Monday 31 January 2022
Four key elements for building a successful hybrid workplace
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Investing in a CRM solution? Follow these 7 steps for a successful implementation.
For many organizations and their management teams, the mere mention of customer relationship management (CRM) inspires immediate apprehension. Far too numerous are the stories from companies across all industries about failed implementations, wasted money and time, and frustrated sales executives. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to a Forbes article entitled "Seven Steps For Successful CRM Implementation." In the article, author Marc Emmer asserts that past challenges with CRM implementation have little to do with technology, and more to do with the culture of the organization attempting to implement it. Read the full article to discover what Mr. Emmer feels are the seven keys to successfully deploying and utilizing CRM.
Zero-Touch Deployment: A cornerstone of modern device management
Don't deploy without your organization's security protocols in place. By leveraging features built into Windows 10, along with a variety of complementary cloud-based services and capabilities, Microsoft makes deployment simple. With "zero-touch," Surface devices go from factory-sealed to work-ready in a matter of minutes.
Learn how Zero-Touch deployment is a critical component of Microsoft's innovative approach to endpoint management across the entire device lifecycle.
Read the guide to learn more.
View: Zero-Touch Deployment: A cornerstone of modern device management
Microsoft makes it easier to get started with Windows Virtual Desktops
This blog outlines the latest Microsoft 365 updates that make life easier for the IT admins who help provision and manage corporate Windows and Mac machines.
Tuesday 25 January 2022
3 fundamentals for a successful hybrid cloud
Learn how to manage infrastructure more easily, innovate faster, and improve security using the hybrid cloud. Read this one-pager to get guidance on using three fundamentals to create your hybrid cloud strategy: networking, identity and access management, and security.
All You Need to Know About Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience, optimized for Office 365 ProPlus—which means you can deliver a virtual desktop experience and remote apps to any device with cost advantages previously only possible with server-based virtualization. This webcast gives you the inside look at Windows Virtual Desktop and how to use it in your organization.
Transform the customer journey with Dynamics 365 for Sales + Adobe Marketing Cloud
How do you differentiate yourself and stand out from your competitors? Delivering a more consistent, seamless, and personalized experience for customers is a great way to start--and an even better way to gain a competitive advantage by transforming the customer journey. View this infographic to discover how integrating Dynamics 365 applications with Adobe Marketing Cloud lets you leverage integrated tools and unified data to gain a 360-degree view of customers, orchestrate personalized campaigns, and deliver the right content, at the right time, at every touchpoint.
View: Transform the customer journey with Dynamics 365 for Sales + Adobe Marketing Cloud
Alaska Airlines makes shopping easier with faster flow of new e-commerce features
A great online shopping experience begins with great software. That's why Alaska Airlines uses Microsoft Azure and Windows Server Containers to launch new e-commerce features faster. Travelers get new offers sooner, which translates to happier customers and increased revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can scale more easily and ensure its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.
Microsoft Surface and Fortum | Transforming the Modern Workplace
Along with an external change of headquarters, Finland-based energy provider Fortum had a vision for a workplace transformation led by seamless group-collaboration tools. The company deployed Microsoft Surface Hub and Skype for Business Online, which harmonized with its sleek new office, modern workspaces, and commitment to employees' futures. Now people launch meetings in seconds with one click, participate in video calls with coworkers around the globe, and design products in real time on digital whiteboards.
Monday 24 January 2022
Secure from deployment to decommission
Don't deploy without your organization's security protocols in place. Reduce IT complexity and deploy straight to employees with your security protocols in place. By leveraging features built into Windows 10, along with a variety of complementary cloud-based services and capabilities, Microsoft makes deployment simple.
With "zero-touch," Microsoft Surface devices go from factory-sealed to work-ready in a matter of minutes. Keep data secure from a Surface device's first deployment to its last, no matter how many times and under what circumstances it changes hands.
Watch this video to learn how Zero-Touch deployment is a critical component of Microsoft's innovative approach to endpoint management across the entire device lifecycle.
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Wednesday 19 January 2022
Your digital transformation journey starts here. Subscribe now.
Where is your organization in its digital transformation journey--or are you still uncertain where and how to begin? Subscribe now to stay informed on how Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Teams can help jump start digital transformation for your business by centralizing communications, enhancing collaboration, and streamlining processes and workflow--ultimately boosting your productivity and increasing your competitiveness.
View: Your digital transformation journey starts here. Subscribe now.
Why choose Windows Virtual Desktop?
This infographic identifies the top six reasons to choose WVD: platform of your choice, Windows differentiation, enhanced protocol, containerized User Profiles, native Office 365 performance, and Teams enhancements.
