Get Started with Teams for Retail

This blog offers a step-by-step look at how the flexibility of Microsoft Teams for Retail allows the platform to be set up to benefit the very specific needs of retail.

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The Total Value of Microsoft Compared to Google

IT professionals in education face several challenges including enabling remote and hybrid learning experiences designed for all, delivering devices that do more with shrinking budgets, and ensuring robust security that's easy to manage and deploy. What factors are important to consider when choosing a technology vendor? This solution brief provides a side-by-side value comparison of solutions and services offered by Microsoft and Google. Download the solution brief when evaluating factors such as device affordability and functionality, device management efficiency, accessibility, costs and security.

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Top reasons why teachers and students love using Windows 11

Educators prepare students today for the world they'll face tomorrow. What the future holds is anyone's guess — which is why educators need powerful, intuitive and adaptable tools like Windows 11 to ensure all students can thrive in the classroom and beyond. To better support modern educators, Microsoft has reimagined the Windows platform to help unlock the full potential of every student with secure and engaging student-centered technology that prioritizes equity and accessibility. This blog describes the features and capabilities in Windows 11 for Education and Windows 11 SE devices that meet these requirements and the top 5 reasons educators love Windows 11. Read the blog for insight.

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3 Reasons to Not Delay Your Migration to Dynamics 365 in the Cloud

Elasticity, scalability and accessibility have never been more important, especially as new disruptions continue to test organizations, solutions and processes alike. Read the blog to gain insight on why moving to the cloud should be a business priority and how Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help your organization modernize, customize and keep operations more secure.

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IDC Spotlight: Preparing for disruption with IT resilience

In this IDC Spotlight, you'll discover why access to data is critical for IT resilience. Follow the link to gain access to an invaluable whitepaper filled with insights.

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Technology Can Help Unlock a New Future for Frontline Workers

This Microsoft report explores findings from a survey of 9,600 frontline employees and managers and reveals that despite their essential role in every industry, these workers have traditionally been underserved by technology. Read the report to see how technology adoption on the frontline is accelerating and making a difference.

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REI Connects with Customers for Virtual Outfitting

Outdoor apparel retailer REI modernizes the frontline worker experience by equipping employees on the shop floor with iPads and other Apple mobile devices and Microsoft 365 productivity tools. This customer story highlights REI's creative use of Microsoft Teams to create an online virtual outfitting solution. Get the story for a look at results including high customer satisfaction and improved agility.

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Free Dynamics 365 Assessment

Our experts are ready to discuss your cloud migration challenges and propose and implement solutions. A complimentary cloud migration assessment is the first step. Schedule yours today.

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Vietnamese financial giant improves user experience with a modern workplace for employees

SSI Securities Corporation is one of Vietnam's largest consumer brokerage firms, seeing themselves as working in "the business of success". The company is committed to unlocking opportunities in the financial market for its wide client pool. When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted day-to-day work, SSI embarked on a company-wide digital transformation. Using a combination of tools including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure, the firm turned the challenge into an opportunity, increasing sales and enhancing the customer experience. Its large employee network spread across multiple cities successfully transitioned to remote work.

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Search Coach and Search Progress in Microsoft Teams - an innovative approach to information literacy

Information literacy is an increasingly essential skill for people living in the digital age, and governments and organizations around the world are taking notice. In the US, New Jersey has signed legislation "establishing the requirement of K-12 instruction on information literacy" as part of a state-wide Student Learning Standards. Finland has had a head start - their nation-wide media literacy education program was rolled out back in 2016. Microsoft is taking its own steps to support information literacy initiatives locally and internationally. Search Coach and its Assignments counterpart, Search Progress, are contributions to these efforts. Read this blog for an in-depth overview of features and benefits including videos.

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MS Dynamics 365 Migration Program Overview

Watch this video for an overview of the Dynamics 365 Migration Program from Alysa Taylor, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Apps and Data Marketing, as she discusses the value of migrating to Microsoft cloud.

Sysco Reduces Storage Costs by 40 Percent Using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier

With Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier, global food services distributor Sysco reduced storage costs by 40%. Watch this video to see how they did it.

Retail Day in the Life with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams empowers retail workers to be connected, productive, and focused on customers and tasks at hand. Watch the video for a quick look at the capabilities that make it all possible including shift management, task management and push-to-talk communications.

