Monday, May 31, 2021

Security Analytics and Operations: Industry Trends in the Era of Cloud Computing

Turn your organization to cloud-based security and address data capacity and infrastructure requirements to solve cloud challenges. Subscribe here!

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Maturity of effort infographic

Microsoft promotes a mature view of risk analytics. This infographic details the tiers of maturity many organizations must work through before reaching an advanced degree of security.

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Modernize your supply chain with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

Automate and streamline your supply chain with advanced warehouse and inventory management to improve fulfillment, material sourcing, and logistics. Discover how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can modernize business logistics, deliver proactive customer responses, and unify processes from sales to fulfillment.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

How to avoid cloud migration pitfalls

While most businesses rely on the cloud for their storage and innovation needs, many are not using it to its full potential. Most businesses are only at the beginning of their cloud journey. This article from Forbes explains how to develop a full vision and plan for your future cloud migration and innovation.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

How Starbucks is using AI to improve the customer experience

At Microsoft's Build conference, Starbucks showed how artificial intelligence is helping them better predict what customers may be in the mood for by considering such factors such as weather, location, and user preferences.

Optimize financial operations and minimize loss from fraud

Microsoft optimizes financial operations while minimizing loss of revenue from fraud. Subscribe now!

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Adapt to supply chain disruptions and ensure business continuity during distress

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The new Anywhere Office

Employees may work from a different location every day - from the office, to home, to a customer site, or in the field. Help them work from anywhere with devices they love while reducing complexity for IT. Support your teams and simplify IT while they use the devices they love in the new Anywhere Office. Learn how Microsoft Surface devices enable your Anywhere Office with our new guide. Read the new Anywhere Office benefits guide.

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Dun & Bradstreet: Better decisions through data

Each day, Dun & Bradstreet receives 5 million database updates from over 30,000 global sources. This results in the world's largest commercial database, which can be used to improve business processes and make profitable decisions.

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Grocery chain in northern California and southern Oregon boosts customers relationships with custom app

A grocery chain needed a faster, more robust system for managing new product requests. Microsoft Power Apps was the solution. Quickly and easily developed in ten days, the new app not only saved time, but it also boosted revenue through streamlined, product-ordering flow. Find out why it's also popular with customers, and read their success story here:

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Leveraging Tech to Improve Customer Experience: 11 Smart Techniques

The importance of customer experience has taken off in recent years. As competition becomes the norm in many digital and application spaces, the interaction that the consumer has with a company becomes more important. CX is vital in helping a company retain its customers and grow its customer base through organic referrals. Luckily, technology offers several ways for businesses to improve their customer experience. In this article, 11 members of the Forbes Technology Council explain some techniques businesses can use to improve their customers' experience.

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Schneider Electric How Microsoft Teams helped create a successful HR marketing campaign

How open communication created a successful HR marketing campaign: Schneider Electric had already established a culture of diversity and inclusivity, and Microsoft helped to put on a lens on that for their HR marketing campaign. Using Teams provided the backbone for the preproduction work of commination, deciding ideas for production, and having the tools needed to share ideas and keep it all running smoothly. Teams has been the key tool used for the company to keep those collaborations and contributions going.

Microsoft Surface enables teamwork anywhere

Remote work is no longer just for frontline workers or a rare work-from-home day. In this new reality, office employees and organizations are adapting to remote work—and the workplace is being redefined. Our reliance on technology has intensified, and the progression toward digital transformation continues to accelerate to meet the needs of this new work environment. Contact us to learn how Microsoft Surface can help enable your teams, wherever they are. sales@dynamicsedge.com 8004535961

Transform your business with Azure migration

Learn why companies like Albertsons, H&R Block, and Carlsberg Group chose to migrate to Azure and how the move has helped them transform their businesses. Microsoft provides tools for successful migration that work flexibly within the company's chosen migration process. Microsoft data platforms provide scalability, high availability, and security to accelerate your journey.

