A terrific digital transformation leader showed me his LinkedIn profile the other day. It was super low-key – so low-key, in fact, that you’d never guess this guy has done some really…
Microsoft 365 (Office 365) is a widely used cloud-based package with over a million companies worldwide using its production capabilities. By 2020, over 700,000 companies in the United States alone…
Digital transformation is a hard and long endeavor, especially for companies with legacy technology stacks, processes or cultures. However, it is no longer a discretionary initiative. Digitization is a secular…
Microsoft has launched its first Azure Orbital “ground station as a service” units, the company announced this week, starting with its own datacenter in Quincy, Wash.
In the early days of Covid-19, companies were preoccupied with enabling remote work, maintaining the digital infrastructure to support taxed supply chains and keeping business systems humming along. Yet, as…
If your organization is busier than ever “digitizing,” you’re not alone. Digital efforts have been proliferating for years as companies strive to catch up with technological innovation. Covid-19 massively accelerated…
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has started delivery of its Windows Release Health service component within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal.
When we were all dispatched to work from home in March 2020, many leaders didn’t perceive that their organizations would be relying on them to sustain their level of productivity…
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft 365 is a comprehensive tool with multiple applications to aid your business. Office 365 for small businesses has been, and continues as Microsoft 365 to be,…
As data flows between enterprise applications, cloud-connected or SaaS software, and IoT devices, business risk is also growing exponentially. The Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) revealed that 43% of…
Microsoft is continuing to pour billions into building and equipping new data centers across the U.S as demand for Microsoft Azure solutions and its cloud services soars. Microsoft has unveiled…
Digital transformation is more than just a buzzword. For many government agencies, it’s a long-overdue necessity that can be broken down into three main improvement areas: better data insights, better…
2020 was a year of amazing challenge and opportunity for public organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic led to global shutdowns that made many government services more important than ever, while challenging…
You’ve likely heard of Microsoft Office, which consists of workplace applications, including the widely used Microsoft Word program. What you may not realize is that Word and other Office programs —…
New potential projects likely cross your desk every day. Each project may promise a solid return on investment, but taking them on typically involves resolving other initiatives that haven’t been started, that have…
Clearing Three Hurdles to Digital Transformation Being a midsize business has its benefits. Your business has more power to invest than lean startups do and more freedom to innovate than…
The past year has confirmed that a digital-first strategy is not just a trend, but the new standard for business moving forward. What business calls “digital life” is just life…
A bunch of Microsoft 365 news bits were announced this week. Of interest to IT pros, Microsoft is converging its OneDrive and SharePoint Admin Center management portals, with a consolidated…
The world has quickly entered the digital era and Vietnam is now striving to catch up. To that end, the Party Central Committee issued Resolution No 52 on proactively joining…
Leading digital transformation during a pandemic has not been optional. Tap into some upsides, such as receptivity to new ideas, while avoiding traps, such as sticking to old schedules or…
Microsoft’s Azure cloud for hosting web sites and applications will replace the Office productivity software as the company’s largest source of revenue at some point in 2022, Piper Sandler analyst…
A seminar took place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 21 to discuss opportunities, challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises in digital transformation.
Common Data Service, the sophisticated and secure backbone that powers Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, has been renamed to Microsoft Dataverse. This low-code data platform is rapidly changing the way organizations…
Today’s pandemic is a wake-up call for organizations. They must recognize that the world has changed, understand the implications these changes have on their business, and identify opportunities to build…
If 2020 taught us anything, it was that no business is resilient to everything. But those that had laid their digital tracks early were better positioned to recover, and in some cases, even speed ahead. In fact, one retail…
One of the biggest lessons Australia and New Zealand business leaders can take from the past 12 months is that a climate of uncertainty is now the new normal. The…
The month of December is coming to a close, and it is now time to look back at the new features introduced in Microsoft 365 this year. In 2020, Microsoft…
A number of digital transformation trends have become established as we enter the new year. It is clear, for example, that many people will continue to work from home for…
Cloud Computing services have grown to become a necessity for businesses quicker than anybody had expected. Microsoft’s Azure is a popular cloud-based service which offers hybrid compatibility that has become…
My end-of-year column back in 2019 outlined how advancements in the use of new technologies — such as robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine…
As the clock ticks down on 2020, here are a few ways to keep the momentum going on your digital transformation. In 2020, businesses of all kinds were forced to…
When the pandemic’s initial shock hit businesses across the globe, companies had to make moves to meet their customers online — and fast. This shift online has largely been dubbed…
In this atypical year, many of us have discovered a new sense of appreciation for our computers as critical tools to get work done. Now more than ever, we are…
We live in a hyperconnected ecosystem, where every interaction results in massive datasets being generated. This consumption and usage of data has significantly changed over the years, helping shape new…
With the achievements that Microsoft has achieved in recent years, our company – Opus Solution – a business consultant in Vietnam, also proud to be a partner of Microsoft, specializes…
Defining your organization’s digital transformation team for 2021 will be especially important as companies speed up work amid the pandemic. Data, cloud, and security expertise are hot – but don’t shortchange UX.
