Wednesday, March 31, 2021
9 tips for meeting with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams enables you to host and participate in more productive meetings and invite anyone to join you. This makes Teams a perfect solution where you can communicate and meet with anyone inside or outside your organization - even if they are not a Teams user. This blog offers 9 tips to having more productive meetings with attendees in and outside your organization.
Disruption Defined: Maersk navigates data to move goods globally
Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution where we're now experiencing the digital age. This revolution is transforming all industries, including shipping and logistics. Maersk, the integrated transport and logistics giant, has transformed their business using digital strategies. In the past, shipment delays were caused by hiccups in a supply chain, since those chains must move large amounts of data. Since Maersk's switch to harnessing data digitally, they've reinvented how global supply chain management is done.
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:
Saving Money with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams helps companies improve access to information and free up workers to focus on high-value activities, thus reducing operating costs, accelerating time-to-market, and fostering greater innovation.
Managing cybersecurity like a business risk
This powerful thought leadership article highlights the threat of data breaches and cyberattacks, while advocating for organizations to rethink their approach to cybersecurity. Microsoft urges businesses to view data transformation and threat analytics/modeling as growth opportunities while approaching security as a core philosophy.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Engaging at scale
This infographic represents successful companies' consensus about which sales tools are most effective in enabling their sales teams to engage at scale with target accounts.
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.
Alaska Airlines makes shopping easier with faster flow of new e-commerce features
A great online shopping experience begins with great software. That's why Alaska Airlines uses Microsoft Azure and Windows Server Containers to launch new e-commerce features faster. Travelers get new offers sooner, which translates to happier customers and increased revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can scale more easily and ensure its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.
Ciacci Piccolomini d'Aragona winery creates a perfect blend of tradition and technology with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams provides virtual solutions in response to an unexpected crisis.
For three generations, the Bianchini family has been creating exceptional wines on their idyllic estate, maintaining the traditions of a historic estate while staying one step ahead of the latest developments in the world of wine. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and trade shows postponed and international travel impossible, everything changed. The Ciacci winery responded by turning to Microsoft Teams. To keep the business thriving, they moved quickly to replace in-person gatherings with virtual wine tastings using Teams meetings. Family members also used Teams to work together and connect with partners and suppliers, making the adjustment a perfect balance of tradition and technology.
Why Microsoft?
When it comes to risk analytics workloads, Microsoft has you covered. This infographic highlights five benefits in an easy to comprehend visual. Microsoft delivers the ability to meet enterprise requirements, expertise on the latest Azure features, and a network of highly experienced data scientists to address financial service challenges. Additionally, Microsoft Premier Support ensures full adaptability and accommodates hybrid configurations.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Worldwide logistics provider connects the dots, boosts ROI with Dynamics 365 Marketing
How does a global company connect its salespeople to customers in an efficient yet personal way? Rotterdam-based Broekman Logistics decided to add the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing app to the company's existing Dynamics 365 Sales app to make it even easier and more efficient to find and develop high-quality leads and nurture customer relationships. As a result, Broekman Logistics not only increased its sales, but also gained valuable insights that it uses to sharpen sales management. The real engine behind global logistics? It's all about a smooth collaboration between sales and marketing.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
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Migrate Web Apps
This infographic details three simple ways to migrate web applications to Azure App Service. Bring your code, bring your container, or use the Migration Assistant tool.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Digital selling insights
Orchestrating data from multiple sources is important when compiling an accurate "big picture" to inform strategic action. This infographic offers 5 keys to provide insights and recommendations to your team.
Building Intelligent Cloud Applications
This eBook provides a step-by-step guide for building and deploying scalable deep learning and machine learning models using serverless architectures with Azure. Learn to code machine learning into your projects using Python and pretrained models that include image and speech recognition and classification. Explore issues around deployment and continuous delivery, including scaling, security, and monitoring.
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.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
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.
Azure helps companies power their hybrid cloud migration
The hybrid capabilities from Microsoft Azure fuel innovation and delivers great business outcomes to companies such as, J.B. Hunt, KPMG, Allscripts, and Chevron. By meeting them where they are, Microsoft improves the cloud migration experience and helps companies reduce overall costs. Watch to learn how these Fortune 500 companies used Microsoft Azure to power their hybrid cloud strategies and move their businesses forward.