Monday, May 24, 2021

Build applications without breaking the bank

This brief video shows how Microsoft Power Apps can engage employees, improve efficiencies, and solve unique business challenges, all while saving money. Cut down on maintenance costs with the fully managed platform and discover the impressive ROI numbers for further savings.

5 Reasons to Start Using Teams

Since its launch, Microsoft Teams has become the fastest growing app in Microsoft history with more than 330,000 companies worldwide using it. Learn new ways to use the app on a daily basis. Here are 5 reasons why you should start using Teams today for enhanced workplace connection and collaboration. Don't wait, collaboration brings innovation and success.

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Ste. Michelle Wine Estates ensures business continuity with Dynamics 365

With Microsoft, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates has been able to adapt easily to the disruption of COVID-19 and ensure business continuity. Dynamics 365 enabled them to completely change their distribution model to accommodate the increase in e-commerce and continue work seamlessly from home.

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Find lightning fast innovation, elastic scalability, cost savings, and better performance​

Windows .NET has a wealth of resources addressing key security concepts and shared responsibility within the cloud. Subscribe to find more resources to help you write more secure codes and learn how workload responsibilities are divided.

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Enhance supply chain visibility

Harness data in the cloud to uncover the insights needed to increase the resiliency of your supply chain. This infographic outlines five benefits of improving supply chain visibility.

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The Workforce of the Future eBook

New levels of connectivity and advanced technologies like AI enable businesses to process more data on a larger scale. AI plays one of the biggest roles—in terms of disruption and resulting opportunity—for our industry and our workforce. As we look to a future powered by a partnership between computers and humans, we must address these challenges head on: How will AI impact employment and jobs? How do we ensure that AI is designed, used, and governed responsibly? Explore answers to these questions and more in this valuable eBook.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Use your team's favorite O365 tools right within Teams

Use your team's favorite O365 tools right within Teams - including SharePoint, OneNote, Power BI, and Planner integration. Subscribe now!

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UFA modernizes vital retail and fueling solutions with SAP on Azure

The United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited (UFA) is a prominent agriculture Co-operative that supplies a variety of services and products to its customers. UFA hit a roadblock when its on-premises SAP infrastructure began slowing productivity and creating errors, so they approached Microsoft for help. UFA migrated their SAP to Microsoft Azure in just over a month, eliminating performance issues, reducing software implementation times, and gaining scalability.

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Leonard Cheshire supports people to live, learn, and work independently with the help of Power Apps and Dynamics 365

Leonard Cheshire is a major nonprofit that is removing barriers to independent living, learning, and working for people with disabilities. Using Microsoft Power Apps, the organization is building a complete, cohesive platform for modern, streamlined operations. After many years of disparate technologies, Leonard Cheshire staff now work on a common platform with a single view of the information they need. See their success story here:

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ROI Azure Synapse

This infographic shows how @Microsoft Azure Synapse brings Big Data and Data Warehousing together in a single service to provide limitless analytics.

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Microsoft Teams: How to link apps to your collaboration platform

This article provides helpful information on how to use Microsoft Teams tabs to link and host your apps or third-party programs. Teams gives you different ways to link applications to the platform -- from bots in a channel to tabs that link directly to online content or services. To see what you like best, try out tabs or create your own for both personal and channel options.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Fraud in the age of cybersecurity

In 2018, the World Economic Forum found that fraud and financial crime was a trillion-dollar industry-and it's still growing today. This thought leadership article highlights some startling statistics about the ubiquity of revenue loss from fraud and just how few businesses are fully protected against it.

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Redefining how you work and do business

Since the beginning, Surface has been known for versatile designs that enable people to work and create in new ways, with devices that fit seamlessly into the flow of your day. What started as the tablet that can replace your laptop, has grown into a portfolio of devices that meet a variety of work styles and needs. Where you and your employees work today may be different, but your need for power, performance, reliability, and versatility in your devices hasn't changed. The Surface portfolio is designed for the future of work by supporting flexible work environments and diverse roles within any organization. From 2-in-1 devices that enable greater mobility with 4G LTE, to powerful laptops for intensive tasks, Surface is designed to support work from anywhere. The Surface lineup makes sure your employees have the devices they need and the security you depend on. Learn how Microsoft Surface and Dynamics Edge can you help navigate how you work in these unprecedented times of change. Contact us. sales@dynamicsedge.com  8004535961 

Chipotle builds new website with .NET Core, Visual Studio Code, and Azure

Chipotle Mexican Grill is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. In this video, learn how Chipotle's ordering service is built in .NET to provide customers with a more efficient, coordinated service.

