Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Cloud scale analytics 101
"Analytics" is a word we hear used often in technology and organizations. But what does it mean and how can it help nonprofits like yours? Having a collective understanding of what analytics is, and what it can do for you, is vital for nonprofit success these days. In this e-book, we will explore the core concepts of analytics, appropriate organization goals, and underlying technologies that empower you to analyze your data.
Get started with GitHub and Azure DevOps
Adopting the tools and mindset of DevOps in the right manner can facilitate development efficiency, boost productivity, and increase the rate at which products can be brought to market.
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How to use AI in Dynamics 365 for sales and marketing
Manage apps in Power Apps
Make the most of your Microsoft Power Apps and learn how to manage and share your apps easily. Looking to view or restore an old version? Need to update permissions? This learning module will show you how. Check it out and learn how to manage your customer applications and create environments in Power Apps.
Three ways analytics can help: Respond, adapt, and save
Understand how analytics and AI can help move your organization forward. Proven analytics technologies have a strong track record of enabling more dynamic and exploratory responses that can guide organizations through difficult times.
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Azure DevOps vs. GitHub: Comparing the Microsoft DevOps tools
When diving into the world of DevOps tools, it's important to remember that Microsoft Azure DevOps and GitHub each offer unique value and overlapping capabilities. They can be used separately or together, so there's even a "why not both?" scenario. Learn the history of these two DevOps tools, the specific advantages of each, and how to get started using them.
Monday, August 30, 2021
Join the community
Microsoft Power Apps is more than an award-winning platform—it is a powerful community filled with rich resources. Connect with peers, share creativity, and learn from professionals. Meet like-minded business leaders to discover valuable insights, plus access hundreds of videos and blogs. Join the discussion today!
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
The Role Of AI And People Analytics In Developing The Leaders Of Tomorrow
While investment in digital business solutions continues to increase, workers remain the lifeblood of every organization. This article from Forbes covers key ways AI and analytics help organizations hire the right people and train them for success.
Accelerate developer velocity using any platform, any language, and any cloud
10 innovation areas that are reshaping app development
Thousands of organizations around the globe are using Microsoft Power Apps to solve challenges and boost their businesses. As these numbers grow, Microsoft has identified 10 new areas that a shaping app development. From #LessCodeMorePower to thousand app scale, see why Power Apps is changing the app world.
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Results and data driven programming
This five-minute video provides an overview of how data can play a vital role in your nonprofit to make sure your organization is operating efficiently and effectively.
Scale as you grow with Power Apps
Monday, August 23, 2021
ROI Azure Synapse
This infographic shows how Microsoft Azure Synapse brings big data and data warehousing together in a single service to provide limitless analytics.
MPAA relies on Azure and Visual Studio to innovate and increase efficiencies
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences maxxed-out its on-premises infrastructure, it turned to Microsoft Azure to expand its capacity into the cloud. It also leaned into Azure DevOps to improve collaboration between development and infrastructure teams and used Visual Studio to develop new streaming apps across Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and tvOS—delivering rich, responsive online experiences to its members across different devices and platforms.
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Helping animals find their forever homes with Reverse Matching
Learn how Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is leveraging Azure Machine Learning to help match animals with their forever-families.
What is DevSecOps?
DevSecOps is the evolution of DevOps, where developer, security, and operations teams are united around the culture of security as a shared responsibility.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2021
What is DevOps?
Work remotely, stay secure
As businesses have had to quickly pivot to new working environments, cyberattacks become an urgent concern. In this thought leadership article, you can learn some of best practices using Microsoft security that help ensure the best protection. Examples include secure access to cloud applications that protect sign-ins with security defaults, methods to manage and secure corporate data in approved apps on personal devices, and providing clear and basic information, including how to protect their devices, will help you and employees stay ahead of threats so they can remain productive.
Introduction to Power Apps - Learn
Discover Microsoft Power Apps and what the platform can do for you. Explore the different type of apps you can develop for different business needs and learn which one is right for you. Read a customer success story and watch a video to get started. Check out the manual here:
Learn Azure in a month of lunches
Whether you want to spend a bit of time every day to master the core concepts of Azure or use it to narrow your focus—this resource will be invaluable to the immediate and future needs of your nonprofit organization.
You're welcome to read the entire Learn Azure in a Month e-book, but we'd like to direct you to Part 4, which begins on page 267, titled "The Cool Stuff." This section breaks down the most important Azure concepts into bite-sized lessons with exercises and labs—along with project files available in GitHub—to reinforce your skills. It covers how to integrate key technologies, including containers and Kubernetes, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the Internet of Things.
