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Save your business time and money, while enabling secure access to corporate resources from anywhere. NextGen Windows experiences are designed to make hybrid work, work. With features like vendor license cost consolidation, reduced device refresh costs, and savings on automation and process improvements, transitioning to NextGen Windows can transform every area of your business. We can help you do more with less. Let’s connect. Read More...

According to a June 2022 economic validation by Tech Target’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Windows 365 Cloud PCs can offer businesses significant savings and benefits. ESG found that Windows 365 can provide a potential annual revenue increase of up to $14,013 per user. The move to Windows 365 can also drive an overall annual benefit of up $7,271 per user for small businesses, and up to $6,765 per user for companies of 1,000 or more employees. And to support future growth, the shift to Windows 365 Cloud PCs can open new business opportunities. See how Windows 365 can save your business money when you sign up to say connected. Are you ready to do more with less? We can help. Read More...

While COVID-19 forced massive change – and many hiccups – for companies everywhere, the 2020 tax season went off without a hitch for UK-based accounting and tax firm Grant Thornton. That’s in large part due to its early bet on SaaS , Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. But Grant Thornton didn’t stop there. The accounting leader looked to push its desktop needs further into the cloud and accelerate a digital transformation to free up even more resources. Windows 365 was the answer, and it’s been a game changer. Read more, and then reach out. We can help you do more with less. Read More...

One of the world’s largest networks of professional service firms, Grant Thornton has 62,000-plus employees who work with clients in 130 countries.  Grant Thornton navigated a series of audits by using Windows 365 to create Cloud PCs that auditors could access using multifactor authentication, enabling reviews of relevant files in a safeguarded environment, from anywhere. Grant Thornton expects to save 500 billable hours by moving the review process to the cloud. And they’re also saving money on travel costs. Read more and let’s connect. We can help you do more with less.   Read More...

Run your nonprofit to the next level of productive, mission-driven success As your nonprofit works toward fulfilling its mission and achieving challenging goals, you also want to develop relationships and stay closely connected with donors, supporters, volunteers, external partners, and staff anywhere in the world. By adopting Microsoft Teams, you can use a single, highly usable software tool to have productive, enjoyable conversations and meetings with your communities, while taking advantage of extremely reliable and secure cloud technology. Read “ 10 tips to collaborate for remote and onsite work ” and see how you could transform your organization’s working culture with Microsoft Teams. Some highlights of what’s covered in the e-book: Run more participatory, exciting, and inclusive meetings Enable creative, real-time collaborations, and file sharing Host inspiring events and conferences for large numbers of participants around the globe Boost...

Microsoft partnering with the open-source community to collaborate on .NET Core proved a valuable learning opportunity for large-scale retooling of its development processes. Consolidating 80 different repositories with more than 800 contributors from inconsistent implementations to a shared toolset required a fresh DevOps approach and the flexibility of Azure Pipelines and its support for GitHub. The result: Developers can now move between repos without the need to learn a new CI system each time, and tests are more efficiently run which means iterations—and by extension, innovation—is quicker. Subscribe to stay connected and download the full white paper detailing how the .NET Engineering Services team helped improve developer productivity at scale. Read More...

Make hybrid work, work. The next generation of Windows experiences from Windows 11 and Windows 365 combines the power and security of the cloud with the versatility and simplicity of the PC. Powerful for employees, consistent for IT, and secure for all, the new Windows does it all. From online meetings to document sharing to remote device set-up, your teams can work confidently anywhere, protected by the most secure Windows yet. When you sign up for our mailing list, you’ll get even more information about how Windows 365 enables a variety of new scenarios for the new world of work, helping you do more with less. Let’s stay connected. Read More...

Schmitz Cargobull AG is Europe’s market leader in manufacturing refrigerated vehicles. Management knew that to fulfill their customers’ need to track vehicles and loads at all times required scaling up access to data from multiple databases to one location in the cloud—creating a “data lake.” With Microsoft Azure supported by Azure DevOps, these customers now have access to a portal where they can check the location and condition of each vehicle, regardless of where the underlying data lives. Such a solution would have been costly on-premises, but using Azure turnkey modules reduced time to market and the need for in-house tools Read More...

