Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Microsoft Viva. Viva is an employee experience platform that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere.
Viva brings together communications, insights, knowledge, and learning within the flow of everyday work and collaboration, in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is where most remote and hybrid work happens these days. And, Teams has become a hub where we can bring all these resources together into an integrated system of engagement – what Gartner calls a new work nucleus or digital workplace hub.
Importantly, with Microsoft 365 we already have foundational capabilities in each of these areas like Yammer, SharePoint, Stream, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft Search, LinkedIn, Glint and more.
Microsoft Viva builds on this foundation by adding innovative new services and insights focused on people development and success.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Learn about Microsoft Viva product features and the Employee Experience platform
date: February 10, 2021
#Microsoft365 #Toronto Collaboration user group
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Microsoft Viva Essential in 45 minutes - Collabdays Bletchley 2022Chirag Patel
Delivered in-person at Collabdays Bletchley Park conference on 05 October 2022.
Want to unlock more value from your existing Microsoft 365 services such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Exchange and more? Microsoft Viva helps us to empower employee experiences and searching across various content services. This demo packed session will explore how to best design & implement your Microsoft Viva covering all modules such as Viva Connections, Viva Topics, Viva Insights and Viva Learning, Viva Goals and Viva Engage.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Viva Topics brings advanced content services solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 environment. If you are struggling with content or knowledge management, deploying Viva Topics could help your employee's experience for finding content and people.
In this session we will go through what Viva Topics is, how it works, and how to effectively deploy it in your organization.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams is Here! Presented by Avanade, AvePoint and Microsoft.Dux Raymond Sy
Just announced, Christophe Fiessenger, Program Manager for Office 365 Groups at Microsoft and AvePoint present a new webinar on Office 365 Groups! Register now: http://avept.it/2gIdgZF
By definition, Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 designed for teams of colleagues to collaborate. By design, Microsoft Teams is poised to change the way every individual in your organization works together – from Millennials to Baby Boomers.
Our panel of subject matter experts and MVPs, from AvePoint, Avanade, and Microsoft, discussed:
What is Microsoft Teams and what can it do for my organization?
What are the benefits of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
What are the considerations of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
How do I provide guidance (and governance) for my end users when rolling out Microsoft Teams alongside Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and everything else in their collaboration toolkit?
By the end of our webinar, we hope to have brought clarity about he impact Microsoft Teams can have on your organization and how adopting this upcoming addition to Office 365 can ensure your multi-generational teams are collaborating and communicating effectively.
Microsoft Viva. Viva is an employee experience platform that empowers people and teams to be their best, from anywhere.
Viva brings together communications, insights, knowledge, and learning within the flow of everyday work and collaboration, in Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is where most remote and hybrid work happens these days. And, Teams has become a hub where we can bring all these resources together into an integrated system of engagement – what Gartner calls a new work nucleus or digital workplace hub.
Importantly, with Microsoft 365 we already have foundational capabilities in each of these areas like Yammer, SharePoint, Stream, Workplace Analytics, Microsoft Search, LinkedIn, Glint and more.
Microsoft Viva builds on this foundation by adding innovative new services and insights focused on people development and success.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Learn about Microsoft Viva product features and the Employee Experience platform
date: February 10, 2021
#Microsoft365 #Toronto Collaboration user group
Microsoft Viva Connections
A curated, company-branded experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in the apps and devices you use every day. Viva Connections is included in all Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online.
Create connection
Encourage meaningful connections across the organization in a hybrid workplace.
Drive alignment
Rally the entire organization around your vision, mission, and strategic priorities.
Empower contribution
Foster a culture of inclusion by empowering every employee to contribute ideas and share feedback.
Built on Microsoft 365
Deploy and manage Viva Connections through your existing infrastructure.
Microsoft Viva Essential in 45 minutes - Collabdays Bletchley 2022Chirag Patel
Delivered in-person at Collabdays Bletchley Park conference on 05 October 2022.
Want to unlock more value from your existing Microsoft 365 services such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Exchange and more? Microsoft Viva helps us to empower employee experiences and searching across various content services. This demo packed session will explore how to best design & implement your Microsoft Viva covering all modules such as Viva Connections, Viva Topics, Viva Insights and Viva Learning, Viva Goals and Viva Engage.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Viva Topics brings advanced content services solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 environment. If you are struggling with content or knowledge management, deploying Viva Topics could help your employee's experience for finding content and people.
In this session we will go through what Viva Topics is, how it works, and how to effectively deploy it in your organization.
Webinar: Microsoft Teams is Here! Presented by Avanade, AvePoint and Microsoft.Dux Raymond Sy
Just announced, Christophe Fiessenger, Program Manager for Office 365 Groups at Microsoft and AvePoint present a new webinar on Office 365 Groups! Register now: http://avept.it/2gIdgZF
By definition, Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365 designed for teams of colleagues to collaborate. By design, Microsoft Teams is poised to change the way every individual in your organization works together – from Millennials to Baby Boomers.
Our panel of subject matter experts and MVPs, from AvePoint, Avanade, and Microsoft, discussed:
What is Microsoft Teams and what can it do for my organization?
