Top Reasons to use Microsoft Power BI

In the world of business intelligence (BI), Power BI is a powerful tool that has been making waves in recent years, having been recognized by Gartner as a Magic Quadrant Leader for the fourth year running. This cloud-based data visualization and analysis tool has become increasingly popular among businesses of all sizes, enabling them to

How to Successfully Migrate from SharePoint 2019 to SharePoint Online

Upgrading from SharePoint 2019 to SharePoint Online can be an uphill task since one is an on-premises version while the other is online (cloud based). But with careful planning and execution, the migration can be done smoothly. SharePoint Online is a cloud-based service that offers a range of features and benefits over the on-premises versions

SharePoint 2013 End-of-Life: Get Ready to Say Goodbye & Make the Right Move with SharePoint Online

They say change is the only constant, and this stands true for the world of Microsoft products as well. If your organization is still using SharePoint 2013 — the time is almost up. With the ‘end-of-life’ scheduled for April 11, 2023, you have got just 32 days left from being in an ‘unsupported status’ by

Benefits Of Using Dynamics 365 Business Central For Your Business

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one business management solution that has been designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. It integrates all core business functionalities into one solution, including financials, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects, and operations.   With Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can make informed decisions that drive growth and profitability. In this blog,

7 Reasons Why You Should Consider Outsourcing Your IT Needs

Today, nearly every organization across the globe relies on the efficiency of their IT teams for smooth functioning and scaling. However, working on multiple IT tasks and projects at the same time may reduce efficiency and hinder growth in the long run. This is why outsourcing your IT needs offers the best way to an

Everything you need to know about implementing modules in ServiceNow

ServiceNow is a highly popular platform for IT services management (ITSM), especially for organizations that are currently undergoing a digital transformation. The appeal of the solution largely lies in its comprehensiveness which enables businesses to use this single platform for all their ITSM requirements. ServiceNow provides modules that can be used by organizations to enhance

Top Strategic and Tech Consulting Trends for 2023

To stay ahead of the curve and to be at the forefront of the latest business and tech trends, you must know what’s coming ahead. Read this blog to know all about the Top Strategic and Tech Consulting Trends for 2023. Ever since the pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, businesses all over

Five benefits of Amazon Web Services for Your Business

More than a million people use Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 190 countries. In 2004, Amazon introduced its cloud computing service, allowing businesses across various sectors to replace expensive equipment with a more cost-effective model that relies on variable costs. However, this is not the only perk. Next, we’ll discuss the many advantages of using

Microsoft 365 For Business: A Practical Guide

Microsoft created Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365, to help businesses protect themselves from cybersecurity threats. Businesses can protect data across all devices thanks to enhanced security capabilities. Microsoft 365 is specifically designed for SMBs (small to medium businesses) and is aware of the difficulties they encounter in an ever-changing environment. With the Microsoft

7 Reasons Why Companies Should Use ServiceNow

ServiceNow is a leading provider of PaaS solutions for businesses in the cloud. These tools function as service models, which define, structure, and automate activities to improve efficiency across the board. In this blog, you will learn in detail about what is ServiceNow used for? So let’s get started. What is ServiceNow? The cloud-based ServiceNow

What is Microsoft Power Platform? And Its Business Benefits

Which business doesn’t want to develop and build complex business solutions, analyze, and draw data visualizations? However, doing this is not that simple. It includes some of the software which can perform well in this. Here, Microsoft Power Platform can be a valuable choice as it retains all features and is also very easy to

How Beneficial are the ServiceNow Jira Integration and Use Cases

Mid-to large-scale companies strive to achieve operational transparency, real-time scalability, and workflow optimization. They all contribute to customer satisfaction and stability. In order to achieve them, the right tools must be in the tech stack. The IT ecosystem is often dominated by platforms such as Jira & ServiceNow Integration. As a result of their extensive

5 Ways to Revamp Your Business With Amazon Web Services

AWS cloud enables organizations to tap their true potential these are the ways you can effectively ensure the infrastructure is performing and delivering. 1. Simplifies Business Processes 2. Outstanding Support and Maintenance 3. Data Migration and Application Hosting Simplified 4. Auto-scaling 5. Leave Your Infrastructure Costs Behind Want to know about each benefit in detail?

