Tuesday 31 August 2021

Cloud-Native SIEM: Quick Start Guide to Azure Sentinel

Get smarter, faster threat detection and response with the cloud and AI. Gain access to intelligent security analytics and unlimited compute and storage with Azure Sentinel. Bring together security data from across your organization and start defending your entire enterprise—immediately. This will help your nonprofit customers get started with the power of alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response found in Azure Sentinel. Contact us today for additional details about Azure Sentinel.

View: Cloud-Native SIEM: Quick Start Guide to Azure Sentinel

Analytics & AI solution video

This video is a quick introduction to Microsoft Analytics and AI, explaining how to expand the reach of your data insights and gain increasing levels of efficiency and personalization. By harnessing the power of Microsoft Analytics, you can inform and drive intelligent automation through AI and machine learning. 

New Survey Finds 22% Of Americans Have Been Targeted By Digital Fraud Related To COVID-19

COVID-19 has shifted the economic landscape in unprecedented ways, driving dramatic increases to ecommerce businesses. New research from TransUnion shows the impact on markets in two key findings: a 23% increase in global e-commerce transactions and a parallel 22% uptick in e-commerce fraud. This thought leadership article from Forbes details the findings, educates merchants about potential disruptions, and advises consumers on how they can avoid falling victim to fraud.

Read More...

Microsoft security & compliance adoption guide

With remote work as the new normal, organizations must rely on employees and volunteers who are working outside traditional organization borders. This guide will help you implement the Security and Compliance capabilities of Microsoft 365 for your organization that can help you identify and manage potential risks while keeping staff connected and productive. 

Read More...

Customer story: Mikaila Ulmer me and the bees

Check out the sweetest story we've heard all day! Mikaila Ulmer opened a single lemonade stand, serving her great-grandmother's delicious lemonade and helping to save the bees at the same time. Over the years, her business has grown in popularity and size, and Mikaila has become an icon of young entrepreneurial spirit. Check out the whole story here, and contact us to learn how, with the right tools and applications in hand, anything is possible.

Monday 30 August 2021

Best practices infographic

Microsoft advocates for financial practices that foster productivity and help businesses reach their revenue goals. This infographic lists six essential concepts that drive long-term financial sustainability and growth.

View: Best practices infographic

Thursday 26 August 2021

Deepen and engage customers with AI

Microsoft Analytics and AI accelerates digital transformation that deepens engagement, predicts outcomes, and automates operations. Subscribe now!

View: Deepen and engage customers with AI

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Webcast: Microsoft 365 security management

Microsoft is committed to helping organizations keep their data secure. In this free webcast, you will learn about how Microsoft 365 has a three-tier approach to managing your organization's security.

Read More...

Tips for learning Azure in the new year

Help your tech-savvy nonprofit customers learn Azure in 2020. This article shares 9 no-cost resources that users can take advantage of right now. For more help getting your customers started with Azure, contact us today.

Read More...

Newcastle University challenges tradition with connected, collaborative culture

Newcastle University has a lot of connections between the different faculties, and it needed a formal way of supporting them. Launching Microsoft Teams provided a very rich, integrated platform that can create work groups dynamically in a multidisciplinary team. They now have up to 5,000 users between the faculty and students, streamlining professional services, research, and support for students.

Read More...

BMake data-driven decisions with payment predictions

Make data-driven decisions with customer payment predictions, cash flow management, and forecasting. Learn more about managing risk and fraud with Microsoft by subscribing!

View: BMake data-driven decisions with payment predictions

Azure strategy and implementation guide for nonprofits

The value of technology to nonprofit organizations is how it can help them accelerate their mission and do more good. Nonprofits are constantly facing the challenges of fewer resources, greater need, and growing cybersecurity threats. While the potentials of cloud computing for nonprofits are clear, the adjustments the IT organization will need to make in transitioning to the cloud may be unclear. The "Azure strategy and implementation guide for nonprofits" eBook will help nonprofit IT teams more effectively implement and integrate cloud technologies. For more information on Azure implementation for your nonprofit, contact us today.

