Microsoft has officially announced that it will be retiring Skype for Business Online. Initial rumblings about Teams replacing Skype came at the Ignite conference in September of 2017, however, we didn’t know exactly when Microsoft would retire the product.
Well, now we know.
Read MoreSharePoint 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 MoreWell, it appears that Microsoft is ready to introduce Office 365 Business and Office 365 ProPlus users to Microsoft Teams. We have heard that users haven’t already been given access to Microsoft Teams can expect to see Microsoft’s collaboration application automatically activated by July 9, 2019.
Read MoreIf your organization has grown tired of file shares, disjointed content management systems, or never being able to find documents when you need them, it is time to consider SharePoint Online, especially if you’ve already invested in Office 365. Many of our clients are asking about SharePoint and how their organization can get more out of it.
Read MoreIt’s not easy to change a legacy process. People often grow comfortable with their processes and any change can be viewed as a disruption.
Read MoreOver the past 5 years, the Kiefer team has been helping clients manage project-related data for large-scale construction projects. The solution is a customized collaboration portal that stakeholders can access to see
We recently came across an excellent article in Forbes called, How to Establish a Culture of Employee Engagement.
Read MoreMicrosoft Office 365 has many organizations excited about cloud computing. The promise of more features and less day-to-day management of infrastructure is appealing. But, before we “set-it and forget it”, we must consider the importance of governance and establish policies that ensure that users are in compliance and using Office 365 services in accordance to the guidelines that have been established by the organization.
Have you ever needed to share and collaborate with business partners outside of your company? We commonly see organizations using traditional methods of exchanging information using e-mail or consumer-grade repositories like Dropbox to send large files. These systems work, however, this is not the ideal way to collaborate and communicate. The most efficient and secure way to work with external partners is by establishing an extranet site. It’s quick and easy to create an extranet site using SharePoint Online.
Read MoreAt Microsoft Ignite this year, there was a lot of interest in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s answer to the very popular persistent-chat platform, Slack. Microsoft Teams was released last year and it caught some by surprise. When it was released, many of our clients were not sure how they would put Teams to good use. However, in just 6 short months, Teams is now being used by over 125,000 organizations across the world. Microsoft Teams is enjoying strong momentum and its rapid growth is proof that collaboration and instant communication are desired in the modern workplace.
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