Category: Azure

Time to Migrate from Data Export Service to Azure Synapse Link

Time to Migrate from Data Export Service to Azure Synapse Link

The clock is ticking for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform customers who rely on the Microsoft Data Export Service (DES) to move data into Azure. Microsoft deprecated DES last November. Although the service continues to work for existing customers, it’s no longer available to new customers, and it will no longer be supported when reaching…
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Introduction to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

Across all industries, organizations are bumping up against some big challenges when it comes to dealing with big data and for many, Microsoft Azure Synapse may hold they key. Many struggle to mature their strategy – not just capturing that data, but implementing the analytics against it – aka: turning their data into actionable insights.…
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 – The Unified Platform

Microsoft Dynamics 365 – The Unified Platform

Unless you’ve been working with it recently, you’re going to find out, as you read on, that Microsoft Dynamics 365 is way more than you thought it was. Most people first became aware of Microsoft Dynamics when Microsoft first acquired a series of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software companies using them to deliver four ERP…
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Systems Admin Concerned Moving to Cloud

Will moving to cloud render my job as a systems admin obsolete?

It is almost a cliché to say that “technology changes at a rapid pace”, but such sayings become clichés for a reason. This one happens to be true: there are tools that didn’t exist five years ago that I now use as an intricate part of my daily job duties after moving to cloud. One…
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How to Buy Dynamics 365

Buying D365 isn’t as straightforward as, say, creating a Teams account or subscribing to Office 365. Technically, you can sign up for Dynamics 365 directly from the Microsoft 365 admin center, create an account, and gain access to its game-changing capabilities. But— without an authorized partner on your side, you’ll have difficulty implementing D365 —…
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Migrating to Dynamics 365 in the Cloud from On-Premises

The cloud hardly feels disruptive in an era dominated by AI and big data. After all, migrating from on-premises hosting to the cloud has been an urgent matter for years—a critical first step in any digital transformation journey. COVID has further solidified the cloud’s place in the IT stack. We’ve seen organizations scramble to meet…
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Jira & Azure DevOps users can now easily integrate developer time tracking into their financials

Jira & Azure DevOps users can now easily integrate developer time tracking into their financials

Small and mid-sized development firms have a unique set of challenges for building, testing and releasing software internally. Specifically, these companies want to capture the time spent on various aspects of the software development cycle within their project-based accounting software. As a project-driven activity, software development requires tracking costs and employee time for each project.…
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Getting to the Cloud Can Reduce Cyber Security Risks for Professional Services Firms

Getting to the Cloud Can Reduce Cyber Security Risks for Professional Services Firms

Business and professional services are the top industries targeted by cyber attackers in the Americas, according to the NTT Security 2020 Global Threat Intelligence Report. This is because these types of businesses retain a significant amount of confidential client data in their computer systems such as financial details, tax returns, identification numbers and intellectual property.…
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Choosing Your Cloud Journey: Three Approaches to the Same Destination- on premises crm software

Choosing Your Cloud Journey: Three Approaches to the Same Destination

If this year has proven anything, it is that businesses need to seriously consider their “cloud strategy.” By cloud strategy, we don’t mean enabling Zoom meetings and Google docs. A true strategy encompasses business applications ranging from ERP to CRM to office productivity to business continuity to relocating digital assets. Pre-pandemic, in April 2019, Gartner…
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