Over the first part of this year, we have explored four key concepts that drive value from cloud innovation—Secure, Analyze, Automate, and Adopt. While many of the features and topics we’ve discussed have highlighted Microsoft 365 and Azure, this Insight dives into another piece of the Microsoft cloud ecosystem—Dynamics 365. Specifically, we’ll uncover how you…
Standards, maturity models, and certifications…oh my! All businesses regardless of the goods or services they provide, their size or their industry are impacted daily by the requirements of regulations and standards imposed from government, accreditation bodies, customer contracts, or just plain internal directives. Annual audits, employee education, specialized software systems, and potentially whole departments are…
Over the past three months we have been exploring the key concepts that drive value from cloud innovation – Secure, Analyze, and Automate. In this Insight we will explore the final tenet to maximizing your investment in the cloud: Adopt. Leveraging cloud-based security, analytics, and automation is a great foundation for any business solution. However,…
As part of your investment in the cloud you may have already considered security, backups, and analytics, but have you considered how automation in the cloud can also benefit you? Automation is a broad topic with many avenues to explore and leverage. It is also one of the more important goals of your cloud journey.…
Technology has always been about the possibility of efficiency gains. These efficiency gains created the notion that technology would reduce repetitive tasks and allow us to be engaged in more valuable activities. This notion is seeing more traction now through achievements leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to augment work and enhance decisions. The exponential growth of…
Among the top concerns of cloud implementations is the security and loss of data. We have all heard the news reports of large corporations who are the victim of a cybercrime. According to a 2019 study from the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a data breach is close to 4 million dollars. The loss of…
How far along on your cloud journey have you traveled? Are you among the two in three North American enterprises—according to Forrester Research—who already rely on public cloud platforms? Cloud-based computing is not the future; it is the present. Industry research experts, Gartner, expect that more than 30 percent of technology providers’ new software investments have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only. …
In 2019 we pivoted our monthly “tips,” which tended to lean towards technical in nature, to monthly “insights.” The goals of our Insights are to incorporate a technology topic, naturally, but also to highlight business benefits, opportunities and risks. This year’s Insights ranged from digital transformation strategy (and why you need one) to getting more…
In our May 2019 Insight we went in-depth into what Windows 7 End-of-Life means for your business. Six month later and with only 2 months left we felt it was once again important to cover this topic. While Microsoft has made it clear for some time now that the official end of support for Windows…
Stop, Collaborate What does collaboration look like at your organization? What should collaboration look like? Does your organization’s software empower and enhance collaboration or impede it? At Abel Solutions, we feel strongly that Microsoft Teams is the ultimate answer for fast, fluid collaboration for the startup or the enterprise. It appears others agree, as Teams…