What are the benefits of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
What are the considerations of introducing Microsoft Teams to my end users?
How do I provide guidance (and governance) for my end users when rolling out Microsoft Teams alongside Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and everything else in their collaboration toolkit?
By the end of our webinar, we hope to have brought clarity about he impact Microsoft Teams can have on your organization and how adopting this upcoming addition to Office 365 can ensure your multi-generational teams are collaborating and communicating effectively.
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft VivaRichard Harbridge
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Deep Dive Microsoft Viva Insights - Collabdays Bletchley Park 2023Chirag Patel
Delivered session at Collabdays Bletchley Park 2023 conference on 27 September 2023 at The National Museum of Computing.
For all the business systems in your workplace you can measure and track its successes, but which system enables you to measure employees wellbeing and productivity? In this demo session, we dive into Viva Insights, understand your work habits, identify areas for improvement, and take actions to free up time from costly, non-productive meetings to get your work done. We will also cover how managers and leaders can increase operational efficiency to achieve productivity gains across your organisation.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
Introduction to Microsoft Viva and the Employee Experience Platform with Joel...Joel Oleson
Microsoft announced Viva in February 2021, it is a movement toward employee experience that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced primarily through Microsoft Teams. Viva fosters a culture where people and teams are empowered to be their best from anywhere. Viva itself has four main components: – Viva Connections – as the enabler for plugging your SharePoint Intranet into Teams formerly known as Teams Home Site App. – Viva Topics – one of the products from the Project Cortex initiative. It is focused on connecting knowledge and experts. – Viva Insights – delivers focus on employee engagement with consideration for health and wellbeing. – Viva Learning is an aggregation of your skilling across the enterprise with LMS platform integration and just-in-time delivery in the your Teams. We’ll dive into each of these tools and help you better understand availability, licensing, and enterprise positioning and roadmap. Audience: Marketing, Communications, HR IT, IT Managers, Directors, Microsoft 365 Admins, and Teams Administrators Level: 100 & 200 : Introduction and Assumes Basic Microsoft Teams Experience
It's always been a dilemma -- do you invest in servers, licenses and people to set up and maintain a fully controllable SharePoint infrastructure in-house, or is it time to explore hosting SharePoint off-premise? Legal IT professionals have been struggling with this decision for years.
The on-premise option offers peace of mind from a security and controllability standpoint, but comes saddled with high costs, a demand for resources and limited scalability. SharePoint Online, on the other hand, alleviates the burden associated with SharePoint on-premise by removing the need for servers, software licenses and personnel, and can be rolled out to a large pool of people virtually overnight. However, you'll still need support for integration projects. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of each option and give you recommendations based on our experiences, deployments and feedback.
Speakers:
Ted Theodoropoulos, as the founder and President of Acrowire, combines his interest in technology with his passion to improve the business productivity of entrepreneurs and corporations. He has a background in technology going back to the early 1980s and is an expert at reducing the cost of doing business by identifying process inefficiencies and implementing the right technology solution to bridge the gap. Ted has earned Six Sigma Green and Black Belt certifications, and his Green Belt work led to a United States patent for which he was recognized with the 2007 Best of Six Sigma Award. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Certified Scrum Master. Contact Ted at ted@acrowire.com.
Brian Gough, a Solutions Architect at Acrowire, offers a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working with SharePoint since version 2003, and has set up more than 50 farms and over 200 sites in nine languages. Brian has twice been recognized by Microsoft and his peers as a SharePoint MVP for his contributions to the SharePoint community and knowledge of the product. He has taught classes in SharePoint development and given numerous speeches and presentations around the country on a variety of SharePoint topics. Contact Brian at bgough@acrowire.com.
You may have heard of Microsoft Viva, two of the four Viva products have shipped, but many are still confused about how it fits in with Microsoft’s initiatives. Did you know Viva is entirely built on Teams?
Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history with over 150 million active daily users. The Microsoft Viva product lines are the killer apps for “Teams as a Platform”.
In this information webinar, we will help you understand the Teams platform investment as Microsoft’s modern workplace, digital transformation to cloud innovation, and show you how Microsoft is taking their own advice in building solutions to empower, and engage, employees.
With the collision of communication and collaboration, it’s time to catch up on how the World has changed and “Teams as a Platform”, with killer apps, has engaged the enterprise, business teams, and personal productivity.
In this informative webinar, you will learn the following:
Understand how Microsoft Viva fits into Teams as a Platform. See how Viva Connections provides the plumbing for next generation intranets, global navigation, and hubs.
Experience Modern Teamwork, enhanced by governance, and discovery, through the Valo Solutions Collaboration Stack and the Valo Productivity Stack.
See Viva in context, for clear examples, of employee engagement and employee experience systems.
Follow the latest Microsoft Directions and see the updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
See “Teams as a Platform” in action using the rich Valo Solutions to extend how you get to the places where you work and the people you work with.
