Microsoft

If this is the first time you heard about “Oslo” then here is a quick introduction for you: Oslo is a new way to search and discover content across O365 based on personalized insights. These new insights are derived from each users’ behavior, their relationships to content, topics and one another. The idea is to […]

What do you do when you have a great idea you want to share with your company network? And you want to make sure it is not buried in the company newsfeed that everyone seems to be posting to? And you need to make sure the post is extremely easy to retrieve later on? The […]

In a world dominated by bigger, faster, stronger; scientists are always looking for ways to improve on current technology. Moore’s law states that processor speeds double every 2 years (often quoted as 18 months based on Intel’s assertions). But how long can that last? Will we reach a physical limit of our technology? Yes, and […]

Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary  here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: ·         Roadmap at a glance ·         General Questions & Functionality ·         First Release ·         Yammer ROADMAP […]

One of the best benefits to Office 365 is the continuous updates and improvements to the platform. We no longer need a sever release, service pack, or hotfix. We get new releases when Microsoft is ready to make them live in the cloud. Recently, we’ve gotten Document Conversations and Office for iPad; and we will be seeing Office […]

Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]

There’s a lot to think about when planning your Enterprise Yammer implementation. How will I get users into Yammer? How will users login to Yammer? Which password will they use? How will users who leave my organization be handled in Yammer? What software do I really need to implement? This post is all about Yammer […]

Forrester recently released their Enterprise Social Platforms Wave.  I like Forrester’s Wave approach because of the depth of information on a variety of scored points.  While I cannot divulge the entire report, I can show a glimpse of where Office 365 + Yammer stand and tell you a few points why.  For the complete review, […]

Some of you may be doing a double take. Wait, is this post really about the Content By Query Web Part? Didn’t that die with the release of the Content By Search Web Part? In short, no! There are a few use cases where the Content By Query web part is still very useful – and necessary!! […]

Last week, we held a webinar, The Modern Data Warehouse – A Hybrid Story. As the world of data evolves ever so quickly, it transforms the industry and creates a need for new approaches to business intelligence. Data warehousing technology that worked well for years, serving its purpose to manage and understand business driven data, […]

Microsoft has done it again, raising the free storage limit for all customers on OneDrive to 15 GB!! That’s up from 7 GB that was rolled out earlier this year. This announcement is for personal OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business – which has been at 1 TB of storage since April. Comparing to the other vendors […]

According to a recent HIMSS survey 80% of healthcare organizations have already adopted cloud based services. In addition according to HIMSS  “Nearly all cloud adopters plan to expand their cloud services; areas for growth include archived data, disaster recovery and hosting operational applications and data”.    “The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower […]