Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Turning tiny insects into big data
In an effort to prevent outbreaks before they happen, researchers are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and then, using Microsoft Azure, they are able to analyze millions of samples of DNA in a matter of hours. How much more could your business achieve if you unlocked the full potential of your data? Reach out to Defensorem IT to find out how we can help.
Discover and protect sensitive data with Windows Defender ATP and Microsoft Information Protection
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Technology's Impact on Employee Experience: Balancing Overload Versus Enablement
Adopting technology in the workplace is a double-edged sword. It's key to maintaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace and increasing workplace productivity, but it can also compromise connection and lead to isolation.
Check out this article for tips on how to use technology to build a better individual employee experience and a more connected company culture.
Do you want help improving communication and teamwork in your company? You've come to the right place. Contact us at Defensorem ITto learn more.
Customer Story: Clifton Coffee Recap
From the start, leaders at Clifton Coffee Roasters (CCR) knew they wanted to go beyond just roasting coffee. They wanted to empower other coffee companies to succeed. Now they provide technical support, delivery service, and back-of-house training to coffee shops across the UK, in addition to providing all of the products needed to run a coffee company.
But it wasn't always that way. In the company's early days, the team had a difficult time coming together, with employees scattered across the UK and no reliable means to connect them. Once they adopted a teamwork solution to improve internal communication, teamwork became easy and the business took off. The rest is history.
Want to take cues from CCR's teamwork game? Contact us for help getting started.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Business Models
Business models are quickly changing in the age of AI. In this article, Jayshree Pandya of Risk Group writes about how the application and adoption of AI will revolutionize business and commerce. Still struggling to determine how AI can work for you? Contact us to learn more.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Is Your Computer Being Held Hostage? What to Do.
Ransomware attacks happen more than you think. Back up data; keep security up to date and take on those hackers! These are just a few of the tips you'll get when you read this blog by security, privacy and identify theft expert, Robert Siciliano. Advanced threat protection is important, too.
Is Your Email System as Advanced as its Attackers?
New exploits come out faster all the time. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection helps organizations stay ahead. Download and customize this infographic with your company logo. Then share it with customers and prospects to emphasize the costs and risks of cybercrime and the three ways Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection defends against unknown threats before data is compromised.
Unblocking Workplace Collaboration: 5 Tools and Strategies
Did you know that up to 80% of workers' time is spent on collaborative activities like responding to emails and attending meetings?
This guide to promoting a more collaborative workplace culture outlines common communication breakdowns in the modern workplace and provides strategies to help customers communicate and collaborate more effectively.
View: Unblocking Workplace Collaboration: 5 Tools and Strategies
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Managed Instance is a resource type in SQL Database that enables you to quickly and confidently move your SQL Server databases (2005 and newer) at scale to the cloud. Companies report a 212% return on investment by moving their SQL Server databases to Azure with less that 6 months post-migration payback. Read this infographic for more on how straightforward and economical migration can be.
Help customers bring teams and resources together with Microsoft technology
Digital teamwork tools are changing the way teams do business: Today, more than 30% of businesses use advanced communication tools in conference rooms.
With Teamwork solutions from Microsoft, you can facilitate better communication among your teams by using cloud-based email technology and calendaring services. You can also ensure that your teams are aligned with web conferencing and group chat. And that's just the beginning.
Contact us to see how your company can benefit from our enterprise-grade communication technology.
View: Help customers bring teams and resources together with Microsoft technology
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Five Benefits And Three Challenges Technology Can Bring To Global Companies
By now, you know that technology brings numerous advances in communication for your teams, but are you familiar with the most specific benefits teamwork technology has to offer? This article asserts that communication technology translates to faster communication, enhanced efficiency, and profit boosts for your employees, all essential components to connecting your teams and resources. Check out this article to learn more.
A Developer's Guide to Building AI Application
Like the vast majority of Nepalese, Melisha Ghimere came from a remote village from a family of subsistence farmers who raised cows, goats, and water buffalos. Seven years ago, she watched her relatively wealthy uncle and aunt lose a lot of their herd to an outbreak of anthrax; they were never to recover their economic footing. Melisha went on to college thinking about the plight of her family. In college, she worked to develop a predictive early warning solution to help farmers. With a team of four students, they researched livestock farming, veterinary practices, and spoke to farmers. They built a prototype for a monitoring device that tracks temperature, sleep patterns, stress levels, motion, and the activity of farm animals. Melisha's AI system predicts the likely health of each animal based on often subtle changes in these observations. Farmers are able to track their animals, receive alerts and actionable recommendations. Although her project is still in its infancy, the field tests have shown the solution was about 95% accurate in predicting risks to an animal's health. Melisha and her team were able to help a family prevent a deadly outbreak of an anthrax infection by identifying a diseased cow, before symptoms were evident to the farmer. Melisha's team was a regional finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition in 2016.* For more to inspire you to embrace AI, read this developer's ebook. Then contact us to find out how we can help make AI work for you!
* The Future Computed--Artificial Intelligence and its role in society--Microsoft
Quiz: How Secure Are You
Take this 10-question quiz to find out if your company is safe and secure or at risk to become a cybercrime victim.
Integral Analytics switches to Azure from AWS for high performance and cost-effective data warehousing
Darrin Kinney of Seattle City Light said, "Some of the biggest challenges are just collecting and handling the vast amounts of data." Now, using Azure SQL Data Warehouse, this energy-analytics firm cost effectively brings actionable insights to electric utilities. Watch this video to hear more.
Customer Story: Clifton Coffee | Bring Teams Together
Before switching to Teamwork solutions from Microsoft, employees at Clifton Coffee Roasters (CCR) would physically print out all documents, fill them out by hand, and then bring them into the office, where they would get scanned and entered into a computer. Sounds tedious, right?
Powered by Microsoft, CCR team members communicate better than ever. Now, their team members stay connected from almost anywhere in the world they are individually located. With flexible communication tools like Forms, employees can contribute and work together on shared documents from personal devices. No printing or scanning required.
Check out this video to learn how CCR connected their teams and resources with help from Microsoft solutions. And contact us to learn how you can too.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Creating world-class collaboration in a global team
Teams in today's modern workplace are often multi-office or even multi-continent affairs. As a result, team cohesion can challenge the best managers. In this Forbes article, "Creating world-class collaboration in a global team," learn how Kim DeLine, the COO for Elevate K-12, engages a distributed workforce in her role at the leading live streaming company in the education field.
With Microsoft Teams, you can connect across geographical and organization boundaries, run status updates and team building with remote workers via a cloud-based meeting solution, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing.
See how important it is to explain the "why" with a multi-cultural office and encourage an understanding of purpose during times of change.
Empowered By Technology, Wealth Managers Will Take Personalization To The Next Level
Technologies like machine learning that make sense of data and patterns are essential. So are the incisive analytics that can result from its use.
Crash course in Office 365: How it can help you grow your business
Your customers are probably already taking advantage of Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. But do they know that Office 365 gives them the capability to access content from any device, or allows them to leverage the power of AI to create more impactful content? Check out this guide for more on how Office 365 can help your customers protect their sensitive data and accomplish more in their workday.
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A day in the life - sales with Microsoft Teams
April, a sales rep, is looking to grow her company's Midwest customer base. See how she starts her day finding a lead in Microsoft Teams and then uses Dynamics and Power BI to dig out connections that turn that lead into an opportunity. By 5pm she now has a new resource to amp up more sales opportunities in the region.
Check out this infographic to see what deal building looks like with Microsoft Teams!
Create a connected guest experience with Microsoft technology
Employees who work with outside companies save time and money. With Teamwork solutions from Microsoft, they can easily share workspace, which results in $759,493 saved over three years. That's huge!
Now, you can deliver a cost-effective solution that will allow you to easily work with teams outside of your company. And, you can secure and preserve company data when sharing information with external users. Check out this infographic--which shows industry trends, pain points, and proof points--to learn more.
View: Create a connected guest experience with Microsoft technology
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