (and employee) needs. With data showing that all parties want flexibility, the shift to hybrid work is a strategic business opportunity for every organization—one that requires a new operating model.
The customers' objective is to lead this change within their business and embrace innovation and the hybrid work opportunity—the inevitable way of the future. Fortunately, Microsoft has been a trailblazer in this transition, and has a guide to share what they've learned at scale about people, places, and processes.
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November 10, 2021
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Reimagine the Flow of Work in the New Hybrid Work Reality
Flexibility is a must in the new post-pandemic work world. Hybrid work continues to evolve, and business leaders are looking for a new operating model. Technology is the binding factor to create inclusive meetings that keep employees engaged and inspired. Updates to Teams like PowerPoint Live, the Teams camera feed, Microsoft Whiteboard—and devices like Surface Hub—encourage digital collaboration.
Endpoint Manager combines services like Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Desktop Analytics, co-management, and Windows Autopilot to help secure access, protect data, and respond and manage risk.
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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.
November 9, 2021
Improve decision making with data and replace manual business processes
Improve decision making with data and replace manual business processes with Microsoft. Subscribe now.
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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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Setting The Stage For Collaborative Hybrid Teams
Remote work is starting to feel mainstream, but many companies are still struggling to normalize their own personalized hybrid work models. Explore four things you should avoid in order to balance the needs of a diverse and divided workforce—from investing in the right tools and overcoming meeting fatigue to finding new ways for personal connections.
Future Generali uses Microsoft AI to Deepen Customer Engagements
Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd. adopted the use of REVA, a chatbot built on the Microsoft Bot Framework, which plays a key role in driving insightful conversations with its customers. In this video, see how the company has already seen an increase in the customer satisfaction rate by 91%, which won them the Microsoft and CNBC TV18 #AIForAll award for leveraging AI for enhancing customer engagement.
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.
The NFL Huddles with Microsoft Teams to Digitize Collaboration for Game Day
Everyone knows that teamwork is vital in the National Football League (NFL)—on the field and off. The arrival of COVID-19, however, pushed the league to reimagine how to collaborate behind the scenes. Executing hundreds of live events while preserving the gameday experience for online fans and business partners was a new challenge.
In exchange for the traditional high-touch, in-person communication culture at league offices, the organization adopted a virtual home field. Microsoft Teams helped the NFL stay connected and safely execute all 270 combined regular season and playoff games and Super Bowl LV—despite the collaboration challenges brought on by the pandemic.
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. Recognizing 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.
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.
November 3, 2021
In an era of distractions, Microsoft wants AI to be your coworker
Microsoft is aiming to adapt its productivity suite to a short-attention-span world, bringing years of research into products like PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel. This article outlines how after years of slavishly digitizing and formatting words, numbers, and images, future versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will be much more aware of your work and how you do it. Intelligent algorithms will find patterns and meanings in the data and use the insights to help you get through your day more efficiently. This transition to smarter work software has already begun.
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.
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 organizations 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 modernize and revolutionize.
.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.
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November 1, 2021
Microsoft Teams Innovations Designed for Hybrid Work
Microsoft Teams empowers employees to interact on the spot with people all over the world. New features like chat, live reactions, and Whiteboard make the Teams meetings experience uniquely modern. Intelligent in-office cameras designed to enhance the presence of people can produce multiple video streams and create unique experiences for both presenters and attendees.
The culture of hybrid work is here to stay, and the innovations Microsoft Teams is making offers employees choice and flexibility—including a new way in Outlook to organize and display your hybrid office hours or join a meeting using companion mode on your mobile device.
Analytics & AI solution video
This video is a quick introduction to Microsoft Analytics and AI, explaining how to expand the reach of your data insights and gain increasing levels of efficiency and personalization. By harnessing the power of Microsoft Analytics, you can inform and drive intelligent automation through AI and machine learning.
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.
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 maximizing Microsoft solutions in this video story.