Introducing Microsoft Learning Accelerators: a new category of learning tools

Learning Accelerators are a category of Microsoft 365 learning tools designed to help students advance foundational skills like reading, writing and math while developing future-ready skills including information literacy and communication. Watch this video to see how Learning Accelerators help students catch up, keep u and get ahead with real-time coaching, personalized and inclusive learning and encouragement.

Podcast: Modernizing the Data Archive

With AWS solutions, you can modernize your data archive while balancing costs and unlocking the value of your data. Tune into this insightful podcast to learn how.

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Fast-paced Digitalization Improves Client and User Experience at Global Bank

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world with more than 200,000 employees in over 64 countries. When driving digitalization in its complex environment became overwhelming, it turned to the Microsoft portfolio of intelligent business applications. Read the customer story to see how the solution empowers HSBC to deliver operational excellence and create more engaging customer experiences.

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Free Cloud Transformation Consultation

If you're moving to the cloud, you need an experienced consultant to help. HexData Technologies Inc stakes its reputation on guiding successful cloud migration journeys with the strategies and tools that are right for each and every customer. From addressing your organization's unique challenges to securing data to defining and implementing the best hybrid cloud infrastructure, our transition consultants are ready to support your migration. Book your Free Cloud Transformation Consultation today.

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Which Windows is Right for Your School

There are several good reasons to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 or Windows 11 SE. Which Windows is right for your school? Get this infographic for a side-by-side comparison of features and benefits.

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New tools help students find and evaluate sources in a sea of online information

Search Coach is a tool available in Microsoft Teams for Education that helps students form effective search queries and evaluate the reliability of information. Used with companion app, Search Progress, it gives educators insight on student progress and an efficient way to create and review assignments. Based on feedback from hundreds of teachers, librarians and media literacy experts worldwide, Search Coach and Search Progress are part of Microsoft Learning Accelerators. Read the blog to learn about Learning Accelerators, a new category of Microsoft tools to support information literacy, math, reading, speaking and other skills essential to students preparing for the future.

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Solving with AWS Solutions: Media2Cloud

With AWS Media2Cloud, you can save time and make media asset management easy. Watch this video to learn how it works.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Collaboration Manager

Financial institutions are looking for one centralized platform to handle appointment scheduling, virtual customer meetings, managing tasks and lending team collaboration. Watch the video to see how Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services Collaboration Manager helps improve communication, productivity and process orchestration across your organization while enhancing customer experiences.

Unit4 Reduces Go to Market by 50 Percent and Future-Proofs Business by Transitioning to Azure

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform offers a toolbox full of services for creating new applications. In this customer story, learn how Unit4 — a provider of ERP solutions to non-profits, universities and other services organizations — leverages multiple Azure services to develop cloud-based ERP solutions. Resources such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Service and Azure Migrate are four of the many Azure resources used in Unit4's project. Read the story and learn the many cloud services you can create with the Azure platform.

AWS Solutions Media2Cloud: Architecture for the Formula 1 Legacy | Amazon Web Services

Discover how you can migrate media and entertainment content to AWS S3 Glacier with Media2Cloud. In this video, you'll see how Formula 1 was able to take control of vast amounts of content using this solution.

How We Keep the Microsoft Cloud Up and Running

Curious to see where, and how, the Microsoft Cloud operates? The video we've included here takes you behind the scenes to Microsoft's operations rooms where highly trained technicians and AI monitor the data center's critical infrastructure. Customers like you expect a resilient and secure computing environment. Microsoft helps us meet your expectations with teams of cyber security experts monitoring trillions of threat signals daily, as well as software engineers worldwide who track response times and performance as well as power, cooling and other data center systems. Watch the video. Reply to this email to discuss how our team of Microsoft experts can help you benefit from a secure, resilient computing environment in the Microsoft Cloud.

Creating a Better Digital Experience for Members

Viewing its website as the virtual front door to its brand, Nationwide Building Society needed to automate and improve IT processes and build a multi cloud web platform to deliver better security, resilience, portability and visibility. Read the blog to gain insight on how this mutual financial institution addressed these concerns by moving its main website from on-premises servers to Microsoft Azure, deploying Azure ExpressRoute Direct for on-premises connectivity.