Microsoft is readying a bunch of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improvements, including a new “My Feed” Web Part and more Microsoft Graph connectors.
Everyone has digital transformation on their radar, but its meaning has been lost in the midst of the many different contexts in which it’s used. Digital transformation originally meant an…
At Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference in October, the company previewed a slick new tool called Productivity Score. During the virtual presentation, a senior product manager said the feature provides “insights that transform…
Digital transformation and enterprise modernization initiatives advanced by leaps and bounds in the last decade and especially so in the last five years. Economic sectors across the board have adopted…
The Microsoft Dataverse for Teams data platform for use with Power Platform tools has reached the “general availability” commercial-release stage, Microsoft announced on Monday.
The tech world has transformed within a very short span of time, and most of this transformation took place over the last few years. We’ve seen transportation evolve to include…
The Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention service, used to protect data accessed on devices, reached “general availability” commercial-release status, Microsoft announced this week.
For every business, data plays a critical role when it comes to developing strategies and making decisions. Similarly, businesses providing financial services are using business intelligence (BI) and analytics to…
Customer expectations have changed substantially in the last five years. They now expect real-time and personalized responses, greater ease of use, and accessible digital and mobile channels. As customer expectations…
Big data ensures successful digital transformation in organizations. Data is an important factor for the success of any organization. Undoubtedly, organizations are playing high on big data. The huge amount…
Microsoft Teams usage keeps surging to new highs as COVID-19-related remote work has moved the conferencing, chat and collaboration platform to center stage.
As IT leaders learn more about what does – and does not work – when it comes to furthering digital transformation, they’re getting a better picture of the ideal makeup of…
Microsoft no longer provides support or bug fixes for Office 2010. What should you do if you’re stuck on the ten-year-old version of Office?
Today, we know that digital transformation is no longer a nice-to-have but a requirement in terms of long-term business success. Throughout this year alone, industries have had to completely change how they…
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its new “All Tenants” feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal is starting to arrive for partners that work with cloud service providers and multiple customers.
For every business, whether it is small or big, team collaboration is the driving factor that excels innovation and cooperation for better productivity. You would also want to enhance your…
The world has gone through a massive overhaul, with Covid-19 taking the reins of how things work. The current market has forced several industries to transform for good. The remnants…
When the pandemic hit, some companies reacted fast and came out on top. Sure, a few happened to offer the right products or services at a challenging time. (A year…
The increasing demand for always-on connectivity, immersive experiences, secure collaboration, and remote human relationships is pushing networks to their limits, while the market is driving down price. The network infrastructure…
Digital technology is at the center of today’s economic development debate due to its wide use during the Covid-19 outbreak. While there is no doubt that the pandemic is amplifying…
Microsoft described a couple of developments along SharePoint product lines during a Tuesday Ignite online keynote talk. The new developments include a new Project Cortex product called “Syntex,” plus a…
No one could have predicted where 2020 would take us: The last six months alone have produced more digital transformation than the last decade, with every transformation effort already underway…
Today’s enterprises have gold mines of data sitting around collecting dust. This might sound surprising because studies show that companies of all sizes and scopes consider data a critical component of…
Harness the power of your voice Now more than ever, we’re all very busy—juggling family, work, friends, and whatever else life throws our way. New enhancements in Office leverage the Azure Cognitive Services AI platform so you can harness the…
CRN speaks with Microsoft partners who took home the top awards in Power BI, Teams calling and meetings, and Azure-based IoT. With Microsoft’s channel partners numbering in the hundreds of…
COVID-19 has made digital transformation more essential than ever. Jump-start your strategy by proactively addressing these common causes of stalls. The goal of digital transformation is to evolve a brand’s customer experience…
The Cloud computing platform is the future of business and is transforming the business’s use of technology. There are some big players in the tech industry, but Microsoft (MS) Azure…
Customers’ expectations, preferences, changing patterns in how and why they purchase need to be the core of any digital transformation effort. With it, digital transformation projects flourish and take on…
Microsoft’s cloud-based file hosting/synchronisation service adds new options for managing the content that matters to you. When someone shares a file with you through OneDrive, they might mail you a…
Digital transformation is back at the top of every agenda, all the more so because it appears that companies that have embraced transformation are those most likely to thrive in today’s disrupted…
Microsoft has announced a roadmap to stop support for Internet Explorer 11 in its Microsoft 365 apps, starting with Microsoft Teams. The move will modernize the Teams web app and…
There’s a popular meme circulating on social media right now that asks: Who is driving your digital transformation as a business? The multiple choice style options include the CEO, the CFO, and…
As a management and collaboration system, SharePoint Portal allows its users to be halfway around the globe while still being able to access company documents and communicate across businesses easily….