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Innovation for everyone

Overcome obstacles to innovation and see how Microsoft Power Apps modernizes the app creation process. Accelerate development to build apps without risk, deploy quickly, integrate data, and infuse AI. As IT moves towards low-code solutions, you can become an agile, data-first company with Power Apps. Learn how:

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The Role of AI and People Analytics in Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow

While investment in digital business solutions continues to increase, employees remain the lifeblood of every enterprise. This article from Forbes covers key ways AI and analytics help organizations hire the right people and train them for success.

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Monday, May 17, 2021

Decision criteria for building apps in Teams

This infographic shows decision criteria for building apps in Teams using the Developer Toolkit. Before you build it, ask yourself: Does it solve a real problem? How often will it be used? How many people will use it? What ROI does it provide? And once you decide to move forward and create your app, see how to amplify its reach with AppSource.

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Transformation potential infographic

Microsoft has the tools, resources, and experience to help your business manage financial risk while fighting against fraud. This infographic visually represents potential vulnerabilities and explains how fraud detection serves to eliminate them.

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Automate and streamline your supply chain

Modernize your supply chain with advanced warehouse and inventory management to improve fulfillment, material sourcing, and logistics. Discover how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can modernize business logistics, deliver proactive customer responses, and unify processes from sales to fulfillment.

Friday, May 14, 2021

Reduce costs with unbeatable offers

While innovation has supplanted cost savings as the primary driver of cloud migration for many businesses, moving to the cloud needs to make sense for your bottom line. Microsoft Azure offers unique cost savings options.

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Minimize loss of revenue associated with fraud

Microsoft helps you minimize loss of revenue associated with fraud and wrongful rejections. Subscribe now to learn more!

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Faster together: How citizens plus pros are reshaping app dev with low code

In this digital briefing, learn how IT teams are embracing citizen development within their organizations. Join the excitement surrounding low-code solutions among IT staff and explore best practices for creating teams that encourage collaboration between citizen and professional developers. Start your app journey here.

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Building Autonomous Systems with Microsoft AI

This video is a powerful example of how autonomous systems can be aligned to intelligently perform routine tasks. Toyota Material Handling partnered with Microsoft using AirSim (an open source simulation platform originally developed to teach drones or robots to learn in high fidelity simulated environments) to train a forklift on tasks like picking up a pallet. This video illustrates the vision for a future warehouse with pre-trained, intelligent forklifts assisting people in everyday activities.

Spotlight on Teams

Don't miss out on the latest technology news. This Forbes article outlines the latest announcements for the Teams Platform at Virtual Microsoft Build 2020. Key points include integration with Microsoft Power Platform and further opportunities with Power BI, Teams app development, and scheduling management improvements with the platform. Subscribe now.

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Reimaging the future of work with Microsoft Surface

Is your business feeling the impact of the changing workplace? Are your teams prepared to overcome the challenges in the shifting landscape of remote work?  Learn how Microsoft Surface and Microsoft 365 can help your teams be more productive and improve collaboration—all within a secure environment. Read the Microsoft Surface solution guide

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Reliable Electric: Power platform customer story

This case study tells the success story of Lars Peterson, a citizen developer and general manager at Reliable Electric in Canada. Teaching himself Power Apps, Microsoft Flow, and SQL, Lars built a simple but powerful app that accelerates the bidding process for electricians. Ultimately, his company replaced proprietary bidding software that cost $2,000 per seat, transforming the business and improving the bottom line. Learn how you can start saving, too.