Our work lives today may be more flexible, but they’re also more complex. So it makes sense that businesses want seamless solutions that are streamlined across their IT infrastructure, and easy for their employees to use, helping businesses of all sizes do more with less. The next generation of Windows is built to accelerate digital transformation – for all kinds of businesses, no matter how their employees work. It’s hybrid Windows for a hybrid world. Reach out to us to learn more. Read More...

Boost nonprofit mission momentum by modernizing telephony Nonprofits use as much of their funds as possible to directly benefit their mission. Telephony is one area where you can significantly reduce your administrative overhead while improving internal and external communications. Instead of traditional technology that needs specialized equipment and management skills, you can take advantage of modern internet telephony. Your IT team or service provider can manage it by using the same skills they use to configure and run your productivity applications. You can probably save costs by consolidating services and putting your private branch exchange (PBX) and other equipment on the market. Forrester analysts explore the merits of internet telephony in a detailed report about the financial and operational impact of Microsoft Teams Calling. With this solution, they find that: 185 percent is the average ROI of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Mobile workers save 1.25 h...

For some companies, the idea of adopting open-source software doesn’t seem viable. There are many myths about open source, but the truth is that it can facilitate security, be easy to maintain and integrate, and scale to whatever heights you require. Sign up to stay connected on using Microsoft Azure DevOps with GitHub and Visual Studio, and we can help you unravel the myths and facts about open source. Read More...

In today’s business environment, when it comes to getting-- and staying -- ahead, nothing is more urgent than digital transformation.  At the 2022 Inspire conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted the difference between organizations that thrive and those that get left behind: “Every organization in every industry will need to infuse technology into every business process and function so that they can do more with less.” Read Satya Nadella’s keynote and learn about all the Microsoft technologies available to your business. Then contact us. We’re here to help you make hybrid work, work.  Read More...

Located in the northernmost region of Canada, Nunavut covers one-fifth of the country and stretches across three time zones.  Internet connectivity here is a lifeline to provide healthcare, education, housing, family, and financial and other services to their communities. They needed a secure and simple solution, with a familiar UI, that fit easily into their existing processes and support structure.  The solution? Windows 365. It’s saved money, reduced redundancies, and improved security – all at once.  Read more, and then reach out. We can help you do more with less.  Read More...

Realize progress toward nonprofit mission success by taking one single step Consider Microsoft Teams as your all-in-one communications and collaboration solution. It’s a cloud-based technology that’s extremely robust and secure. The screens look and feel like Microsoft 365 applications you may already use. With Teams, you can connect with anybody, anywhere, on practically any device. In one environment, you can have spontaneous or scheduled conversations where you can see people, work together on files, and workshop ideas. This can be far more productive and faster than using email. In Teams, you can host events and conferences for large groups of donors and community members around the globe. You’ll also be able to set up events to be highly interactive or more presentation-like, depending on what you want to accomplish. You can replace your traditional phone system with Teams Calling. Doing so enables voice communications that fully integrate with the Teams env...

What drives a self-driving car? A tremendous flood of data. To make Bertrandt’s Level 4 self-driving car project HARRI a reality, far too much data was needed than could be stored onboard the vehicle itself. It required Microsoft Azure Services to provide access to volumes of mapping data for an autonomous vehicle. Azure DevOps facilitated the efficient coordination of work between developers and ops —and the QA needed to develop such exacting software. Read More...

Today’s Windows experiences combine the power and security of the cloud with the versatility and simplicity of the PC, helping you do more with less. Powerful for employees, consistent for IT, and secure for all, the intuitive next-generation Windows does it all. From online meetings to document sharing to remote device set-up, your teams can work confidently anywhere, protected by the most secure Windows yet. Even better, you can reduce costs and simplify IT management. It’s hybrid work that works. Sign up for our mailing list to get more information about how Windows enables a variety of new scenarios. Let’s stay connected. Read More...