A fresh new experience
Project offers a redesigned user experience that is simple and intuitive. Teams can quickly add new members and set up tasks, and then easily switch between grids, boards, or timeline (Gantt) charts to track progress. And because Project is part of the Microsoft 365 family, project teams can save time and do more with built-in connections to familiar apps like Microsoft Teams and Office.
Animated image of a timeline being worked on in Microsoft Project.
Collaboration made easy
Designed to do much more than just track progress, Project works with Teams to support collaboration and make it easy to manage all aspects of a team project, including file sharing, chats, meetings, and much more. Team members in scattered locations can even edit tasks simultaneously, so they can get more done together, no matter where they are. To help teams stay on track, Project offers an automated scheduling engine based on effort, duration, and resources.
Crisis communication App - A Power Platform App from MicrosoftDavid J Rosenthal
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Featured snippet from the web
The Crisis Communication app provides a user-friendly experience to connect users with information about a crisis. Quickly get updates on internal company news, get answers to frequently asked questions, and get access to important information like links and emergency contacts.
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
Today, every company runs many different applications that are essential for success – both internal business applications but also external-facing applications for customers and partners (such as the company website, customer self-service portal, e-commerce sites, or mobile apps).
And then, there's data. Every user interaction with any application works with data, consumes data and generates data. Today, every business collects tremendous amounts of information - and the challenge is how to turn this data into actionable insights and intelligence to provide a superior customer experience.
Teams combines chat & collaboration, meetings & calling, and Apps & Workflows into a single app. This gives your teams the tools they need to collaborate, and it offers an extensible platform for building customized solutions.
On their own, many of the innovations in Teams are fairly simple. But taken together, they are incredibly powerful. I love the way threaded conversations are smart enough to know exactly when to collapse previous replies and focus on the latest comments. I love the way Teams brings SharePoint and Office together into an integrated document collaboration experience.
And I love the way my meetings in Teams are just more productive. Pre-meeting preparation is done in context; post-meeting follow-up includes a meeting recording; and the in-meeting experience helps focus attention, drive engagement, and foster inclusion with features including live captions, background blur and the ability to turn physical whiteboard into digital ink.
Only Teams delivers this hub for teamwork and it is built on the strength and scale of Microsoft 365 to provide the enterprise grade security and compliance our customers expect.
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.
Microsoft Teams - The Hub for Teamwork in Office 365David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
First, Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork within Office 365. Microsoft Teams solves for the collaboration and communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview we have extended the capabilities to include chat, voice and video.
When it comes to chat, Microsoft Teams is fast, fluid, low-overhead, and instantly familiar, making it easier than ever to share information and accelerate decision making.
Since our preview moment, Microsoft Teams has evolved into a complete meetings experience that now includes chat, voice and video. Microsoft Teams will modernize your meetings experience. Before a meeting team members can review conversations, during a meeting teams can share content and hold the meeting using a diverse array of communication mediums including audio conferencing and video. After a meeting team members can review history, access recordings and much more. Microsoft Teams supports private and group meeting capabilities, scheduling capabilities and free/busy calendar availability for team members.
The Office apps and services that people use every day - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, the new Planner task management app, Stream video portal, even Power BI - are all built-in, so people have the information and tools they need right within the context of Microsoft Teams.
Because every group is unique, team members can tailor their workspace to include apps and services for the team and organization. Microsoft Teams allows the ability to customize their workspace with tabs, connectors and bots. For our developer community, we have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps with a rich set of capabilities to enable higher-performing teams.
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security and compliance that you would come to expect from Office 365.
Meetings are ideal for connecting groups of people together to give everyone a voice and screen to share. These can be for many to many collaborations where everyone has an equal level of participation.
Live events are intended to give one or few people the ability to broadcast to large groups, while maintaining control of the content that is shared across screens and audio. These are meant for one to many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and the audience participation is primarily to interact with the content being shared by the host.
Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration. The service integrates with the company's Office 365 subscription office productivity suite and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products.
Crisis communication App - A Power Platform App from MicrosoftDavid J Rosenthal
Search Results
Featured snippet from the web
The Crisis Communication app provides a user-friendly experience to connect users with information about a crisis. Quickly get updates on internal company news, get answers to frequently asked questions, and get access to important information like links and emergency contacts.
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
Today, every company runs many different applications that are essential for success – both internal business applications but also external-facing applications for customers and partners (such as the company website, customer self-service portal, e-commerce sites, or mobile apps).
And then, there's data. Every user interaction with any application works with data, consumes data and generates data. Today, every business collects tremendous amounts of information - and the challenge is how to turn this data into actionable insights and intelligence to provide a superior customer experience.
Teams combines chat & collaboration, meetings & calling, and Apps & Workflows into a single app. This gives your teams the tools they need to collaborate, and it offers an extensible platform for building customized solutions.
