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Watch For These 5 Announcements at Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference opened this morning in Orlando, Fla., bringing together customers, partners and MVPs. Over 700 sessions, multiple product roadmaps and product releases will fill the next five days.
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Digital Workplace Development Fueled by the Cloud
Two themes emerged on the first day of the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in London. First, enterprises are still unclear what a digital workplace means. Second, digital workplaces have more to do with the people working in them than the technology they use.
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Akumina Launches Project-Based Collaboration for Office 365
Akumina announced today version 4 of its digital workplace software platform, including new capabilities designed for project-based collaboration. The new capabilities come in the form of Workspaces, a project-based collaboration platform, which Akumina officials said goes beyond team-based collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams.
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Where Office 365 and Groups Fit in Your Collaboration Approach
Do you remember when the geeks referred to Microsoft as the "Evil Empire"? I was one of them. I've been working with SharePoint since it was invented, and let's just say we've had a tumultuous and troubled relationship in the years since.
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Microsoft Sunsets GigJam Collaboration Tool Before Full Release
Microsoft announced on Aug. 22 that it will kill off its "spontaneous and ephemeral" GigJam collaboration tool before it reaches general release. GigJam Release Microsoft released GigJam in preview in June 2016, promising a new approach to collaboration: “GigJam is a product coming to Office 365 later this year for
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Office 365 Productivity Grows When Employees Become Evangelists
With the Office 365 platform, everyone’s productivity is directly proportional to the depth of adoption and the number of users within your organization. Put another way, the more people in your organization who use Office 365 and its constituent applications, the more valuable the entire software suite becomes.
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Microsoft Touts AI Technology Paradigm With 'Intelligent' Cloud, Edge
Microsoft drove home its visionary shift to an "Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge" in its annual report released Aug. 2. Microsoft officials, in their company's annual report submitted last week at the beginning of its new financial year, expanded on what CEO Satya Nadella described earlier this year as a
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9 Tips for Selecting a SharePoint Intranet-in-a-Box
The concept of a pre-built SharePoint intranet or an "intranet In-a-box" emerged roughly three years ago. At the time, there were only a handful of options on the market. Today, well over 26 options offer a variety of functionality, architecture, design and services.
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Making the Case for Third Party Office 365 Integrations
Office 365 is the default email client for companies worldwide. These same companies often default to using the platform as a tool for workflows and task management. While the platform offers functionality in both areas, there’s a pretty big gap between where it is now, and where it could be.
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Microsoft Adds to Bigger Productivity Picture With Latest Releases
Microsoft is not resting on its laurels despite the success of Office 365 in the face of competitors like G Suite. Consider the figures. G Suite claims 3.5 million paid businesses, according to Constellation Research analyst Alan Lepofsky, while Microsoft says it has more than 100 million.
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How SharePoint Communication Sites Impact Governance
Microsoft recently released SharePoint communication sites for Office 365 which enable organizations to quickly create great looking sites that can communicate information through a combination of images, static and dynamic content. For many organizations, the ability to create SharePoint communication sites without the need for IT is a huge win.
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Microsoft Earnings Show Satya Nadella's Cloud, Services Gamble Paying Off
There’s nothing like a balance sheet to show how successful an enterprise strategy is or isn’t. Yesterday's fourth quarter earnings indicate Microsoft has shrugged off the inertia that marked the final year of former CEO Steve Ballmer's reign. They also show current CEO Satya Nadella’s gamble on the cloud is
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Microsoft 365 Combines Office and Windows for the 'New Culture of Work'
Satya Nadella sent out a strong message on day one of Microsoft Inspire, the Microsoft partner conference taking place July 9 to July 13 in Washington, D.C.: unity and cloud. The message is nothing new for Nadella: it echoes the Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge mantra he introduced at
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Satya Nadella Sets a Course for Microsoft's Future at Inspire
Microsoft wants to own the workplace — enterprise, midsize, small business, connected — so this morning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a number of new products, updates and features aimed at helping "every person and every organization to achieve more.
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