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Supply chain maturity: Harnessing the power of data and AI

Over the next seven years, AI and Machine Learning will spur the industry toward supply chain maturity. This infographic outlines the various digital technologies respondents plan to invest in in the next three years, including analytics, AR/VR, and cloud.

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Introducing Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 and Surface Headphones 2+: Power, productivity, and peace of mind for all

As organizations navigate the right approach for their people and cultures, a hybrid workplace model is emerging. This means enabling collaboration and empowering employees with the right tools, all while keeping data secure. New Surface Laptop 4 and Surface Headphones 2+ are designed for the new world of hybrid work, offering benefits to both IT support and employees. Surface Laptop 4 • Simplify support with zero-touch deployment and unified management. • Optimize what you already use with devices designed for Microsoft 365. • Take advantage of the performance of the latest AMD Ryzen™ Microsoft Surface Edition and 11th Gen Intel® Core ™ processors. Surface Headphones 2+ • Share easily with simply replaceable dongles and earpads. • Improve collaboration with live captions1 and 8 high-quality mics. • Block distractions with 13 noise cancelling levels and premium audio. Surface Laptop 4 and Surface Headphones 2+ are built with forward-thinking technology to help organizations drive business forward with hybrid working. Contact us today to learn how the new Surface devices can bring value to your organization. sales@dynamicsedge.com 8004535961 1 Software license required for some features. Sold separately

Building an AI Powered organization

The business world is rapidly changing. It is estimated that AI will add $13 trillion to the global economy over the next decade-and yet from thousands of executives surveyed, only 8% of firms are adopting core practices that fully support implementation. Businesses arrive at progress slowly, reflecting a failure to rewire within the organization. This article from Harvard Business Review demonstrates how companies can make a successful shift to utilizing AI and setting themselves up for success.

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American Red Cross - Power Platform and Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Ignite 2019

The American Red Cross deploys a suite of Microsoft products to streamline operations, allowing them to focus on their core mission of alleviating human suffering. From sharing information and organizing work in Teams, to coordinating with other relief agencies through Microsoft Power BI during a disaster, watch this video for the full story.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Manage risk and reduce fraud solution overview video

Global losses from fraud topped $90 billion in 2018, with related costs near a crippling $175 billion. Unreliable processes, regulation and compliance, and many more issues add even more layers of risk to your organization. With Microsoft, you can protect your revenue with predictive data and smart automation to help optimize financial operations. Watch this video to see how Manage Financial Risk and Reduce Fraud solutions from Microsoft can help save you time, money, and your reputation.

Improve supply chain and cross-channel visibility as you enhance demand planning

With Microsoft, improve supply chain and cross-channel visibility as you enhance demand planning.

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Stay connected and collaborative with Microsoft Surface

The workplace has undergone profound and rapid change. Microsoft Surface supports diverse work environments and styles in an experience that enables connection and collaboration —all within a secure environment. Wherever and however you and your teams work, stay secure and get it all done with Surface devices. Surface devices deliver remote working solutions designed to bring people together. Contact us to learn more about Surface for Business. sales@dynamicsedge.com 8004535961

Five tips to help you save money and manage costs with Azure

Find out how you can take advantage of offers and tools to maximize your efficiency with Microsoft Azure. Watch this video to get 5 tips to help you save on costs and learn about the tools available to help you efficiently move to the cloud.

Leverage existing talent: empower your team to develop apps

This video shows how you can enable your current team to build application solutions with advanced functionality using Microsoft Power Apps. Its visual approach is intuitive and simple, yet flexible and powerful. This low-code platform has capabilities for both citizen and pro developers. Unleash your IT team to collaborate with fully supported end-to-end, low-code development. Learn more here:

Monday, May 10, 2021

2 Types of Artificial Intelligence

Bring the future into your business today with AI. Explore two types: Pre-Built and Custom Built. Pre-Built AI has cognitive services - deep learning cognitive capabilities ready to use (vision, speech, knowledge, translation, etc.), whereas Custom Built AI uses machine learning capabilities to analyze data to build and an artificial neural network to address specific problems not covered by Cognitive Services.

