Microsoft’s offerings for Non-for-Profit organisations
With Microsoft Cloud, your NFP can continue to focus on delivering your mission whilst also ensuring the organisation is growing and thriving with the help of this technology.
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Uncovering the art of developing information architecture for SharePoint online
Information Architecture is a critical and necessary step in the planning and preparation phase of any SharePoint implementation.
Working with Azure Synapse Analytics
A platform touted to be a cutting-edge initiative and an attempt to unify and make sense out of an exceedingly clogged space of Data & Analytics Platforms.
Intranet Employee Experience with Powell Software
How will the return to work affect companies and employees and what practices or methodologies will influence the next phase for business?
Overcoming the Challenges of Remote Working with Power Platform
Leveraging PowerApps in supporting your transformation
Intelligent IA for modern SharePoint Intranet
Having a solid Information Architecture is an important prerequisite for realizing a well-maintained and well-performing intranet.
Empowering your PowerApps – CDS to Dataflex Pro
Microsoft Dataflex delivers a built-in, low-code data platform and provides relational data storage, rich data types & enterprise grade governance.
Do more with Microsoft Lists
Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app that helps you track information and organise your work.
Considering MS Teams as your collaboration tool
If you work for an organisation that already uses O365, or in a company that’s been considering using
Utilising Office 365 investments while WFH
The outbreak and rapid spread of COVID-19, commonly known as corona virus, has prompted many
Are you Analytics driven organisation?
Microsoft released in March 2018, Common Data Service for Analytics (CDS for Analytics) to be used as part of
Leveraging Organisational data in PowerApps
Microsoft has released Common Data Service (CDS) for Power Apps Flow and Power BI. This Common Data service was the missing
Develop offline apps with PowerApps
The PowerApps has been very popular in recent times and customers have either developed solutions or starting to develop. Based on the feedback received so far,
How to harness data for business growth
The potential for data just keeps growing, and to take full advantage of this, you need to ensure both analytics and data-driven decision
How to make a case for the agile workplace
The world around us is changing at a rapid pace, and as a result, business environments are becoming increasingly complex and
The power of AI and deep learning for business
With the amount of data businesses collect and have access to, it’s safe to say that we are living in an age of data and analytics. To some,
The winning formula: 5 essential elements that form the basis of successful digital transformations
Over time, we’ve seen advances in technology change the landscape of business – you only need to look at the industrial revolution to see what we’re talking about. And today, the landscape of business is being changed again, this time by digital technologies, with research by McKinsey showing that digitisation is having a comparable impact.…
The advantages of using Microsoft Teams
We have now been talking about Microsoft Teams in some of our previous posts.
Do you wonder whether it’s justified?
Have you heard all the hype about Microsoft Teams?
Using Microsoft Bots in your organisation
It seems like bots are popping up everywhere. From messenger bots on Facebook through to Twitter bots that can respond to an
Back to Basics – Why your company should be utilising an Intranet?
And yes you are correct while so much has been written on this topic, it still remains an interesting conversation especially in context
From Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams was made generally available to all O365 customers in March 2017. Since then it has become very popular with its capabilities to bring and bind various O365 features together while providing a chat based collaboration platform for organisations.
Digital Workspaces – Supporting our Agility
As we commence another year of accomplishments, learning and improvements, it’s very clear that technology driven and
Are you contented with your Intranet content
To begin with – A big salute to all Intranet content authors, you all are awesome!!! We have all read of one of the below – Content is the King !!! Best Intranets keep their users engaged with refreshed content!! Effective Intranets regularly audit their content – ROT !!!!! … and may more All of…
Empower your enterprise applications with PowerApps
Microsoft has been coming out with helpful productivity tools in the way of apps for office 365, including Planner, Flow and Delve, to name a few.
Go with the Flow (Microsoft Flow)
Microsoft Flow is a key component, helping to tie together the Microsoft cloud services (Office 365), as well as non-Microsoft cloud services. It allows end users to automate business processes through workflows that can be created without any coding skills by simple templates and drag and drop functionality. This is going to open…
Using Delve in your organisation
Office 365 based Delve is a cloud-based service which helps users find and discover pertinent information across integrated Microsoft products by pulling user content from Exchange (Emails), OneDrive for Business (File Share), SharePoint 2016 (Collaboration) and Yammer (Chat). In addition to traditional search tools, Delve has a discovery function, which brings potentially relevant information to…
Collaboration Simplified – Microsoft Teams
Microsoft announced last September its newest addition Microsoft Teams – the new chat based workspace for office 365. Microsoft Teams is an entirely new experience that brings together people, conversations and content along with the tools that teams need to collaborate on. Teams is Microsoft’s take on chat-based communication for business, its answer…
Office 365 Collaboration APPS
Digital is constantly evolving and bringing along positive changes to the organisation. New tools are being rolled out to support staff productivity and enhance collaborative working across teams. Embracing change and communicating benefits forms one of the biggest challenges. The Microsoft ecosystem is no exception. With SharePoint and Office 365, we now have a complete…
Electronic Signatures – what do you need to know?
