We hope everyone had a chance to “attend” Microsoft Ignite the week of September 21, 2020. There were certainly some excellent sessions covering the Power Platform creating a step-change in organizational agility, learning how Dynamics 365 provides an extensible foundation for accelerating and enhancing business value, and building agile business processes with Power Apps. And…
Nonprofits in our communities exist to provide critical (dare I say “essential”) services to our most vulnerable neighbors. With over 1.5 million registered organizations in the United States alone, these nonprofits fill the need gap between what governments, corporations, foundations, and private citizens fund and the actual support beneficiaries (people, animals, and the environment) need.…
Over the first part of this year, we have explored four key concepts that drive value from cloud innovation—Secure, Analyze, Automate, and Adopt. While many of the features and topics we’ve discussed have highlighted Microsoft 365 and Azure, this Insight dives into another piece of the Microsoft cloud ecosystem—Dynamics 365. Specifically, we’ll uncover how you…
Standards, maturity models, and certifications…oh my! All businesses regardless of the goods or services they provide, their size or their industry are impacted daily by the requirements of regulations and standards imposed from government, accreditation bodies, customer contracts, or just plain internal directives. Annual audits, employee education, specialized software systems, and potentially whole departments are…
Over the past three months we have been exploring the key concepts that drive value from cloud innovation – Secure, Analyze, and Automate. In this Insight we will explore the final tenet to maximizing your investment in the cloud: Adopt. Leveraging cloud-based security, analytics, and automation is a great foundation for any business solution. However,…
As part of your investment in the cloud you may have already considered security, backups, and analytics, but have you considered how automation in the cloud can also benefit you? Automation is a broad topic with many avenues to explore and leverage. It is also one of the more important goals of your cloud journey.…
Technology has always been about the possibility of efficiency gains. These efficiency gains created the notion that technology would reduce repetitive tasks and allow us to be engaged in more valuable activities. This notion is seeing more traction now through achievements leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to augment work and enhance decisions. The exponential growth of…
Among the top concerns of cloud implementations is the security and loss of data. We have all heard the news reports of large corporations who are the victim of a cybercrime. According to a 2019 study from the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a data breach is close to 4 million dollars. The loss of…
How far along on your cloud journey have you traveled? Are you among the two in three North American enterprises—according to Forrester Research—who already rely on public cloud platforms? Cloud-based computing is not the future; it is the present. Industry research experts, Gartner, expect that more than 30 percent of technology providers’ new software investments have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only. …
In 2019 we pivoted our monthly “tips,” which tended to lean towards technical in nature, to monthly “insights.” The goals of our Insights are to incorporate a technology topic, naturally, but also to highlight business benefits, opportunities and risks. This year’s Insights ranged from digital transformation strategy (and why you need one) to getting more…
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