Microsoft announced Project Cortex at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando earlier this month. While there were literally hundreds of announcements, the biggest announcement was Project Cortex. What is it? Project Cortex will create and update new topic pages and knowledge centers that are meant to act like wikis. Topic cards will be available to users in […]
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[Guide] 6 Steps to Unlocking the Business Value of Office 365
There may not be sufficient empirical research or metrics to demonstrate how using Microsoft Office 365 (O365) contributes directly to business value in a measurable way. However, there are cases in which evidence suggests that purposeful, focused adoption and usage of O365 can contribute significant business value. A comprehensive review of how O365 impacts business […]
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 […]
Misleading Assumptions with the Business Value of Office 365
In my last blog, I explored where Microsoft Office 365 (O365) provides value. In the final blog of this series, I debunk misleading assumptions associated with the business value of O365. There may also be some potentially misleading assumptions about O365: O365 is ”just a tool” The decision to migrate to O365 is typically driven […]
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 […]
Where is the Business Value of Office 365?
My last blog deciphers how Microsoft Office 365 (O365) promises business value. This blog explores where O365 provides value. Microsoft Office 365 was made available in June 2011 and has maintained its goal of being a catalyst for changing how people work in an increasingly digital economy. For example, Microsoft’s current CEO, Satya Nadella, certainly […]
Host an ARO Workshop to Showcase Cloud-first Development
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) provides enterprises with a number of benefits, including the ability to simplify processes, focus on development, harness the power of DevOps, and reduce time to market. With ARO, you are able to iterate faster, deliver features quicker, and reach your market at a faster pace. ARO is a fully managed […]
Sitecore Symposium 2019: Build JSS Websites with Blazor
Blazor is Microsoft’s very new and exciting technology. This session was led by two Sitecore MVPs and showed a proof of concept for creating a JSS framework for Blazor. Since Blazor is not yet supported by Sitecore, the project is community-driven. Here are my key takeaways from their presentation: What is Blazor? A new web […]
The Promise of Business Value with Office 365
Previously, I discussed how user adoption impacts the business value of Microsoft Office 365 (O365). In this blog I decipher how O365 promises business value. The decision to use O365 is made for a number of reasons. According to Gartner research, approximately 70% of survey respondents indicated “licensing or costs” and “shifting workloads to the […]
[Guide] How User Adoption Impacts the Business Value of O365
The digital dexterity of the workforce will be a significant driver of competitive advantage (or disadvantage, in the case of digital deficiency) for the foreseeable future. So, helping employees productively use new cloud office workloads can be a key element of a digital dexterity plan. Microsoft applications have become such a fixture in our daily […]
Save the Date: It’s Time to Change How We Collaborate Using Microsoft Teams
Extra! Extra! Have you heard the news? Microsoft has announced the retirement date for Skype for Business! Yes, that means Skype will be no more come July 31, 2021. Although it may be a little sad to say farewell to Skype, it is also an exciting time to begin transitioning to the collaborative tool that […]
3 Best Practices for Driving User Engagement & Adoption of Microsoft Teams
More than many other applications, and specifically, more than the other Microsoft tools, implementing Microsoft Teams is a bigger challenge people-wise than technology-wise. Sure, there are absolutely technical aspects for an implementation that should not be taken lightly, including configuration, file migration, and security, to name a few, but frankly, and with no disrespect to […]