Organisations plans for going paperless will come to a screeching halt when you need to get someone’s signature on a document. That process typically involves printing the document, signing it yourself, faxing it to the other party, and waiting for them to print, sign, and fax it back—where it’s printed yet a third time and filed…
Digital Workspaces for Not for Profit Organisations
NFPs are embracing the digital pathway to better support their staff in maximizing donor interactions and fundraising.Raising funds and
Governing your SharePoint – Part (1 of 5)
SharePoint Governance has become bigger than it actually has to be. It can almost be compared to the burden of carrying the heavy iron on your shoulder. When starting your SharePoint project, you will be hearing about how SharePoint Governance Plan is crucial for success, but no one tells you how to build it. While…
Key to successful SharePoint based solutions
Successful projects deliver the desired benefits and outcomes. We have been talking to various organisations and here are some lesson learned. Usually the complaints range from – “my application runs very slowly”, “there are too many sites and we don’t know why and who is using it”, “not many people are using the application” & “it is a…
Intranet your Digital Oasis
Intranets have been around for more than few decades and have evolved like any other business solution..They are no longer set of static page
Document Management – The Basics
Let’s face it, talking about document control or document management is probably not a topic you would pick to discuss at any gathering. However, understanding document management can make a major impact for your organisation. In this article we will cover the fundamentals of document management. In a nutshell, document management is the capture, storage…
Pathway to Support staff productivity using Bots
For years organisations have been working on finding innovative ways to help support and enhance staff productivity. This includes fine tuning business processes, strengthening employee engagement, aligning business models, staff moral boosts, investing in systems that provide timely information for people to make decisions and now systems that can make decisions for people on the…
It’s not a race: Transitioning to O365
Transitioning to Office 365 is not a race and needs appropriate analysis and structured approach. Office 365 provides amazing set of services and applications that supports
SharePoint Extranet
Technology has speeded up the communication process both within an organisation and outside it. With Intranet portal, organisations can now share documents, information, events and news across all departments within their organisation. If created with the right strategies in mind, the Intranet portal can enhance the productivity as well as the service quality in the…
Intranet for Millennial
Various studies have revealed that by the year 2020 millennial will be 50% of the workforce. Lately there has been lot of emphasis put on study of Millennial in the workforce, their style of working, likes/dislikes and probably so because millennial are more numerous than their previous generations and that makes them a very important…
And the new Intranet is called . .
Intranets today are place to do things a tool that supports collaborative work practices allowing employees to achieve outcomes. They can truly engage your employees and connect them with company’s information and various systems. Naming your intranets forms one of many important aspect of your Adoption and change management exercise. It forms the part of…
Quality Assurance for Office 365 Projects
Organisations today are increasing their focus on Quality Assurance for obvious reasons. Cost optimisation remains high on agenda for most and early efforts to thoroughly conduct QA checks before moving to production can help a long way. The modern technologies and software allows for a magnitude of functionalities available as part of their product sets…
Knowledge and Documents Management Trends in 2016
Knowledge and Documents Management Trends in 2016 Organisation culture and engagement We all know that solutions don’t succeed just based on best of breed technology selection rather its the people and culture that make them usable & useful. Knowledge and Document Management solutions requires an ongoing commitment from senior management team as well as the end…
Facilitate Knowledge Management with Enterprise Social
Organisations are now producing unprecedented amounts of information. Better managing of this information and knowledge has always been a strategic initiative for many. The volume of data has created an urgent and growing need to manage information effectively so it contributes to improved efficiency, optimised business processes, compliance and overall competitiveness. Rise of powerful consumers…
Dock your Docs using SharePoint DMS
Documents form the basis of organisational information assets and links key processes to the people who perform and manage them. Efficient managing of the organisational documents & information has now become an unavoidable problem and a top priority for many. Every organisation has their own way of managing information assets. This can be anything from…
User Adoption
So your team has been working hard over last few months working on the best technical solution, you have leveraged the best solution architecture, ensured project management best practices and have developed a solution with great user interface which is super easy to use and now the solution is about to go live.So your team…
Cloud Management
The digital universe is growing and getting cloudy. More organisations are adopting to the changing landscapes and moving from on premise data centers to the cloud. Research predicts that by 2017 cloud computing will grow to approx. 105 billion+. As a decision maker for the organisation, it’s your duty to plan for an informed and…
Information Management
The need for improved efficiency, compliance requirements and the desire to deliver new services to users is driving Information Management initiatives It is complex due to the many sources of data and there is not a simple solution for all needs It is not just about technology, it is about business processes and making information…