Tag: Workflow

Making the Case: Why 2020 is the Year to Migrate to SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online can help your team confront an uncertain future. 

2020 will be remembered for many reasons. Certainly, it has already been a year indelibly marked by the impacts of pandemic. But 2020 will also be remembered as a year of ingenuity, resilience and courage. Above all, we will look back at 2020 as the year things changed. How we work, travel, shop, interact, entertain – everything we think, say and do will have changed in some capacity. Some changes will be significant while others will be subtle.  

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5 Great Apps You May Not Know You Have

Office 365 comes loaded with useful apps – here are five you may be overlooking. 

For many users of Office 365, familiar applications like Outlook, Office and Excel are the extent to which the powerful suite of tools is leveraged. Sharp-eyed users may have spotted other applications with names like Yammer, WhiteBoard and Visio. It turns out that, depending on your Office 365 subscription, you may have access to a host of wildly useful apps that you may have never even opened.  

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Culture is key to improving business processes.

As an organization that has a long history of helping clients improve processes, we have learned a lot about why some clients succeed in business transformation, while others struggle with making the necessary changes to improve critical processes. Generally speaking, its the clients that invest in a culture that values improvement that are most successful in process improvement initiatives.

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Building Your First Microsoft Flow in Power Automate

If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, you may be wondering if it may be the answer to automating and optimizing business processes. Well, we’ve been experimenting with Microsoft Power Automate and using it to build custom workflows for several months now, and we thought a blog that will help other users get started with Microsoft Power Automate was in order. So, before you build a “flow”, take our advice and read our tips and best practices for users and organizations that are building their first Microsoft “flow”.

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7 Ways to Automate Workflows Using SharePoint

We often hear from customers that are interested in using SharePoint to automate workflows. Not only can it be done, it can be done several ways. This blog will help you better understand how to automate workflows using SharePoint and the tools that you might consider.

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Go with the Flow. An introduction to Microsoft Flow.

Kiefer was fortunate to see Microsoft Flow and PowerApps at the Microsoft hosted “Future of SharePoint” event in San Francisco, CA on May 4, 2016. During this event, Microsoft representatives talked about the importance of SharePoint power users learning to use Flow and Power Apps since they would be built-in with SharePoint. It was immediately after that event that Kiefer team members started to discuss how we could get on the Flow and Power Apps bandwagon. We are well established as a go-to partner when it comes to digital business process transformation, so it would be critical that we not only learned Flow and Power Apps, but we needed to become experts in the technology. We also know that Microsoft Flow in government has huge potential to improve legacy processes and common processes across numerous departments in the public-sector.

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How the pros build workflows in SharePoint

If you follow the Kiefer blog, you might have noticed that we spend a lot of time writing about the benefits of automation and the value of streamlining business workflows.  Our team has experience with a wide range of tools to help organizations save time and effort and bring consistency and efficiency to tasks that are performed on a regular basis.  This blog covers a few of the tools you might consider when you are looking to build SharePoint workflows.

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Using electronic signatures to improve workflow.

In August, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to clarify how government agencies could accept signatures on documents electronically.

Brown signed Assembly A.B. 2296, which is designed to set clear standards around how state and local agencies can use both electronic and digital signatures. Read the article

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