10 Reasons Why You Need SharePoint Workflows

Every organization wants a better way to keep critical files safe, right? Microsoft SharePoint challenges the difficulty and clumsiness of having several discs or locations by providing a readily accessible one-stop solution for all the information your organization needs to compile. Never heard of SharePoint? It’s an excellent tool for creating internal web pages within

7 Big Differences You Can Make With Business Central

Ensure business continuity by connecting the teams for sales, service, finance, and operations with a cloud solution, which will enable them to react more quickly and produce results. In this blog, we are going to talk about the suitability of Business Central for mid-sized and small businesses. What is Dynamics 365 Business Central? Dynamics 365 Business

Ask Me Anything: Answers to Your Questions About ServiceNow

ServiceNow streamlines every organizational step and offers clients a unified user experience. It is a comprehensive development environment where we can create, test, and use software programs. ServiceNow offers insightful information that aids in increasing staff efficiency. According to ServiceNow’s career policy, the company offers a realistic work environment and encourages employees to perform at

A Guide to Easy Business Success With Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is the ideal way for companies to make data driven decisions. No wonder, the adoption of Business Intelligence tools has reached unprecedented levels. Starting with the fundamentals of what business intelligence entails, we’ve explored various aspects of technology before examining how it contributes to business intelligence development. What is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence

ServiceNow Change Management: Guide for 2022

Change management in any organization is a systematic approach to controlling and facilitating all the changes made with minimal or no disruption to the existing services. Based on several standard protocols, a business implements the change management system to bring an evolution in the processes.  Change management is pertinent to each department in an organization.

Microsoft Azure – 5 Best Benefits for Small Businesses

When you start to look for expanding your business, you always want to invest in smart solutions backed by robust technology. Therefore, there are several questions that you might raise during the consultation and see the role technology plays in solving your business problems. These questions are focused on discussing tomorrow’s possibilities.  Suppose you are

Why does Your Business need to Upgrade to Dynamics 365 Business Central?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based, unified business management solution which facilitates enterprises to transform their entry-level accounting software or legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to an inclusive solution to manage critical business functions, including finance, operations, sales, and customer service. Business Central is a tried and true solution that has successfully

Interesting Use Cases of RPA to Help You Understand What Wonders It Can Achieve

“There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.” — Stewart Butterfield Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Such a buzzword! RPA is disrupting every industry and for the good. The fear that RPA will cause humans to lose their jobs stems from a grave misunderstanding about what

Post-Pandemic Scenario: Will RPA Be An Important Part of Your Organization’s Budget in 2021?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a buzz word for at least the past 5 years. For years, organizations have known that automation helps streamline delivery, consistency of products, reduction in costs, etc.. However, never before did we realize the importance of cloud computing and process automation like last year (2020). The pandemic of 2020

SharePoint Content Collaboration Now In Microsoft Teams

Microsoft SharePoint and Teams are the two highly-preferred enterprise collaboration offerings by Microsoft for organizations around the globe. Over the last twelve months, Microsoft Teams has become the most widely used enterprise collaboration because of the amazing functionality, but more importantly for its simplicity. Known for making collaboration a breeze, Teams lacked some enhanced integration

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: What Can It Do For Your Organization?

Everything about this solution ups our game: the intelligence, the efficiencies, the scalability, the collaborative tools… they all work so well together. — Tommy Næs Djurhuus, CEO and Founder, Alpha Travel Before we talk about how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s amazing capabilities can digitally transform your business, let’s take a peek into its history.