McCann & MullenLowe - Microsoft Teams Case Study
When bringing two companies together through acquisitions, you are often bringing in a different culture with different technology. This can often make it difficult to efficiently collaborate. Sharing files and streamlining communication is a common problem. Two of the leading agency networks, McCann and MullenLowe, needed help to create a single platform which enabled their employees to work together through close collaboration. Microsoft Teams provided the solution they were looking for.
Improve efficiency and quality with AI-infused finance processes
Many businesses still implement legacy technology and traditional processes, but AI is transforming the playing field. In this blog post, a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Manager writes about how Finance Insights works to reliably predict customer payments, adapts quickly with intelligent budget proposals, and increases projected cash flow.
Monday, March 22, 2021
Sell smarter with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Office 365
In this video, you'll see how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales and Office 365 go beyond sales force automation to leverage CRM, engagement data, and insights to help your enterprise break down silos, drive more efficient sales, and win more revenue.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Microsoft Azure cloud migration: 3 success stories
Learn from three Microsoft customer success stories to understand how to make a valid business plan for your cloud migration. This article describes each way J.B. Hunt, H&R Block, and A.P. Moller - Maersk are using Microsoft to move their applications and systems to Azure.
The power of relationship selling
In this report—a collaboration between Microsoft and Heinz Marketing—you'll find insights gleaned from over 200 in-depth surveys with top sales leaders. Learn how to achieve desired sales goals, maximize the effectiveness of customer data, and take more strategic steps toward building personal relationships using data-driven engagement tactics.
5 ways to lead effective virtual meetings with your remote teams
With virtual meetings, your team can connect from across the globe. In this article, read 5 tips to help you ensure high productivity and efficiency during your virtual meetings. You'll also learn techniques for keeping cameras on, connecting with your people with empathy, asking if there's anything they need, ensuring there's space for attendees to share their thoughts, and setting an agenda with an outline.
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.
Wild & Wolf replaces legacy systems with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Find out how one global company removed outdated, legacy systems and truly transformed the way they ran their business with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Quickly outgrowing their disjointed systems, Wild & Wolf desperately needed a single platform to use across all their businesses.
Tuesday, March 16, 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.
Streamline solutions with Microsoft Teams
Using Microsoft Teams helps you save time by having all solutions in one place for improved collaboration and information sharing. Foster a collaborative environment and embrace the upside of teamwork - frictionless sharing that makes good ideas exceptional.
Fraud Losses in 2019 Topped $1.9B, FTC Reports
Last year alone there were more than 650,000 reports of identity theft, with most consumers reporting credit card fraud and loan fraud.
Solution overview video
This video highlights the benefits of using Activate Digital Selling solutions from Microsoft. Make the digital buying experience rich, personal, and efficient with predictive AI and unified customer data.
Descartes migrates to Azure SQL Database for growth and flexibility
Discover how Descartes, a global leader in logistics and supply chain solutions, helps keep goods flowing smoothly for businesses. Descartes wanted to move its MacroPoint solution to the public cloud to provide greater flexibility for customers and to focus internal resources on extending product value. After choosing Microsoft Azure as its preferred platform, the company successfully migrated the solution to Azure SQL Database.
Monday, March 15, 2021
How NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports uses Microsoft Teams to win races
For the 2018 racing season, NASCAR imposed new regulations on competitors, including limiting the number of team members allowed on the track during races. For legendary race team Hendrick Motorsports, this meant that many of the race-day crew would now need to perform their critical duties remotely from the team headquarters in Concord, NC. Hendrick Motorsports adjusted to the new regulations with technology, by making Microsoft Teams their new hub for all race communications and decision making.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Identify and fix more errors with faster build times and quicker feedback for developers
Identify and fix more errors with faster build times and quicker feedback for developers
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Use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service
With Modernize .NET, use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
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Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': CRM Lead Management
Gartner Peer Insights compares vendors' customer relationship management (CRM) systems, which can then be used to determine best practices for your own business. This study in statistics provides insight on the best ways to capture and manage leads.
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Migration strategies
This infographic outlines the 4 different strategies available to migrate your apps to Microsoft: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or rebuild.
Thought Leadership: Teams Future Features
This article describes various new features in Microsoft Teams, including enabling calls in separate windows and pinning meeting controls to the top of your screen.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
DevOps at Microsoft: Driving engineering excellence
This video illustrates the ways the Microsoft One Engineering System (1ES) used Azure DevOps to pursue its mandate to empower every engineer in the company - from Azure Boards for work item tracking to Azure Pipelines for orchestrating builds and deployment, as well as other modern tooling adoption.