We work with more people today than ever before. The scale, speed, and sprawl that collaboration requires are some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Today’s collaboration needs are dynamic and varied, from complex collaboration portals to small innovation teams. How can an organization succeed in enabling collaboration while mitigating or reducing the risks that come with it? How do we design and empower the right experiences to enable a new kind of compliant collaboration that is needed to meet future demands, all while leveraging the latest innovations from Microsoft collaboration platform Loop to Microsoft Viva.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, in partnership with Colligo, as he shares insight on how to better plan, design, integrate and enhance collaboration within your organization. Hear proven approaches from tackling and managing Teams, SharePoint, and Community sprawl to enabling improved employee experiences that bring collaboration, process, and more directly into the places people already work like Microsoft Teams and Outlook today. Be inspired by actionable advice and solutions that maximize the power of metadata and integrate into the flow of work so that collaborated content is automatically (by default) protected, retained, categorized, and managed.
In this session you will hear:
Why compliant collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a crucial role in creating the foundation for sustainable, scalable, and responsible collaboration that keeps pace with significant marketplace innovation.
Real-life industry examples of what it takes to make effective collaboration possible.
Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better outcomes for your teams.
See examples of Microsoft Office collaboration software and powerful solutions from the community and specialist vendors like Colligo for solving real challenges around collaboration and content today.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
Piloting & Scaling Successfully With Microsoft VivaRichard Harbridge
Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow
There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.
Deep Dive Microsoft Viva Insights - Collabdays Bletchley Park 2023Chirag Patel
Delivered session at Collabdays Bletchley Park 2023 conference on 27 September 2023 at The National Museum of Computing.
For all the business systems in your workplace you can measure and track its successes, but which system enables you to measure employees wellbeing and productivity? In this demo session, we dive into Viva Insights, understand your work habits, identify areas for improvement, and take actions to free up time from costly, non-productive meetings to get your work done. We will also cover how managers and leaders can increase operational efficiency to achieve productivity gains across your organisation.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
Introduction to Microsoft Viva and the Employee Experience Platform with Joel...Joel Oleson
Microsoft announced Viva in February 2021, it is a movement toward employee experience that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced primarily through Microsoft Teams. Viva fosters a culture where people and teams are empowered to be their best from anywhere. Viva itself has four main components: – Viva Connections – as the enabler for plugging your SharePoint Intranet into Teams formerly known as Teams Home Site App. – Viva Topics – one of the products from the Project Cortex initiative. It is focused on connecting knowledge and experts. – Viva Insights – delivers focus on employee engagement with consideration for health and wellbeing. – Viva Learning is an aggregation of your skilling across the enterprise with LMS platform integration and just-in-time delivery in the your Teams. We’ll dive into each of these tools and help you better understand availability, licensing, and enterprise positioning and roadmap. Audience: Marketing, Communications, HR IT, IT Managers, Directors, Microsoft 365 Admins, and Teams Administrators Level: 100 & 200 : Introduction and Assumes Basic Microsoft Teams Experience
It's always been a dilemma -- do you invest in servers, licenses and people to set up and maintain a fully controllable SharePoint infrastructure in-house, or is it time to explore hosting SharePoint off-premise? Legal IT professionals have been struggling with this decision for years.
The on-premise option offers peace of mind from a security and controllability standpoint, but comes saddled with high costs, a demand for resources and limited scalability. SharePoint Online, on the other hand, alleviates the burden associated with SharePoint on-premise by removing the need for servers, software licenses and personnel, and can be rolled out to a large pool of people virtually overnight. However, you'll still need support for integration projects. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of each option and give you recommendations based on our experiences, deployments and feedback.
Speakers:
Ted Theodoropoulos, as the founder and President of Acrowire, combines his interest in technology with his passion to improve the business productivity of entrepreneurs and corporations. He has a background in technology going back to the early 1980s and is an expert at reducing the cost of doing business by identifying process inefficiencies and implementing the right technology solution to bridge the gap. Ted has earned Six Sigma Green and Black Belt certifications, and his Green Belt work led to a United States patent for which he was recognized with the 2007 Best of Six Sigma Award. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Certified Scrum Master. Contact Ted at ted@acrowire.com.
Brian Gough, a Solutions Architect at Acrowire, offers a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working with SharePoint since version 2003, and has set up more than 50 farms and over 200 sites in nine languages. Brian has twice been recognized by Microsoft and his peers as a SharePoint MVP for his contributions to the SharePoint community and knowledge of the product. He has taught classes in SharePoint development and given numerous speeches and presentations around the country on a variety of SharePoint topics. Contact Brian at bgough@acrowire.com.
You may have heard of Microsoft Viva, two of the four Viva products have shipped, but many are still confused about how it fits in with Microsoft’s initiatives. Did you know Viva is entirely built on Teams?
Teams is the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history with over 150 million active daily users. The Microsoft Viva product lines are the killer apps for “Teams as a Platform”.
In this information webinar, we will help you understand the Teams platform investment as Microsoft’s modern workplace, digital transformation to cloud innovation, and show you how Microsoft is taking their own advice in building solutions to empower, and engage, employees.