How Migrating to SharePoint Online Can Help Your Organization

Microsoft has been revolutionizing how businesses operate for the past 30+ years. In the beginning, we had the Office Suite that transformed the entire documentation and record-maintaining process. And if digitizing paperwork was not enough to blow one’s mind, the tech giant introduced the Enterprise Collaboration Solution called SharePoint which revolutionized how we saw digital

Microsoft Power BI: A Quick Glance At What It Can Do For Your Business

  Power BI is our only BI solution. As we grew, we needed something more dynamic, more visually appealing, and more user-friendly for our colleagues. Power BI fits the bill in all of those respects.   – Bruce Rioch Head of Business Information, Metro Bank Bruce Rioch’s quote only begins to explain what Microsoft Power

5 Benefits Of Moving To The Cloud Now More Than Ever In The COVID-19 Aftermath

  Steve Jobs smartly said, “I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster… carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.”  It’s true! Well, Mr. Jobs, we, too, are trying to thrust organizations forward into a modern era by supporting their process of moving to

How India Continue Work From Home (WFH) During Emergencies

In recent days, coronavirus cases have continued to balloon in India. It has spread across 190 countries infecting 4.2 lakh people and killing 16,500 so far. In India, as many as 700 COVID-19 cases have been reported so far. Of these, 37 have recovered and 10 have died. The government ordered 1.3 billion Indians to stay

Corona Virus and its Impact on the IT market

The Novel Coronavirus has now been documented in more than 100 countries and territories. The ongoing spread of the new coronavirus has become one of the biggest threats to the global economy and information technology markets. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to develop, now is the time for the Technology Industry to consider response actions

Role played by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Growth of Airbnb

Airbnb is a community marketplace that allows connecting property owners and travelers to rent unique vacation spaces around the world. The Airbnb community users’ activities are conducted on the company’s Website and through its iPhone and Android applications. The San Francisco-based Airbnb began operation in 2008 and currently has hundreds of employees across the globe supporting

Cloud App Security Integrates with Windows Defender ATP

Enterprises today have an average of 1,100 cloud applications in their organization, with IT unaware of 61% of the cloud services that users access. Sourcing from a cloud app catalog of more than 16,000 applications, Discovery in Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), Microsoft Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) the solution identifies the cloud apps that

Clifton Coffee Roasters Connects with Microsoft 365 for Digital Transformation

Clifton Coffee Roasters is at the forefront of the United Kingdom’s booming coffee industry. It provides high-quality coffee, machinery, service, and training to coffee shops and has recently undergone digitization to help it compete successfully with larger companies. As Clifton Coffee Roasters’ business grew, so did the company leaders’ ambitions. The company replaced a range

About Think Up Consulting Collaboration with Microsoft 365

Think Up is a fast-growing consulting firm based in Greenville, South Carolina. With specialties such as brand strategy, change management, and strategic consulting, it helps global brands to make deep, lasting connections with their customers. Always looking to work smarter, they chose Microsoft 365 to streamline its internal collaboration processes and dramatically reduce the number

TGI Fridays migrates key business processes to Microsoft Dynamics 365

TGI Friday’s popular and rapidly growing restaurant franchise in the UK wanted a more scalable, flexible platform for core business processes. To support its ambitious growth, the franchise is consolidating business operations starting with financial management on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Built-in functionality and ease-of-use mean that TGI Friday’s can continue to onboard more business processes while

Advanced Threat Protection in Office 365

End-to-end tour of Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) in Office 365 and Microsoft 365. Learn how ATP helps catch threats before they disrupt your organization, keeping your data, intellectual property and users safe from email phishing attacks and zero-day malware. With a changing user base and an ever-shifting threat landscape, our higher education institutions are particularly

You Can’t Afford to Miss Out on Cloud Computing

Wondering whether you should move to the cloud? Seeing the endless benefits that cloud offers – it is a no-brainer! There has been an acceleration in the service releases by cloud service providers and also in the adoption rate of cloud by businesses. To top it – cloud computing services are now available at a

Overcoming The Fears of Cloud Adoption

Over these years, we have worked on numerous cloud projects and have many-a-times seen hesitation amongst the clients for moving their Data to ‘cloud’ platforms. They are aware of the benefits of adopting cloud technology but are reluctant to make the move because of fear of getting trapped by unforeseen challenges of cloud adoption. There

