Power BI Book Signing Event: June 10th at 4:45PM
Errin O’Connor Book Signing at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit on June 10th at 4:45pm
What is an Office 365 Group
Whether you’re new to Office 365 or you’re not quite certain of how to use Groups or their related benefits, you’re not alone. This question has been asked by a lot of stakeholders within companies who are either migrating their on-premise environment to Office 365 or settings up a new Office 365 tenant all together. […]
How to Setup Workspaces, Share Content and Publish Apps in Power BI
In Power BI, one can easily create Workspaces to allow specific groups of people to access and edit Power BI reports and dashboards created with these spaces. The Workspaces and Apps are situated in the cloud version of Power BI called Service. After setting these reports, these workspaces can be published as an application for […]
Microsoft Teams Change Management & User Adoption
How to boost your MS Teams Adoption Change Management Strategy Before you introduce the full power of MS Teams to your users it’s important to implement a focused change management strategy for training users on the new business processes that increase efficiency and reduce risk. Having a thorough Change Management Strategy in place will […]
Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard
Microsoft Teams Updates: The Latest Microsoft has been doing an excellent job updating their MS Teams application with additional functionality. Recently, they’ve integrated another one of their Office 365 applications called Whiteboard. Whiteboard What is Whiteboard, you might be asking. Whiteboard is a neat application that functions as a free-form digital canvas. Think of […]
Power BI Governance Practices and Strategies
Power BI Governance: A Quick Background Governance is the business practice that defines and manages strategies for people, processes and technologies to ensure that valuable data assets are formally protected and managed throughout your business. Your IT team leverages governance and change management strategies with updates to the data sources and target systems and implements new […]
Business Intelligence Features in Excel
Leveraging Power BI to get the most from Microsoft Excel Microsoft’s new BI tool “Power BI” can seamlessly integrate with a plethora of Business Intelligence features from Microsoft Excel, including: Power Query Power View PowerPivot Power Map All these features can be a little confusing as there are so many options to choose from it […]
Power BI vs Tableau
Which of these powerful tools is going to be best for your business? This question has been on the minds of many CIOs and Senior IT leaders for many years now. Unfortunately there is no clear winner in this debate, as both are great tools to gain additional knowledge on your data. However, it is […]
Office 365 Governance Best Practices
What is Office 365 Governance? When applying Office 365 as a solution or even when using applications outside of Microsoft, the word Governance comes up a lot. What exactly is it and why is it important for our implementation? According to Microsoft, Governance is “The set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that control how […]
Configuring Row Level Security (RLS) in Power BI Desktops
Implementing a Business Intelligence (BI) platform is absolutely critical to any organization, as it offers data visualizations in real time to provide actionable metrics needed to improve decisions making. In all of these BI processes, Business Intelligence-related security is absolutely key and it’s a critical conversation that is happening in organizations throughout the globe. EPC […]
Microsoft Teams vs. Slack
With the capacity to connect thousands of users and over 800 third-party applications, Slack has been the leading communication tool for users and their file sources. Microsoft decided to join that market when it released a new communications platform called Microsoft Teams, which has become the big contender for this type of enterprise solution. MS […]
The Importance of Cybersecurity in 2018 – Infographic
The Importance of Cybersecurity in 2018 – Infographic Infographic transcription: Cybersecurity is becoming a big problem for many companies in all industries, as an attack can permanently damage a business or even a person’s life. As the cybersecurity industry continues to grow at a rapid pace, the amount of malware continues to grow each year […]
“What’s the Password?”: The Surprising Results
“What’s the Password?”: The Surprising Results Nowadays, it seems that to be able to function in our modern world it’s essential to have multiple passwords. From logging into social media or a bank account, your work computer or email, to buying products online, passwords are a major part of our daily lives. But how […]
An Analysis of the Logos of Fortune 500 Companies
An Analysis of the Logos of Fortune 500 Companies Organizations dream of becoming a part of the elite group of companies that make up the Fortune 500, but most companies never hit the mark. So, what is the criteria makes these 500 companies stand out? There are many aspects to running a successful organization, including […]
Unifying Data Loss Prevention in Office 365
Unifying Data Loss Prevention in Office 365 All organizations, regardless of size and industry, have data that they consider sensitive. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is an important capability for protecting this information from getting into the wrong hands. We are always looking to enhance the DLP solution in Office 365 to help meet this organizational […]
Microsoft Flow: Creating Team Flows
Microsoft Flow: Creating Team Flows Create a team flow by specifying one or more other people in your organization as owners, who can perform these actions: View the flow’s history (that is, each run). Manage the properties of the flow (for example, start or stop the flow, add owners or update credentials for a connection). […]