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
October 26, 2021
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Common myths (and facts) about open source
For some companies, the idea of adopting open-source software doesn't seem viable. There are many myths about open source, but the truth is that it can facilitate security, be easy to maintain and integrate, and scale to whatever heights you require.
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Why You Need an Open Source Software Strategy
Collaboration helps drive innovation, which is why open-source software is the future of digital technology. In 2020, there were more than 1.9 billion global open-source contributions. When facing a new technological challenge, open source can be the key to unlocking new opportunities—but it's critical to have a
Adapt business processes to changing technologies and demand
Modernize, automate, and adapt with Microsoft tools. Discover how to update technologies to solve changes, cut costs, and save time—transforming your organization. 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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Shipping company navigates to the cloud, boosts security, cuts operating costs by 50%
Qatari shipping and maritime company Nakilat has one of the world's largest fleets of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, transporting LNG from Qatar to global markets. To increase its competitive advantage, Nakilat wanted to improve employee productivity and mobility, without compromising on data security. It uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security to deliver highly secure cloud-first workplaces—shipboard and in the office. Nakilat also adopted the Microsoft Azure platform to optimize its operations and improve business continuity, reducing operating costs by 50 percent. See more in this video.
October 25, 2021
What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption
Digital transformation, accelerated during the pandemic, is redefining the way companies use technology, people, and processes to apply new business models and discover new revenue streams—while striving to meet constant changes in customer expectations surrounding products and services.
The digital transformation consists of five basic steps, starting with the alignment of objectives with business goals.
Emerging technology and revamped processes are important for digital transformation—but nothing is more important than having staff with the right sets of skills. From software engineers to data scientists and UX designers, each plays a key role in the success of digital transformation within a company.
Review the five steps for digital transformation, find real-world examples, and see which pitfalls you'll need to avoid.
Allstate transforms the customer experience with Azure AI
This video showcases how Allstate is transforming customer support with artificial intelligence. With Azure Cognitive Services, Allstate is capturing insights from customer calls to enable a more seamless customer experience.
Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation
Attackers will cross multiple domains like email, identity, endpoints, and applications to find the point of least resistance. Today's defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams and threshold differences between solutions—leaving the business vulnerable to attack. Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Read on to learn more.
Risk management best practices
Part of the natural landscape of every business is risk—some level of uncertainty that comes from not knowing how events will unfold as you and your team innovate. However, understanding risk management best practices can help anticipate potential issues and develop a plan.
From securing cloud-based options to identifying cyber threats and other financial crimes, risk management is crucial in building business agility.
Review our latest infographic to learn what you can do to minimize risks and reduce your exposure across key aspects of your business.
Modernize 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, modernizing seller productivity is the simpler way to build sales momentum and boost productivity.
October 20, 2021
Overcoming misconceptions about open source
Driving adoption of open-source DevOps becomes easier after addressing four common myths. Myths like open source isn't secure, or open source isn't enterprise-grade. For debunking these and more, this infographic has the answers.
Greater Security
Greater security at lower cost with the expertise and power of Microsoft security solutions. Learn more about simplifying and fortifying with Microsoft security.
October 19, 2021
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:
Essential Key Performance Indicators for Small and Mid-Size Business
Industries, customers, and markets change. Even where and how we work is changing rapidly. As are, no doubt, your business strategies, goals, objectives, services, and products. The ability to quickly diversify, scale, and change your business models is a competitive advantage in any market.
Understanding your customers' opinions, attitudes, and emotional connections to your brand is called brand sentiment. This leading indicator can help inform how you're doing in terms of your customer experience, product quality, price competitiveness, and loyalty.
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Alaska Airlines makes shopping easier
A great online shopping experience begins with great software. Alaska Airlines is using microservices, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Server Containers with Docker to launch new e-commerce features faster—in minutes versus days. Travelers get new offers sooner, which translates to happier customers and higher revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can also scale more easily and cost-effectively, ensuring its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.