With the collision of communication and collaboration, it’s time to catch up on how the World has changed and “Teams as a Platform”, with killer apps, has engaged the enterprise, business teams, and personal productivity.
In this informative webinar, you will learn the following:
Understand how Microsoft Viva fits into Teams as a Platform. See how Viva Connections provides the plumbing for next generation intranets, global navigation, and hubs.
Experience Modern Teamwork, enhanced by governance, and discovery, through the Valo Solutions Collaboration Stack and the Valo Productivity Stack.
See Viva in context, for clear examples, of employee engagement and employee experience systems.
Follow the latest Microsoft Directions and see the updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
See “Teams as a Platform” in action using the rich Valo Solutions to extend how you get to the places where you work and the people you work with.
We work with more people today than ever before. The scale, speed, and sprawl that collaboration requires are some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Today’s collaboration needs are dynamic and varied, from complex collaboration portals to small innovation teams. How can an organization succeed in enabling collaboration while mitigating or reducing the risks that come with it? How do we design and empower the right experiences to enable a new kind of compliant collaboration that is needed to meet future demands, all while leveraging the latest innovations from Microsoft collaboration platform Loop to Microsoft Viva.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, in partnership with Colligo, as he shares insight on how to better plan, design, integrate and enhance collaboration within your organization. Hear proven approaches from tackling and managing Teams, SharePoint, and Community sprawl to enabling improved employee experiences that bring collaboration, process, and more directly into the places people already work like Microsoft Teams and Outlook today. Be inspired by actionable advice and solutions that maximize the power of metadata and integrate into the flow of work so that collaborated content is automatically (by default) protected, retained, categorized, and managed.
In this session you will hear:
Why compliant collaboration is essential to future-ready digital design, and how you can play a crucial role in creating the foundation for sustainable, scalable, and responsible collaboration that keeps pace with significant marketplace innovation.
Real-life industry examples of what it takes to make effective collaboration possible.
Practical techniques you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better outcomes for your teams.
See examples of Microsoft Office collaboration software and powerful solutions from the community and specialist vendors like Colligo for solving real challenges around collaboration and content today.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
To develop an Agile Learning organization a learning strategy needs to be in place. This presentation shows how to develop a strategy and a roadmap on 3 workshops.
This is simply e-learning for dummies. This presentation focuses on how each mode of training delivery, From Classroom to Multimedia modules, can be used effectively to support Learning Strategy
Determining the Effectiveness of Your Faculty Development ProgramTanya Joosten
Date: March 17, 2014
Time: 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET (UTC-4) convert to your time zone; Runs three hours.
Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz will moderate this online seminar with Tanya Joosten, Dylan Barth, and Nicole Weber from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
As the demand for blended and online learning opportunities increases, so does the need to ensure the quality of online education through faculty development programming. And with the increase in the diffusion of blended and online programming across higher education institutions, stakeholders are looking for ways to ensure the quality of the student experience and better understand the impact on student outcomes. Recently, many of us have been asked to provide evidence of the effectiveness of our faculty development programming: administrators are looking for a return on investment in faculty development to ensure quality in blended and online programming, as we are seeing decreases in state funding and enrollments, which leads to cut budgets. In order to for us to determine the effectiveness of our programming using a backwards design approach, we need to first understand what is a good online or blended course as well as what competencies are required of faculty to teach blended and online courses and how those can be best facilitated in a faculty development program. Then we can consider how to evaluate the impact on student outcomes.
This workshop will offer a collaborative and interactive opportunity to connect with colleagues to consider and construct how the effectiveness of faculty development programming can be determined and disseminated. A model of evaluation for a faculty development program will be shared.
Learning Objectives
By actively participating in this seminar, attendees will be able to:
Identify the characteristics of a good blended and online course, including the pedagogical model
Determine what elements and formats should be considered in designing a faculty development program
Share strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of your faculty development program at the course, program, and institutional levels from multiple perspectives, including students, colleagues, researchers, and administration
Understand how these steps fit into a model of evaluation for learning technologies and pedagogical innovation
LMS - A Pillar of Educational Technology by Suja AlbertSujaAlbert
With the growing use of online learning platforms and LMS to impart education, how can you get the most out of an LMS as educators/learning designers? Take a look at this infographic on Learning Management Systems (LMS) - A Pillar of Educational Technology by Suja Albert.
A Blended Approach to Effective LearningAims Digital
In this webinar A Blended Approach to Effective Learning we will examine Blended Learning and how it is implemented in today's complex learning world. We are fortunate to work in an environment where there are many choices for learning.
Agylia offers a fully integrated CPD and Learning Management System with advanced mobile Apps, which can be fully configured to meet your unique needs ; to help drive member engagement, retention & growth, reduce operating costs and support incremental revenue streams.
Staff Training: Get More From Your Staff Via e-Learning Webanywhere Ltd
This guide, From Training to Twitter: The social evolution of e-learning, looks at how e-learning is changing the way staff are educated in the workplace.
Moving to online instruction (for dummies)نسمة منصور
This is a summary of quick research I did (not at all comprehensive or sufficient) for shifting from face to face learning to online learning due to the current crisis. You can use it as an intro if you have no to low idea about online learning and instructional design.
