One thing many IT pros have been asking for since the release of Microsoft Teams was a certification to go along with it. There are some great resources from Edx out there that can help you gain more knowledge around all things Microsoft Teams (specifically “Enabling Teamwork with Microsoft Teams” and “Microsoft Services Adoption Specialist”) […]
Platforms and Technology
Avoiding Disasters with Chaos Engineering
The cost of an outage to a business is very high. This isn’t news to anyone, but in today’s world of instant access and immediate gratification, it’s truer now than ever. Businesses today are expected to be accessible at all times to consumers. As a result, businesses need to build infrastructure and applications that are […]
Kubernetes Solution & Strategy for Enterprise Magento 2 Application
The hosting of an enterprise application is always challenging. It needs many complex components to work correctly and achieve agility, reliability, and security. In the past couple of years, container technologies have evolved rapidly to do the heavy lifting for enterprise applications in the cloud. The container has played a significant role in delivering robust […]
Focus on Change That Brings Value
This blog is part of a series, if you are just now joining us, we suggest you go catch up on what you’ve missed! In our previous post, we reviewed the solutions to period-close management. In this installment of the series, we will focus on changes and tools that can help bring value to your […]
Maximize Your ROI and Cost Savings With Cloud
The following is the eighth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. So far in this series, we have covered topics such as the innovation cloud brings, cloud security, and disaster recovery in the cloud. In this blog, I want to address an issue […]
Using Azure Bastion as a Host for VMs
Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud providers, recently launched the preview of a new platform-as-a-service offering called “Azure Bastion”. This service gives a platform for the management and deployment of VMs, meaning you don’t have to keep up a foundation to do this. The word “bastion” itself means an adjustment for defense or safe place. Azure Bastion is a […]
The Teams Team is Listening…Your Requests Were Demoed at MSIgnite
You may not have realized it, but the Teams team at Microsoft has been working furiously to deliver some of the most highly requested features. Some upcoming features were announced at MSIgnite, and these are game changers. Microsoft Teams Chat Pop Outs Now you can chat with multiple different people while you are still working […]
Microsoft Ignite Recap: Teams Edition
Microsoft Ignite came and went in a flash! If you were like me and tried to catch all of the Teams sessions, you’d agree when I say that it was like drinking from a fire hose! Since it was nearly impossible to see all of the sessions for Teams at Ignite, I thought I’d round […]
How Your SharePoint Admin or Dev Role Changed Overnight at MSIgnite
You may not have been watching when with one simple event Microsoft pulled the rug from under you. Your role as a SharePoint Admin or Dev will never be the same. For Admins First, there was the move from file shares to SharePoint. Then from Windows SharePoint Services to SharePoint Server and with it a […]
Solutions to Period-Close Management
In our previous post, we looked at the challenges in managing the period-close process and their implications in finance organizations. In this post, we will review some solutions to period-close management. We will go on to examine the benefits of automated management tools over manual, and the use of real-time reporting tools. Period-Close Core to […]
[Guide] The Essential Guide to Microsoft Teams End-User Engagement
Microsoft Teams is changing workplace collaboration by bringing together chat, meetings, apps, bots, personal storage, and calls into one interface. With so many features available, it’s possible to take on too much, too quickly. Having a Microsoft Teams implementation strategy is crucial to avoiding common pitfalls, and to ensure successful adoption and end-user engagement. Whether […]
Cloud Procurement Approval Management
Cloud Procurement offers a new interface defining approval workflow for Requisitions, Purchase Documents (Order, Blanket, Contract) and Supplier Management. Approval rules are managed in a user friendly interface that integrates back-end Business Process Management (BPM) while keeping a logical and complete setup in front of the user. While relatively simple to define rules in Approval […]