View: Azure strategy and implementation guide for nonprofits

Tuesday 24 August 2021

Top signs to know you've outgrown basic email marketing

The time of blast email marketing is over. As both the marketplace and available technology evolve, so does the marketing needs of your business. New technology like Dynamics 365 offers an automated marketing solution to help even small businesses deliver the personalized content customers have come to expect. Contact us today to learn more about how you can integrate Dynamics 365 and provide the experience your customers deserve.

View: Top signs to know you've outgrown basic email marketing

Allstate transforms the customer experience with Azure AI

This video showcases how Allstate is transforming customer support with artificial intelligence. With Azure Cognitive Services, Allstate is capturing insights from customer calls to enable a more seamless customer experience.

Empowering Remote Work with Microsoft Teams

With more people working from home, fostering virtual connection is crucial. This one pager displays tips on how to empower your team to stay connected, inclusive and focused online. It also provides insights on how to share content and keep your business running smoothly using Microsoft Teams.

View: Empowering Remote Work with Microsoft Teams

The City of Houston: Security as a job

For the city of Houston, modernization is an opportunity for secure government operations. The three main solutions officials focus on are disaster recovery/response, school safety, and transportation. By accessing more secure data with Microsoft IoT innovation, the city of Houston can respond to any crisis and ensure public safety.

Securing your systems with smart solutions

Securing your systems with a data  driven, human-guided security approach  allows you to  detect and respond to attacks more quickly and accurately.  This infographic outlines how  the  global network of real-time threat intelligence  from Microsoft  continues to evolve, anticipate,  and stay ahead of risks.

View: Securing your systems with smart solutions

Monday 23 August 2021

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing

Marketing automation offers the best of both worlds by increasing productivity while decreasing overhead. Running your marketing efforts through a single, concise dashboard helps your sales reps prioritize their efforts towards the most promising leads. Check out this infographic and contact us today to learn more about how Dynamics 365 for Marketing can get you started building strong relationships with the right customers.

View: Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing

Thursday 19 August 2021

Overcoming misconceptions about open source

Driving adoption of open-source DevOps becomes easier after addressing four common myths. Myths like open source isn't secure, or open source isn't enterprise-grade. For debunking these and more, this infographic has the answers.

View: Overcoming misconceptions about open source

Subscribe now!

Subscribe now!

View: Subscribe now!

Cloud security advice for nonprofit leaders

Need help identifying and categorizing data? Want to respond effectively to security and compliance issues? This free e-book provides nonprofit leaders with advice on how Microsoft 365 can help with cloud security.

Read More...

Wednesday 18 August 2021

Disaster recovery chatbots

A chatbot was designed to help disaster-relief organizations quickly offer assistance. Direct Relief developed the bot to answer questions on Facebook after realizing that its response time was getting dangerously high. Now it's making the technology available to any nonprofit that needs it. For more information on how Microsoft can bring exciting new technologies to your nonprofit, contact us today.

Read More...

How to determine the right CRM and marketing automation for SMBs

With the right CRM and marketing automation solutions in place, you can grow your business and understand customers better. CRM technology can help you build customer relationships and improve performance. And marketing automation can help you to nurture these relationships, plus gain insights to make smarter marketing decisions. But before you invest in these tools, it's important to understand your business needs and the solution capabilities. At Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT), we specialize in integrated sales and marketing tools that can help you increase sales and deliver better customer experiences. Check out this article for tips on selecting CRM and marketing automation tools. And give us a call! We'd be glad to help you find the best solutions for your business.

Read More...

What is Azure Backup?

Azure Backup simplifies data recovery into a cost-effective, one-click solution that's simple to implement. In less than 2 minutes, this video will show you how Azure Backup can help eliminate infrastructure costs, protect against ransomware, and simplify data protection. For more information about migrating your nonprofit customers to Azure, contact us today.

