Friday, 29 May 2020
Welcome to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps your team stay organized and have conversations—all in one place. Watch "Welcome to Microsoft Teams" for a quick overview of this powerful collaboration tool. For more information, contact us today.
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SQL Server 2019 and Azure Data Services offer an industry-leading data platform with built-in security, enhanced performance and data analytics to modernize your business.
Pivoting to Remote Work
With many organizations quickly pivoting to remote working, it's critical that nonprofits be able to continue to serve their constituents in times of need. This free learning track, "Pivoting to Remote Work," brought to you by Tech Soup, outlines the steps needed to transition to a secure and collaborative remote working environment. For more information on Microsoft solutions, contact us today.
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Get started with Microsoft Teams quick start
This quick start guide is full of information to help you make the most of Microsoft Teams. With this tool, your employees have a shared workspace for conversations, files, and meetings. Everyone can be more engaged and effective, even when working remotely. Review this guide to access actionable tips for better connection, collaboration, and productivity.
What can Microsoft Teams do for you?
Microsoft Teams is more than an app. It's a shared, secure workspace for collaborating and getting things done. View the infographic "What can Microsoft Teams do for you?" to see how your nonprofit customers can be more productive, more profitable, and more engaged. For more information on Microsoft Teams, contact us today.
Unblocking Teamwork: four tools and strategies to improve collaboration
This Microsoft eBook goes into detail about key tools and strategies to help customers overcome blockers and improve collaboration using Microsoft Teams. These tips can easily be adapted and applied to remote work. Suggestions include streamlining tools and apps, making virtual meetings more efficient, and improving version control.
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Protect your company with security solutions from Microsoft
Every company needs to have an updated security strategy—we're looking at you, small businesses. In a digital landscape that's constantly evolving, now's the time to adopt a cloud-based security solution to defend customer data against cyberattacks.
Want to secure your customers' sensitive data? Contact us to learn more.
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Get Help Putting Technology in Your School
When it comes to determining the right technology for your school, there is a lot to consider. This flyer helps prospects understand the whole picture including the costs, benefits and the additional free, learning tools Microsoft offers.
At the bottom of the flyer there is space to include your company logo, a brief description of how you can support onboarding new technology, and a link to your website.
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Five Tips to Enhance Your Company's Value Proposition by Defining Your Core Values
More than salary, benefits, and work schedule, your company's core value system is what sets it apart from others. How you define your core values so potential employees choose you—and stay with you - is crucial to your success. Employees want to know what their company stands for. Read Karen Rice's article "Five Tips to Enhance Your Company's Value Proposition by Defining Your Core Values" to help you clarify your company's value proposition, so you can make sure your prospective and current employees clearly understand the values that distinguish you from the rest.
Introducing Microsoft Teams: empowering remote work
This flyer highlights some of the key features in Microsoft Teams that allow customers to stay connected, collaborate, and increase productivity—all in one place. The flyer also offers ideas on how customers can use Teams to make remote work more efficient and even fun.
The Network in 2020: Faster, Closer, Smarter
It's no secret that more people, more than ever, are more digitally connected. The underlying network needed to support this connectivity must be faster, closer, and smarter, according to Forbes contributor Steve Alexander.
"On-demand content, bandwidth-hungry mobile apps, IoT devices, and new cloud-based applications are driving the need for more bandwidth and network capacity," Alexander writes. He reminds us that "fast ethernet" used to be the descriptive phrase for the network edge, and that over time we have quickly increased connectivity times—because users' needs demand it. This is no exception. "Since its inception, the internet has a been a catalyst for service providers to facilitate faster connectivity, an imperative that will increase over time," states Alexander.
Read the entire article, "The Network in 2020: Faster, Closer, Smarter" for valuable insight on why network requirements will continue to align with the need for cloud services.
Introducing Microsoft Threat Experts
Microsoft Threat Experts is an additional layer of expertise and optics Microsoft customers can utilize in Microsoft 365 to augment security operations.
Customer story: Jack's Diving Locker
Jack's Diving Locker, a scuba diving and snorkel educational facility, uses Microsoft 365 Business to securely run their business and to streamline their outreach efforts. Since adopting a cloud-based security and communication solution, its founders have grown their business from five sets of gear and a Volkswagen van to a company with two retail stores and five boats at two harbors. They use security tools, like Microsoft Intune, to protect company data and devices and to ensure that business is conducted securely and efficiently. With help from Microsoft 365 Business, Jack's Diving Locker has expanded into a global ocean conservation and education company, teaching people all over the world to preserve and protect our oceans.
