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Tag: office 365 (page 8)
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Outlook Remains a Viable Collaboration Tool
Email remains very much the center of many organization's collaboration strategy. Microsoft is trying to make it more productive
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How Skype in Teams Aims to Streamline Collaboration Efforts
Microsoft announced it would phase out Skype for Business and roll the functionality into Teams during its Ignite conference this September. At the time Microsoft indicated it would publish a roadmap outlining how the process of rolling the two together would unfold.
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Is Microsoft Teams the 'Portal' We've Been Looking For?
On day one of Microsoft Ignite, the company announced its Teams collaboration product would become the “hero client” for all communications functionality in Office 365 going forward. Teams will subsume the functionality of Skype for Business for Office 365 users, bringing voice, video calling and even plain old telephone services
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Satya Nadella Shares Vision of AI-Powered Digital Transformation at MSIgnite
Satya Nadella put all of the product announcements, roadmaps, tech trends and more into perspective during his keynote speech at Microsoft’s Ignite conference taking place Sept. 25 to 29 in Orlando, Fla.
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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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