Stayin' Alive - Keeping Your Data Safe During Disaster with Azure

Watch this webcast to learn more about how Azure can augment (or replace) your existing backup and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy. For more information on Microsoft Azure solutions for nonprofits, contact us today.

Read More...

Accelerate your financial performance with Dynamics 365 Finance

Learn how organizations drive profitability and innovation using predictive financial insights with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. Dynamics 365 Finance enables users to modernize their global financial operations, monitor performance in real time, predict future outcomes, and make data-driven decisions to foster business growth.

Tuesday 17 August 2021

Alaska Airlines makes shopping easier

A great online shopping experience begins with great software. Alaska Airlines is using microservices, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Server Containers with Docker to launch new e-commerce features faster—in minutes versus days. Travelers get new offers sooner, which translates to happier customers and higher revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can also scale more easily and cost-effectively, ensuring its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.

Read More...

Work remotely, stay secure

As businesses have had to quickly pivot to new working environments, cyberattacks become an urgent concern. In this thought leadership article, you can learn some of best practices using Microsoft security that help ensure the best protection. Examples include secure access to cloud applications that protect sign-ins with security defaults, methods to manage and secure corporate data in approved apps on personal devices, and providing clear and basic information, including how to protect their devices, will help you and employees stay ahead of threats so they can remain productive.

Read More...

The most common types of healthcare fraud

The healthcare sector faces constant threats from fraud, waste, and abuse. It's estimated that $455 billion is lost every year from FWA. This informative thought leadership piece outlines the many kinds of fraud affecting the healthcare system, including false billing, upcoding, unbundling, and unnecessary services.

Read More...

Security beyond Microsoft products

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  and Mac, to  AWS  and beyond, so you can manage mission  critical workloads with  the right  tools at your fingertips. Play this video to learn more. 

Customer story: Swarovski boosts global sales and marketing with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Coordinating teams and tools can be difficult, especially for global brands. That's why Swarovski is letting go of its multiple sales tools in favor of a single, cohesive, connected system. Check out this video to learn more about Swarovski's journey to a more integrated sales force with Dynamics 365.

Monday 16 August 2021

Maturity of effort infographic

Microsoft promotes a mature view of risk analytics. This infographic details the tiers of maturity many organizations must work through before reaching an advanced degree of security.

View: Maturity of effort infographic

Thursday 12 August 2021

How four nonprofits accelerated their missions through the cloud

Nonprofits of all sizes are looking to technology to help maximize shrinking resources. A growing number of companies are turning to the cloud to increase security and stability, reduce costs, and gain analytical tools that allow them to respond quicker and more effectively to needs. This eBook outlines the key benefits of moving to the cloud and points your customers to several offers and resources that can make the cloud more affordable, accessible, and relevant to your mission.

View: How four nonprofits accelerated their missions through the cloud

Don't miss another post! Subscribe now!

Stay in the loop on all things DevOps. For tips, tricks, and news on Microsoft DevOps with GitHub, Design Visual Studio, Azure, and more—subscribe now!

View: Don't miss another post! Subscribe now!

Assess your apps, data, and infrastructure with Azure Migrate

Learn how Azure Migrate can help you discover and assess your on-premises environments to enable successful Azure migrations. For more information about migrating your nonprofit customers to Azure, contact us today.

Wednesday 11 August 2021

Optimize financial operations and minimize loss from fraud

Microsoft optimizes financial operations while minimizing loss of revenue from fraud. Subscribe now!

View: Optimize financial operations and minimize loss from fraud

Cloud Adoption Framework

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is a comprehensive set of tools to enable your nonprofit customers to implement the change management and governance structures needed to support a compliant and easy-to-manage environment. It provides best practices, documentation, and tools that cloud architects, IT professionals, and business decision-makers need to achieve their short- and long-term objectives. The "Cloud Adoption Framework" infographic provides a quick overview of the framework and its modules, along with the assessments and resources to complement each step. For information on the cloud adoption framework, please contact Microsoft today.