Tuesday, 26 May 2020
How Microsoft and Google Measure Up in the Classroom
Use this educational eBook to learn how Microsoft and Google compare in six areas where they are working to support schools in improving student outcomes. Both companies endorse the development of STEM skills, provide tools and training for teachers, offer affordable pricing, and work to ensure student privacy and security. See how Microsoft takes school technology solutions one step further and learn how Microsoft Education is a good fit for your school.
This eBook enables prospects to get a quick glance at the benefits both companies provide through their products and then help them to evaluate the best tools for their needs.
Itaú Unibanco boosts service availability and data processing with SQL Server 2019
Completing 5 billion transactions a day with aging data infrastructure, Itaú Unibanco knew it needed to update its system—and it finally did. Using Microsoft SQL Server 2019 it can now deliver the high-level service its customers came to expect. Director of Operations Fabio Napoli confirmed, "Migration was easy...and it fixed problems—what usually takes hours now can be done in seconds." How much more could your business achieve if you unlocked the full potential of your data? Reach out to Liquid Telecom to find out how we can help.
Work remotely, stay secure—tips for CISOs
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, nonprofit organizations are adjusting to full-time remote collaboration. Read "Work remotely, stay secure—tips for CISOs" to learn how organizations can keep secure throughout this transition. For more information about solutions to make remote working easier for your nonprofit customers, contact us today.
Company Culture and Core Values
Your company culture should be "saturated with the principles that matter most," according to Karen Rice's article in Forbes magazine titled, "Five Tips to Enhance Your Company's Value Proposition by Defining Your Core Values." Rice suggests that you talk about core values at team meetings and discussions about strategy and performance management. This helps your employees understand the company's core values; if they don't know them, it's likely your customers and prospects won't either.
Your core values will help guide your value proposition for all your sales and marketing materials, so it's worth the investment of time and energy now!
9 ways to make working from home more joyful - The Aesthetics of Joy
This article offers nine ways to create a workspace and routine to make working from home a more joyful, sustainable experience. Suggestions range from self-care to workspace set up to breaks. Read the article for all the ideas.
Monday, 25 May 2020
MS Azure IaaS TEI Infographic
Curious about the ROI of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)? Have a look at this infographic that shows Forrester's conclusions after six customer interviews and data aggregation for a five-year financial impact.
Businesses experienced reduced data center and outsourcing costs, website scale and performance improvements, ease of experimentation through virtualized environments, and developer and testers enhancements.
Want to learn more about the potential ROI that could be realized by shifting some or all of your management and operations to Azure? Contact us today.
Thursday, 21 May 2020
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Business Models
Business models are quickly changing in the age of AI. In this article, Jayshree Pandya of Risk Group writes about how the application and adoption of AI will revolutionize business and commerce. Still struggling to determine how AI can work for you? Contact us to learn more.
Technology's Impact on Employee Experience: Balancing Overload Versus Enablement
Adopting technology in the workplace is a double-edged sword. It's key to maintaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace and increasing workplace productivity, but it can also compromise connection and lead to isolation.
Check out this article for tips on how to use technology to build a better individual employee experience and a more connected company culture.
Do you want help improving communication and teamwork in your company? You've come to the right place. Contact us at Liquid Telecomto learn more.
The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
According to Forrester, Microsoft Azure SQL Database Managed Instance has the best ROI, with a migration payback in six months or less and a potential 212% ROI over three years.
Additionally, Azure's intelligent database offers dynamic scalability that enables your database to transparently respond to rapidly changing requirements, and you pay only for the resources you need, when you need them.
Azure works with your on-premises investments so that customers use their same skills when they migrate, using familiar tools and features. All of this, along with easy and free migration tools, makes Azure the best fit option for your cloud needs.
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Do more with Microsoft Teams
With Microsoft Teams, you can create a more inclusive, more collaborative modern work environment. Download "Do more with Microsoft Teams" to see how your customers can collaborate, meet, and share in a more open, fluid, and modern workspace.
Develop 'Security Champions' For Successful Enterprise Security Scalability
What steps have you taken to create an internal team of security champions to support your security strategy? The idea is to create "front-line support". @iiamit writes, "These advocates know their businesses better than any of my security engineers could, and they are deeply embedded in their organization's culture. And, as a result, they can provide the best context for security decisions. Our role is to equip them with our services and security expertise."
Welcome to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps your nonprofit customer's team stay organized and have conversations—all in one place. Watch "Welcome to Teams" to see how Microsoft Teams help your customers achieve more together. To learn more about how Teams can improve collaboration for your organization, contact us today.