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This expert says business will secure stronger supply chains post-pandemic

This article from Forbes details the effects of the pandemic on companies that did not use intelligent supply chains. Insufficient data makes it difficult to recognize areas of the organization that are now at risk. Forbes Technology Council member Amit Ojha predicts that more businesses will leverage data to better prepare for disruptions in the future.

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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Cloud Migration Essentials: A guide to migrating servers and virtual machines

While migrating to the cloud offers your business greater scalability, cost-efficiency, and improved performance, it can require careful IT planning and strategy. Fortunately, there are resources and tools that can make your cloud migration less daunting and help simplify your path to the clou...

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Microsoft Analytics and AI spark innovation and enable endless opportunities for using your data to foster growth. Subscribe now!

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Breakthrough teamwork tools: 4 tips to identify what works for you

As a business leader, you need to make sure your organization provides collaboration tools that suit different personalities, skillsets, and needs. Individuality means that what works for one person or team may not work for another. You also need to accommodate the diverse workstyles of the multiple generations now in the workforce. This guide provides insights to succeed through communication, customization, integration and working in secure confidence. Subscribe here.

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Emerging data trends in supply chain management

This infographic visually describes the findings from a 2019 report, "putting customers at the center of the OEM supply chain." Ninety-nine percent of OEMs believe that the digital transformation of their supply chain is important to meeting their organization's strategic objectives.

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Meet the Power Apps Champions

Microsoft Power Apps empowers citizen developers to build and share custom, professional applications that solve their business challenges. In this blog, you'll see the stories of citizen developers who built apps and became Power Apps Champions.

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Transblue modernizes their business with Microsoft Teams & Microsoft 365

In this video, Transblue shares their modernization process from outdated paper processes to working in the cloud with up to date customer data with Microsoft 365.

Fashion retailer BESTSELLER trims fraud and loss with Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection

Like other brands across the industry, fashion retailer BESTSELLER needed a powerful solution to quickly identify and investigate potential sources of fraud and inventory loss in its thousands of stores across the globe. BESTSELLER used Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection to spot patterns of activity that suggested fraud and remedy the situation. After a successful pilot deployment, BESTSELLER rolled out Fraud Protection across its stores in Europe and eventually the world. The company projected that it saved millions of dollars as a result, while also boosting BESTSELLER's core value of trust.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Ullman Dynamics's migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Explore how Ullman Dynamics, the world leader in suspension seats, is transforming their business by migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the cloud.

Future Generali uses Microsoft AI to Deepen Customer Engagements

Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd. adopted the use of REVA, a chatbot built on the Microsoft Bot Framework, which plays a key role in driving insightful conversations with its customers. In this video, see how the company has already seen an increase in the customer satisfaction rate by 91%, which won them the Microsoft and CNBC TV18 #AIForAll award for leveraging AI for enhancing customer engagement.

Combatting financial crime infographic

In December 2018, five federal agencies in the US issued a joint statement encouraging banks to implement innovative approaches to transform fraud operations. As a recognized leader in security, Microsoft developed an advanced AI-powered fraud protection system to rise to the challenge. This infographic outlines how Microsoft uses AI to combat cyber and financial crime.

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Azure App Service

This infographic illustrates the world-class flexibility, security, integration, and reliability of Azure App Service - a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps.

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Samit Saini's Power Apps journey at Heathrow

This video captures the journey of Samit Saini, a security officer at London Heathrow Airport and who discovered Microsoft Power Apps. As a novice, he easily created useful, time-saving applications. Now, as a member of the IT team, he teaches others to do the same. See how Samit and Power Apps led digital transformation.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Manage financial risk and reduce fraud pitch deck

Microsoft is devoted to providing customers with reliable data forecasting and protecting against fraud vulnerabilities. This pitch deck includes key benefits, values, and statistics so you can navigate educating your customers. Focus sections include optimizing financial operations, revenue protection, adapting to risks, and reducing costs.

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Solution overview video

This video highlights how building a resilient supply chain with Microsoft can help your organization stay on track during a crisis, providing end-to-end visibility that allows for data-based decisions that improve response time.