Five Nines IT Solutions

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

Surface and partner devices allow your workforce to connect in the office, from the classroom, or on the go. This video highlights the features and benefits your organization can enjoy when you equip your team with Microsoft.

Learn how to manage infrastructure more easily, innovate faster, and improve security using the hybrid cloud. Read this one-pager to get guidance on using three fundamentals to create your hybrid cloud strategy: networking, identity and access management, and security. Read More...

Launch apps right away with Microsoft Power Apps. Pre-built templates and drag-and-drop simplicity give you the power to build apps now. When your business needs quick app deployment to keep ahead of the curve, Power Apps offers three easy ways to make your ideas a reality—using a blank slate, a data-driven model, or a template. See how you can get started: View: Three ways to make an app

Discover how Azure Government provides government agencies and their partners world-class security, protection, and compliance through cloud services. In this video, Keenan Skelly talks about the benefits of a scalable, AI-powered, gamified, persistent cybersecurity training environment on the strength of Microsoft Azure.

This five-minute video provides an overview of how data can play a vital role in your nonprofit to make sure your organization is operating efficiently and effectively. Read More...

This brief video shows how Microsoft Power Apps accelerates the process for building custom applications. Learn how to turn your creative ideas into a mobile or web application quickly. Instead of months, Power Apps can help you get your app up and running in a few hours. The simple drag-and-drop elements and pre-built templates accelerate app development. Learn how to build and deploy apps fast to extend value and agility for your business.

A great online shopping experience begins with great software. That's why Alaska Airlines uses Microsoft Azure and Windows Server Containers to launch new e-commerce features faster. Travelers get new offers sooner, which translates to happier customers and increased revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can scale more easily and ensure its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.

This eBook discusses the ways in which the modern workplace is evolving and how Microsoft Surface equips you to respond. View: Welcome to Microsoft 365 and Surface Ebook

Turn your organization to cloud-based security and address data capacity and infrastructure requirements to solve cloud challenges. Subscribe here! View: Security Analytics and Operations: Industry Trends in the Era of Cloud Computing

This infographic shows how Microsoft Azure Synapse brings big data and data warehousing together in a single service to provide limitless analytics.   View: ROI Azure Synapse 

Learn how Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is leveraging Azure Machine Learning to help match animals with their forever-families. Read More...

This infographic details three simple ways to migrate web applications to Azure App Service. Bring your code, bring your container, or use the Migration Assistant tool. View: Migrate Web Apps

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.

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: Read More...

This eBook provides a step-by-step guide for building and deploying scalable deep learning and machine learning models using serverless architectures with Azure. Learn to code machine learning into your projects using Python and pre-trained models that include image and speech recognition and classification. Explore issues around deployment and continuous delivery, including scaling, security, and monitoring. View: Building Intelligent Cloud Applications

See how East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) has transformed the way they engage with staff and patients using Microsoft Teams and Surface devices to deliver on their #TimeMatters digital program.

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. Read More...

Whether you want to spend a bit of time every day to master the core concepts of Azure or use it to narrow your focus—this resource will be invaluable to the immediate and future needs of your nonprofit organization. You're welcome to read the entire Learn Azure in a Month e-book, but we'd like to direct you to Part 4, which begins on page 267, titled "The Cool Stuff." This section breaks down the most important Azure concepts into bite-sized lessons with exercises and labs—along with project files available in GitHub—to reinforce your skills. It covers how to integrate key technologies, including containers and Kubernetes, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the Internet of Things. View: Learn Azure in a month of lunches

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.

The hybrid capabilities from Microsoft Azure fuel innovation and delivers great business outcomes to companies such as, J.B. Hunt, KPMG, Allscripts, and Chevron. By meeting them where they are, Microsoft improves the cloud migration experience and helps companies reduce overall costs. Watch to learn how these Fortune 500 companies used Microsoft Azure to power their hybrid cloud strategies and move their businesses forward.

Bring the future into your organization today with AI. Pre-Built AI has cognitive services—deep learning cognitive capabilities ready to use, such as vision, speech, knowledge, translation, etc. Custom AI uses machine learning capabilities to analyze data to build artificial neural networks to address specific problems not covered by cognitive services. This infographic explores these two types of artificial intelligence. View: Two types of artificial intelligence

This infographic highlights the benefits that make Surface the top choice for today's organizations and employees. View: Transforming the way we work

Learn from three Microsoft customer success stories to understand how to make a valid business plan for your cloud migration. This article describes each way J.B. Hunt, H&R Block, and A.P. Moller - Maersk are using Microsoft to move their applications and systems to Azure. Read More...

Microsoft Tech for Social Impact recently launched the Nonprofit Data Warehouse Quickstart, a script-to-deploy data warehouse solution that integrates sample datasets to help nonprofits modernize their data estate. Read More...