View: Cloud Adoption Framework

Shipping company navigates to the cloud, boosts security, cuts operating costs by 50%

Qatari shipping and maritime company Nakilat has one of the world's largest fleets of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, transporting LNG from Qatar to global markets. To increase its competitive advantage, Nakilat wanted to improve employee productivity and mobility, without compromising on data security. It uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security to deliver highly secure cloud-first workplaces—shipboard and in the office. Nakilat also adopted the Microsoft Azure platform to optimize its operations and improve business continuity, reducing operating costs by 50 percent. See more in this video.

Read More...

Dun & Bradstreet: Better decisions through data

Each day, Dun & Bradstreet receives 5 million database updates from over 30,000 global sources. This results in the world's largest commercial database, which can be used to improve business processes and make profitable decisions.

Top ways marketing can help sales succeed

How well do your sellers and marketers work together? Do your customers know they're working on the same team? Buyers don't distinguish between marketing and sales. They expect a consistent experience when they're working with a company--whoever they're working with. It's important to keep this in mind as you're thinking through internal processes and systems. With Dynamics 365, your marketing and sales teams share common data, a complete view of customers, and Office 365 collaboration tools. With integrated solutions in place, you can deliver a seamless customer experience. Check out this e-book, then contact us to learn how your sales and marketing teams can work better together.

View: Top ways marketing can help sales succeed

Tuesday 10 August 2021

H&R Block delivers with Azure DevOps and Microsoft

With recent changes in the tax industry, H&R Block made plans to stay ahead, providing seamless multichannel experiences and unifying its disparate data sources to better serve its customers. By moving its various workloads to Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and Microsoft Azure and using Azure data services, the tax provider has been able to enhance service delivery, scale to meet its peaks in demand, and accelerate innovation. Watch this video for the story.

Read More...

Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation

Attackers will cross multiple domains like email, identity, endpoints, and applications to find the point of least resistance. Today's defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams and threshold differences between solutions—leaving the business vulnerable to attack. Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Read on to learn more.

Read More...

Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels serves and nourishes community members across the country. When Meals on Wheels in Greenville County wanted to reach more people in need, the organization's leaders knew they needed a way to keep company data safe and to improve communication among team members. With Microsoft 365 for Business, Meals on Wheels of Greenville transformed internal processes and went above and beyond the call to serve their community.

Boost productivity and increase revenue

Today's businesses are overloading sellers with multiple sales tools that complicate an already involved sales process. Despite significant investments of time and money in implementing these processes, they don't actually help sellers do their jobs better. Check out this infographic to learn how Dynamics 365 can alleviate these pains and increase productivity with a single, intuitive system. Contact us today to find out how we can help you adopt the right sales tools for your business needs.

View: Boost productivity and increase revenue

Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours

Remote Office Hours is a new live broadcast directly from the Microsoft Visual Studio team. It's about everything Visual Studio, with rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. The style is conversational, light, and casual—a show by developers for developers. Read on to learn more here:

Read More...

Monday 9 August 2021

Secure the future: Four key areas of intelligent security

Identify and repel more threats than ever before with Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security, and Azure Sentinel. Learn more about intelligent security solutions for your entire enterprise.

View: Secure the future: Four key areas of intelligent security

Thursday 5 August 2021

4 Reasons Why Companies are Choosing CRM Over Traditional Marketing tools

Within this digital marketing environment, relationship marketing is the name of the game and customer relationship management (CRM) is the method. With its ability to break down silos and offer insights across multiple functions, CRM is helping companies provide a cohesive and well-coordinated experience to customers. Check out this article to learn more about the benefits of CRM.

Read More...

Microsoft Azure for your cloud platform - what it is and how it works

Nonprofit organizations often operate in a world of highly constrained resources. Doing more with less requires changing how you work. This webcast, "Microsoft Azure for your cloud platform - what it is and how it works," shows how your nonprofit customers can free themselves from constantly managing infrastructure to focus instead on delivering higher-impact applications with Azure. Contact us today to learn how the Azure cloud can transform your organization.

Read More...