Digital technology has changed and will continue to alter the landscape of business, engineering and manufacturing. But the shifting needs for designing, producing and servicing products are complicating efforts to improve…
This is an intriguing time for digital transformation. For the past few years, many companies held back in the extent of digital transformation they were willing to undertake because the…
Whether you’re putting together your digital transformation strategy from scratch or revisiting the plan in light of disruption, try to start from a point of curiosity. The most effective digital transformation strategies begin not with a…
Microsoft announced last week that its Lists applications are starting to arrive as early as this month for “Microsoft 365 business customers worldwide.”
Digital transformation has been an essential ingredient in ensuring business survival over the past few months. Digital transformation was always a hot topic prior to 2020; however, Covid-19 made it…
The COVID-19 crisis has rapidly changed the way we live and work, and many organizations have shifted to remote work or are implementing a hybrid remote work approach as they…
IT leaders can take actions to boost the long-term value that their organizations derive from digital transformation project dollars. Consider these tips.
Microsoft outlined some recent security and compliance enhancements that are either already available or will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenancies using OneDrive and SharePoint by year’s end.
Even as businesses around the globe continue to reel from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many forward-thinking IT leaders are using the disruption as an opportunity to advance their digital…
Microsoft on Monday gave notice that it will be ending support this year for the “workflows” component of SharePoint 2010 Online, as well as deprecating that component for SharePoint 2013 Online.
Say no to innovation theater. Quantify what success looks like. Encourage widespread agility. Consider these practices of teams beating digital transformation challenges.
If there are two words that define the way we’ve used technology this year, they might just be “remote everything.” Our jobs. Our meetings. Our kids’ schools. Our social gatherings….
By now, most of us have seen how digital transformation can help organizations cut costs and boost productivity – often with astounding results. But, as some organizations have learned the hard way, simply implementing innovative technology…
COVID-19 has forced many organizations to implement and accelerate their digital transformation plans. But having a strategic plan isn’t the same thing as having a good strategic plan.
For many businesses, “digital transformation” has been somewhere on a long list of priorities for quite some time. It was important but somehow got easily buried under the urgency of…
When Washington state started seeing the first wave of patients fall ill to COVID-19, public health officials and hospitals didn’t have a centralized way to share all the information they…
Manufacturers have long relied on advanced digital technologies that enable remote monitoring and assistance to protect workers in 4D — dull, dirty, dangerous and distant — environments. While no one…
How do you know when your digital transformation strategy needs a shift to address market changes or new priorities? Consider these three examples.
Can Today’s Challenges Be a Catalyst for Positive Change? The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our world, affecting our day-to-day lives in ways we never could have…
5G technologies are key to providing the low-latency last mile that Microsoft’s ‘intelligent edge’ needs.
At Build 2020, Microsoft announced the new capability of Azure IoT Central which makes it easy to connect edge computing devices running Azure IoT Edge software. Azure Sphere, a secure microcontroller from Microsoft is…
Over the years we’ve participated in, advised on, or studied hundreds of digital transformations. In doing so, we’ve gained a perspective on just how difficult true digital transformation really is…
Opus Solution will participate in Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon – a 36 hour event happening May 27-28 2020. Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon will have sessions going the whole time with…
Every quarter one of the most closely watched set of figures in the technology industry is spending on cloud computing. While cloud computing is a good indicator of what is…
With ease of use a key tenet in the drive to help organizations develop a data-driven culture, Microsoft unveiled a significant new Power BI update.
The end-of-life of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 doesn’t have to throw an entire organization into chaos. Companies that have already started planning for the phase-out are probably in a good place…
Over the past two months, several countries across the world have experienced various forms of remote work and distance learning as governments were coming to grips with COVID-19. Quarantine, lockdown,…
As The Economist recently noted, one of the most obvious consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” We expect digital…
Chief information officers should leverage the current business slowdown imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic to assess the digital transformation skills of every individual on their IT staff. Here’s how to…
The road to digital transformation is far from smooth. From attracting and retaining talent in a tight labor market to warding off constant security risks, business leaders face daunting challenges when implementing digital…
A lot has been made about the latest technology making our lives easier and automating redundant, mundane processes. However, what often gets lost in the mix is that at the…