Intranet Trends to Look Out for in 2018

Workplaces are no longer physical spaces occupied by employees. Organizations now are advancing towards ‘Digital Workplaces’ – this allows employees to connect more easily with each other across vast geographic locations, something that allows them to work remotely. ‘Digital Workplaces’ means providing digital access to all information and converting all business process to digital. One

Office 365: New Security Fixes Rolled Out in the Office Suite

Microsoft is scaling up its security services very quickly and is spending $1 billion every year alone on security R&D. So, the Microsoft users – be rest assured! You have chosen a cohesive ecosystem that works to counter the threats and comes up with the feature rollouts to kill vulnerabilities detected time and again. In

Drive Smarter and Better Business Decisions with Cloud Based BI Solutions

“Given the human mind and psyche, we all could go to quite a large extent and leave no stone unturned only to get that little edge over our competitors.” Many users still leverage multiple reporting tools at work to capture new data every single day. This involves a lot of work, is time-consuming and may

Reasons Why You Should Be a Part of Yammer Enterprise Social Network

Build A More Connected and Engaged Network for Your Enterprise with Yammer Social Understanding the value of Yammer and why it can help your business grow? Yammer is the fastest growing private social network, working its way into enterprises for better collaboration, faster decision, and team building. Implementing of Yammer brings people together, integrating conversation,

Crystal Gazing into the Future of Office 365 This Year

‘To believe the old penchant of foretellers, only a crystal ball can give a perfect beholding to what tomorrow’s sun would shine upon and what would be left in darkness to rot.’ As we winded up the year 2016 and attempted predictions for the coming year, all eyes were curious to see what 2017 has

Introducing Intranet Portal Solution of Modern Age

Having served our global clients as IT consultants for many years, we understand how tough it is for an IT Head to choose from a pool of solutions, available in the market. Designing, developing and managing intranet portals are not only costly but also extremely time-consuming. Besides, it also requires time and money for maintenance

Delineating Top 4 Future Trends of Cloud Movement for 2017

By end of the year 2016, a lot of hype created towards cloud technology and its success, settled down as it already made way to “the most talked about topic” of global tech-town. Despite, much uncertainty regarding its success, slowly and gradually, the journey of cloud movement achieved a few milestones, spreading its wings across,

Azure Leads the Public Choice of Cloud: Survey 2017

In a hard-hitting battle between the big giants, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, the former seems to have garnered the crown of success, astonishing all, as per the latest survey released by the end of March 2017. It was carried out by the UBM Research center and authorized by Sumo Logic, data analytics provider.

Decrypting the Evolution of 365Appz-Sharepoint Accelerator Kit

Back in 2001 when Microsoft launched SharePoint, it revolutionized the whole concept of document management and content management. Its release was a solution to many of problems that business houses faced related to the complex tasks of document management. For clients, SharePoint had its own share of struggles from budgeting for high licensing procuring cost,

365Appz SharePoint Accelerator Kit – Most Preferred Choice for SharePoint Portal Development

SharePoint online or Office 365, though providing the best solution amongst the rival cloud solutions, still has the same concerns that the client had with the on-premise implementation. Designing and developing portals based on SharePoint is a troublesome task. The process is costly and takes months for completion. At the end of the day, it

New feature: Office 365 Connectors

Office 365 Connectors is a new Office 365 feature that enables premium user experiences by bringing relevant interactive content from popular apps and services to Office 365 Groups in a configurable and contextual manner. End users will be able to view, discuss, and interact with this content right alongside their normal conversations and perform simple

New Feature: Enhanced Automatic Replies (Out of office) capabilities

Enhanced Automatic Replies from Outlook on the web is a new Office 365 feature. You’ll begin seeing this new feature over the coming weeks as Microsoft rolls it out. How does this affect me? When users set an automatic reply (Out of office) message with an end date in Outlook on the web, Outlook can now

Microsoft is removing the RSS feature from the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard

Microsoft will be removing the RSS feature from the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard, in June. This feature is currently only available in the classic Office 365 Admin Center experience, and will not be added to the new Admin Center. How does this affect me? You will no longer be able to subscribe to RSS