The efficient leanness of supply chains before COVID-19 caused damage during the disruption. To counter this risk, Forbes advises adapting your supply chain to become flexibly risk-free. Efficiency does not always equal resiliency. Read More...

Maximize the value of Microsoft Teams for your business. Get started today to adopt the latest features into your organization. Subscribe now! View: Subscribe now!

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. View: The Workforce of the Future eBook

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

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: Read More...

Data is being generated at an exponential speed. Organizations all over the world are migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure teaches all that you need to extract useful insights by analyzing your big data. This e-book covers the power of data with big data analytics, the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. It also delves into data analytics by studying a use case that focuses on creating actionable insights for a company from its near-real-time data. With this e-book, you will gain a solid understanding of data analytics on Azure and its practical implementation. View: Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure 

Discover how Descartes, a global leader in logistics and supply chain solutions, helps keep goods flowing smoothly for businesses. Descartes wanted to move its MacroPoint solution to the public cloud to provide greater flexibility for customers and to focus internal resources on extending product value. After choosing Microsoft Azure as its preferred platform, the company successfully migrated the solution to Azure SQL Database.

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. Read More...

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: View: Innovation for everyone

Discover the benefits of migrating from Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications that are housed on-premises to Dynamics 365 in the cloud. Copper State Bolt and Nut Co. sells over 125,000 fasteners, bolts, and nuts every month. By moving to the cloud-based application, Copper State Bolt and Nut Co. can keep up with the complexity and rapid growth of their data. Learn how migrating has helped them run their business more efficiently today and how it can help them to continue to scale in the future.

In May 2020, Microsoft Teams announced new meetings, calling, devices, chat, collaboration, platform, and industry features that are not to be missed. Read this article to stay up-to-date on the smart, simple, and flexible ways to stay connected, productive, and to further expand your workplace collaboration. Read More...

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.

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. Read More...

With Modernize .NET, use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service. View: Use popular frameworks like .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, or Python to build and deploy with Microsoft App Service

Learn how the Spanish Red Cross is leveraging Microsoft technology to unite data sources, drive insights, and forecast demand for critical humanitarian services. Read More...

This infographic outlines the 4 different strategies available to migrate your apps to Microsoft: rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or rebuild. View: Migration strategies

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. Read More...

Contemporary supply chains have opened up a world of connected commerce far beyond what previous generations imagined possible. Traditional methods for managing shared processes - such as manual inspections, after-the-fact audits, and record reconciliation - are expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. Modern supply chains demand a better solution. Blockchain is a secure, shared, distributed ledger that allows for supply chain visibility. It is uniquely positioned to help create trust, transparency, and accountability between many parties in supply chain scenarios. View: How blockchain will transform the modern supply chain

Microsoft Teams has quickly become the ultimate collaboration and teamwork application where users can easily add, customize, and find everything they need in one place. In this article, learn the basics around navigating Teams, discover new features for stronger collaboration, and examine business scenarios to understand the benefits as it integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. Read More...

This webinar series covers the concepts, strategies, and advantages for the modernization of a nonprofit organization's entire data estate. Subjects include data warehousing, reporting, analytics, Machine Learning/AI, and more. Join  Stephen Green  as he covers some of the most popular subjects for nonprofit organizations' digital transformation. Read More...

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. Read More...

Pandora is disrupting and transforming the jewelry industry by making beautiful jewelry an affordable luxury. Experiencing explosive growth, the company turned to Microsoft to help it establish global processes, streamline operations, and gain business insights. With Microsoft cloud services—including Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Microsoft Dynamics solutions—Pandora better connects and serves its retailers, wholesalers, franchisees, and consumers worldwide to further its competitive edge. Read More...

Microsoft aims to keep teams connected while they work apart by making Microsoft Teams available to as many people as possible. In this article, learn how Teams allows you to chat, meet, call, learn, and collaborate all in one place. You will also find resources on getting started with teams for free, best practices on running virtual and inclusive meetings, and tips to foster community while working remotely. Read More...

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:

In this video, you'll learn about Azure Migrate, Microsoft Azure's central hub for datacenter cloud migration. Azure Migrate helps you discover, assess, and migrate workloads to Azure with integrated first and third-party tools.

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. View: 2 Types of Artificial Intelligence

Currently, enterprises suffer from latency in their production process. AI can intelligently predict and simulate scenarios, enabling a responsive system. Pivot from manual and paper-based processes to AI-augmented solutions. View: Pivoting to an intelligent supply chain

Create at the speed of innovation with Power Apps low-code tools. This infographic shows how you can build custom apps in hours—not months—that connect to your existing data and systems to solve problems faster and drive efficiency. View: Low Code