Kennametal embraces Microsoft cloud strategy to drive business innovation
Kennametal has invested heavily in Microsoft cloud technologies as part of its digital transformation journey to reduce costs, increase productivity, and empower workers to deliver superior results for their customers. In this video, see how they utilize Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services to Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications to Microsoft 365 productivity, security, and mobility tools. Kennametal believes that Microsoft resources will help the company fulfill its business promises.
October 18, 2021
Bertrandt's HARRI is a self-driving success, thanks to Microsoft Azure
What drives a self-driving car? A tremendous flood of data. To make Bertrandt's Level 4 self-driving car project HARRI a reality, far too much data was needed than could be stored onboard the vehicle itself. It required Microsoft Azure Services to provide access to volumes of mapping data for an autonomous vehicle. Azure DevOps facilitated the efficient coordination of work between developers and ops —and the QA needed to develop such exacting software.
Security Solution Play Sales Guidance
Digital security has become infinitely complex, as data grows increasingly more valuable every day and is harder to protect. This value prop deck outlines how Microsoft security solutions provides comprehensive protections against attacks for your customers, and how it keeps their information safe with a layered approach to secure corporate and customer data.
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.
Automate code-to-cloud workflows with a seamlessly integrated DevOps platform
With the ability to commit changes and quickly deploy them to the cloud using tools such as GitHub Actions and Microsoft Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, developer teams gain agility in deploying and maintaining their apps.
Cloud adoption has transformed the way teams are building, deploying, and operating applications. Together with the use of DevOps ideals and tools, they now have a greater opportunity to improve their practices and better serve their customers.
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Kenyan company improves food quality from farm to fork with Microsoft cloud solutions
Farmer's Choice has been delivering quality meat products to Kenyan tables for the last 40 years. The customer-oriented company uses advanced technologies with the existing agriculture ecosystem to enhance productivity, ensure food safety and quality, and reduce waste. Its commitment to sustainable farming practices began with the adoption of collaborative Microsoft 365 solutions. Next, the organization extended its cloud portfolio to include Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and is now stepping up its services with Microsoft Power Apps.
October 13, 2021
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Connect your business to drive productivity and profits
Many businesses fall into common traps:
• siloed data
• poor pricing decisions
• unsecured data
• inability to pivot or keep up with faster-moving competitors
With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can connect operations across your business and supercharge your growth.
Legacy systems can't always manage the complexity of a growing business. Incomplete data and tedious reporting can create blind spots that lead to faulty decision-making. With Dynamics 365, you can create a single source of truth by seamlessly sharing data across every line of business, helping your employees work faster and smarter.
See some of the reasons 92% of ERP adopters report success, and some of the risks for lagging behind, in this detailed infographic.
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October 12, 2021
Why your business should be based on the recurring revenue model
It's possible to build a successful business on one-off sales, but it's difficult and not always sustainable. If you're thinking about starting your own business or taking the one you currently have to a new level, then you really need to consider the recurring revenue model.
Whether you're in the business of software, content creation, physical products, or productized services, the recurring revenue model is based on predictable revenues occurring at regular intervals—and that might just be the secret to success.
Reduce time and costs by optimizing everyday tasks with intelligent automation
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RapidDeploy helps first responders defend public safety with Azure Sentinel
RapidDeploy creates its Cloud Aided Dispatch systems to help first responders act quickly to protect the public. There's a lot at stake, and the company's cloud-native platform must be secure against an array of serious cybersecurity threats. So, when RapidDeploy implemented a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, it chose Microsoft Azure Sentinel, one of the world's first cloud-native SIEMs. See the full story in the video below.
Microsoft Aims To Simplify Cloud Native Development With The Dapr Project
Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) enables developers to build portable microservices applications, whether writing new code or migrating existing code. It's an open-source project that simplifies building cloud-native applications using all programming languages and developer frameworks. Dapr is based on containers, integrates well with Kubernetes, and does the plumbing and heavy lifting involved in developing a modern, highly distributed-application— so developers can focus on what they really want to: business logic and migrating legacy code. They can lean on Dapr to provide their applications with the required scale, resiliency, and elasticity of cloud-native architectures.
