Five Nines IT Solutions

This whitepaper highlights why Azure makes sense for applications that rely on SQL Server or Windows Server, based on four themes: security, innovation, hybridity, and cost. View: Benefits of using Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure

TGI Friday's wanted a more scalable, flexible platform for core business processes. To support its ambitious growth, the company is consolidating business operations starting with financial management on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Built-in functionality and ease-of-use mean that TGI Friday's can continue to onboard more business processes while expanding its franchise. Benefits of their innovative growth strategy include lower costs, easier access to data, and better insight.

If your organization is like many others, you are making efforts to maximize the investments you have made in your data program. Explore how nonprofits like yours solved their data challenges and created new opportunities. In this e-book, you will learn how to:  Drive innovation with data migration.  Unify your data onto a single platform.  Bring data insights to everyone.  Connect data analysis and profitability.  When you are ready to take the next step in your transformation, Analytics in Azure offers breakthrough performance, security, and speed. View: Four ways to maximize your business intelligence investments

Photobooth Supply Co. is using Microsoft Surface devices to enhance the capabilities and features of their photo booths and produce unique and memorable photography experiences for customers all over the world.

Discover what hundreds of senior executive survey respondents from around the world think about artificial intelligence and how its use transforms industries. Read the Microsoft-sponsored report from The Economist Intelligence Unit to learn how people are using AI to make the production and distribution of goods and services more intelligent. You'll also see how optimistic industry leaders are about AI and how it:  •Contributes to financial benefits.  •Transforms economies and jobs. •Encourages growth and productivity. View: eBook: Intelligent Economies: AI's transformation of industries and society

Custom Air Products and Services is an HVAC company that needed a customized solution to track the entire lifecycle of units from "cradle-to-crate." Microsoft Power Platform had the tools they needed to fully digitize without expensive custom software. Read here to learn how the Power Platform transformed their business across 30+ usage needs. Read More...

It can be challenging for organizations to make data-driven decisions quickly. For many, there is no alignment between the enterprise data warehouse and the big data systems, so it is hard for business analysts to query data to obtain insights flexibly and quickly. Fortunately, Microsoft's Azure Synapse Analytics enables limitless analytics and offers a unified experience for aligning data for easy visualization in enterprise business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI.  View: Maximize Your Power BI, Tableau, and Qlik Investments

Why run Windows Server on Azure? Ellen Kirby, senior manager of Technical Operations and senior enterprise architect at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, talks about the benefits of running the law firm's Windows Servers on Azure and about leveraging Windows Admin Center for better management and automation.

This article from Forbes explores Cognilytica's four-part AI enabled vision of the future. In that vision, there are four main areas in which AI will impact our future lives: the way we work, the way we live, the way we experience the world and our interactions with each other, and the relationship we have with data. Read More...

Together the Microsoft Power Platform empowers you to create solutions that accelerate business. The platform connects powerful tools to analyze data, automate processes, create virtual agents, and more. Find out here how your team can benefit from this powerful platform and build end-to-end business solutions. View: Powerful alone, better together

Maximize your ROI from Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Surface. Realize significant cost benefits from reduced security breaches and increased productivity with the device platform built from the ground up to help you get the most out of Microsoft 365. View: Maximizing your ROI from Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Surface

Too few organizations have given thought to supporting data science as both technical and business practice. This e-book helps define deliberate steps towards a new strategic environment utilizing data scientists and data engineers. We will explore how we can serve these new roles, and how the modern cloud data warehouse plays critically in this space. View: The scientist, the engineer, and the warehouse

Microsoft Whiteboard is an endless canvas for people to work together in person or remotely across multiple devices. Surface Hub lights up the Microsoft Whiteboard experience with a gorgeous screen display and advanced inking capabilities, and there are so many great features built into Whiteboard to help you create your content. Customize the background of your canvas, enjoy the seamless inking experience of the Surface Hub 2 Pen, draw a shape and Whiteboard will perfect it for you. And if you want to create a table, start by drawing a rectangle, add some grid lines, and Whiteboard will recognize your intent. Start to add content and the table will intelligently adjust to fit. You can invite your colleagues to contribute to the whiteboard and they can add to it anytime from anywhere on multiple devices, making this game-changing for teamwork. Read More...

This video highlights six important principles Microsoft considers before pushing their AI products to production.

Make the most of your Microsoft Power Apps and learn how to manage and share your apps easily. Looking to view or restore an old version? Need to update permissions? This learning module will show you how. Check it out and learn how to manage your customer applications and create environments in Power Apps. Read More...

This infographic is an overview of how Azure Machine Learning is the best way to transform your business with the power of AI. This tool highlights the growing market opportunity and how Microsoft itself has leveraged AI into ongoing momentum for its own business. View: Predictive Analytics

With vehicles connected to the cloud, the UN organization can track its fleet of roughly 3,000 vehicles—improving efficiency and security.  Read More...