Migrate Web Apps
This infographic details three simple ways to migrate web applications to Azure App Service. Bring your code, bring your container, or use the Migration Assistant tool.
Tuesday 18 January 2022
Modern Endpoint Management: Why 'built in' is better than 'bolt on'
Managing endpoint devices in today's enterprise is an increasingly complex—and often frustrating—activity. To address these ongoing challenges of the modern enterprise, IT teams need a modern approach to device management, one that seamlessly integrates all components, from the chip to the cloud.
Surface has been designed with built-in support for simplified modern management of the entire device lifecycle: before it's deployed, during its use, and after it's returned to be redeployed or retired.
Read this guide to learn more.
View: Modern Endpoint Management: Why 'built in' is better than 'bolt on'
Building Intelligent Cloud Applications
This eBook provides a step-by-step guide for building and deploying scalable deep learning and machine learning models using serverless architectures with Azure. Learn to code machine learning into your projects using Python and pre-trained models that include image and speech recognition and classification. Explore issues around deployment and continuous delivery, including scaling, security, and monitoring.
Surface makes deployment simple
Supporting our customers during COVID-19
This whitepaper addresses the question of how IT infrastructure is being stretched due to COVID-19 and outlines what Azure features and services can help in the current situation.
Digital transformation helps REGINA MARIA deliver better customer care and healthier business processes
REGINA MARIA is the leading provider of private healthcare services in Romania, with three internationally accredited hospitals, 45 of its own clinics, 5,500 employees, and an extensive partner network comprising almost 300 other institutions. The organization is already far along the path toward digital transformation and prides itself on being the most digital healthcare company in Romania, but it's always looking for ways to further expand its digital capabilities and utilize technology to help its patients as well as its business. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales and Microsoft Teams provided just such an opportunity--including a new virtual assistant in Teams named "Ana" that has helped reduce approval processes for managers from days and weeks down to hours and minutes. Watch this video to learn how key Microsoft technologies have enabled REGINA MARIA to not only greatly improve customer experiences, but also vastly improve business processes, resulting in 20 percent better database accuracy and 50 percent faster complaint resolution.
Monday 17 January 2022
Azure helps companies power their hybrid cloud migration
The hybrid capabilities from Microsoft Azure fuel innovation and delivers great business outcomes to companies such as, J.B. Hunt, KPMG, Allscripts, and Chevron. By meeting them where they are, Microsoft improves the cloud migration experience and helps companies reduce overall costs. Watch to learn how these Fortune 500 companies used Microsoft Azure to power their hybrid cloud strategies and move their businesses forward.
A modern blueprint for endpoint protection
With 64% of organizations experiencing one or more endpoint attacks that compromised data or IT infrastructure, security teams understand the urgent need to modernize endpoint security methods. Subscribe to explore the options of strengthening security at the device level.
Wednesday 12 January 2022
The 5 Habits Of Successful Sales Leaders
If you distilled the best practice for sales leaders, what would it look like?
Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx has complied his 5 top habits for sales managers to foster a top sales team. Learn how he sees your role as coach, how to give feedback and more!
Next, use Dynamics 365 to optimize your team's productivity by automating routine tasks and embedding familiar tools such as LinkedIn, Outlook, Excel etc. right into your sales process. Couldn't be easier! Great sales managers develop 5 habits to engage their team members.
Microsoft Azure cloud migration: 3 success stories
Learn from three Microsoft customer success stories to understand how to make a valid business plan for your cloud migration. This article describes each way J.B. Hunt, H&R Block, and A.P. Moller - Maersk are using Microsoft to move their applications and systems to Azure.
Empower employees for secure remote working with Windows Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktops are not new, but the need for improved user experience and cost savings spurred innovation with Windows Virtual Desktop on the Azure platform. Access this article to learn why you'll have increased infrastructure resiliency, scalability, and reduced costs when you migrate on-premise servers to Azure.
Tuesday 11 January 2022
Productivity: Increasing productivity with Microsoft 365 + Microsoft Surface
Lower your total cost of ownership and make faster decisions with the combination of Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Surface devices.
View: Productivity: Increasing productivity with Microsoft 365 + Microsoft Surface
Windows Virtual Desktop Essentials | Intro and full tour
If your organization is looking for a more efficient, productive, and secure approach to desktop virtualization, this video will walk you through the full solution.
Windows Virtual Desktop offers a fully managed desktop virtualization solution in the cloud that works with all your apps and devices. Play the full video to find out why and how to implement desktop virtualization at your organization.