Microsoft Teams Phone
Stay connected with voice and video calling using Microsoft Teams Phone on your computer, tablet, mobile device, or desk phone.
Stay connected with a modern calling solution
Make and receive voice and video calls directly in Microsoft Teams. Stay in touch and get more done anywhere.
Calling in the flow of work
Work smarter with an all-in-one app that brings together calling, chat, meetings, and collaboration.
Business-critical calling
Use built-in, innovative, and AI-powered calling experiences and integrated partner software solutions.
Devices for any calling scenario
Benefit from a wide portfolio of devices for any business need and get flexible financing options.
Simple set up and management
Easily add, monitor, and manage voice and video calling from the Teams admin center.
Microsoft Teams Phone with Calling Plan includes:
Cloud-based phone system with advanced features including call transfer, multilevel auto attendants, and call queues.
A domestic calling plan with 3,000 minutes2 per user, per month within the US and Canada.
Call from anywhere, on any device through the Microsoft Teams app on desktop, mobile, web, and desk phones.
Around-the-clock customer support seven days a week, backed by Microsoft.
Teams Phone with Calling Plan requires a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Whats New in Microsoft Teams Hybrid Meetings November 2021David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams
Built for hybrid work
Feel seen and heard no matter where you are and do your best work, your way.
Empower people and teams in a hybrid work world
Flexible work is here to stay, and embracing it is critical to your future success. The latest tools from Microsoft empower hybrid work environments and enable flexible work beyond organizational boundaries.
Protect your hybrid workforce across the attack chainDavid J Rosenthal
Security is one of the most important considerations for SMBs. In fact, 77% of SMBs in a recent survey consider security a top feature when purchasing new PCs.1
Last year alone, 67% of SMBs experienced a security breach that cost, on average, 3.3% of their revenue.1 That’s a big risk to both profitability and reputation, and it shows how critical strong security protections are for businesses.
The good news is that 69% of SMBs in a recent survey agreed that new Windows 10 Pro devices offered better security and data protection than older devices.1
Research shows that modern devices help business owners by preventing identity attacks, minimizing phishing, and reducing the risk of malware attacks. These are all common ways that bad actors steal business data, steal personal information, or hold our devices hostage in exchange for huge amounts of ransom money.
And with modern PCs, most security functions can happen in the cloud, without interrupting worker productivity.
Connections is a company branded employee app in Teams. It is a gateway to your employee experience, with personalized news, communications, tasks, people and resources. It provides a single curated employee destination that can be configured for specific roles like frontline workers. So, leaders can communicate and engage their employees, and employees can get easy access to the tools and resources they need from one place.. Connections builds on existing capabilities in Microsoft 365 like SharePoint and Yammer. And it pulls your communications together into a pre-configured app in Teams, designed for both desktop and mobile workers. It also acts as a launching pad to the other 3 Viva modules
Insights brings together Workplace Analytics, MyAnalytics and Glint into a unified insights app in Teams to provide data-driven and privacy-protected insights for individuals, managers and leaders. For example, employees get personalized insights, only they can see, that help them protect their time for breaks, focused work, and learning in order to promote improved productivity and wellbeing.
Topics focuses on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organize them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. And these topic pages are surfaced as Topic Cards right in the flow of work in Office and Teams.
Finally, Learning allows employees to easily discover informal and formal learning in the flow of work. It aggregates content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and 3rd party training content and your own organizations content – all in one place. Along with providing aggregation and recommendations, it also allows managers to assign and track training, as well as report on training within and across teams.
Our end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure is built on a foundation of security and privacy and helps every organization in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line.
Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services. Easily organize, govern, and secure Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Architect, design, and build cloud-native apps anywhere without sacrificing central visibility and control. Get Azure innovation and cloud benefits by deploying consistent Azure data, application, and machine learning services on any infrastructure.
Gain central visibility, operations, and compliance
Centrally manage a wide range of resources including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters, and Azure services.
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure, and data with Azure Policy.
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse.
Organize and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and tags.
Learn more about hybrid and multicloud management in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
Windows Server 2022 is now in preview, the next release in our Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), which will be generally available later this calendar year. It builds on Windows Server 2019, our fastest adopted Windows Server ever. This release includes advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Windows 365 also creates a new hybrid personal computing category called Cloud PC, which uses both the power of the cloud and the capabilities of the device to provide a full, personalized Windows experience. This new Windows experience comes as organizations around the world grapple with the best ways to facilitate hybrid work models where employees are both on-site and distributed across the globe.
The Windows 365 Cloud PC experience is:
Versatile, familiar and productive by delivering users their personalized content, settings, and applications
Simple to deploy and manage from a single console, easy for anyone to use
Secure by design, leaving no data on the device
Available on any device and optimized for the best experience on a Windows PC at a predictable price
And lastly, it’s scalable and resilient to support changing workforce needs and new business scenarios
Designed for hybrid work
Productive
Improve employee productivity and focus with a simple, powerful user experience.