On their own, many of the innovations in Teams are fairly simple. But taken together, they are incredibly powerful. I love the way threaded conversations are smart enough to know exactly when to collapse previous replies and focus on the latest comments. I love the way Teams brings SharePoint and Office together into an integrated document collaboration experience.
And I love the way my meetings in Teams are just more productive. Pre-meeting preparation is done in context; post-meeting follow-up includes a meeting recording; and the in-meeting experience helps focus attention, drive engagement, and foster inclusion with features including live captions, background blur and the ability to turn physical whiteboard into digital ink.
Only Teams delivers this hub for teamwork and it is built on the strength and scale of Microsoft 365 to provide the enterprise grade security and compliance our customers expect.
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.
Microsoft Teams - The Hub for Teamwork in Office 365David J Rosenthal
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
First, Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork within Office 365. Microsoft Teams solves for the collaboration and communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview we have extended the capabilities to include chat, voice and video.
When it comes to chat, Microsoft Teams is fast, fluid, low-overhead, and instantly familiar, making it easier than ever to share information and accelerate decision making.
Since our preview moment, Microsoft Teams has evolved into a complete meetings experience that now includes chat, voice and video. Microsoft Teams will modernize your meetings experience. Before a meeting team members can review conversations, during a meeting teams can share content and hold the meeting using a diverse array of communication mediums including audio conferencing and video. After a meeting team members can review history, access recordings and much more. Microsoft Teams supports private and group meeting capabilities, scheduling capabilities and free/busy calendar availability for team members.
The Office apps and services that people use every day - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, the new Planner task management app, Stream video portal, even Power BI - are all built-in, so people have the information and tools they need right within the context of Microsoft Teams.
Because every group is unique, team members can tailor their workspace to include apps and services for the team and organization. Microsoft Teams allows the ability to customize their workspace with tabs, connectors and bots. For our developer community, we have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps with a rich set of capabilities to enable higher-performing teams.
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security and compliance that you would come to expect from Office 365.
Meetings are ideal for connecting groups of people together to give everyone a voice and screen to share. These can be for many to many collaborations where everyone has an equal level of participation.
Live events are intended to give one or few people the ability to broadcast to large groups, while maintaining control of the content that is shared across screens and audio. These are meant for one to many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and the audience participation is primarily to interact with the content being shared by the host.
Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration. The service integrates with the company's Office 365 subscription office productivity suite and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products.
Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork, a chat-based workspace that enables teams to be more productive by giving them a single and secure location that brings together everything a team needs: chats, meetings, calls, files, and tools. Microsoft Teams is one place for all the needs your teams have.
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
Communicate
First, Microsoft Teams solves for the communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview, Microsoft Teams has evolved to a complete meetings and calling solution, incl. chat, voice and video, as we have completed our roadmap for bringing Skype for Business Online features and functionality into Teams. You can use Teams for informal 1:1 or group chats—directly on your phone if you’re on the go. Or you can have an open conversation in a channel. This enables people to share information in a transparent way to accelerate decision making. And it's super easy to move from a chat into a face to face meeting, helping you to bridge geographical barriers.
Collaborate
When it comes to collaboration, the deep Office integration enables today’s multigenerational workforce to use the Office apps they are familiar with and love—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Planner, even Power BI—right within the context of Teams. You can avoid email attachments and having to search for the latest version of a document. Teams brings all the Office 365 services together—so that you can easily share and co-author files.
Customize & extend
Many of you use other services than Office 365 as well which results in you having to jump between and spend time in disparate experiences. We built Teams to be the hub for all the services and tools your teams use on a day to day basis. So, you can customize Teams with tabs, connector and bots to include the apps and services you need - <mention relevant 3rd party apps like GitHub and Trello>. We have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps and to integrate with business processes.
And for Firstline workers, Teams provides an additional set of capabilities including schedule management.
Work with confidence
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security, compliance and manageability that you expect from Office 365 which customers tell us is a huge value add for them.
Enabling Teamwork From Anywhere - From Microsoft and Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
As we look at how Microsoft 365 cost savings can help customers achieve their goals, these are the key categories of savings.
Consolidating to a single vendor can cost much less than choosing different vendors for multiple capabilities. Microsoft 365 includes many of the capabilities for which you are currently paying other vendors.
The expectation is that every customer should be able to reduce administration effort because Microsoft will now be responsible for maintaining the hardware and software. This helps IT transition to higher-value activities and boost morale.
The security solutions within Microsoft 365 greatly reduce the number of successful end user security attacks. Attacks that are successful are usually found faster when the impact is less severe. That means easier remediation. Compliance solutions help reduce your risk by managing alerts on potential insider risk, protecting sensitive information, and quickly finding and responding to regulatory requests.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations reduce office space costs by enabling them to move on-site employees to permanent, secure and remote positions. It also allows for valuable collaboration while reducing travel costs.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations transform and streamline business processes through workflows, dashboards, AI capabilities, and more.