Sustainability Calculator

The Microsoft Sustainability Calculator is a Power BI Pro application for Azure enterprise customers that provides new insight into carbon emissions data associated with their Azure services. For the first time, those responsible for reporting on and driving sustainability within their organizations will have the ability to quantify the carbon impact of each Azure subscription over a period of time and data center region, and to see estimated carbon savings from running those workloads in Azure versus on-premises data centers. This data is crucial for reporting existing emissions and will help drive additional decarbonization efforts. For more information on cloud computing and sustainability, contact us today.

Read More...

Wednesday 4 August 2021

Greater Security

Greater security at lower cost with the expertise and power of Microsoft security solutions. Learn more about simplifying and fortifying with Microsoft security.

View: Greater Security

Cincinnati Children's makes tough times easier

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is well known for excellent care and its commitment to the well-being of the families it serves. To reduce strain for parents and make their lives easier, the hospital created the Caren mobile app using Microsoft Azure and Azure services. Parents turn to Caren for help navigating the hospital, getting answers to their questions, and entertaining their children. Using the app lets parents focus more on their families and less on stressful details.

Read More...

UFA modernizes vital retail and fueling solutions with SAP on Azure

The United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited (UFA) is a prominent agriculture Co-operative that supplies a variety of services and products to its customers. UFA hit a roadblock when its on-premises SAP infrastructure began slowing productivity and creating errors, so they approached Microsoft for help. UFA migrated their SAP to Microsoft Azure in just over a month, eliminating performance issues, reducing software implementation times, and gaining scalability.

Read More...

10 tips for enabling Zero Trust security

Getting to a Zero Trust model can take years of effort and require collaboration across the enterprise. If you are committed to deploying a Zero Trust model, or even if you're just considering it, here are 10 tips to help make your journey a bit smoother.

View: 10 tips for enabling Zero Trust security

Kennametal embraces Microsoft cloud strategy to drive business innovation

Kennametal has invested heavily in Microsoft cloud technologies as part of its digital transformation journey to reduce costs, increase productivity, and empower workers to deliver superior results for their customers. In this video, see how they utilize Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services to Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications to Microsoft 365 productivity, security, and mobility tools. Kennametal believes that Microsoft resources will help the company fulfill its business promises.

Read More...

Tuesday 3 August 2021

Fraud in the age of cybersecurity

In 2018, the World Economic Forum found that fraud and financial crime was a trillion-dollar industry-and it's still growing today. This thought leadership article highlights some startling statistics about the ubiquity of revenue loss from fraud and just how few businesses are fully protected against it.

Read More...

How strong identity management provides a foundation for 'Zero Trust' security

Zero Trust is a journey, not a destination. Moving from an access model based on implicit trust to a Zero Trust model based on explicit verification requires careful planning and time. This eBook outlines the critical steps in the journey to Zero Trust for your nonprofit.

View: How strong identity management provides a foundation for 'Zero Trust' security

Customer story: Mashreq Bank increases growth and market share through digital transformation

How does the oldest bank in the UAE stay relevant? According to Mashreq Bank, the secret is in their people and their culture of innovation. Modern tools like Dynamics 365 capture important customer data so sales reps can spend more time focused on their clients. Check out this video to learn more about how they are using technology to support their sales team.

The DevOps Imperative: Keep Up or Get Lost

When the software industry is moving faster than ever, security testing must keep up. The only way to sustain a high release cadence is to progress through the software development life cycle (SDLC) the right way the first time.

Read More...

Security Solution Play Sales Guidance

Digital security has become infinitely complex, as data grows increasingly more valuable every day and is harder to protect. This value prop deck outlines how Microsoft security solutions provides comprehensive protections against attacks for your customers, and how it keeps their information safe with a layered approach to secure corporate and customer data.

View: Security Solution Play Sales Guidance

Monday 2 August 2021

Transformation potential infographic

Microsoft has the tools, resources, and experience to help your business manage financial risk while fighting against fraud. This infographic visually represents potential vulnerabilities and explains how fraud detection serves to eliminate them.

View: Transformation potential infographic