Tuesday, August 30, 2022

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Endpoint Management Software 2022 Vendor Assessment

As organizations start returning to some form (or pre-COVID-19 pandemic version) of "normal," they are discovering new use cases and requirements for their endpoint device management platforms. Read this IDC Unified Endpoint Management Software Vendor Assessment for summary of why IDC has positioned Microsoft as a leader in this category.

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More ways to collaborate seamlessly outside your organization with Microsoft Teams

Being able to effectively collaborate with external partners is now essential to driving positive business outcomes. Read the blog to gain insight on how Microsoft 365 provides multiple options when collaborating with external organizations in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guide Interactive Tour — Optimize Financial and Operating Models

Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help you optimize your financial and operating models to create a resilient organization that thrives even in the face of impending disruption. The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guide Interactive Tour is designed to help your organization drive performance, protect revenue, and take better care of your customers.

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Monday, August 29, 2022

Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Microsoft Endpoint Manager keeps data secure in the cloud and on-premises. Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune connected on a unified platform; it delivers an intuitive administrative experience to your modern workplace. Watch this video for a demo of how it creates flexible paths to cloud management with more scale, security and intelligence.

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How Microsoft Can Help SMBs Realize the Benefits of Productivity Apps in the Cloud

Productivity apps, designed to streamline day-to-day operations, may in fact do the reverse when accessed through on-premises servers. Read the Microsoft blog to gain additional insight on how SMBs can see significant operational benefits by moving their productivity apps to the cloud.

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Listening to millions of IoT building sensor readings with load testing

Making sure all the experiences your employees encounter during a given workday are seamless and productive is crucial to your organization's success. Read the blog to gain insight on how Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization around the globe to achieve more with transformative new technologies.

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Piramel Capital & Housing Finance Leverages Microsoft Solutions to Cut Turnaround Times of Loans by 30%

When a large U.S. housing finance company was looking to set up a centralized loan origination and management system, they leveraged a range of Microsoft services to create a Loan Origination System (LOS) for end-to-end management of loans for its wholesale lending business. Read the customer story for additional insight on how Microsoft products brought a range of significant benefits to the firm's operations.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Cloud Migration Cost Assessment

Cost optimization in Azure can be a complicated process requiring significant effort from contributors across the enterprise. A Microsoft partner, Inner-City Cubes uses lessons learned from successful Azure cost-optimization journeys to help our customers simplify the path. Receive a free Cloud Migration Cost Assessment when you schedule direct.

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Dynamics 365 License Transition Guide

The Microsoft Dynamics 365 License Transition Guide provides an overview of Dynamics 365 subscription lifecycle and service plans and outlines steps for transition planning, transition process flows and reassignment. Get the guide to fast-track licensing for Dynamics 365 apps and put service and support information at your fingertips.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Hybrid Work Communication Consultation

Inner-City Cubes can help you address your organization's hybrid meeting challenges. Schedule a free consultation to learn about our hybrid work enablement solutions.

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Free Cloud Migration Consultation

How can Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services help you optimize customer experiences and maximize employee productivity? Receive a free Cloud Migration Consultation with an expert from Inner-City Cubes who can help you assess strengths and goals, identify needs and implement the right solution.

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Hybrid Work: A Guide for Business Leaders

Microsoft has discovered that understanding and keeping pace with new employee expectations are key to making hybrid work, work. Read the eBook for additional insight on how to make the hybrid work environment work for your organization.

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Hybrid work is here to stay, so companies are spending more on security

Most IT decision makers believe hybrid work will be the new norm as businesses encourage staff to come back to the office. That puts the pressure on organizations to support new forms of collaboration and reshape employee experiences. Read the blog to learn how organizations meet the challenge.

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Hybrid Work Is Doomed

Many people returning to the office are finding the readjustment challenging. Read the blog to gain insight on why the return may be more about the office as an institution and less about productivity concerns.