Any customer previously paying for Microsoft client software and CALs that would no longer be required after licensing Microsoft 365 would receive this benefit.
Compared to their on-prem peers, customers who have strongly adopted Microsoft 365 are:
66% more likely to say they are “very confident” in their org to deliver technology that’d help them manage through challenges.
57% more likely to say that end users have the technology to enable flexibility to choose where they get their jobs done
2.1x higher levels of user satisfaction with the remote work experience relative to peers less adopted on Microsoft 365.
Content services to capture and scale your expertise
SharePoint Syntex uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.
Content understanding
Create AI models that capture expertise to classify and extract information and automatically apply metadata.
Capture expertise with AI
Build no-code AI models that teach the cloud to read content the way you do.
Enrich content and metadata
Find key facts in your content to improve search and teamwork.
Content processing
Automate the capture, ingestion, and categorization of content and streamline content-centric processes.
Automatically classify content
Use advanced AI in SharePoint Syntex to capture and tag structured and unstructured content.
Streamline content processes
Integrate with Power Automate to build workflows that leverage extracted metadata.
Content compliance
Connect and manage content to improve security and compliance.
Integrate content across systems
Connect SharePoint Syntex to content inside and outside Microsoft 365.
Protect and manage content
Enforce security and compliance policies with automatically applied sensitivity and retention labels.
Microsoft Teams - Transform Workplace CollaborationDavid J Rosenthal
Transform Workplace collaboration
by bringing everything together into a shared workspace where you can chat, meet, create, and make decisions as a team.
And since all your content is organized by team or project, you are able to stay in the flow of your work. It takes the average person 23 minutes to regain productivity after an interruption, or being distracted.
Streamline business processes
You need ready access to business-critical data, applications, and be able to execute repeatable processes efficiently. Since Teams is a true platform, you can plug in apps and services you already use, and even integrate your existing tailor-made tools INTO Teams.
Imagine being able to seamlessly kick off a repeatable approvals process without ever having to leave Teams.
Connect across your entire organization
Teams is just as important and effective a tool for a C-level executive, as it is for somebody on a factory floor, in a retail shop, a classroom, a hospital, in a marketing role, or anyone in between.
We have thought about the unique needs of many different types of workers and provide solutions through Teams that are tailor-made for them. And Microsoft is the only collaboration solution provider who has dedicated engineering teams building functionality specifically for roles across industries.
For example, you can see here how Teams gives Firstline worker managers a tool to manage schedules and gives the workers an easy way to consume that information, or even swap a shift.
Enabling Remote Work With Microsoft Teams, Virtual Desktop, Office Apps and S...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft is here to help you during this challenging time. We think about how we can help in two core ways – one, helping people stay productive, helping your end users stay productive while working from home. Secondly, we help you secure your digital estate and devices.
When we think about helping people stay productive, Microsoft provides organizations with the ability to
Enable people to meet and collaboration from home
Deliver solutions to drive engagement using virtual events and communications
We make productivity applications available on any device
We deliver the best virtual desktop experience so your users can be productive on their desktops or any application remotely
Security is paramount when enabling these end user scenarios. We can help you
Manage identities and secure application access
Secure devices whether they are managed or employee owned
Microsoft Teams Governance Quickstart - The Experts ConferenceJoel Oleson
Teams Adoption can quickly get out of control. In this session we'll cover best practices and proven techniques on settings, configuration, and customer implementations of Microsoft Teams. We'll explore governance techniques and tactics that work to handle archiving, provisioning, lifecycle management, and successful deployment. No matter where you are in your deployment we'll help you understand what success looks like and how to get there.
Ultimately, our goal is to enable you to be more successful and your organizations - your Developers, your IT Admins, your customer to be more:
Productive – by integrating in all the capabilities that you need so that you don’t have to patchwork things together.
Hybrid – we know that not everything will live in the public cloud so we are working to ensure your apps and data can work in both cloud and on-premise environments
Open – we are all in on open source. We want you to be able to build your apps on your own terms on whatever platform, language and tools you want.
Trusted – And of course you need to be able to trust the cloud, trust that your apps, your data and your business are secure and available in the cloud
Let’s take a look at Microsoft’s overall vision for how we help customers unlock communications, teamwork and collaboration with their employees.