5 easy steps to get started with Teams
Microsoft Teams makes collaboration faster and easier. In this eBook, you'll learn the steps needed to get your customers started with Microsoft Teams. Contact us for more information on how to get your organization moving with Microsoft Teams.
Is your company secure?
Microsoft 365 and the intelligent cloud can help you protect, detect and respond to today's modern security landscape. As a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, Microsoft 365 helps you address new risks and opportunities and drive digital transformation to empower everyone from the executive office to first-line workers. Contact us to get started today!
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
3 Keys to Security and Compliance for Your School
The implementation of technology in schools supports personalized learning and drives student-centered outcomes. However, it also broadens the school's digital landscape, which can make schools a target for cyberattacks. In fact, 60 percent of US K-12 data breaches in 2018 included student data.
What's more, schools are filled with inquisitive minds and students and teachers often use any available technology to fulfill their learning needs. This further opens the door to breaches through unsecured apps and devices. As a result, many schools choose to automate their defenses against outside threats through intelligent technology.
Share this eBook with your prospects to educate them on the steps they can take to protect their schools with the adoption of intelligent technology.
Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry: Combining Azure Cloud-Based Services
Our third Lizo video shows how utilizing Cosmos DB, SQL Database and Cache for Redis is advantageous for a company managing large volumes of data. The outcome: increased operational efficiencies and improved visibility in predictive maintenance. Watch this video for another quick look at how Azure drives business results!
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Managed Instance is a resource type in SQL Database that enables you to quickly and confidently move your SQL Server databases (2005 and newer) at scale to the cloud. Companies report a 212% return on investment by moving their SQL Server databases to Azure with less that 6 months post-migration payback. Read this infographic for more on how straightforward and economical migration can be.
Customer Story: Clifton Coffee Recap
From the start, leaders at Clifton Coffee Roasters (CCR) knew they wanted to go beyond just roasting coffee. They wanted to empower other coffee companies to succeed. Now they provide technical support, delivery service, and back-of-house training to coffee shops across the UK, in addition to providing all of the products needed to run a coffee company.
But it wasn't always that way. In the company's early days, the team had a difficult time coming together, with employees scattered across the UK and no reliable means to connect them. Once they adopted a teamwork solution to improve internal communication, teamwork became easy and the business took off. The rest is history.
Want to take cues from CCR's teamwork game? Contact us for help getting started.
Stretch your Budget with Classroom-Ready Devices
High school and middle school aged students need the right tools to help prepare them for their next phase in life. Empower students with the latest technology and help inspire their creativity, communication and collaboration.
Windows 10 devices start at the affordable price of $219 and come with free access to Microsoft Office 365 Education—supporting and nurturing the learning styles of every student.
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Monday, 18 May 2020
J. Walter Thompson breaks new ground with Microsoft collaboration tools
This video shows how a global leader in marketing communications uses Microsoft Teams to increase collaboration across their entire organization. Teams helps them create a global, modern workplace so the company can innovate at the speed of culture. With this tool, they can stay connected and easily collaborate across different geographies.
Thursday, 14 May 2020
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Microsoft Managed Desktop
The "Microsoft Managed Desktop" infographic shows the current state of IT challenges, according to technology decision-makers. See how third-party managed desktop services can fill key gaps in employee experience and security needs. For more information on Microsoft nonprofit solutions, contact us today.
Conduct PLC meetings in Teams
We know that connection with colleagues is vital, especially during this time of increased isolation. Many educators are eager for more time brainstorming, sharing ideas, and fueling their passions through their work in Professional Learning Communities. In this video, we cover how to meet now with fellow teachers, schedule meetings for later, and record meeting notes. Have you ever been typing back and forth with someone and wish you could just talk with them in person instead? With Teams, you can quickly do that with the click of one button: Meet now. If you record your meetings, they can be saved within the respective channel so absent members can easily find and view later. Teams makes it easy for educators to continue or create new Professional Learning Communities. Watch this video to learn more about PLC capabilities in Teams.
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
A Developer's Guide to Building AI Application
Like the vast majority of Nepalese, Melisha Ghimere came from a remote village from a family of subsistence farmers who raised cows, goats, and water buffalos. Seven years ago, she watched her relatively wealthy uncle and aunt lose a lot of their herd to an outbreak of anthrax; they were never to recover their economic footing. Melisha went on to college thinking about the plight of her family. In college, she worked to develop a predictive early warning solution to help farmers. With a team of four students, they researched livestock farming, veterinary practices, and spoke to farmers. They built a prototype for a monitoring device that tracks temperature, sleep patterns, stress levels, motion, and the activity of farm animals. Melisha's AI system predicts the likely health of each animal based on often subtle changes in these observations. Farmers are able to track their animals, receive alerts and actionable recommendations. Although her project is still in its infancy, the field tests have shown the solution was about 95% accurate in predicting risks to an animal's health. Melisha and her team were able to help a family prevent a deadly outbreak of an anthrax infection by identifying a diseased cow, before symptoms were evident to the farmer. Melisha's team was a regional finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition in 2016.* For more to inspire you to embrace AI, read this developer's ebook. Then contact us to find out how we can help make AI work for you!
