SharePoint is a Microsoft application that delivers a robust collaboration and content management platform. SharePoint is scalable and provides organizations with the ability to manage content, drive business processes, and collaborate.
Read MoreMany of our clients use Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers (SATVs) to help in deploying, managing, support, and adoption of Microsoft software. Kiefer clients with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements can use the SATVs by contacting us and scheduling sessions with Kiefer subject matter experts (SMEs).
Read MoreAs we wrap up our 31st year in business, I’d like to take some time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished this past year. It was a great year for us at Kiefer, marked by some significant changes in how we operate as an organization and in how we work with our clients.
Read MoreOver the past year, we’ve seen increased interest from customers to optimize processes. Organizations in both the public-sector and private sector are in search of ways to eliminate redundant tasks and time-consuming data entry to deliver faster and higher-value results with little to no added cost.
As a Microsoft Partner and Nintex Partner, we have seen both companies make significant investments to bring RPA capabilities to customers. Both organizations have taken a much broader approach to creating business value and have been diligent about engaging the entire organization to promote automation. The message and strategy of RPA extends to IT Pros, developers and end-users, encouraging the entire enterprise to leverage tools to improve processes and proactively identify parts of the business that can benefit from task automation.
Microsoft recently announced the release of UI flows, which adds robotic process automation (RPA) functionality to
The enterprise application landscape is typically a mix of legacy applications and modern services, some running on-premises and others in the cloud. RPA is the answer for organizations that want to scale but are dependent upon systems that don’t talk to each other, which creates a disconnect between legacy and modern applications and services.
RPA uses bots to work between the applications, passing information from system to system and initiating actions which traditionally required a human to facilitate. Deep automation capabilities are now accessible to organizations that would have never explored RPA as an option to streamlining processes. These solutions were generally very costly and complex, Microsoft’s Power Automate is unique and more intuitive, allowing customers to do more with less across their business.
Microsoft’s goal with Power Automate is to bridge the gap between the legacy and modern applications, leveraging UI flows in Power Automate.
UI flows in Power Automate are powered by Azure and allow organizations to build automation atop the UI of applications that do not have an API available. Organizations can automate repetitive tasks performed through a browser or the user interface of their Windows applications.
With UI flows, users can record step-by-step UI actions such as mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry, and then replay those actions.
This enables organizations to:
Microsoft Supports Digital Transformation
Power Automate will be a major player in Microsoft’s strategy to be a digital transformation partner. The modern workplace is dependent upon technologies that automate process and enable users to focus on the most important pieces of the business. In the spirit of Satya Nadella’s presentation on Tech Intensity, Microsoft continues to bring no-code/low-code tools market that empower users to automate intuitively, quickly, and with agility.
We will be working with clients in 2020 to help them better understand the capabilities and talk more about the common processes that can be improved using RPA and tools like Power Automate. To learn more, please contact us. We’d love to hear about the process that your organization is looking to automate.
Read MoreKiefer Consulting was recently added to the California Department of Rehabilitation (DOR) vendor list. With a long and successful track record of providing departments across the State of California with services to improve website accessibility, we are proud to be added to this list. Earlier this year, our team worked with two departments and assisted them in complying with Assembly Bill (AB) 434 by the June 30th deadline.
Read MoreOffice 365 is changing the game as it relates to intranets. SharePoint’s introduction of a “Modern” UI is making it easy for almost anyone to design a good-looking intranet site within minutes.
Read MoreMicrosoft Ignite is Microsoft’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals. This year, Ignite is being held in Orlando, Florida (November 4-8, 2019), and there have been several announcements related to Microsoft Teams and SharePoint that we are compelled to share.
Read MoreMicrosoft is changing how people work. Office 365 has a comprehensive suite of applications that help organizations improve how they collaborate and communicate. However, there is one question we get with frequency,
Read More“How do I know what application in Office 365 I should be using and when I should use it?”
It was a dark and stormy night and when Brian turned on his computer, he discovered that his hard drive was not working. The computer simply wouldn’t turn on. All of his work was gone and there was no way to recover the files.
Read MoreFolsom, CA, October 8, 2019: In October, venerable Folsom, Calif.-based Kiefer Consulting added Chad Vander Veen to its roster as a business development manager. Vander Veen brings with him deep knowledge of the state and local government IT environment, having spent nearly 10 years reporting for Government Technology magazine and its sister publications, including Governing and Public CIO.
Read MoreAll things must pass, and SharePoint 2010 is no exception. While most of our clients have already migrated to the cloud, we still have many clients that are using SharePoint on-prem. Most of our clients that are on-prem have kept pace with upgrades to SharePoint. We are happy to report that most of them are using SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint 2019, however, we still have organizations using SharePoint 2010.
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