Throughout our days, we transition from individual work to group based work (potentially many times in one day) and in doing so, we find ourselves moving from space to space, from individual spaces to collaborative spaces. (talk through spaces and use personal examples to make it real)
Next we need to consider what devices people might be using and these vary depending on the spaces. People on the go will be using their mobile. Other office devices might be a PC, a PC with a peripheral, or an IP desk phone. In collaboration spaces, people will be using all-in-one devices like Surface Hub, other large screen interactive displays like Windows Collaboration Displays, or room systems like Microsoft Teams Rooms.
And while this transition from space-to-space/device-to-device, may seem complex, it is made seamless when you unify all devices on Microsoft Teams.
Teams supports this lifecycle by bringing everything the team needs for a meeting in one place. People don’t have to spend so much time hunting down information and contacts or switching between multiple apps.
Teams delivers a unique end-to-end meeting experience that brings back the human element of face-to-face interaction while helping people stay focused before, during and after the meeting.
Foster Employee Engagement and Create a Digital Culture Through Microsoft Mod...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft 365 is a platform for workplace modernization across security, compliance, productivity, and communications.
Why one platform – the best of suite approach versus best of breed
Microsoft is now best of breed is many of these capabilities as well across security, compliance, meetings, and collaboration.
Building and maintaining your information architecture (IA) in SharePoint is an important and ongoing operational activity.
As Microsoft Teams quickly spreads across your organization, its fast-paced deployment and ease-of-use capabilities make it a powerful hub for team collaboration, but can also mask the complexity of its underlying IA needs.
In this IntraTeam (https://intrateam.dk) webinar (held January 30, 2019), Microsoft MVP & RD Christian Buckley provided an overview of the unique IA considerations for Teams with the goal of helping viewers better understand the interdependencies and gaps to be filled as their Teams planning gets underway.
Your journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft TeamsSasja Beerendonk
Your journey from Skype for Business to Teams - Beezy
Office 365 & SP Connect in Haarlem, October 2019
Moving from Skype for Business is not a simple upgrade. It requires a whole new way of working, confronting employees with a lot of new apps and features. It's a first step towards team collaboration. It immediately opens the door to the next required step: organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication.
Microsoft Teams 7 Key Concepts for Planning and Strategy for SuccessJoel Oleson
Microsoft Teams: The 7 Key Concepts for Strategy & Planning for Success
Tuesday, October 8th at 11 AM Eastern
Register Here
Started using teams and wondering how to get your executive sponsor on board? Looking to define a vision for the future of Microsoft Teams in your organization.
Maybe you’re a team leader and looking for ways to leverage the platform for engagement or realizing the vision of Modern Teamwork.
In this session, you will get a powerful collection of best practices for using and extending the Microsoft Teams platform to help your teams succeed in today’s workplace.
7 Key Concepts for Strategy and Planning for Success
Clear Vision
Executive Leadership Sponsorship and Engagement
Governance Plan: Managed provisioning & Lifecycle offboarding, Security & Compliance DLP
Communication Plan: Departmental engagement
Success Critieria & Metrics Regular reporting / Department Gamification
Train the Trainer & Champion program
Adoption Change Management Program
Microsoft 365 Business Voice makes it easy for small and medium organizations to turn Microsoft Teams into a powerful and flexible telephone system. It's a replacement for traditional telephony providers and in-house phone systems that can be difficult and costly to manage. You can set up both toll and toll-free numbers, call menus to help callers get to the right department, audio conferencing so you can host meetings with anyone, and more. You can even give people their own phone numbers so they can get calls directly.
Business Voice does all of this by wrapping Microsoft 365 Phone System features into an easy-to-manage bundle. You don't need to worry about choosing the right plan or feature; they're all there and set up for you. Because Phone System is a part of Teams, you can turn any PC, Mac, or mobile device into a phone that can use your Business Voice phone number.
Respond-Recover-Reimagine: Building Business ResilienceDavid J Rosenthal
Digital transformation is more
urgent than ever
Even organizations that were farther along in their
digital transformation journey before the pandemic
now need to move more quickly. The imperative isn’t
just to transform, but to improve agility, speed to market,
and stability—to achieve faster return on investment.
Microsoft 365 Business - Presented by Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
We want to introduce you to Microsoft 365 Business — a single platform and security solution designed with you in mind. It’s built to keep things simple for you and your people, bringing together the best of what Microsoft has to offer: the security features and innovation of Windows 10 with the power and familiarity of Office 365, with easy management tools.
Windows 10 allows you and your team members to access your files, folders, and apps from virtually anywhere, on your devices. You can take advantage of your digital assistant, Cortana.
Office 365 gives you powerful apps and tools to enable you to collaborate inside and outside your company and make work on the go more productive and easier.
We are bringing the best of Intune to enable you to protect your data in your Office mobile apps, even on personal devices. If someone loses their device, or leaves your organization, you can easily wipe the company data.