H&R Block delivers with Azure DevOps and Microsoft
With recent changes in the tax industry, H&R Block made plans to stay ahead, providing seamless multichannel experiences and unifying its disparate data sources to better serve its customers. By moving its various workloads to Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and Microsoft Azure and using Azure data services, the tax provider has been able to enhance service delivery, scale to meet its peaks in demand, and accelerate innovation. Watch this video for the story.
October 11, 2021
Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel
Infrastructure security is top-of-mind for organizations managing workloads on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Azure Security Center provides unified security management by identifying and fixing misconfigurations and providing visibility into threats to quickly remediate them. Azure Sentinel collects data from Azure Security Center. Learn more about this integrated and efficient solution in this article.
GitHub Actions for Azure
With GitHub you can deliver software faster and more securely by combining the practices and tools that support the largest developer community in the world with seamlessly integrated Microsoft Azure products and services.
From automating code-to-cloud workflows to accelerating developer velocity, GitHub and Azure combine the best tools to create your next great solution.
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Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours
Remote Office Hours is a new live broadcast directly from the Microsoft Visual Studio team. It's about everything Visual Studio, with rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. The style is conversational, light, and casual—a show by developers for developers. Read on to learn more here:
Microsoft Sentinel
Azure Sentinel is intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise. Collect data, detect threats, investigate incidents, and rapidly respond with Sentinel.
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.
October 6, 2021
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October 5, 2021
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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.
Adapt faster—gain flexibility to create adjustable financial and operating models
The world today moves fast, and you need the flexibility to adapt quickly to disruption, the competition, and daily challenges. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central connects teams across finance, sales, service, and operations so you can monitor insights and pivot when needed.
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Cincinnati Children's makes tough times easier
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is well known for excellent care and its commitment to the well-being of the families it serves. To reduce strain for parents and make their lives easier, the hospital created the Caren mobile app using Microsoft Azure and Azure services. Parents turn to Caren for help navigating the hospital, getting answers to their questions, and entertaining their children. Using the app lets parents focus more on their families and less on stressful details.
St. Luke's University Health Network secures digital health transformation with Microsoft 365
St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) looks to the cloud to define a new way of providing health services of its ten hospitals and 300 sites across ten counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This video outlines how the health network embarked on a digital health transformation journey using the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud to empower more than 15,000 employees. The intuitive tools protect sensitive information in cloud applications, simplifying security with interoperable solutions to save time while enhancing the hospital network's security posture. In turn, this optimizes health team collaboration and improves patient experience.
October 4, 2021
How Microsoft helped HB Concepts automate and streamline its operations
HB Concepts is a female-led distribution company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that has sole distribution rights of LPG endermologie, the global brand fighting for natural beauty. The company supplies more than 200 clients with a full range of equipment, offering popular European treatments and cosmetics for spas, hospitals, hotels, and wellness centers. To manage inventory and deliver quality customer service, the company implemented an ERP solution using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Navigate data protection and risk in the cloud era
Microsoft invests in compliance and risk management to help your customers more easily protect and govern their data, address regulations and standards, and mitigate insider risks. The how-to guidance article announces new capabilities in Microsoft 365 that use machine learning and intelligence to help your customers address compliance and risk management in their organizations.
The DevOps Imperative: Keep Up or Get Lost
When the software industry is moving faster than ever, security testing must keep up. The only way to sustain a high release cadence is to progress through the software development life cycle (SDLC) the right way the first time.
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.
thyssenkrupp Steel Europe forges a modern way of working with Microsoft 365
GitHub can be a great resource for quickly building a templated solution. Case in point: thyssenkrupp Steel Europe developed their Company Communicator app for Microsoft Teams using an open-source Teams app template from GitHub.