This blog article from Microsoft discusses how AI has the potential to transform the future of work, and it is critical that businesses foster a culture that includes everyone as they incorporate AI strategies. The biggest potential that AI holds is its ability to help us work together to tackle our toughest problems and it requires the shared responsibility to think about not just what AI can do, but what it should do. Read More...

Systems Imagination uses big data to discover new tiers of medical insights unobtainable through conventional means. In order to gain the distributed computing power it needed, the company adopted Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. Now, it delivers results based on petabytes of data to its customers within hours while simultaneously keeping operating costs low.

Remotely deploy and configure devices in a zero-touch process. Subscribe now! View: Remotely deploy and configure devices in a zero-touch process

Microsoft Power Apps is more than an award-winning platform—it is a powerful community filled with rich resources. Connect with peers, share creativity, and learn from professionals. Meet like-minded business leaders to discover valuable insights, plus access hundreds of videos and blogs. Join the discussion today! View: Join the community

Drive innovation with insights to engage customers, empower employees, and transform business solutions. View: Drive innovation with insights: engage customers, empower employees, and transform business solutions

Take full advantage of your on-premises investments with Windows Server 2019. Learn how to extend your on-premises environments to the cloud with the Windows Server 2019 advanced hybrid capabilities. Additionally, learn how to add additional security layers and update your applications and infrastructure when you connect to the cloud. View: eBook: The ultimate guide to Windows Server 2019

From nurturing creativity, to boosting productivity and advanced security, Microsoft Surface is the best place to deploy Microsoft 365. View: Transformation journey

Bringing together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service. This infographics covers the key service capabilities, with details for each of the 10 areas. View: Azure Synapse Analytics: Key service capabilities

This on-demand, demo-rich virtual event will help you learn how Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI can work together to deliver actionable insights with sub-second performance over massive data sets. You will see how Power BI simplifies data modeling and visualization of valuable and often overlooked data hidden within your enterprise data warehouse. You can share insights across your organization and unlock modern analytics in ways that were previously impossible. Read More...

Watch floral artist Maurice Harris bring his ideas to full bloom with the new Surface. From processing power and brilliant touchscreen to all-day battery and stunning graphics, the new Surface family can make your imagination a reality.

Thousands of organizations around the globe are using Microsoft Power Apps to solve challenges and boost their businesses. As these numbers grow, Microsoft has identified 10 new areas that a shaping app development. From #LessCodeMorePower to thousand app scale, see why Power Apps is changing the app world. View: 10 innovation areas that are reshaping app development

The Atlantic is using Azure AI to preserve 160 years of published history. Specifically, the Atlantic is using Azure Cognitive Search to transition from hard copy to a digital system where its archives can be perused by the public. Writers can use these services as a resource to build connections between stories and enrich their content.

This infographic offers an in-depth look at how Microsoft business analytics and AI is intelligent, trusted, and flexible. This service produces faster, more accurate insights and predictions. It also offers the most secure, compliant, and scalable system. Finally, it works with what you have. View: Intelligent, trusted, flexible

This brief video shows you how Microsoft Power Apps helps your business, developing at scale with quality and security. Whether your business needs a thousand apps or just a few, Power Apps capabilities enable you with agility and speed. Learn more here:

Learn about the features and benefits of migrating to Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure. This video discusses key aspects such as preventing the loss of valuable data and getting the lowest cost of ownership.

Get everything that you need to start using Azure Synapse Analytics in just a few minutes—and start gaining valuable insights faster.  Download this toolkit to access a collection of technical resources about Azure Synapse. You will discover new ways to quickly pull insights from complex data. View: Toolkit: Get started uncovering critical insights with Azure Synapse Analytics

Staff at the blue frog restaurant chain looked for help modernizing and transforming IT operations from the table to the boardroom. Microsoft delivered in the form of a powerful combination of Surface Go and Surface Pro devices, supported by a suite of business and productivity software built around Windows 10. Read More...

This infographic offers an in-depth look at how Microsoft business analytics and AI is intelligent, trusted, and flexible. This service produces faster, more accurate insights and predictions. It also offers the most secure, compliant, and scalable system. Finally, it works with what you have. View: Intelligent, Trusted, Flexible

Discover ways to take advantage of the flexibility of a cloud data warehouse, while still protecting your data. Read this e-book to learn best practices for designing a comprehensive, sustainable strategy for security and privacy. You'll see how having a robust analytics strategy helps you avoid future disruptions and make your organization more resilient. View: Seven key principles of cloud security and privacy

Moving Windows Server and SQL workloads to Azure provides flexible, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. It also supports rapid innovation and digital transformation, freeing you to innovate. This infographic presents the benefits of running Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure. View: Innovate Infographic

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Discover Microsoft Power Apps and what the platform can do for you. Explore the different type of apps you can develop for different business needs and learn which one is right for you. Read a customer success story and watch a video to get started. Check out the manual here: Read More...

HP Inc. handles more than 600 million technical support contacts each year, and the company strives to make every single one a satisfying experience for the customer. To improve both self-service and contact center support delivery, HP built a virtual agent using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 AI solution for customer service. Customers can now interact conversationally with the assistant to solve common problems, support staff use the Microsoft AI solution for instant access to a wealth of troubleshooting information, and the company gains deeper insights into common customer issues.

