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The quality of life for many people today is much better than it was 20 years ago. Bill Gates is bullish on tech that focuses on improving happiness and living conditions around the world. He believes that focusing on improved well-being in the next 20 years can fight back disease and other world problems. Read More...

"Good CRMs will not make you drool in admiration or write a pretty sonnet, but the bad ones will drive you and your employees crazy." CRM systems are a necessary component of being proactive in managing your business. These seven signs are a great way to assess whether your CRM solution is not just meeting expectations but empowering your organization to focus on putting the customer first. Contact us to learn how you can create connected interactions and improve efficiency for your customers and employees. Read More...

It's been a long road, but Security and IT teams are making great progress in terms of collaboration, according to a new Dark Reading survey of IT and cybersecurity professionals. Dark Reading tracks progress year-to-year and reported an impressive positive movement in terms of how teams view each other, but still saw room for improvement around disparate tools (leading to silos of data) and inadequate visibility in the cloud. Read this blog on key findings from the survey and for a better understanding of why Security and IT collaboration is so important. Read More...

Identifying cyber security attacks can be harder than you think. Phishing is a stealthy attempt to trick you into giving up your personal information by pretending to be someone you know. Take this quiz to see if you can you tell what's fake. Read More...

One in five organizations have lost customers as a result of a cyberattack. Nearly 30% have lost revenue, with the average cost of a single data breach reported to be $4 million. At the same time, 74% of IT leaders say security concerns hold them back from moving to the cloud. What about you? Get the real story. Here are four common myths about cloud security and facts about the Microsoft cloud. View: Exposing the Top 4 Myths of Cloud Security

Communication and connection are key to quality of life. Steve Gleason, the famed NFL safety, demonstrates this daily. He has ALS and is no longer able to speak. He uses Microsoft technology and advanced eye tracking software to communicate with his family and the world. Your business can use technology to digitally transform. Contact us to learn how you can connect people, data, and processes in the cloud to achieve more.

With the end of support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 fast approaching, your company's sensitive data is at risk -- a risk compounded by the skyrocketing number of employee devices. Confirming this trend are findings from the World Trade Report and a Kaspersky Lab Study showing 50% of small businesses have suffered a data breach costing an average of $120,000. Without the right tools, how would your company respond to a major breach? Going modern with Microsoft can help. Specifically, it enables you to increase productivity and security, while reducing costs. This infographic provides more industry trends and customer stories. Check it out to better understand the risks and why Windows 10 and Office 365 are the right solutions to address them. View: Increase Productivity and Security with Windows and Office

A work week in the life of an IT professional revolves around defending, protecting and securing IT systems. A complete, intelligent solution including Office 365, Windows 10and Enterprise Mobility + Security, Microsoft 365 empowers IT heroes to depart for the weekend with peace of mind.  Check out the innovative tools in Microsoft 365 that help protect business data, enhance threat protection, guard against accidental sharing of sensitive information, protect data in cloud applications and improve compliance. View: Week in the Life of IT heroes

This article published in Forbes addresses the risks posed by suspicious email attachments. It highlights the five file types attached to the majority of malicious emails and gives tips on how to identify them by file extension. Read More...

More than 446 million records were exposed in over 1,200 data breaches within the SMB space in 2018. How secure is your business? Check out this article for four tips to accelerate business growth and remain secure. Read More...

According to a recent survey, more than 90% of customers said they would consider taking their business elsewhere rather than work with a company that uses outdated technology. The solution? A single, integrated system that can grow with you. Let us help you assess your current solution and help find the right system for you. View: Don't miss another post! Subscribe now.

Need a simpler way to approach your cloud migration? Start with an honest assessment of your environment to determine what you have and whether it's a good candidate for moving to the cloud. Next, choose your migration strategy and the approach you'll use. Once you've completed your migration, you can begin to optimize for best results. Want a little help along the way? Contact us to learn how we can help you navigate the migration process and identify the strategy that best suits your needs. View: Azure Migration Guide for Windows Server

When it comes to ensuring business continuity with a reliable disaster recovery solution, small business owners often postpone projects rather than take timely action. This eBook addresses the problem with a look at the real costs of IT disasters, risk assessment tips and recommendations for setting priorities. View: Is Your Business Ready for the Worst?

