Tag: Cloud

How the Cloud Can Be Good For Your Business
How the Cloud Can Be Good For Your Business
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Efficient, reliable, cutting edge, secure – all words that you would hope your business are, let’s face it when you are in business you need to keep ahead of the competition and all of these words, and more, are what we strive for.

Power BI 1: Self-Service BI in the cloud
Power BI 1: Self-Service BI in the cloud
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What is Power BI?
If I use the strict definition, then Power BI is a self-service intelligence service in the cloud in the form of a specialized site in Office 365. In a broader sense many will also include the Office tools needed to create the reports as part of the definition. Using familiar everyday applications like Excel and Office 365 you can search, discover, model, analyze, visualize and share information and insights based on merged data both from the outside world and from within your own organization.

SharePoint Apps with Lightswitch in No Time
Webinars

Learn how to create SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch in No Time! Summary of webinar: In this webinar I will show how to quickly build professional data-bound business cloud apps with SharePoint and LightSwitch. Learn how to connect to SharePoint and cloud data, how to build screens and layout information on the screens and how to… READ MORE

How Social and the Cloud Impact Your Governance Strategy
Webinars

Learn the effects of Social and Cloud on Your Governance Strategy To start, Two of the biggest disruptors impacting your organization are social and cloud. If you’re like the majority of companies around the globe, you want to do what is right for your end users and provide tools and solutions that will keep them… READ MORE

Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
Maintaining Governance in the Cloud
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During his keynote presentation at SPTechCon in February 2012, Jared Spataro, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, announced that SharePoint 2013 was being developed using a “Cloud First” strategy. He went on to explain that as the platform reached parity with current installations, Office 365 customers could expect to have access to the benefits of new features sooner than on-premises deployments. This was a major shift for Microsoft, and for the SharePoint platform. At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto in July 2012, Kurt DelBene, President of the Microsoft Office Division, announced that Office 365 is growing faster than predicted, and is likely to eclipse SharePoint as the fastest growing Microsoft offer ever.

What Governance Looks Like in the Cloud
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Ever wonder What Governance Looks Like in the Cloud? To start, as cloud-based collaboration becomes a reality, what impact does this have on Governance plans and strategies? The pressure on businesses to optimize the productivity power of the Cloud, yet also retain a well-controlled, governed platform is considerable. In the fifth webinar in the ‘Governance Rules!’… READ MORE

Napa – Develop with New Cloud App Model with SharePoint 2013 & Office 2013
Napa – Develop with New Cloud App Model with SharePoint 2013 & Office 2013
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The title talks about itself …

• Developing on the cloud. No need to install anything, you can write your code, build, deploy all on the cloud,
• No need for more RAMs as SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 requires,
• You can start developing for Office and SharePoint without having to install Visual Studio 2012,
• You only need good Internet access

Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
Choosing Between Cloud and On-premises Deployment for SharePoint
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In April 2011, Microsoft launched Office 365 – a comprehensive set of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that allow any organization to obtain hosted, cloud-based access to Exchange, Lync, Office Web Applications – and SharePoint Online. All offer guaranteed uptime, fault tolerance, contractual service levels and clear, predictable pricing.

Private Cloud with SharePoint Hybrid Solutions
Webinars

Start developing SharePoint Hybrid Solutions. Webinar Summary Hybrid approaches refers to applications that run in the sandbox and can call out to full-trust code through full-trust proxies. Essentially, you can think of a hybrid approach as two or more distinct, loosely coupled components. The sandboxed component is deployed in a SharePoint solution package to a site… READ MORE