365 Degrees: Looking at Office 365, SharePoint, and Dynamics 365 by Steve ReidKTL Solutions
Microsoft’s hot topic lately has been the newest 365 trio—
SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 (Sales). Whether your organization falls into enterprise level or small-business, these three major solutions work together to make your company communicate and work more efficiently. Steve will cover each solution’s depth while honing in on how they integrate, communicate, and ultimately offer you a full solution experience.
Microsoft Teams is a hub for teamwork, a chat-based workspace that enables teams to be more productive by giving them a single and secure location that brings together everything a team needs: chats, meetings, calls, files, and tools. Microsoft Teams is one place for all the needs your teams have.
Microsoft Teams delivers on four core promises to create a digital workspace for high performing teams.
Communicate
First, Microsoft Teams solves for the communication needs of a diverse workforce. Since preview, Microsoft Teams has evolved to a complete meetings and calling solution, incl. chat, voice and video, as we have completed our roadmap for bringing Skype for Business Online features and functionality into Teams. You can use Teams for informal 1:1 or group chats—directly on your phone if you’re on the go. Or you can have an open conversation in a channel. This enables people to share information in a transparent way to accelerate decision making. And it's super easy to move from a chat into a face to face meeting, helping you to bridge geographical barriers.
Collaborate
When it comes to collaboration, the deep Office integration enables today’s multigenerational workforce to use the Office apps they are familiar with and love—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Planner, even Power BI—right within the context of Teams. You can avoid email attachments and having to search for the latest version of a document. Teams brings all the Office 365 services together—so that you can easily share and co-author files.
Customize & extend
Many of you use other services than Office 365 as well which results in you having to jump between and spend time in disparate experiences. We built Teams to be the hub for all the services and tools your teams use on a day to day basis. So, you can customize Teams with tabs, connector and bots to include the apps and services you need - <mention relevant 3rd party apps like GitHub and Trello>. We have also created an extensible platform, to enable building apps and to integrate with business processes.
And for Firstline workers, Teams provides an additional set of capabilities including schedule management.
Work with confidence
Microsoft Teams comes with the enterprise grade security, compliance and manageability that you expect from Office 365 which customers tell us is a huge value add for them.
Enabling Teamwork From Anywhere - From Microsoft and Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
As we look at how Microsoft 365 cost savings can help customers achieve their goals, these are the key categories of savings.
Consolidating to a single vendor can cost much less than choosing different vendors for multiple capabilities. Microsoft 365 includes many of the capabilities for which you are currently paying other vendors.
The expectation is that every customer should be able to reduce administration effort because Microsoft will now be responsible for maintaining the hardware and software. This helps IT transition to higher-value activities and boost morale.
The security solutions within Microsoft 365 greatly reduce the number of successful end user security attacks. Attacks that are successful are usually found faster when the impact is less severe. That means easier remediation. Compliance solutions help reduce your risk by managing alerts on potential insider risk, protecting sensitive information, and quickly finding and responding to regulatory requests.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations reduce office space costs by enabling them to move on-site employees to permanent, secure and remote positions. It also allows for valuable collaboration while reducing travel costs.
Microsoft 365 helps organizations transform and streamline business processes through workflows, dashboards, AI capabilities, and more.
Any customer previously paying for Microsoft client software and CALs that would no longer be required after licensing Microsoft 365 would receive this benefit.
Compared to their on-prem peers, customers who have strongly adopted Microsoft 365 are:
66% more likely to say they are “very confident” in their org to deliver technology that’d help them manage through challenges.
57% more likely to say that end users have the technology to enable flexibility to choose where they get their jobs done
2.1x higher levels of user satisfaction with the remote work experience relative to peers less adopted on Microsoft 365.
Content services to capture and scale your expertise
SharePoint Syntex uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.
Content understanding
Create AI models that capture expertise to classify and extract information and automatically apply metadata.
Capture expertise with AI
Build no-code AI models that teach the cloud to read content the way you do.
Enrich content and metadata
Find key facts in your content to improve search and teamwork.
Content processing
Automate the capture, ingestion, and categorization of content and streamline content-centric processes.
Automatically classify content
Use advanced AI in SharePoint Syntex to capture and tag structured and unstructured content.
Streamline content processes
Integrate with Power Automate to build workflows that leverage extracted metadata.
Content compliance
Connect and manage content to improve security and compliance.
Integrate content across systems
Connect SharePoint Syntex to content inside and outside Microsoft 365.
Protect and manage content
Enforce security and compliance policies with automatically applied sensitivity and retention labels.
Microsoft Teams - Transform Workplace CollaborationDavid J Rosenthal
Transform Workplace collaboration
by bringing everything together into a shared workspace where you can chat, meet, create, and make decisions as a team.
And since all your content is organized by team or project, you are able to stay in the flow of your work. It takes the average person 23 minutes to regain productivity after an interruption, or being distracted.