According to a recent report, 30% of organizations lose revenue during a cyberattack. Businesses can help protect themselves against cyberattack by ensuring they have automatic security updates. Tools like Azure make it easy to conduct maintenance with automatic application of the latest security patches. At [*$profile.organization*], we can help you find the right solutions to fit your security needs. Contact us today to learn more. View: SQL Server VMs run better on Azure than AWS

When Think Up Consulting, a brand strategy and change management firm, introduced Microsoft Teams, it was a big shift for the organization from a collaboration standpoint. They brought file sharing, team chat and project management together using Teams as the main hub for each project. With Teams, Think Up is creating a central hub, and with Office 365, they have a complete unified solution. By adopting Windows 10 and Office 365, Think Up customers have the reassurance and confidence of security. We can help you do the same. Contact us to learn more.

Microsoft Threat Experts is an additional layer of expertise and optics Microsoft customers can utilize in Microsoft 365 to augment security operations.

Since 1975, Climatec has been a leading provider of energy solutions and building technologies. As the company grew, it found it needed a single, all-encompassing solution to connect multiple offices, adapt easily to business processes and support employees out in the field. Climatec chose a Microsoft solution for field service to help it organize and automate business processes while also equipping employees with the data they need to deliver exceptional customer service. Bringing in the right technology to enable employees creates better customer experiences. Let us help you drive intelligent optimization and empower your organization.

This video uses humor to emphasize the importance of choosing a cloud data storage vendor you can trust to manage, migrate and secure data.

Businesses are adopting hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud strategies for many reasons, including application and data portability, multi-year 100% uptime, and avoiding vendor lock-in. If you plan to adopt a new cloud strategy, consider bringing on professional help. At Five Nines IT Solutions Inc., we have years of experience helping businesses just like yours to plan and implement new hybrid-cloud solutions. Contact us to learn more. Read More...

What steps have you taken to create an internal team of security champions to support your security strategy? The idea is to create "front-line support". @iiamit writes, "These advocates know their businesses better than any of my security engineers could, and they are deeply embedded in their organization's culture. And, as a result, they can provide the best context for security decisions. Our role is to equip them with our services and security expertise." Read More...

"Data offers us so many competitive advantages--time savings, customer insights, increased efficiencies. It helps us better target our customers, personalize our marketing efforts and create new products our customers really want." When companies learn how to fully-utilize data to drive organizational decision-making, that's when the magic happens. In fact, organizations embracing digital transformation generate an average of $100M more income each year. Let us help you get started. Read More...

Don't let the upcoming end of support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 put productivity and customer data at risk. Go modern with Microsoft to unlock and foster better collaboration, remain secure and reduce costs. Subscribe now to learn how Microsoft can help you go modern with advanced security and device management capabilities that increase productivity and safeguard business. View: Don't miss another post! Subscribe now.

Microsoft 365 and the intelligent cloud can help you protect, detect and respond to today's modern security landscape. As a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, Microsoft 365 helps you address new risks and opportunities and drive digital transformation to empower everyone from the executive office to first-line workers. Contact us to get started today! View: Is your company secure?

InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG) has over 5,000 locations around the world. With so many locations and on-premises legacy systems, IHG struggled to bring new technology to market quickly. That's why they adopted the cloud, which added control and a wallet-friendly price point. With a cloud-first model, you can bring new tech to customers faster and drive topline revenue growth just like IHG. Interested in learning more? Contact us today to find out how we can help you migrate to the cloud.

Think Up Consulting is a young, fast-growing agency based in Greenville, South Carolina. The agency specializes in brand strategy, change management and strategic consulting to help global brands make deep, lasting connections with customers. For Think Up, the ability to ensure seamless communication and reliable security while maximizing productivity are musts. To support these priorities, the company chose Office 365 to streamline internal processes and dramatically reduce the number of emails employees send. A forward-thinking company, Think Up continues to explore and adapt new technology to help increase employee efficiency and better meet its customer's needs. We can help you do the same. Contact us to learn more.

This product brief provides an overview of the security settings and monitoring capabilities that enable Office Protect to bring peace of mind to Microsoft Office 365 customers and why their importance to SMBs. View: Easy Management Solution for Your Office 365 Customer's Security

Dynamics 365 for Field Service enables businesses to move from reactive to proactive field service by bringing together IoT and AI with Field Service. It leverages advanced analytics, machine learning and the Internet of Things to move organizations from a costly break-fix model to a never-fail service model. Redefine service with Dynamics 365 and enhance your customers' experiences. Contact us today to get started! View: Redefine service through Connected Field Service

As you embrace the opportunities presented by cloud and mobile computing to connect with customers and optimize operations, you take on new risks. Subscribe now to stay informed on digital transformation challenges and how Five Nines IT Solutions Inc. can help ensure security, privacy & compliance with Microsoft 365. View: Don't miss another post! Subscribe now.

