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The Post COVID -19 environment: top 5 emerging trends

The Post COVID -19 environment: top 5 emerging trends

COVID-19 has taught us a lot. From a business perspective, it has taught managers to collaborate with employees and work remotely when they had not even thought of it in their entire career! Nevertheless, the lessons learned are for good. Here is a compilation of Top 5 trends changing the post-COVID-19 workplace environment.

  1. Increased remote working:

You never know when you’d have to make the shift to a remote working policy again. So it is better to be prepared for the rainy days.

  1. Design for resilience:

The post-COVID workplace requires designs that are sustainable. Whether it is application programs, designing structures, or networks, resilience is now is of foremost importance.

  1. The decrease in Organization complexity:

A complex organization structure can’t be handled easily. A decrease in complexity must be targeted in the post COVID environment.

  1. Communication in the Cloud:

With a stable communication system in the cloud, the business Phone can still be operational, thereby keeping the workforce and customers connected in tough times.

  1. A feature-rich Workplace:

Collaboration and remote connections are the building blocks of a modern workplace.

Finastra and Microsoft’s joint venture to accelerate transformation of financial services

Finastra and Microsoft’s joint venture to accelerate transformation of financial services

In a recent announcement, Microsoft and Finastra are in a strategic agreement to accelerate development of modern financial services. The joint venture aims to facilitate people and business with latest financial and services and solutions to cater for increasing financial needs and improved financial experience.

The idea is to develop Finastra’s open developer platform on Azure for an increased collaboration and exploring new ways to improve financial services available to people. Features such as e-signatory and e-notary will be highly available and easily extendable by Finastra. Since the company is making the shift to the cloud, Azure proves to be a secured and reliable platform needed by financial services in the cloud.

With Azure by their side, people at Finastra are ready to open an innovation platform to foster co-innovation of the next Gen financial services applications. For a digital-first mindset, Microsoft Workplace Analytics capabilities are also employed for better decision-making.

The future of Xbox Gaming with latest enhancements

The future of Xbox Gaming with latest enhancements

Like all the gamers out there, Phil Spencer, executive vice president of Gaming at Microsoft, is also eager for better transformation of the future of gaming to make it more exciting.

In a recent blog, he mentions that the future of gaming would consist of more deep and interactive games across the Xbox console, mobile devices and PCs. Better technology to reduce hate speech is also aimed to be a part of future gaming. The latest commitments also include the introduction of a Smart Delivery technology.

With Xbox Play Anywhere, digital titles can be bought once and played on both Windows 10 PCs and Xbox consoles. A future is imagined where there is increased value from games and where there is something for everyone coming from different backgrounds.

The new Xbox Series X will provide a great gaming experience on the latest console whether the games come from Xbox Game Studios, publisher and developer partners.

Microsoft introduces improved business features for OneDrive

Microsoft introduces improved business features for OneDrive

With an increase in collaboration demands for business, especially since the pandemic days, Microsoft has focused its OneDrive features to make it more aligned with the latest business demands. Here are a few new features that Microsoft has announced for OneDrive:

  • Add to OneDrive:

With this, you can easily add shortcuts within OneDrive with a few clicks.

  • Tight integration with Teams:

This feature fosters better collaboration while on Teams with files residing in OneDrive. Teams file sharing feature also allows for creating shareable links with customized permissions.

  • Address bar URL sharing:

With this feature, you can simply copy the URL of a file for sharing right from the address bar.

  • Dark Mode:

This is another business feature for better user experience.

  • Increased upload limit:

An increase in upload limit for OneDrive is provided from 15 GB to 100 GB

Everyone’s storage requirements are increasing in business. Microsoft is now committed to improving OneDrive for a natural and easy collaboration across the company and via Teams.

cloud productivity

A look to Microsoft’s strong revenue growth with productivity cloud

A look to Microsoft’s strong revenue growth with productivity cloud

Microsoft has reveled in a news recently that a total of $33.1 billion (£25.7bn) of revenue by focusing on Ai technology. With distributed computing on the rise, Microsoft has assisted organizations with its Azure services and has invested more on Azure platform.

Most fortune companies are on a journey towards cloud migration and Microsoft is assisting them to utilize its Azure platform to ease their cloud transformation journey. Microsoft’s, once termed as, productivity suite is now the productivity cloud comprising of powerful Office 365 features and assisting companies with Ai based approach to a better digital transformation journey.  Microsoft is taking further steps to make revenue growth form Windows commercial products as reported by ZDnet. To cater for real world and changing business needs, Microsoft is focusing on service provision along with revenue expansion both for the company and its clients.

Microsoft has expanded its cloud centers towards Germany and Switzerland and taking further steps to enhance cloud-first move for organizations.

