Kiefer’s approach to helping clients leverage the power of Microsoft 365 starts with building a roadmap. Prior to the pandemic, many organizations with Microsoft 365 licenses we’re only using a small subset of applications within the Microsoft 365 suite. The majority of customers that we talked to we’re only using Outlook and Microsoft Office apps. …
Today, Microsoft kicked off the annual partner conference, Inspire. Like Ignite, the annual developers conference that was held earlier this year, this conference will offer a peek at what we might expect from Microsoft in the coming months. This conference important to us at Kiefer and we follow the announcements closely. We can see where …
Many organizations that have invested in Microsoft 365 are still trying to figure out how to best leverage the apps and features that Microsoft 365 has to offer. Today, we are releasing a new eBook called, The Modern Workplace Playbook, a practical guide for I.T. leaders that are focusing on creating a plan and strategy …
In just 3 days, the State of California will be closing the books on the 2021-2022 budget year. As a firm that works with state and local government entities, we saw a lot of investments in the last year that were made to modernize the workplace. With remote work and hybrid work becoming a more …
Modern Workplace Playbook: Available for download on June 29. Read More »
I’ve been at Kiefer Consulting for 6 years. I often say that I am fortunate to work with some brilliant individuals that have a rare mix of technical skill and a strategic mindset. We have written a blog about what to expect when working with our team and the importance of team chemistry, but we …
For 34 years, Kiefer Consulting has proven that working with a quality team of consultants yields desirable results. Independence. It’s as American and baseball and apple pie. Independence is the driving force behind all the legendary stories of the nation’s birth and its westward expansion. The rugged individual going it alone looms large in the …
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As we look back on the immense changes that we’ve seen over the last 2 years, I find great interest in the speed in which organizations (and individuals) embraced new technology. There are many technologies that had been underutilized or undervalued until the pandemic. Here are a few technologies that we couldn’t live without during …
Microsoft Build kicked off this week. Build is the Microsoft’s developer conference, and we were looking forward to learning more about Power Pages, the fifth-pillar of the Power Platform that allows organizations to quickly build websites that deliver information and services to customers. Microsoft Power Pages is now in preview. Power Pages is not entirely …
Kiefer Consulting built our reputation as a “SharePoint Shop”. We have encountered both SharePoint advocates and SharePoint “haters”. The wide range opinions about SharePoint are oftentimes influenced by implementation. Good implementations of SharePoint connect users to information in the flow of work. But, what we often encounter is poorly configured instances of SharePoint and untrained …
Typically, before starting a project, we recommend that we start with an assessment. In our experience, we’ve had clients push to move quickly from the Planning phase to the Execution phase of the project. This may be done for a variety of reasons. Some of the reasons we see clients interested in accelerating the Planning …
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