Monday 31 January 2022
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:
REI embraces hybrid work with Microsoft Teams and Surface Hub
REI is the largest consumer cooperative in the United States specializes in camping gear, outdoor apparel, and equipment. The popular Northwest company uses Microsoft Teams Connect capabilities to simplify how employees collaborate with external parties outside the company—with Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Intune key to its strategy for protecting mobile devices.
During the pandemic, REI sold their campus and were fully committed to a hybrid work strategy. The fact that they had implemented products within the Microsoft 365 platform helped ensure their success in their new workplace environment.
Friday 28 January 2022
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.
Thursday 27 January 2022
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.
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.
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Protect your endpoints with top EDR software
Companies must now consider endpoint detection and response software (EDR) with AI and machine learning capabilities, as well as threat intelligence databases, to function in a safer, evolving digital environment.
However, most of the features users expect from popular EDR tools, such as device control, advanced threat targeting, and rollback, are either unavailable or require an additional fee.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoints (formerly Defender Advanced Threat Protection) integrates into the source code of Windows, making it an obvious choice for its devices. (It's also available for Mac and Linux.)
Defender for Endpoints simplifies management while also providing strong security and a wide variety of standard features.
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.
Tuesday 25 January 2022
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a solution that provides on-premises and cloud-based devices with tools (as well as the ability to co-manage with them) to provision, deploy, manage, and secure endpoints. It also enables insights into endpoint health and performance and remediates vulnerabilities in multiple areas—all while significantly reducing costs.
It gives organizations the enhanced control and monitoring to support employees with minimal impact on user experience while preventing data loss and applying Zero Trust best practices.
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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.
Monday 24 January 2022
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.
Friday 21 January 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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Thursday 20 January 2022
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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Wednesday 19 January 2022
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Deploy and protect endpoints for hybrid work environments
Digital transformation is accelerating and keeping up with advancements adds complexity for workers, technology, and security teams. With an ever-expanding attack surface, leaders are challenged to manage a growing number of devices and endpoints.
Meet the evolving needs of today's business world with modern endpoints built on the Microsoft 365 and intelligent security cloud. You can build security into apps and device experiences that help reduce the threat of endpoint vulnerability, including adoption of Zero Trust and Secure Endpoints for Frontline workforce devices.
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Tuesday 18 January 2022
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.
The new normal: Hybrid work means greater focus on endpoint security
We used to think of network security as a perimeter issue, but with so many endpoints, the perimeter no longer exists. Employees now work from various locations using different devices, making it is close to impossible for any single IT team to confirm that they're using protection mechanisms.
Employees require safe, versatile endpoint experiences to perform at their best from anywhere in the world. How can organizations protect themselves? Endpoint security seeks out viruses, malware, and other risks and, if it finds them, it works to mitigate the risk to the rest of the network by keeping it locked down.
Monday 17 January 2022
Microsoft Edge as default browser for access to legacy web apps and better security
Today's users are looking for more ways to remain productive while working on any device. Businesses have security top of mind, and so with those two goals, Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline chose Microsoft Edge as its single web browser.
The IT team responsible for the Microsoft Edge deployment of over 130,000 employees enrolled every Windows 10 device in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. With Microsoft Edge now on their internal store, end users could install it on-demand—a perfect solution for employees who are asking for more ways to work the way that they want. With a consolidated default browser, legacy web apps are secure.
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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Thursday 13 January 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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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.
Wednesday 12 January 2022
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.
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.
Tuesday 11 January 2022
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.
Strengthening connection with remote communities with Windows 365
Nunavut, located in the northernmost region of Canada, has a large population under the age of 25, distributed across remote communities with no connecting roads.
The IT team in Nunavut's government collaborated with Microsoft on a pilot rollout of Windows 365 to help maintain remote government operations during COVID-19 and as part of a larger strategic initiative to provide more efficient community services to all its citizens.
With Windows 365, Nunavut can deploy virtual endpoints to a government employee's device using Microsoft Endpoint Manager—no small challenge in dealing with getting users up and running with personalized, highly secure cloud PC service.
Monday 10 January 2022
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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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.
Thursday 6 January 2022
Transition to Cloud: Secure your business with technology you can trust
Today's complicated virtual business reality makes it difficult to secure fragmented IT or cloud point solutions. As we've seen, natural disasters and political tensions require always-on from anywhere tech solutions. We know that Microsoft 365 helps businesses stay agile in these uncertain economic times with cost savings and cloud advances. Need proof? This infographic illustrates how organizations further along in their transition from on-prem to the cloud are more likely to report positive experiences among employees and end users about securing data and personal privacy.
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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.
Wednesday 5 January 2022
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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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Tuesday 4 January 2022
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.
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.
Monday 3 January 2022
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.
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Fast forward: How cloud computing could transform risk management
Attitudes toward the shift to cloud computing are changing—even in the banking world, which has been reluctant to make the transition from on-premises to the cloud due to customer data security concerns. The chief information officer (CIO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston noted recently that ignoring the cloud may introduce security vulnerabilities as on-premises vendors discontinue support for their products. Learn what executives are saying about how and why risk management needs to act now. Get up to speed on the benefits across the six stages of the life cycle for risk model development, and how Microsoft 365 can help build cloud computing infrastructures.
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