Azure Migrate: The hub for cloud migration
In this video, you'll learn about Azure Migrate, Microsoft Azure's central hub for datacenter cloud migration. Azure Migrate helps you discover, assess, and migrate workloads to Azure with integrated first and third-party tools.
A company crazy about chocolate, serious about people, uses Microsoft Teams to build personal relationships
Dutch startup Tony's Chocolonely grew out of a journalist's exposé of child slave labor in the cocoa industry and his dream of making the chocolate trade slavery-free. The Amsterdam-based company grew quickly, but its original collaboration apps didn't support its international expansion or its work-life balance ideals. Teams enables Tony's Chocolonely workers to communicate on a personal level with their colleagues in Europe, America, and Africa. Adding telephony capabilities makes it even more powerful, with everything available in one single interface.
Protect your e-commerce business with Fraud Protection
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection is a cloud-based solution designed to help e-commerce merchants decrease costs associated with fraud, increase acceptance rates, and improve the customer shopping experience. With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection, you can combat payment and account-creation fraud with adaptive AI technology. Additionally, you can connect to a network of other knowledgeable merchants to gather quality insights while improving customer service with the built-in escalation support tool.
Discover how you can take an innovative approach to boost your e-commerce revenue with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection in this video.
Monday, March 8, 2021
Buying is a journey
Go beyond transactions and interactions to give your buyers unique experiences that build trust. Transform the sales experience with Dynamics 365 Sales. Features include enabling smarter selling with contextual AI, increasing sales profitably with advanced insights, and improving coaching and sales performance.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
GE Aviation's Digital Group makes the skies safer with Microsoft
As an industry leader in airline systems, GE Aviation's Digital Group knows that safety and efficiency are paramount to its airline partners. That's why GE developed FlightPulse, an app that puts data and analytics in the hands of more than 3,000 Qantas pilots to help them improve safety and efficiency on every flight. A solution this complex would typically take years to develop, but using Microsoft developer tools, GitHub, and Microsoft Azure, GE was able to build and deploy FlightPulse in a matter of months.
Five ways SMBs can benefit from using Microsoft Azure to move to the cloud
This article examines five ways that you can start migrating your customers' business to the cloud on their terms, and the reasons why now is the time to do so (including end-of-support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server).
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Mazik Global innovates while navigating healthcare compliance best practices
Learn how Mazik Global used Dynamics 365 and PowerApps to develop applications for COVID-19 in this video. MazikCare is a healthcare cloud platform based on Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform that provides a flexible, modular approach to healthcare business management. Mazik Global continuously innovates with solutions such as this by utilizing Microsoft platforms.
5 reasons happy developers build in better security
Good news for companies revamping DevOps: according to Forbes, "Happier developers work harder, collaborate more, and are better for business." Citing an Oxford study, Forbes said that survey respondents revealed strong ties between job satisfaction and well-established, cohesive DevOps practices. Microsoft DevOps with GitHub is built for greater collaboration, control, flexibility, and security—a recipe for happiness. Read the article here and learn how investing in DevOps is investing in your organization's future.
New survey finds 22% of Americans have been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19
COVID-19 has shifted the economic landscape in unprecedented ways, driving dramatic increases to ecommerce businesses. New research from TransUnion shows the impact on markets in two key findings: a 23% increase in global e-commerce transactions and a parallel 22% uptick in e-commerce fraud. This thought leadership article from Forbes details the findings, educates merchants about potential disruptions, and advises consumers on how they can avoid falling victim to fraud.
Solution overview video
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Transform your business with Azure migration
Learn why companies like Albertsons, H&R Block, and Carlsberg Group chose to migrate to Azure and how the move has helped them transform their businesses. Microsoft provides tools for successful migration that work flexibly within the company's chosen migration process. Microsoft data platforms provide scalability, high availability, and security to accelerate your journey.
Monday, March 1, 2021
Best practices infographic
Microsoft advocates for financial practices that foster productivity and help businesses reach their revenue goals. This infographic lists six essential concepts that drive long-term financial sustainability and growth.
How to accelerate digital selling with Dynamics 365
This video provides an overview of the sales accelerator in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Insights. You will learn how to maintain business continuity with the sales accelerator, a digital-first experience that enables salespeople to work remotely.
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