Now executives can share company information and other news with employees and even host virtual town hall events—which proved invaluable in keeping hundreds of workers connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 28, 2021
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The Empower Process
Modern ERP systems offer built-in intelligence to help guide users to optimal outcomes. However, selecting the best business management solution isn't always a straightforward task—factors like digital transformation, partners, and mapping should be considered.
Learn the 7 steps to help select the right business management solution.
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.
6 ways to kickstart DevSecOps
DevOps methodologies provide businesses with a faster and more efficient way to create and deliver code—and organizations are turning to DevSecOps as the solution to harden security and address compliance at the same time.
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central overview
The business landscape is changing, and you need a system that allows for change. To stay on top in your industry, it's essential to be prepared to take on anything that comes your way, including meeting customers' needs.
Successful SMBs are embracing digitalization with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Powered by the cloud, data, and business intelligence, it lets you unify assets in a single location to help you adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better. Business Central gives you flexible deployment options and innovative solutions that grow with your business for limitless possibilities and potential.
September 27, 2021
DevOps at Microsoft: Innovating on open source
Microsoft's .NET Engineering Services team used GitHub and Azure pipelines for a DevOps overhaul from the ground up. Having code on GitHub enabled them to work together with more developers, while Azure pipelines gave them the reliability and scale they were looking for. Watch this video and see how open source makes sense. When you're ready to innovate, contact us to learn more.
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Security Fortify infographic
Maximize threat detection during attack stages with Microsoft's comprehensive suite of security solutions. Unmatched volumes of data inform Microsoft security solutions. Learn how you can harness decades of security experience with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection.
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!
Low code vs. no code and the future of application development
Low code and no code platforms make app and software development accessible to non-developers. With pre-built templates and boilerplate code, businesses save time and money. Low code or no code platforms can help organizations build and deploy apps without always relying on an engineering team.
September 22, 2021
Effective DevOps—Building a DevOps Culture at Scale
Read and share this e-Book to learn about building a strong and sustainable DevOps culture to get the most out of the platform.
September 21, 2021
Improve observability, strengthen security, and proactively remediate vulnerabilities
There are DevOps tools for every phase of the app lifecycle. Use Azure to implement DevOps practices throughout application planning, development, delivery, and operations. By applying the right combination of DevOps technologies, culture, and processes, you can achieve continual software delivery and offer better value for your customers.
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Family food business spices up operations, reduces new device implementation time by 50 percent
Garner Foods is a fourth-generation family-owned-and-operated business based in North Carolina. With global sales, four locations, and a mobile workforce, see how Garner uses Microsoft 365 Business to connect it all. Watch the video story for more.
Dow uses vision AI at the edge to boost employee safety and security with Azure
Dow is a leader in materials science, focused on delivering innovative and sustainable customer-centric solutions. An important priority for the chemical company is safety, and Microsoft Azure played a crucial role in enabling preventative leak detection with the goal of zero safety-related events at its facilities. The initial solution leverages Azure AI to analyze live video and uses an app to trigger notifications to the operator if it detects a possible leak. Azure Video Analyzer, coupled with Azure DevOps, provided a quick, low-latency, low-resource, and easily scalable solution. Machine learning ensures the model is continually refined, so it gets better with each interaction. Best of all, this model can be leveraged for other applications, such as detecting when employees aren't wearing proper PPE in industrial locations, and security monitoring.
Connecting with 500 million passionate fans worldwide
Since 2014, Real Madrid has been revolutionizing the world of sports with Microsoft as their Official Technology Partner. Their revolution puts the fan at the center of their strategy and seeks to know everything about them to be able to satisfy their needs in the best possible way. They involve great challenges and great benefits for all areas of the Club.
September 20, 2021
Leveraging your Microsoft assets in this remote access world
More of the workforce is working remotely than ever before. Organizations are adapting and implementing new remote access solutions. Now is the time to evaluate the Microsoft tools you already have at your fingertips and leverage the built-in remote work security features and capabilities. Read more in this article from National Law Review.