* The Future Computed--Artificial Intelligence and its role in society--Microsoft
Making the Shift to a Modern Desktop with Microsoft 365
Making the shift to a modern desktop helps your nonprofit customers foster a highly secure workspace, empowered by the latest productivity, teamwork, and collaboration experiences. Download "Making the Shift to a Modern Desktop with Microsoft 365" for the step-by-step guidance on making the shift to a modern desktop. Contact us today for more information on empowering your workforce.
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Staying productive while working remotely with Microsoft Teams
With the COVID-19 outbreak turning a massive amount of the global workforce to remote work, everyone is adjusting to meetings, chatting, and collaborating exclusively online. This blog post shares the top tips from the team behind Teams on how to make working from home productive and healthy.
Unblocking Workplace Collaboration: 5 Tools and Strategies
Did you know that up to 80% of workers' time is spent on collaborative activities like responding to emails and attending meetings?
This guide to promoting a more collaborative workplace culture outlines common communication breakdowns in the modern workplace and provides strategies to help customers communicate and collaborate more effectively.
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How to manage meetings in Microsoft Teams
This video is a quick tutorial on how to use the meeting features in Microsoft Teams.
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
It's 2020. Do You Know Where Your Digital Future Is?
In most of our homes, we utilize and depend on the cloud in multiple ways every single day—think online banking and shopping, social media, email and doorbell video cameras. "It might be the first time in history that our habits at home have outpaced how we function at work," writes Tyler Bowman in his Forbes article, "It's 2020. Do You Know Where Your Digital Future Is?"
Bowman addresses three main lingering concerns in the corporate world, including generational divide. "Millennials are driving a market disruption that many CEOs are grappling to embrace," Bowman adds, however, that this difference does not need to result in irreconcilable work practices and values. His suggestions for embracing the disruption support his main point, which is it's just a matter of time before our cloud utilization at work catches up to our already existing cloud dependency at home.
Read this article for interesting perspective on the corporate cloud in 2020 and beyond.
Transform Endpoint Management and Security with Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 unified endpoint management (UEM) is the most secure, flexible approach to managing Windows 10 and other mobile devices in your modern workplace. Combining the strengths of Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager, it is the simplest way to cloud-connect your existing management infrastructure and reduce overall complexity, empowering end user productivity and enhancing device security. Contact us to learn how you can keep your data and employees' mobile devices secure with Microsoft 365.
Integral Analytics switches to Azure from AWS for high performance and cost-effective data warehousing
Darrin Kinney of Seattle City Light said, "Some of the biggest challenges are just collecting and handling the vast amounts of data." Now, using Azure SQL Data Warehouse, this energy-analytics firm cost effectively brings actionable insights to electric utilities. Watch this video to hear more.
Help customers bring teams and resources together with Microsoft technology
Digital teamwork tools are changing the way teams do business: Today, more than 30% of businesses use advanced communication tools in conference rooms.
With Teamwork solutions from Microsoft, you can facilitate better communication among your teams by using cloud-based email technology and calendaring services. You can also ensure that your teams are aligned with web conferencing and group chat. And that's just the beginning.
Contact us to see how your company can benefit from our enterprise-grade communication technology.
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How to maintain your mental health while working from home
During this uncertain time, it's increasingly important for people to take care of their mental health. This article from Fast Company offers suggestions to maintain mental health while working remotely. Tips range from acknowledging the impact to streamlining work, and more.
Monday, 11 May 2020
SQL Server and Azure SQL Database GDPR Guidance Paper
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation in European law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. It also addresses the transfer of personal data outside of these areas.
To meet General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, Microsoft has implemented technical (tooling) and organizational measures (processes) to ensure that data processing is in accordance with GDPR privacy regulations. The actual path will be different for every organization, but general resources are available in a Service Trust Portal that Microsoft has created for customers to get started.
This white paper provides a good overview of GDPR and includes many links to sites with more specific information for associated topics. Contact us if you have questions!
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Empowered By Technology, Wealth Managers Will Take Personalization To The Next Level
Technologies like machine learning that make sense of data and patterns are essential. So are the incisive analytics that can result from its use.