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Monday, August 22, 2022

Implementing Azure cost optimization for the enterprise

Cost optimization in Azure can be a complicated process that requires significant effort from across the enterprise. At Microsoft Digital, the solution for reducing Azure costs involved data-driven cost-optimization techniques, investing in central governance and driving modernization across all Azure workloads. This blog describes how Microsoft Digital approached its cost optimization journey, the benefits gained and lessons learned along the way. Read the blog and use it as a blueprint to guide your organization's digital transformation journey with Microsoft Azure.

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MS Cloud for FS Overview: Accelerate Innovation for Sustainable Growth

Customers in the financial services industry expect personalized service and products as well as guidance to manage and protect assets. Watch the video to get an introduction to Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services and how it helps employees more easily manage data to optimize customer experience.

Enable secure and productive remote work on any device

The rise of remote work and hybrid work has increased the demand for systems that employees can access from anywhere. Check out the infographic to gain insight on how Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop enables secure and productive remote work on any device.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

As Microsoft is showing, workers may never come back to the office

We have reached a point in the originally pandemic-fueled work-from-home scenario where many workers today turn down jobs that require them to spend all working hours in the office. Read the blog to see how Microsoft and other companies are responding to employees' demands for remote work time.

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Leading New Zealand Bank Transforms Customer Experience with Dynamics 365

When Westpac NZ bank wanted to enhance customer experience and accelerate innovation, it decided to transform back-office processes by transitioning its on-prem CRM to Microsoft Dynamics 365 cloud. Today, the bank's almost 2,800 Dynamics 365 users save as much as 3,850 hours per week. Read the blog to learn how and be inspired by all the other ways the bank benefits.

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Microsoft Entra Verified ID

Together with the open standards community, customers and partners, Microsoft is helping create a decentralized identity system designed for security, privacy and inclusivity. Read the datasheet for additional information on the features and benefits of Microsoft Entra Verified ID.,

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Monday, August 15, 2022

How can we help you be more proactive about identity & access management? Reply if you'd like one of our experts to reach out to discuss your goals and the solutions we offer to address them — including @Microsoft Entra.

How can we help you be more proactive about identity & access management? Reply if you'd like one of our experts to reach out to discuss your goals and the solutions we offer to address them — including @Microsoft Entra.

Performance enhancements to Microsoft Teams lead to faster response times

Microsoft has been focusing on interaction response times and improving overall performance for Teams users, Read the blog to gain insight on the recent upgrades to Teams that will streamline the experience of using the platform.

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Journey to the cloud via Microsoft Azure and lessons learned along the way

Longtime Microsoft veteran Pete Apple, a principal service engineer in Microsoft Digital, discusses how the company has benefitted from moving to the cloud and running on Microsoft Azure. Watch the video to gain insight on lessons learned about easy wins, top security considerations and best practices, cloud optimization approaches, segmentation, iterative processes and more.

3 Reasons to Not Delay Your Migration to Dynamics 365 in the Cloud

Elasticity, scalability and accessibility have never been more important, especially as new disruptions continue to test organizations, solutions and processes alike. Read the blog to gain insight on why moving to the cloud should be a business priority and how Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help your organization modernize, customize and keep operations more secure.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Improve security with remote access and verifiable ID's

Among the many benefits of Microsoft Entra Verified ID is that it can help ensure organizations consistently match the most qualified person with the right project. Request a free consultation with one of our experts to discuss how Inner-City Cubes can help you improve security with remote access and verifiable IDs enabled by technology solutions like Microsoft Entra.

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Schedule a Free Cloud Migration Consultation

Assessing your IT resources and environment to evaluate its readiness for the cloud is the first step in a migration initiative. Schedule a complimentary cloud migration consultation with an expert from Inner-City Cubes to make your cloud journey easier and create a best practices-based cloud environment.

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Free Hybrid Meeting Space Demo

Optimize your meeting rooms to seamlessly engage and inspire teams in hybrid work collaborations. Schedule a free hybrid meeting space demo with a @Microsoft Teams expert from Inner-City Cubes.

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Free Dynamics 365 Assessment

Our experts are ready to discuss your cloud migration challenges and propose and implement solutions. A complimentary cloud migration assessment is the first step. Schedule yours today.