New Pricing and licensing plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Apps

New Pricing and licensing plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Apps

Users of Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP family, there’s some interesting news from Microsoft. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced to make a few changes in the pricing and packaging of Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP applications. The proposed changes will take effect from Oct 1.

According to official news, the new model enables Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement to be sold as a base type license along with a few “attach licenses” with huge discounts. The current process $115 per month is reduced to $95 per month. The “one-size-fits-all” concept is now replaced with solutions that fit specific needs of customers.

There is also news about Power apps being affected with new pricing and licensing. There are two types of plans of Power Apps: Power Apps per user plan and Power Apps per app plan. These are also specified according to customers’ needs.

More details can be found on Microsoft original announcement article.

AT&T and Microsoft’s joint collaboration for a better cloud, AI and 5G

AT&T and Microsoft’s joint collaboration for a better cloud, AI and 5G

Providers like AT&T collaborating with Tech Giants like Microsoft. That’s interesting news for Cloud business owners.

The need for improved communication technology is increasing each day. Microsoft has now partnered with AT&T, in an announcement last month, to apply AI technology for better business improvement. The alliance is further done to improve other technologies such as the cloud and 5G communication technology. The aim of AT&T is to migrate most non-network workloads to the public cloud by the year 2024 for more innovative acceleration for companies and workforce empowerment with optimal costs. The agreement will give rise to robust cloud-based collaboration tools with Azure and Microsoft 365. AT&T has the credit of being the first Provider to bring 5G to United States and promises to provide 5G nationwide by next year.

This collaboration will jointly facilitate the mutual customers of AT&T and Microsoft Azure with market integrated industry solutions.

From the SharePoint conference: Innovations for an intelligent workplace

From the SharePoint conference: Innovations for an intelligent workplace

Recently, at a SharePoint conference, Microsoft Showcased recent innovations in Microsoft 365. This includes SharePoint home sites.  According to Microsoft Officials, the focus of these innovations is intelligent workspace, AI based workflows, better and engaging communication ways and bringing out best of creativity from individuals with the insights from AI.

In a nutshell, the conference proposed innovations in:

  1. SharePoint home sites, for an intelligent intranet
  2. Yammer and Yammer and Microsoft Stream, for better employee engagement
  3. OneDrive, for collaborative file sharing experience
  4. Microsoft 365 performance, for a better security and intelligent experience.

With these innovations, SharePoint offers better and world-class intranet, after Microsoft has re-invented three years ago in the Future of SharePoint event. The recent home sites can connect workplaces better, share relevant news and stories beneficial to employees for better productive with personalized content. There are also new capabilities introduced in Microsoft Stream like sharing, recording and uploading videos directly to Microsoft Stream from mobile app.

FSLogix merges into Microsoft

FSLogix merges into Microsoft for improved cloud business and Office 365 virtualization experience

FSLogix merges into Microsoft for improved cloud business and Office 365 virtualization experience

Workplace transformation is the need of the today’s cloud business space as businesses continue to evolve. Microsoft has taken one big leap for further enhancement of Office 365 virtualization and has announced acquisition of FSLogix. The company, FSLogix’s virtualization advancements make it a next-gen app portioning platform. According to experts form Microsoft, the company plans to enhance virtualization experiences of companies from large enterprises to small businesses. It also works to reduce work load, resource consumption, labor and time.

With this news, Microsoft’s products like Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop and Office 365 virtualization experience and Office 365 ProPlus experience.  Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is the only Microsoft 365 to provide customers with a modern desktop experience. It also offers built-in security and compliance. With the acquisition of FSLogix, we can expect lesser load times of user profiles in OneDrive and Outlook. In addition to this, Office 365 ProPlus experience in a multi-user virtual environment shall be improved too.

The future of virtual workspace is promising as Microsoft is eager to facilitate the customers and cloud business providers in every possible manner.

OMS Portal moved to Azure Portal

OMS portal deprecated: The Popular Azure Portal is the new norm

OMS portal deprecated: The Popular Azure Portal is the new norm

OMS portal has now moved to popular Azure Portal and Yet again Microsoft has sent the final reminder. Since last year, the capabilities offered by Operations Management Suite (OMS) like monitoring, management, and security have eventually are incorporated into Azure portal. In this way, the azure portal has seen many enhancements since the past 12 months. These new features and capabilities are making the Azure portal more popular.

It is a fact that Microsoft had plans to fully replace the OMS portal with Azure Portal since many years but this year, this is finally accomplished. All the features provided to customers through the OMS portal are now there in the Azure portal. Hence it is high time that you switch to Popular Azure portal.

Microsoft has provided detailed documentation regarding how to move to the Azure portal in its quite comprehensive documentation. There is new alert management experience, user access management is done through role-based access control, and cross workspace queries replace the Application Insights Connector. The OMS app for smartphones is being deprecated altogether.

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