Five Benefits And Three Challenges Technology Can Bring To Global Companies
By now, you know that technology brings numerous advances in communication for your teams, but are you familiar with the most specific benefits teamwork technology has to offer? This article asserts that communication technology translates to faster communication, enhanced efficiency, and profit boosts for your employees, all essential components to connecting your teams and resources. Check out this article to learn more.
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Remote staff meeting with Teams
It's easy to meet through Microsoft Teams. You can invite others to meet right now, or you can schedule a future meeting through the calendar tab. Participants can take notes, invite others, share content, and even record the meeting for team members to watch later. After each meeting, all the notes, recordings, shared files, and conversations are available for future reference. Teams takes the stress out of scheduling, organizing and recording meetings, so you can focus on content and collaboration. Even better, Office 365 and Teams A1 is free to educators right now!
Why the cloud? Why Microsoft Azure?
Is the cloud secure for my apps? Which apps make sense to run in the cloud? Can I trust my business-critical app to a cloud vendor? You want to head to the cloud, but naturally you have questions.
You may also wonder why customers choose Microsoft Azure for their cloud migration. One reason is unparalleled innovation: you can maximize your productivity with fully managed services such as App Service, Azure SQL Database, and global on-demand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Your focus should be driving your business priorities instead of worrying about running data centers.
Want to know the other reasons to choose Azure? Have questions? Liquid Telecom is ready to help you!
Microsoft 365 ROI Estimator
Use this interactive tool to estimate the economic impact of migrating from on-premise third-party and Microsoft solutions to Microsoft 365 with Windows 10 and Office 365 ProPlus deployed. Contact us today for more information on this valuable tool for your organization.
Delight your company with a modern workplace
Nonprofits face more challenges than ever before, and your ability to address their challenges can open the door for you to engage in new conversations. By focusing on modern desktop solutions, you can help accelerate your customers' digital transformations as you create new revenue streams for your practice. Contact us today for more information on modernizing your desktop with Microsoft solutions.
Use these 4 keyboard shortcuts in Windows 10!
What teacher doesn't want to save time and simplify their daily routine? Use this insightful customer video to provide time-saving tips with Windows 10 shortcuts. Take quick screenshots, easily access the Windows Ink Workspace, and display student and teacher content—all on the same screen.
This less-than-two minute video seamlessly addresses common pain points and frustrations. Your customers can easily comment, like, and re-share on their social media.
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Remote working checklist
This infographic provides helpful guidance on how to be productive and maintain healthy boundaries while working from home.
Raising the Bar with End-to-End Security
With Microsoft, security can be simple once again. Microsoft 365 provides an intelligent security hub that works seamlessly across platforms, going far beyond Microsoft to Linux, Mac and others -- so you can manage mission-critical workloads with existing tools at your fingertips. Contact us to learn how Microsoft 365 helps keep your organization secure and productive.
Customer Story: Clifton Coffee | Bring Teams Together
Before switching to Teamwork solutions from Microsoft, employees at Clifton Coffee Roasters (CCR) would physically print out all documents, fill them out by hand, and then bring them into the office, where they would get scanned and entered into a computer. Sounds tedious, right?
Powered by Microsoft, CCR team members communicate better than ever. Now, their team members stay connected from almost anywhere in the world they are individually located. With flexible communication tools like Forms, employees can contribute and work together on shared documents from personal devices. No printing or scanning required.
Check out this video to learn how CCR connected their teams and resources with help from Microsoft solutions. And contact us to learn how you can too.
3 real-life lessons in transforming learning with technology
Student-centered opportunities and experiences help students get in touch with who they want to be and what they want to accomplish in the world. However, these approaches to learning are high in demand, but also low in supply.
What's more, school districts today are challenged with accommodating a wide variety of students with different learning abilities. Fortunately, Windows 10 devices help students, of all skill levels, collaborate, communicate, and express their creativity.
Use this gated eBook to demonstrate how Windows 10 devices help enhance students' stake in the learning process. Customers will learn about successful, district-wide implementations where schools took a data-driven approach to drive greater learning outcomes.
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Welcome to Microsoft Teams
This video is a quick introduction on how to use Microsoft Teams. The tutorial highlights such features as channels, chat, calls, and files. Watch this video to see how Teams can help your employees collaborate and stay organized.
Monday, 4 May 2020
Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry: Collect and Monitor Sensor Data
At oil and gas facilities, data from sensors and cameras must be collected, analyzed and visualized economically in order to keep operations running smoothly. Watch this Lizo video to see how the Power BI application allows remote decision-making—significantly reducing overhead cost and achieving operational efficiency.
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