When it comes to flexible storage solutions, nothing has made more of an impact than Dropbox. Having the privilege of watching many different companies and industries extract (or rather not extract) value from technology, I learnt long ago that you can’t argue with easy. People are screaming out for simplicity and Dropbox delivers that. With a few simple clicks you … Read More
Moving to Office 365? Things to consider…
Moving to Microsoft Office 365 without really understanding the features and functionality of SharePoint – the platform that supports document storage and management in Office 365 – is a missed opportunity to review and improve vital business processes and address productivity issues. A Document Management System will most likely fail to meet the needs of the business if it does … Read More
Project Management: Using technology to get better results
Good project management addresses business problems that arise in all five phases of a typical project. What’s exciting is finding ways of applying technology to business problems, to help project managers initiate, plan, execute, control and close their projects in more efficient and profitable ways. In this article, we’re going to take a look at how SharePoint can be used … Read More
SharePoint planning tips – Part 3
Information Governance. That term sounds big and boring, right? Something that requires writing a big, boring document and downing double shot espressos to stay awake whilst doing so. I hear you yawning and asking, is this something we really need to consider for our Office 365 SharePoint deployment? Well, if you focus on keeping it simple, it can be a … Read More
SharePoint planning tips – Part 2
Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online are fantastic options for businesses wanting to reduce the complexity of their infrastructure. In our last article, we kicked off a discussion on the importance of taking time to properly plan your SharePoint platform. Our first two planning exercises are designed to help you focus and clarify: The goals of the business and any … Read More
SharePoint planning tips – Part 1
One of the most powerful features of Microsoft Office 365 is SharePoint Online. But before you jump in and configure your new SharePoint site, it’s worth taking a step back to do some planning exercises. SharePoint has the ability to provide a technical solution to business problems. Constraints within the business, when broken down into their components, are usually comprised of … Read More
Developing your cloud strategy – part 3
We’ve explored what we see as the first two critical steps in a strategic cloud journey; engage and enable. At the core of this approach is the reason why we do what we do. We believe that our clients should have the best of available cloud technologies and that their Infrastructure as a Service should deliver them far greater business … Read More
Developing your cloud strategy – part 2
In our previous article, we began to explore our concept of cloud strategy. We covered off on the first step, which involves making a leap from dabbling in cloud platforms, to having a business with a cloud strategy at its core. The next two steps are designed to build out the strategy in such a way that business value is delivered via document … Read More
Co-authoring for greater collaboration
Remember the old “This file is locked for editing by another user” error message you’d get when trying to open a document across a file share? Thank goodness those days are over. If you’re still getting that error message, it doesn’t have to be this way! The wonderful world of co-authoring. If you’ve ever imagined being able to work on a … Read More
Power BI; powerful departmental insight
It is easy to think that Big Data is all about having access to a huge sum of information, as the name implies. While it certainly is that, the key for business is that Big Data is about harnessing the right data sources. By aggregating data and analysing averages in a meaningful way, it is possible to gain insights that are … Read More
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