As the motion picture industry shifts to compute-intensive high definition, a top digital studio, Jellyfish, found that their rendering times in on-premises servers were driving costs up and productivity down. To combat the issue, Jellyfish turned to Azure for its open source capabilities, cost savings, and superior support. Contact us today to learn more about migrating your on-premises computing needs to the cloud and begin your path to increasing productivity and cutting costs. View: Cloud lessons learned: Four companies that migrated Windows Server

IDC calculates the need for data storage capacity across all media types over the next four years will exceed the entire amount of data shipped over the past 20 years. With an exponential increase in data storage capacity required by many businesses, companies are looking for cost-saving options. With platforms like Azure, your business can save during every stage of cloud migration. Contact us today to learn how we can help. View: Increase business productivity with Windows Server and Azure

Microsoft 365 unified endpoint management (UEM) is the most secure, flexible approach to managing Windows 10 and other mobile devices in your modern workplace. Combining the strengths of Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager, it is the simplest way to cloud-connect your existing management infrastructure and reduce overall complexity, empowering end user productivity and enhancing device security. Contact us to learn how you can keep your data and employees' mobile devices secure with Microsoft 365.

Honeywell has always been known for making "things." Thanks to the power of data and Dynamics 365, it now makes connected things -- leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive innovation and deliver more value to customers. "Honeywell has always made great products," says Scott Harkins, Vice President of Honeywell's IoT Partner Programs, Connected Homes. "Now we make great products that are connected. And this connectivity unlocks a whole new relationship with our consumers. For the first time, we're learning from massive numbers of consumers how they use our products and what's of interest to them. And we can inform them when we add new features." How can you harness the full power of data? With Dynamics 365, you can deliver predictive and proactive service that improve customer experiences and empower employees. Five Nines IT Solutions Inc. can help. Contact us today to get started. Read More...

More and more organizations are discovering the value of an all-in-one system for sales engagement. As a result, these new platforms are taking over the industry and revolutionizing the way sales are being conducted. Find out everything from the current status of sales engagement technologies to what to expect in the future in this article. Read More...

In a recent Accenture survey of IT executives, 58 percent of those surveyed experienced 2 to 3 major IT outages over the past decade. Cloud migration can help prevent outages, increase security protections, and cut costs. When it comes to database migration, some IT pros fear data loss. That's why it's important to migrate to a platform that can handle your data storage needs--like Azure. Contact us today to learn how we can help you prevent outages with a tailored cloud migration plan. Read More...

This solution brief highlights the features and benefits of the Smart Office 365 Bundle including tools for productivity, security, backup and eLearning. View: Be Smart About Your Business Productivity

This solution brief provides an overview of Office Protect, a security add-on from SherWeb that integrates with Microsoft Office 365 to automate security by easily activating 7 settings. View: Office 365 Security Best Practices

Their customers look to Park Place Technologies to show them what's on the cutting edge of technology. Park Place does this in part by employing workers who have an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit then providing them with leading-edge tools like Dynamics 365. Check out this video to learn more about their strategy and their journey. Read More...

Australian National University is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 genomic research institutions. As pioneers of genomic research, they are growing the number of samples they use. As a result, their data and storage needs are growing, too. That's why cloud platforms like Azure are important for their research. With faster analysis and on-demand scaling, researchers can focus more on their projects and less on IT. Contact us today to learn more on how we can help you save time and scale.

This video provides an introduction to the top features and benefits of QuickHelp -- an exclusive eLearning platform that SherWeb partners can offer customers as a free add-on to Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions.

With Microsoft, security can be simple once again. Microsoft 365 provides an intelligent security hub that works seamlessly across platforms, going far beyond Microsoft to Linux, Mac and others -- so you can manage mission-critical workloads with existing tools at your fingertips. Contact us to learn how Microsoft 365 helps keep your organization secure and productive.

With its customized stair lifts, thyssenkrupp has long helped people with physical limitations live comfortably and independently in their homes. Before Microsoft HoloLens, the process of selling, designing, building and installing lifts was time-consuming -- involving a laborious system of labels, cameras and manual data entry. With Microsoft HoloLens, thyssenkrupp has revolutionized its home mobility solutions with processes that are faster, easier and more helpful for customers. Watch this video to discover how.