Streamline business processes
You need ready access to business-critical data, applications, and be able to execute repeatable processes efficiently. Since Teams is a true platform, you can plug in apps and services you already use, and even integrate your existing tailor-made tools INTO Teams.
Imagine being able to seamlessly kick off a repeatable approvals process without ever having to leave Teams.
Connect across your entire organization
Teams is just as important and effective a tool for a C-level executive, as it is for somebody on a factory floor, in a retail shop, a classroom, a hospital, in a marketing role, or anyone in between.
We have thought about the unique needs of many different types of workers and provide solutions through Teams that are tailor-made for them. And Microsoft is the only collaboration solution provider who has dedicated engineering teams building functionality specifically for roles across industries.
For example, you can see here how Teams gives Firstline worker managers a tool to manage schedules and gives the workers an easy way to consume that information, or even swap a shift.
Enabling Remote Work With Microsoft Teams, Virtual Desktop, Office Apps and S...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft is here to help you during this challenging time. We think about how we can help in two core ways – one, helping people stay productive, helping your end users stay productive while working from home. Secondly, we help you secure your digital estate and devices.
When we think about helping people stay productive, Microsoft provides organizations with the ability to
Enable people to meet and collaboration from home
Deliver solutions to drive engagement using virtual events and communications
We make productivity applications available on any device
We deliver the best virtual desktop experience so your users can be productive on their desktops or any application remotely
Security is paramount when enabling these end user scenarios. We can help you
Manage identities and secure application access
Secure devices whether they are managed or employee owned
Microsoft Teams Governance Quickstart - The Experts ConferenceJoel Oleson
Teams Adoption can quickly get out of control. In this session we'll cover best practices and proven techniques on settings, configuration, and customer implementations of Microsoft Teams. We'll explore governance techniques and tactics that work to handle archiving, provisioning, lifecycle management, and successful deployment. No matter where you are in your deployment we'll help you understand what success looks like and how to get there.
Ultimately, our goal is to enable you to be more successful and your organizations - your Developers, your IT Admins, your customer to be more:
Productive – by integrating in all the capabilities that you need so that you don’t have to patchwork things together.
Hybrid – we know that not everything will live in the public cloud so we are working to ensure your apps and data can work in both cloud and on-premise environments
Open – we are all in on open source. We want you to be able to build your apps on your own terms on whatever platform, language and tools you want.
Trusted – And of course you need to be able to trust the cloud, trust that your apps, your data and your business are secure and available in the cloud
Let’s take a look at Microsoft’s overall vision for how we help customers unlock communications, teamwork and collaboration with their employees.
Throughout our days, we transition from individual work to group based work (potentially many times in one day) and in doing so, we find ourselves moving from space to space, from individual spaces to collaborative spaces. (talk through spaces and use personal examples to make it real)
Next we need to consider what devices people might be using and these vary depending on the spaces. People on the go will be using their mobile. Other office devices might be a PC, a PC with a peripheral, or an IP desk phone. In collaboration spaces, people will be using all-in-one devices like Surface Hub, other large screen interactive displays like Windows Collaboration Displays, or room systems like Microsoft Teams Rooms.
And while this transition from space-to-space/device-to-device, may seem complex, it is made seamless when you unify all devices on Microsoft Teams.
Teams supports this lifecycle by bringing everything the team needs for a meeting in one place. People don’t have to spend so much time hunting down information and contacts or switching between multiple apps.
Teams delivers a unique end-to-end meeting experience that brings back the human element of face-to-face interaction while helping people stay focused before, during and after the meeting.
Foster Employee Engagement and Create a Digital Culture Through Microsoft Mod...David J Rosenthal
Microsoft 365 is a platform for workplace modernization across security, compliance, productivity, and communications.
Why one platform – the best of suite approach versus best of breed
Microsoft is now best of breed is many of these capabilities as well across security, compliance, meetings, and collaboration.
Building and maintaining your information architecture (IA) in SharePoint is an important and ongoing operational activity.
As Microsoft Teams quickly spreads across your organization, its fast-paced deployment and ease-of-use capabilities make it a powerful hub for team collaboration, but can also mask the complexity of its underlying IA needs.
In this IntraTeam (https://intrateam.dk) webinar (held January 30, 2019), Microsoft MVP & RD Christian Buckley provided an overview of the unique IA considerations for Teams with the goal of helping viewers better understand the interdependencies and gaps to be filled as their Teams planning gets underway.
Your journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft TeamsSasja Beerendonk
Your journey from Skype for Business to Teams - Beezy
Office 365 & SP Connect in Haarlem, October 2019
Moving from Skype for Business is not a simple upgrade. It requires a whole new way of working, confronting employees with a lot of new apps and features. It's a first step towards team collaboration. It immediately opens the door to the next required step: organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication.