Kelly Roofing uses PowerApps to capture photos at work sites
A roofing contractor needed a task-focused mobile solution to file project status updates quickly. Low connectivity areas, plus 100 work orders-a-week slowed down the process and added a hefty after-hours workload. Kelly Roofing needed a cost-effective solution that worked with their existing system. Enter Microsoft Power Apps. Within a few weeks their custom app transformed their business. Read their success story to learn how Power Apps decreased their processing time by 91% and boosted customer satisfaction.
Monday, August 16, 2021
Two types of artificial intelligence
Bring the future into your organization today with AI. Pre-Built AI has cognitive services—deep learning cognitive capabilities ready to use, such as vision, speech, knowledge, translation, etc. Custom AI uses machine learning capabilities to analyze data to build artificial neural networks to address specific problems not covered by cognitive services. This infographic explores these two types of artificial intelligence.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Announcing the Nonprofit Data Warehouse Quickstart
Microsoft Tech for Social Impact recently launched the Nonprofit Data Warehouse Quickstart, a script-to-deploy data warehouse solution that integrates sample datasets to help nonprofits modernize their data estate.
Shipping company navigates to the cloud, boosts security, cuts operating costs by 50%
Qatari shipping and maritime company Nakilat has one of the world's largest fleets of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, transporting LNG from Qatar to global markets. To increase its competitive advantage, Nakilat wanted to improve employee productivity and mobility, without compromising on data security. It uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security to deliver highly secure cloud-first workplaces—shipboard and in the office. Nakilat also adopted the Microsoft Azure platform to optimize its operations and improve business continuity, reducing operating costs by 50 percent. See more in this video.
Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation
Attackers will cross multiple domains like email, identity, endpoints, and applications to find the point of least resistance. Today's defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams and threshold differences between solutions—leaving the business vulnerable to attack. Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Read on to learn more.
Implementing Role Based Security In Your PowerApps App
This tutorial gives an overview of how to implement active directory group membership-based permissions in an app. Follow the steps to get a blueprint for implementing any custom connector in the Power Apps environment. Start here:
Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure
Data is being generated at an exponential speed. Organizations all over the world are migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure teaches all that you need to extract useful insights by analyzing your big data. This e-book covers the power of data with big data analytics, the Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. It also delves into data analytics by studying a use case that focuses on creating actionable insights for a company from its near-real-time data. With this e-book, you will gain a solid understanding of data analytics on Azure and its practical implementation.
Monday, August 9, 2021
Administering a Power Apps and Power Automate enterprise deployment whitepaper
Strategize how to launch and manage an enterprise Power Apps deployment with this whitepaper on Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Power Automate. Written for business decision makers responsible for planning, securing, deploying, and supporting applications, it provides a high-level overview of the Power Platform before diving deeper into specific areas such as architecture, security, analytics, and deployment using Azure DevOps.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Greater Security
Greater security at lower cost with the expertise and power of Microsoft security solutions. Learn more about simplifying and fortifying with Microsoft security.
Spanish Red Cross—integrated data and Power BI
Learn how the Spanish Red Cross is leveraging Microsoft technology to unite data sources, drive insights, and forecast demand for critical humanitarian services.
Modern data warehouse webinar series for nonprofits
This webinar series covers the concepts, strategies, and advantages for the modernization of a nonprofit organization's entire data estate. Subjects include data warehousing, reporting, analytics, Machine Learning/AI, and more. Join Stephen Green as he covers some of the most popular subjects for nonprofit organizations' digital transformation.
Kennametal embraces Microsoft cloud strategy to drive business innovation
Kennametal has invested heavily in Microsoft cloud technologies as part of its digital transformation journey to reduce costs, increase productivity, and empower workers to deliver superior results for their customers. In this video, see how they utilize Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services to Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications to Microsoft 365 productivity, security, and mobility tools. Kennametal believes that Microsoft resources will help the company fulfill its business promises.
Three ways to make an app
Launch apps right away with Microsoft Power Apps. Pre-built templates and drag-and-drop simplicity give you the power to build apps now. When your business needs quick app deployment to keep ahead of the curve, Power Apps offers three easy ways to make your ideas a reality—using a blank slate, a data-driven model, or a template. See how you can get started:
Monday, August 2, 2021
Speed up the process: develop an app in hours
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