Collaborative
Discover a smarter way to collaborate with Microsoft Teams integration.
Secure
Protect data and secure access with a Zero Trust-ready operating system.
Consistent
Make adoption easy with app compatibility and cloud management.
Productive and collaborative
Reach your individual and team goals with built-in assistance features in Windows 11.
Simple, modern visuals
Snap assist
Personalized widgets
Intelligent video conferencing
Share a window while presenting
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
The Microsoft Teams call and chat function in the taskbar of Windows 11.
Meet now in Microsoft Teams
Connect with anyone on any platform with fast, easy-to-use calling and chat right from the taskbar.
The most secure Windows yet
Increase security with hardware-based integrity protection in Windows 11, from the silicon to the cloud.
Go passwordless
Get secure, multifactor single sign-on from devices to the cloud and apps with Windows Hello for Business.
Perfect for remote work
Ship employees a corporate-owned device secured by company policy and easily provisioned by them.
Microsoft Scheduler for M365 - Personal Digital AssistantDavid J Rosenthal
An assistant for everyone
Enjoy the speed of a virtual assistant augmented with human understanding.
Easy scheduling
Save time by handing off the time-consuming task of scheduling using your own words.
Works 24/7
Request a meeting at any time. Cortana works around the clock even when you are offline or busy.
You control your data
Scheduler works within your Microsoft 365 compliance boundaries and keeps the data inside your organization. You control your data.
Smart technology with human assistance
Increased reliability that will always complete your request by using human assistance to resolve ambiguities and context.
Grows with your needs
Available 24/7 and capable of handling thousands of requests at the same time.
What is New in Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms July 2021David J Rosenthal
Chat
Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages.
Instant messaging
Meet
Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 2 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in.
Online meetings
Call
Make and receive calls with internal and external groups using Microsoft Teams Phone, Operator Connect, or Direct Routing.
Voice calling
Collaborate
Easily find, share, and edit files in real time using familiar apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in Teams.
Video conferencing
Make meetings more personal and increase your productivity by collaborating in real time.
Screen sharing
Keep everyone on the same page by sharing your screen so they can see the same content.
Custom backgrounds
Create the perfect virtual setting by choosing, uploading, or blurring your background.
Together mode
Digitally sit in a shared background, making it feel like you’re in the same room with everyone else.1
File sharing
Co-author files in real time. Securely store, access, share, and collaborate on files from anywhere.
Apps and workflows
Streamline tasks and critical business processes by integrating apps and workflows.
Market availability
Available in 53 languages and 181 markets. Connect across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Privacy and security
Meet regulatory, legal, and organizational needs with industry-leading compliance offerings.
The Java ecosystem is very broad, with different technologies including Java SE, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Spring, numerous application servers, and other frameworks. Wherever you are in Java, Azure supports your workload and process with an abundance of choice – from IaaS to fully managed services. You can run any application architecture, from monoliths, to containerized monoliths, all the way to completely microservices based apps.
We see three broad patterns for running Java applications in the cloud, depending on how much control or productivity you need.
The first is lift and shift with Virtual Machines:
Virtual machines provide the most flexibility, control and visibility while moving to the cloud, especially for initial lift and shift of Java workloads. Azure provides a variety of Java focused VM images and solutions templates in the Azure Marketplace to get you up and running quickly.
The second is modernization using containers:
Containers provide portability, flexibility, scalability, manageability, repeatability, and predictability.
Azure provides best of breed support for Docker and Kubernetes, especially through the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Finally, Azure has the most managed hosting options for Java applications of any major cloud platform with fully managed PaaS for Spring, Tomcat, and JBoss EAP:
Managed services offer ease-of-use, ease-of-management, productivity, and lower total cost of ownership.
You can focus on building your applications, not managing infrastructure.
All of this is supported by managed databases and DevOps tooling:
Use fully managed SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and SQL.
Keep using the tools you love, with plugins for IntelliJ and Eclipse, integrations with a variety of DevOps tools like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, and GitHub.
Get comprehensive protection across all your platforms and clouds
Protect your organization from threats across devices, identities, apps, data and clouds. Get unmatched visibility into your multiplatform environment that unifies Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Simplify your security stack with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
Protect your business with a universal identity platform
The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enterprise identity service provides single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to help protect your users from 99.9 percent of cybersecurity attacks.
Gartner named Microsoft a leader in Magic Quadrant 2020 for Access Management
Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere
Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication help protect and govern access
A single identity platform lets you engage with internal and external users more securely
Developer tools make it easy to integrate identity into your apps and services
Connect your workforce
Whether people are on-site or remote, give them seamless access to all their apps so they can stay productive from anywhere. Automate workflows for user lifecycle and provisioning. Save time and resources with self-service management.
Choose from thousands of SaaS apps
Simplify single sign-on. Azure AD supports thousands of pre-integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications.
Protect and govern access
Safeguard user credentials by enforcing strong authentication and conditional access policies. Efficiently manage your identities by ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources.
Engage with your customers and partners
Secure and manage customers and partners beyond your organizational boundaries, with one identity solution. Customize user journeys and simplify authentication with social identity and more.