Microsoft Teams 7 Key Concepts for Planning and Strategy for SuccessJoel Oleson
Microsoft Teams: The 7 Key Concepts for Strategy & Planning for Success
Tuesday, October 8th at 11 AM Eastern
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Started using teams and wondering how to get your executive sponsor on board? Looking to define a vision for the future of Microsoft Teams in your organization.
Maybe you’re a team leader and looking for ways to leverage the platform for engagement or realizing the vision of Modern Teamwork.
In this session, you will get a powerful collection of best practices for using and extending the Microsoft Teams platform to help your teams succeed in today’s workplace.
7 Key Concepts for Strategy and Planning for Success
Clear Vision
Executive Leadership Sponsorship and Engagement
Governance Plan: Managed provisioning & Lifecycle offboarding, Security & Compliance DLP
Communication Plan: Departmental engagement
Success Critieria & Metrics Regular reporting / Department Gamification
Train the Trainer & Champion program
Adoption Change Management Program
Microsoft 365 Business Voice makes it easy for small and medium organizations to turn Microsoft Teams into a powerful and flexible telephone system. It's a replacement for traditional telephony providers and in-house phone systems that can be difficult and costly to manage. You can set up both toll and toll-free numbers, call menus to help callers get to the right department, audio conferencing so you can host meetings with anyone, and more. You can even give people their own phone numbers so they can get calls directly.
Business Voice does all of this by wrapping Microsoft 365 Phone System features into an easy-to-manage bundle. You don't need to worry about choosing the right plan or feature; they're all there and set up for you. Because Phone System is a part of Teams, you can turn any PC, Mac, or mobile device into a phone that can use your Business Voice phone number.
Respond-Recover-Reimagine: Building Business ResilienceDavid J Rosenthal
Digital transformation is more
urgent than ever
Even organizations that were farther along in their
digital transformation journey before the pandemic
now need to move more quickly. The imperative isn’t
just to transform, but to improve agility, speed to market,
and stability—to achieve faster return on investment.
Microsoft 365 Business - Presented by Razor TechnologyDavid J Rosenthal
We want to introduce you to Microsoft 365 Business — a single platform and security solution designed with you in mind. It’s built to keep things simple for you and your people, bringing together the best of what Microsoft has to offer: the security features and innovation of Windows 10 with the power and familiarity of Office 365, with easy management tools.
Windows 10 allows you and your team members to access your files, folders, and apps from virtually anywhere, on your devices. You can take advantage of your digital assistant, Cortana.
Office 365 gives you powerful apps and tools to enable you to collaborate inside and outside your company and make work on the go more productive and easier.
We are bringing the best of Intune to enable you to protect your data in your Office mobile apps, even on personal devices. If someone loses their device, or leaves your organization, you can easily wipe the company data.
365 Degrees: Looking at Office 365, SharePoint, and Dynamics 365 by Steve ReidKTL Solutions
Microsoft’s hot topic lately has been the newest 365 trio—
SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 (Sales). Whether your organization falls into enterprise level or small-business, these three major solutions work together to make your company communicate and work more efficiently. Steve will cover each solution’s depth while honing in on how they integrate, communicate, and ultimately offer you a full solution experience.
Vuzion Inspired Event - Highlights from Microsoft Inspire 2017Vuzion
Microsoft Inspire, 9-13 July 2017 - What an inspirational week!
With over 680 sessions and 17,000 people attending Microsoft's biggest annual event in Washington DC, there was a huge amount covered, including Vision Keynotes, workshops, discussion groups, panels and a large expo.
To make sure you're up-to-date with all the news, Microsoft, Vuzion and our Partners shared the insights with you at our special Inspired event.
As UK headline sponsor, the Vuzion team at Inspire was delighted to be able to meet up with so many partners and industry colleagues.
But, whether you were at Inspire or unable to attend Microsoft's flagship partner event, if you'd like more information about the key announcements from Inspire here are the slides!
SPT 104 Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Fest Denver 2016
SPT 104 - Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365
Brian Culver, MCM - Invited Speaker
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Enterprise Data Management: Managing your Business’s Entire Data LifecycleNIXUnited
Speaker: Eugene Rudenko, AI Solutions Consultant at NIX United
https://bit.ly/3OfVz1h
- Learn about what data management is and why this process is a must-have for enterprises in 2022
- Learn how to assess the maturity level of data management and digital transformation in your organization
- Learn advice on how to determine between ready-made products of custom solutions
- Learn about the advantages and disadvantages in comparison of cloud vs. on-premise vs. hybrid solutions
- Learn about data management advantages by the example of our use case AWS-based BI Platform for Data Visualization and Marketing Insights
- Learn about necessary conditions to ensure secure data storage and data compliance standards
- Learn about the importance of high security for the workspace and inner channels of communication
Enterprise Data Management: Managing your Business’s Entire Data LifecycleErinDempsey17
AIIM FL Chapter webinar featuring Eugene Rudenko, NIX United
The amount of data businesses generate and use in their operational activities grows exponentially every year. Ideally, all the data should be stored, organized, and processed at a reasonable cost. Therefore, enterprise data management (EDM) is not a buzzword but a necessary component of modern business operations that want to transform data into an efficient tool and have an advantage over competitors. Competent data management is all about establishing a process that extracts the value from data, mitigates risk, and contributes to data-driven decisions. In addition, the well-established EDM is secured and increases the quality, integrity, and trustworthiness of the data used for business operations and reporting.