Securing software, together
On GitHub, teams work together to secure the world's software at every step. This infographic highlights the four pillars of GitHub's approach to security.
Microsoft wants you to work less
Updates within the Microsoft MyAnalytics platform, in conjunction with a new feature in Outlook are aimed at helping you work less. The new features allow users to better manage their time and information, with less time in meetings and more time spent accomplishing tasks. One tool enables users to allocate focus time—and alert coworkers when you are trying to get things done. Read more about working less in this article from TechCrunch.
September 14, 2021
Security Power
Securing your systems with a data driven, human guided security approach allows you to detect and respond to attacks more quickly and accurately. This infographic outlines how the global network of real time threat intelligence from Microsoft continues to evolve, anticipate, and stay ahead of risks.
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10 reasons why every enterprise needs a DevOps strategy for 2021
The world is changing fast, and enterprise needs to keep up with new digital business models. With a DevOps strategy, development and operations teams are committed to a collaborative approach—delivering faster results to threats and opportunities. DevOps delivers strength to any organization willing to make it a core part of its DNA.
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BP deploys Microsoft 365 to improve user experience and security
Every day, BP manages the difficult business of finding, producing, marketing, and moving energy around the globe. Core to success is the modernization and digitization of the business, while being able to defend a vast digital perimeter against cyberattacks. This video shows how BP is migrating its work environment to Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 to take advantage of a platform approach.
September 13, 2021
American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Ignite 2019
The American Red Cross deploys a suite of Microsoft products to streamline operations, allowing them to focus on their core mission of alleviating human suffering. From sharing information and organizing work in Teams, to coordinating with other relief agencies through Microsoft Power BI during a disaster, watch this video for the full story.
Overcoming security challenges with DevSecOps
Throughout the years, software development practices have evolved to serve the needs and the speed of business. However, digital leaders are still facing challenges with security and development.
The solutions to these challenges are collaboration, tooling, and DevSecOps best practices.
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GitHub seeks security
Microsoft GitHub has created an innovative workflow for people involved in security to work together to write and maintain secure code. Security Lab is GitHub's meeting ground for security researchers and developers. The lab has a focus on open-source software and is raising the bar for competitors. Read more about GitHub's moves to fix system security through collaboration in this article from Forbes, then contact us to learn more.
September 7, 2021
Security beyond Microsoft products
With Microsoft, security can be simple once again. Microsoft 365 provides an intelligent security hub that works seamlessly across platforms, going far beyond Microsoft—to Linux and Mac, to AWS and beyond, so you can manage mission critical workloads with the right tools at your fingertips. Watch the video to learn more.
HP uses artificial intelligence to transform its customer support experience
HP Inc. handles 600 million technical support contacts each year and they want to make each one a satisfying experience for the customer. They built a virtual agent using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI solution for customer service to streamline the process. This video explains how.
Remote developer productivity
The way people work and live changed drastically during 2020. As companies had to quickly transition to remote work, the challenges became clear. From adopting a new culture to overcoming collaboration and remote shipping challenges, there had to be an integral solution for these types of issues.
The customers' objective is to enable a remote Development paradigm that allows their developers to invent with purpose as effectively (if not more so) as before this situation. They expect any investments they make in the cloud now to accrue benefits to the way they'll continue to operate after the world has transitioned to the new normal. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a wide variety of tools and platforms, from Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio—helping companies build business resilience.
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Modd.io brings open source game development to everyone
Modd.io is a Canadian startup that has created an innovative open source gaming platform written entirely in Node.js on the Azure platform. Using a proprietary visual scripting language, Modd.io allows individuals without an extensive background in coding to create and publish HTML5 multiplayer games. Its community of gamers can play user-generated games, even viewing and using shared source code in their own creations. Read on:
September 6, 2021
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Transformation by the numbers
DevOps is just the start. Top organizations know that transformation also depends on technology, talent, culture, and process. GitHub helps enterprises put them all to work—in one place. Check out these impact results by the numbers and see why GitHub is the best in open source.