After testing four different tablets in their schools, the Tustin Unified School District found Microsoft Surface Pro to be the best choice for their high school teachers and students. In this video, see how Surface was able to increase productivity across the board and empower students with different accessibility needs and learning styles. Read More...

As a banking leader in Latin America and one of the largest banks in the world, Itaú Unibanco handles thousands of transactions every second. Operating on an aging data infrastructure, the bank found it difficult to expand its digital services without breaking SLAs or putting its guarantee of continuous service availability at risk. Since it migrated database services to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 based on Intel datacenter technologies, Itaú Unibanco can confidently scale data collection and infrastructure maintenance while it delivers the high level of service its private and commercial banking customers rely on.

Turn your organization to cloud-based security and address data capacity and infrastructure requirements to solve cloud challenges. This free webinar will highlight what you need to know about security, privacy, and the cloud. Read More...

Forward-thinking Blue Springs School District in the Blue Springs area of Kansas City, Missouri, is preparing its students for a technology-rich world. The district wanted to give students the best possible education within the financial constraints that face most school districts. It also aimed to ensure equal access to technology for children of all economic backgrounds. By providing a Microsoft Surface Go device for each student, the district optimized its technology budget and leveled the academic playing field for all. Most important, its students are poised to soar. Read More...

A roofing contractor needed a task-focused mobile solution to file project status updates quickly. Low connectivity areas, plus 100 work orders-a-week slowed down the process and added a hefty after-hours workload. Kelly Roofing needed a cost-effective solution that worked with their existing system. Enter Microsoft Power Apps. Within a few weeks their custom app transformed their business. Read their success story to learn how Power Apps decreased their processing time by 91% and boosted customer satisfaction. Read More...

This playbook highlights the various ways Microsoft Analytics and AI can help your customer's business. It briefly and visually covers the process Analytics and AI follow to produce insights and action. The playbook also lists various practical ways Analytics and AI can be applied in a business context, such as intelligent customer service. View: Partner Opportunity Playbook: Business Analytics and AI

Microsoft Analytics and AI takes innovation to the next level with faster, more accurate insights and predictions. Subscribe now to stay informed! View: Improve performance with faster, more accurate insights and predictions

Keep up to date on cloud solutions to transform customer engagement. Subscribe now. View: Employ flexible, open hybrid cloud solutions and transform customer engagement ​

"Analytics" is a word we hear used often in technology and organizations. But what does it mean and how can it help nonprofits like yours? Having a collective understanding of what analytics is, and what it can do for you, is vital for nonprofit success these days. In this e-book, we will explore the core concepts of analytics, appropriate organization goals, and underlying technologies that empower you to analyze your data. View: Cloud scale analytics 101

Sport Clips delivers innovation to their customers with Microsoft Surface devices. See how users interact with Sport Clips in new, seamless ways to deliver efficiency and satisfaction.

This video illustrates how to get the most from Dynamics 365 - the unified platform powered by Azure AI and natively integrated with your favorite Microsoft 365 applications. Learn how to enable an intelligent sales and marketing approach for your organization with AI from Microsoft Dynamics 365.

This video highlights the core components in Dynamics 365 that enable an intelligent sales and marketing approach for your organization, and it also addresses key considerations for IT Admins. Dynamics 365 delivers a unified platform, built on Azure, and natively connected to Microsoft 365. Play this video to see the full breadth of capabilities and what it takes to set it up. 

This tutorial gives an overview of how to implement active directory group membership-based permissions in an app. Follow the steps to get a blueprint for implementing any custom connector in the Power Apps environment. Start here: Read More...

Understand how analytics and AI can help move your organization forward. Proven analytics technologies have a strong track record of enabling more dynamic and exploratory responses that can guide organizations through difficult times. View: Three ways analytics can help: Respond, adapt, and save

This infographic details the Microsoft philosophy toward responsible and ethical AI through a set of core principles. These principles include maximizing efficiencies without destroying the dignity of people and guarding against bias. Additionally, it advocates for accountability against intended harm, transparency, privacy, and design that assists humanity. View: Analytics and AI Microsoft Principles

This video highlights the benefits and features of using the Modernize .NET Microsoft solution to find lightning fast innovation, elastic scalability, cost savings, and better performance.

More than 50% of work done today is accomplished through collaboration but 70% of professionals work somewhere other than the office at least one day week. This article shares how Microsoft Surface and partner devices are keeping modern professionals connected no matter where they are. Read More...

Strategize how to launch and manage an enterprise Power Apps deployment with this whitepaper on Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate. Written for business decision makers responsible for planning, securing, deploying, and supporting applications, it provides a high-level overview of the Power Platform before diving deeper into specific areas such as architecture, security, analytics, and deployment using Azure DevOps. View: Administering a Power Apps and Power Automate enterprise deployment whitepaper