Give IT peace of mind with Surface Laptop Go
Transform interactions with Microsoft Dynamics 365!
Real time insights and embedded intelligence transform your customer interactions. Understand the impact of the buyer's journey. Target the right audience with dynamic segmentation. Bring together insights from multiple channels to give you unmatched advantage! Transform your selling with Microsoft Dynamics 365!
Descartes migrates to Azure SQL Database for growth and flexibility
Discover how Descartes, a global leader in logistics and supply chain solutions, helps keep goods flowing smoothly for businesses. Descartes wanted to move its MacroPoint solution to the public cloud to provide greater flexibility for customers and to focus internal resources on extending product value. After choosing Microsoft Azure as its preferred platform, the company successfully migrated the solution to Azure SQL Database.
Monday 10 January 2022
Microsoft Surface - Productive, Powerful, Protected
With today's cyber-threat environment, cutting-edge security is critical. Surface was built to be a revolutionary on its performance and versatility, and Surface is one of the top devices in the security landscape. We know you need to empower your team to be their best without compromising security. Get to know Surface, and rest assured that your team's mobility and creativity are backed by best-in-class security.
Security and Windows Virtual Desktop
This infographic outlines the security and Windows Virtual Desktop benefits:
Identity and access
Network security
Data protection
Data privacy
Threat defense
Compliance programs and certifications
Leverage this infographic to help articulate the value of Windows Virtual Desktop.
Thursday 6 January 2022
Use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service
With Modernize .NET, use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service.
Wednesday 5 January 2022
6 Strategies to boost sales productivity: A guide to modernizing your growing business
This guide will give you six strategies for meeting your sales challenges. You'll get tips on how to meet customers at any point in the possibly non-linear journey, implement seamless solutions, ease onboarding and alignment, and get holistic performance insights.
92% of sales organizations rank sales engagement platforms as critical to their success.(1) You can help your customers make this critical move and find a solution that scales with their business--Dynamics 365.
(1) Craig Rosenberg, "Sales Engagement - the Definitive Guide," TOPO, accessed January 15, 2019
View: 6 Strategies to boost sales productivity: A guide to modernizing your growing business
Set your team up for success by providing a platform for collaboration
Cutting-edge Microsoft Surface devices enable unparalleled collaboration, innovation, and creativity. Securely connect your workforce in the office, from the classroom, or on the go. Subscribe now!
View: Set your team up for success by providing a platform for collaboration
A Modern Blueprint for Endpoint Security
It's more important than ever to protect your organization's endpoint devices, securing data and systems wherever they are. With built-in protection at every layer, Microsoft Surface implements every standard for a highly secure Windows 10 device. Learn how today's IT and security teams are working proactively to move mobile device management into the cloud.
Read the guide: A Modern Blueprint for Endpoint Protection
Migration strategies
This infographic outlines the 4 different strategies available to migrate your apps to Microsoft: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or rebuild.
How the Surface Hub transforms traditional communication at Carhartt
Whether it's working alongside a supplier or maintaining relationships with a national retailer, Carhartt continues to drive efficiency by making smarter decisions and building stronger partnerships using Surface Hub and Power BI. With Microsoft technology, the Carhartt leadership team streamlined its telecommunication expenses, forged new productivity solutions, and refined its analytics model.
Tuesday 4 January 2022
How-to videos about Windows Virtual Desktop
Watch these short videos to get up and running with Windows Virtual Desktop. Eight videos each with a specific How-to in their titles—watch them all or only the ones you need.
Surface for Business delivers defense in depth
New Belgium Brewery and Microsoft Dynamics - The CRM Story
"We have fun. We make fun. We share fun. The future is bright," that's what we heard from the New Belgium Brewing Company. What's CRM powers all this fun? Microsoft Dynamics 365, of course!
"Technology now is a natural extension of how we do our job. And that tech must fit into the experience that we're trying to give to our co-workers and our customers," the brewer says. In this video, discover how Dynamics helps New Belgium Brewing discover the best path to reaching each and every buyer and engaging with personalized content.
Azure Migrate: The hub for cloud migration
In this video, you'll learn about Azure Migrate, Microsoft Azure's central hub for datacenter cloud migration. Azure Migrate helps you discover, assess, and migrate workloads to Azure with integrated first and third-party tools.
Microsoft Suffolk Construction Customer Story
Suffolk Construction delivers innovation at their construction sites with Microsoft technology. Users interact with Surface Hubs in ways that are most natural and intuitive to enable efficiency and collaboration.
Monday 3 January 2022
QuickStart guide to Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It's the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes and get built-in security and compliance features.
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