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Get the most out of Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio
If you have a Microsoft Visual Studio subscription, make sure you explore the benefits that come with it—or you may be leaving value on the table. Use your monthly Microsoft Azure credits and Azure training, DevTest pricing, Azure DevOps, support, and more. Get an overview of all your benefits and even project ideas for how to use your credits.
September 1, 2021
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Deliver fast, efficient product innovation on any platform using DevOps with GitHub. Support your developers by helping them build the right teams, with the right tools, for the right projects—a
August 31, 2021
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City of Houston: optimizing business processes
Optimizing business processes to meet challenges is a driver for digital transformation in Houston. For the city, security, reliability, and resiliency are key. They need to ensure their systems and data are reliable so they can quickly recover from unexpected events. Microsoft solutions can help. Learn how in this video:
Top seven tips for faster application development with DevOps
DevOps can help teams of any size develop, fix, and deploy software faster. By having faster application development, faster updates, and faster shipments, development lifecycles are shortened. It's no wonder organizations across all vertical markets and global geographies have embraced DevOps. Along with collaboration, the ability to integrate DevOps efforts with the widest array of tools possible is a cornerstone to success. Read these 7 in-depth insights on faster application development with DevOps, then contact us to learn more about the flexibility of Microsoft DevOps with GitHub and Azure.
Construction giant gains competitive edge with zero-trust approach to security
When The Walsh Group—one of the largest construction contractors in the United States—moved to the cloud, it realized it needed better ways to manage who accesses its systems. The company set up identity as the control plane—with Microsoft Azure Active Directory at the center and a zero-trust security stance to better protect access to all its resources. Now, The Walsh Group CIO says the company leads the industry in securing access to its hybrid environment, giving it a competitive advantage. Read the article for more.
Why only the agile will survive
COVID-19 has led to huge changes worldwide across industries, in personal life, and in society at large. It was "the mother of all disruptions" and "it is ushering in a new age." Make sure your organization is ready to survive or even thrive. The key—you need to be agile.
August 30, 2021
Azure DevOps vs. GitHub: Comparing the Microsoft DevOps tools
When diving into the world of DevOps tools, it's important to remember that Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub each offer unique value and overlapping capabilities. They can be used separately or together, so there's even a "why not both?" scenario. Learn the history of these two DevOps tools, the specific advantages of each, and how to get started using them.
Get started with GitHub and Azure DevOps
Adopting the tools and mindset of DevOps in the right manner will facilitate development efficiency, boost productivity, and increase the rate at which products can be brought to market. These helpful tips will get you on your way to gaining powerful design capabilities, innovation, acceleration, and more with GitHub and Azure.
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Identify and repel more threats than ever before with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security, and Azure Sentinel. Take a look to learn more about intelligent security solutions for your entire enterprise.
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August 24, 2021
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DevOps with GitHub Solution Overview Video
Developers are at the core of innovation. Stand out in a competitive market by leveraging open-source software and delivering fast, efficient product innovation. Learn how Microsoft can help.
Build Agile Business Processes Solution Overview
An organization's ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances has never been more critical. You need to ensure that your team stays productive and efficient through twists and turns. Building agile businesses from Microsoft can help. Learn how in this brief overview video.
August 23, 2021
What is DevOps?
Learn how DevOps unifies people, process, and technology to bring better products to customers faster. Then imagine how the power of GitHub and Azure can benefit your DevOps team.
Security Solution Overview
With data growing increasingly valuable and harder to protect, Microsoft provides security solutions across identity and access management, information protection, threat protection and security management. Harness integrated, comprehensive security with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security, and Azure Sentinel to identify and repel more threats than ever before and safeguard your organization, without sacrificing productivity.
4 strategies for modernizing your business applications
Discover four key strategies for modernizing your business applications—rehost, refactor, rearchitect, and rebuild. In this infographic, you'll learn why and when to use these specific strategies.
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