Integrate identity into your apps
Accelerate adoption of your application in the enterprise by supporting single sign-on and user provisioning. Reduce sign-in friction and automate the creation, removal, and maintenance of user accounts.
The Nintex Platform is Easy-to-use, Powerful and Complete to manage, automate and optimize your processes.
Manage processes by discovering, mapping and sharing across process participants and owners.
This often leads to opportunities for process automation. Many processes involve the capture of information and our forms capability provides an ease-to-use, responsive design experience, often eliminating paper forms. With advanced workflow capabilities you can quickly design powerful applications using advanced logic and rules to eliminate manual work. Nintex RPA drives speed by automating those mundane, repetitive tasks. Since many processes involve the need to generate a document we have a DocGen offering to automatically create documents from both unstructured and structured data sources. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign you can easily integrate eSign into your signature-based workflows for total automation.
Once you have been managing and automating processes, imagine the amount of information available on how your business is operating. Leveraging Nintex Analytics you are able to get process intelligence allowing you to monitor, analyze and improve your business.
With the Nintex platform our customers and partners value our extensibility, using pre-built connecters as well as leveraging our Xtensions to build powerful bi-directional connectors to orchestrate processes across any systems in your organization.
Combining the power of Nintex with our customer success and vast partner network it is easy to see why our customers are so successful.
Microsoft Power BI is a unified self-service and enterprise business intelligence platform that combines an intuitive user experience with intelligent data visualizations to provide greater depth of data insight. Reports can be shared within Microsoft tools like Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint, or within other productivity products.
To help teams be more productive, we need to change the way we think about meetings. Today, a meeting is typically treated as a stand-alone event, and the phone and video conferencing tools people use are designed to support that event.
What if we approached meetings in a more connected way – not as discrete events, but as a series of connected gatherings that drive collaborative progress? This approach is at the heart of how we built the meeting experience in Microsoft Teams.
We built Microsoft Teams to help people meet smarter. Stay focused. And achieve more.
Microsoft Teams brings together chat, meetings, calling, collaboration, app integration, and file storage into a single interface. This new central hub for teamwork can help streamline the way users get things done, improving user satisfaction and accelerating business outcomes. We’re continually expanding Teams capabilities to enable you to communicate and collaborate in new ways, break down organizational and geographical barriers, and drive efficiency in process and decision making.
Teams is a powerful tool that opens the door to an entirely new way of doing business.
A Zero Trust approach should extend throughout the entire digital estate and serve as an integrated security philosophy and end to end strategy.
Identities. Identities whether they represent people, services, or IOT devices define the Zero Trust control plane. When an identity attempts to access a resource, we need to verify that identity with strong authentication, ensure access is compliant and typical for that identity, and follows least privilege access principles.
Devices. Once an identity has been granted access to a resource, data can flow to a variety of different devices From IoT devices to smartphones, BYOD to partner managed devices, and on premises workloads to cloud hosted servers. This diversity creates a massive attack surface area, requiring we monitor and enforce device health and compliance for secure access.
Applications. Applications and APIs provide the interface by which data is consumed. They may be legacy on premises, lift and shifted to cloud workloads, or modern SaaS applications. Controls and technologies should be applied to discover Shadow IT, ensure appropriate in-app permissions, gate access based on real-time analytics, monitor for abnormal behavior, control of user actions, and validate secure configuration options.
Data. Ultimately, security teams are focused on protecting data. Where possible, data should remain safe even if it leaves the devices, apps, infrastructure, and networks the organization controls. Data should be classified, labeled, and encrypted, and access restricted based on those attributes.
Infrastructure. Infrastructure (whether on premises servers, cloud based VMs, containers, or micro services) represents a critical threat vector. Assess for version, configuration, and JIT access to harden defense, use telemetry to detect attacks and anomalies, and automatically block and flag risky behavior and take protective actions.
Networks. All data is ultimately accessed over network infrastructure. Networking controls can provide critical “in pipe” controls to enhance visibility and help prevent attackers from moving laterally across the network. Networks should be segmented (including deeper in network micro segmentation) and real time threat protection, end to end encryption, monitoring, and analytics should be employed.
Each of these six foundational elements serves as a source of the signal, a control plane for enforcement, and a critical resource to defend. You should appropriately spread your investments across each of these elements for maximum protection.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. 2
Employee
What is an Employee Experience Platform (EXP)
Purpose & Alignment
Mission, Goals & Outcomes
Achievements & Recognition
Culture & Communications
News, Events,
Company Resources
Communities
Knowledge & Expertise
People & Experts
Documents & Content
Wellbeing & Engagement
Physical, Mental, Financial
Nudges, Feedback & Sentiment
Growth & Development
Learning & Coaching
Onboarding, Lifecycle Moments
Talent Mobility
A digital platform that helps organizations create a thriving culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders
3. Microsoft Viva
Employee experience platform for the digital era
Viva Connections Viva Insights Viva Topics Viva Learning
Viva Platform and
Ecosystem
4. 79% of CEOs worldwide
are concerned that a lack of essential skills in
their workforce is a barrier to future growth1
Meanwhile, employees only have 1% of their
workweek to focus on learning new skills2
1PwC CEO Survey, 2019
2Leading in Learning, Bersin by Deloitte
5. Today’s corporate learning industry is fragmented
Support the administration
of learning programs and
management of learner
records.