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Indian School of Business enjoys teaching continuity, seamless hybrid operations, and robust cybersecurity with Microsoft solutions

Indian School of Business (ISB) is a world-class business school established in India in 2001, with two state-of-the-art campuses. When ISB became the target of several brute force cyberattacks, it embarked on a search for a solution that would allow it to continue delivering learning digitally with protection from cyber threats. In this customer story, IBS shares why it chose Microsoft A3 and Microsoft Security. Get the story to learn from its experience exploring multiple options and benefitting from the superior collaboration and stronger cybersecurity delivered by its all-inclusive solution from Microsoft.

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Sanofi Gains Speed And Agility with an Azure Hybrid Cloud Strategy

When pharmaceutical firm Sanofi decided to move off its on-premises infrastructure, because it was limiting Sanofi's ability to innovate and respond quickly to business needs, the company opted for a hybrid cloud strategy. With help from its partner Mobiz, Sanofi settled on a digital transformation plan that included migrating more than 15,000 servers and 1,800 apps over the next few years to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The results? For one, Sanofi has experienced fewer outages and faster recovery times, reducing their mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 300-500 percent. Overall, these improvements allow Sanofi to manufacture and deliver high-quality medicine without interruption. Read how they did it here.

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Learn How Real Businesses Unlock New Possibilities with Cloud | Amazon Web Services

With AWS Cloud, you can stay competitive despite supply chain challenges, limited resources, and other challenges. Watch this video to learn how real businesses are unlocking new possibilities with AWS Cloud.

Protect against cybersecurity risks with Microsoft 365 A5 security

The Microsoft 365 A5 security suite helps districts and schools provide safe and secure learning experiences backed by world class protection and consolidated into one cost-effective solution. Together, the A5 security suite is crucial in helping to preserve student data, manage compliance policies, and detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. Read this article highlighting 10 Microsoft 365 A5 tools and features that can help secure and protect your school district.

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Store and Protect Data in the Cloud: A Guide and Assessment for SMBs

In this eBook, you'll discover a more efficient approach to storage, plus the advantages of cloud storage with AWS. Give it a read, and be sure to use the assessment to determine if your business is ready for cloud storage.

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Free Migration Readiness Assessment

If you're planning a cloud migration, you should first evaluate the readiness of your IT systems. Not everything should be moved to the cloud, nor all at the same time. We'd love to help. Get a free assessment of your organization's readiness to migrate when you book your appointment here.

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Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services: Unified Customer Profile

This video highlights how Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services helps increase customer lifetime value and loyalty. Watch the video to gain insight on how the platform provides a comprehensive view of a customer's financial situation, including behavioral and demographic data.

Introducing Microsoft Learning Accelerators: a new category of learning tools

Learning Accelerators are a new category of Microsoft 365 learning tools designed to help students advance foundational skills like reading, writing, and math, and develop future-ready skills like information literacy and communication. Learning Accelerators help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead by providing them with real-time coaching, personalized and inclusive learning, encouragement, and more.

Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services: New Updates to Further Accelerate Growth, Innovation and Connected Customer Experiences

The key to digital transformation success is having the ability to make available internal and external data and turn it into analytical and predictive power using cloud and AI innovations. Read the blog to learn how Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services was designed with those needs in mind and to help financial services organizations accelerate their digital agendas.

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Scale Your Cloud-Native Apps and Accelerate App Modernization with Azure, The Best Cloud for Your Apps

Over 95 percent of the world's largest companies today are on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, in addition to thousands of small and mid-size companies. There are lots of reasons to deploy on Azure, but one major attraction is its rich assortment of developer resources. Read this article to learn more about the advantages and features of the Microsoft Cloud services.

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How Capital One uses Amazon S3 Glacier to optimize data storage costs and maximize resources

Visit this blog to discover how Capital One has used Amazon S3 Glacier to optimize data storage costs and maximize resources. After adopting the AWS Cloud in 2014, this banking giant was able to close their final data center in 2020. 

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Reimagine personalized learning with new category of tools from Microsoft Education

Reimagine Education with Learning Accelerators. Learn about new tools from Microsoft Education that help students make progress and develop their academic skills. a new category of learning tools that help support and streamline the creation, review, and analysis of student progress and development across academic subjects.

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