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Vietnamese financial giant improves user experience with a modern workplace for employees

SSI Securities Corporation is one of Vietnam's largest consumer brokerage firms, seeing themselves as working in "the business of success". The company is committed to unlocking opportunities in the financial market for its wide client pool. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted day-to-day work, SSI embarked on a company-wide digital transformation. Using a combination of tools including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure, the firm turned the challenge into an opportunity, increasing sales and enhancing the customer experience. Its large employee network spread across multiple cities successfully transitioned to remote work.

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Monday, August 8, 2022

MS Dynamics 365 Migration Program Overview

Watch this video for an overview of the Dynamics 365 Migration Program from Alysa Taylor, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Apps and Data Marketing, as she discusses the value of migrating to Microsoft cloud.

Avanade Reimagines Access to Training and Skills Management Using Microsoft Entra Verified ID

Oftentimes the best and most creative ideas come from within an organization, as professional services and technology provider Avanade recently found out. Read the blog to gain insight on how Microsoft Entra Verified ID helped enable this as the company shifted from owning all the identities and credentials to the users controlling their own credentials—when they want to use them and what they want to share.

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Mapping Microsoft's expedition to the cloud with good cartography

The man originally charged with mapping Microsoft's expedition to the cloud, Pete Apple, recalls the intricacies and nuances the company experienced along the way. Read the blog to gain insight on the important role mapping played driving the journey.

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A new Meeting Experience at Microsoft

The way meetings are conducted has changed dramatically and the challenge of making sure live and remote employees are engaged is a very real one. Watch the video to learn how Microsoft is redesigning meeting rooms for an ideal hybrid collaboration experience.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Identity and Secure Access Consultation

When you do identity and access management right, you can build trust into every digital experience and interaction. Receive a free identity and secure access consultation with an expert from Inner-City Cubes to learn more about our offerings including Microsoft Entra.

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Cloud Readiness Assessment

Where are you on your cloud journey? How can Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop help accelerate migration? With a cloud readiness assessment, an expert from Inner-City Cubes can help you gain insights into your progress, understand your cloud-readiness strengths and weaknesses, and create an action plan to bridge gaps. Schedule your free cloud readiness assessment today.

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Fast-paced Digitalization Improves Client and User Experience at Global Bank

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world with more than 200,000 employees in over 64 countries. When driving digitalization in its complex environment became overwhelming, it turned to the Microsoft portfolio of intelligent business applications. Read the customer story to see how the solution empowers HSBC to deliver operational excellence and create more engaging customer experiences.

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Free Hybrid Work Consultation

Give your team the tools they need to deliver business results faster while working more flexibly, using Microsoft products and hybrid work solutions. The hybrid work experts at Inner-City Cubes can help with a complimentary hybrid work consultation. Contact us to schedule it.

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Secure Access for a Connected World

Imagine what could be accomplished if you had trust in every digital experience and interaction you had? Read the blog to gain insight as Microsoft shares their expanded vision for how they are providing secure access for our connected world with Microsoft Entra.

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Monday, August 1, 2022

Azure Tips and Tricks

It's important to note that Microsoft invests over $1 billion in security every year and has over 3,500 security experts dedicated to enhancing customer security. Watch the demo video to learn how to get started with Azure Virtual Desktop and how the platform allows access to the latest and greatest security tools available.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Collaboration Manager

Financial institutions are looking for one centralized platform to handle appointment scheduling, virtual customer meetings, managing tasks and lending team collaboration. Watch the video to see how Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Collaboration Manager helps improve communication, productivity and process orchestration across your organization while enhancing customer experiences.

The future of hybrid work: Reimagining employee experience

The future of hybrid work requires companies to reimagine the employee experience and decide what hybrid work should look like. Read the blog to gain insight on how smart organizations are empowering workers with the tools they need to work more productively and create an inclusive and resilient culture to attract and retain talent.

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How 'born in the cloud' thinking is fueling Microsoft's transformation

After 8 years, Microsoft has finished the "lifting and shifting" of its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure and this has the company rethinking everything. Read the blog to learn how the company is retooling to take advantage of all the cloud has to offer.

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