Learning
Management
Systems
Provide variety of content
types and formats (i.e.,
educational courses, training
programs, and learning and
development programs
across industries
Learning
Content
Providers
Support content discovery,
content personalization
and recommendations, and
curation.
Learning
Experience
Platforms
6. What is Viva Learning?
Viva Learning creates a center for learning in Teams where
people can discover, share, and track learning from libraries
across an organization (LinkedIn Learning, MS Learn, a
company's own content, and 3rd party providers) to empower
employees to make learning a natural part of their day.
7. Viva Learning
Learn in the flow of work
Integrate learning into the tools and
platforms where users already spend their
time with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365
Simplify learning
Bring together learning content and tools
from different sources in one central hub
Personalized and Relevant
Find the right content and discover new skills
with personalized recommendations and
search
9. Add a Learning tab in Microsoft Teams
Find, select, and pin trainings in right in the channels
you collaborate in daily
Curate sets of trainings right in the tab for scenarios
like onboarding and team-specific skilling
Create a personalized learning experience for your team
10. Social learning
Send learning content in a Teams message, meeting
chat, or email
Add a customized note to shared learning content in
chat to personalize social learning
Enable group coaching and mentoring conversations
to supplement structured learning
Core Teams capabilities like chat and conversations enable social learning
11. Recommend content and track progress
Recommend content to colleagues within workgroups
View recommended courses and track reported
completion progress
Monitor team activity in the Manage tab
Recommend content and track reported completion progress natively within the app
12. Learn across Microsoft 365
Surface learning content with Microsoft
Search across the Microsoft 365 suite – in
Office.com, Bing for Work, and SharePoint
14. Integrate content from 1st and 3rd party providers
Provide a single learning surface to access all your learning content
15. Formal and informal learning
Bring organization-specific content alongside formal courses
Aggregate files and content from company SMEs into
a standard learning interface
Enable crowd-sourced learning
Connect previously disparate collections of company-
specific learning resources
16. Sync with Learning Management Systems
Connect the Learning Management Systems (LMS) your
organization uses to see assigned content from the LMS and
track employees’ learning completion records
Get a more comprehensive view of employee learning and
progress from a single hub
Bring learning records and analytics together in one platform
LMS partners
18. Easily find and discover content
Comprehensive search and personalized recommendations
Search for keywords to get relevant content across
all first party and integrated learning sources
Discover new content with personalized content
suggestions based on your interests
View trending content at your organization and from
connected learning sources
19. Stay organized in your learning journey
View all your learning content and tasks in the My Learning view
Quickly access your bookmarked, recently
viewed, and completed courses
View your learning recommendations and
assignments from colleagues and connected LMS’s
Teams notifications let you know when you have a
new learning task or upcoming deadline
20. Protect learning time
Block learning time on your calendar with Viva Learning and Insights
Intelligent nudges and recommendations based on your calendar
for finding time for learning throughout the week
Block time to focus on personal growth and development
21. Scenarios: Learner
Send a relevant course in a meeting
or Teams chat
Include pointers to relevant sections
or add context in chat message
Enable peer coaching or mentor
relationships – formal or informal
In a meeting with a colleague, they
mention wanting to brush up on their
data analysis skills
Relevant learning courses like
“Effective sales pitch strategies”
surface in search results alongside
pitch decks
Bookmark courses in Viva Learning to
consume later in preparation for the
meeting
A sales analyst is searching Office.com
for a customer pitch deck to give in an
upcoming sales meeting
Chat and
conversation
Cross-M365
discovery
Search for keywords like “SEO
optimization” in the Viva Learning
home page or a channel learning tab
See search results from Microsoft, 3rd
party providers, and internal sources
Bookmark interesting courses and
recommend courses to peers
A marketing analyst wants to improve
her knowledge on web and social media
strategy
Search and recommend
22. Add a learning tab to your Teams
channel for onboarding
Add relevant courses and team-
specific resources to the tab
Curate for your team and priorities
A new team member will be joining
next week
Recommend relevant courses to team
members
Check the completion status of
recommended content in the
Manage view
Give kudos to team members who
prioritize learning
A manager wants to foster a culture
of learning and growth
Scenarios: Manager
Onboarding Manage view
Add the presentation to the
organization’s collaborative
SharePoint folder, connected to Viva
Learning
Employees can see added content in
Viva Learning as learning content
A team member led a presentation on
Diverse and Inclusive marketing that
would be helpful for the broader
organization
Crowdsource learning
content
23. Learn more
Viva Learning webpage
Employee Learning | Microsoft Viva Learning
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Employee Experience & Engagement | Microsoft Viva
Viva Learning Mechanics Video (Demo)
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Tech Community blog
Microsoft Viva Blog - Microsoft Tech Community