Suppose you have heard about data management but always wanted to understand what it is in a nutshell, its benefits, and most importantly, how to organize this process in your company or level up the existing data management process in your business. In that case, this slide deck is worth reviewing.
You will see the full potential of data management solutions, get meaningful advice from a seasoned expert about accelerating a business's digital transformation and frictionless building of EDM for your company proven with case studies.
You will learn about:
• What data management is and why this process is a must-have for enterprises in 2022
• How to assess the maturity level of data management and digital transformation in your organization
• Advice on how to determine between ready-made products of custom solutions
• Advantages and disadvantages in comparison of cloud vs. on-premise vs. hybrid solutions
• Data management advantages by the example of our use case AWS-based BI Platform for Data Visualization and Marketing Insights
• Necessary conditions to ensure secure data storage and data compliance standards
• The importance of high security for workspace and inner channels of communication
The first in our series of Love Cloud events, launched this Valentine’s Day! The event was hosted at Microsoft Paddington (London). The day consisted of 14 short, sharp focused 15 minute presentations covering topics of most concern and interest to UK cloud resellers and solution providers, interspersed with several networking opportunities throughout the day. Response was exceptional and we are looking forward to the second event taking place on the 18th May 2017.
SPS Utah 2016 - Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Saturday Utah has begun with a great crowd. I presented my session "Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365" which is a Level 200 class. In my session I discuss how companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights (Microsoft's Hadoop cluster solution in partnership with Nortonworks) you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites empowers users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Harnessing the power of AI to supercharge the Customer Experience. For the event: AI, Data, and CRM: Shaping Business through Unique Experiences. By George Aspiotis
Modern Applications for Practical Business Transformation | Inovar ConsultingInovar Tech
With Microsoft 365 business applications, you can act on the applications and tools your organization needs, to drive business efficiency, build with your business in mind and many more. Contact us to know more.
Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
Best Practices to Navigating Data and Application Integration for the Enterpr...Safe Software
Navigating the complexities of managing vast enterprise data across multiple systems can be challenging. This webinar is your guide to navigating and simplifying enterprise integration.
As a technology leader, you may grapple with legacy systems, shadow IT, and budget constraints. Data and personnel silos often impede technological progress. FME champions integrating superior business systems to bolster your organization's digital strength – efficiently and affordably, using your current team and accessible services.
Join us and partner guest speakers from Seamless in an engaging session exploring the essential roles of data and systems in modern enterprises. We'll provide insights on achieving high-quality data management, establishing strong governance, and enabling teams to manage their data effectively. Delve into strategies for ensuring high-quality data and building robust governance structures, with tips and tricks along the way.
This webinar features real-life case studies demonstrating success in diverse industries. Learn cutting-edge strategies for data governance and system integration. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and best practices for transforming your data governance and system integration processes.
This is the slide deck which was used for my webinar on Digital Transformation and Microsoft 365. In this session I've given a detailed overview of Digital Transformation and how it has been disrupting the organizations across the globe. I've also explained how Microsoft 365 can help in planning your organization's Digital Transformation.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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HITRUST
IRS 1075
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
MARS-E
NIST 800-171
Section 508 VPATs
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IRAP (CCSL)
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
SOC 1, 2
Spain
CSA CCM
ENISA IAF
EU Model Clauses
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
SOC 1, 2
Spain ENS
LOPD
United Kingdom
CSA CCM
ENISA IAF
EU Model Clauses
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
NIST 800-171
SOC 1, 2, 3
UK G-Cloud
Japan
CSA CCM
CS Mark (Gold)
FISC
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
Japan My Number Act
SOC 1, 2
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CSA CCM
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
MTCS
SOC 1, 2
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CSA CCM
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
NZCC Framework
SOC 1, 2
Australia
CSA CCM
IRAP (CCSL)
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
SOC 1, 2
European Union
CSA CCM
ENISA IAF
EU Model Clauses
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
ISO/IEC 27001, 27018
SOC 1, 2,
China
China GB 18030
China MLPS
China TRUCS