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Microsoft 365 Empowers You To Do More With Less

Microsoft 365 helps you work smarter and faster, with tools to build and manage your business, stay connected with customers, and safeguard your data. It simplifies IT management while reducing costs—saving you more than 60% compared to a patchwork of point solutions.

Simply put, Microsoft 365 is a better way to work.

Discover how Microsoft 365 can help you meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world, and help you do more with less.

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Identity Management: A Foundation for ‘Zero Trust’ Security

The traditional perimeter-based security strategy is obsolete. The new Zero Trust model assumes breach and a ‘never trust, always verify’ access approach. This means your security strategy will better protect your organisation by securing access to the connected world for all your users, smart devices, and services. Foundational to a Zero Trust Framework is identity. This e-book shows how to secure user access, provide seamless user experiences and help security teams by unifying identity management and governance.

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Coca-Cola Beverages Africa uses Microsoft technology to simplify its operations

Corporate digitization was the main goal of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) when choosing Microsoft Dynamics to take on the challenge. CCBA had numerous infrastructure issues and they needed to improve the ability of the different parts of the company to work and collaborate seamlessly. When they adopted Microsoft solutions—including Dynamics 365, Azure, and Microsoft 365—their financial operations improved. Customer relationships were strengthened, and they were able to drive HR capabilities through modernized analytic models. Watch the close-captioned video for inspiration about how the company combined customer engagement, security, and analytics into a single platform.

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Connect to customers through their preferred channel

Today’s sales team needs more than traditional sales force automation to respond to an unpredictable selling environment that includes rapidly changing buyer preferences, sudden changes in business outlook, and fast-moving competitors. Dynamics 365 Sales gives partners an adaptive selling solution to help sales teams put customers first. At the center of the solution is an adaptive, intelligent system—prebuilt and ready to go—that actively monitors myriad signals and distills them into actionable insights, so sales teams can anticipate buyer needs and deliver friction-free buying experiences. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you collaborate with peers to accelerate revenue.

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Why sales teams need to adapt to the subscription economy

The subscription economy is booming. It empowers customers by removing entry barriers and providing personalized content. Today it’s common for younger consumers to expect to pay a fee at regular intervals for access to a product or service. While the model has had popularity with software and entertainment, it is now normal across travel, health, and more. In this Forbes article, learn what executives are saying about how, since canceling a subscription is easy, the key to profitability is the length of the subscription. Sales teams must embrace this new economy and present a unique value proposition that sets them apart. The focus now is long-term growth versus short-term revenue.

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Microsoft 365 & Dynamics 365 Sales Professional - Better Together Part III

Since the pandemic, the amount of time buyers spend with sellers has dropped significantly. In fact, 80% of the buyers’ time is spent researching online and discussing matters internally. In the last part of this 3-part partner-facing-only infographic series about how to be a Microsoft 365 & Dynamics 365 Sales Professional, get training on how to respond to potential customer objections—whether in person or online. Be proactive and learn about customer concerns in advance. Be ready to answer questions they have about how Dynamics 365 can integrate with Gmail and how alternative financial/ERPs connect with Dynamics 365 Business Central to offer a seamless user experience built on a common data model. Bonus! Watch the linked video and learn how to accelerate digital selling with Dynamics 365. (Note: This infographic is partner-facing only.)

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Three Ways Sales and Marketing Alignment Reduces Costs

Many professionals operate in a distributed work environment, so even when colleagues are in the same office, sales and marketing are often misaligned. Ideally, sales and marketing colleagues would use the same solution, benefiting from each other’s data and insights. Organizations that proactively align their strategies reap benefits—the obvious one accelerated digital sales. Read this e-book produced by Microsoft about how having a consistent, seamless experience for customers when selling Dynamics 365 can lower customer acquisition costs and most importantly, enable increased revenue. Subscribe and stay connected. Download the e-book for details on the three ways sales and marketing alignment benefits buyers and sellers.

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Columbia Sportswear gains business flexibility and a sales boost with Dynamics 365

Columbia Sportswear chose Microsoft 365 as their marketing partner to help market their clothing and product lines so that active people can stay active outdoors. Microsoft Dynamics 365 has transformed the way they run their retail operations and backend, allowing them to expand capacity and reduce checkout times. Microsoft Connected Store enables the company to gain a better understanding of the customer journey. And, with Dynamics 365 Commerce, technology moves faster than Columbia ever imagined, allowing the company to keep up with its customers and keep employees doing what they love by digitally transforming and streamlining operations. Thanks to increased staffing efficiency, faster, more flexible customer service, and increased inventory awareness, Columbia has been able to thrive and keep their passion for the great outdoors alive.

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Microsoft 365 & Dynamics 365 Sales Professional - Better Together Part II

The pandemic fundamentally changed B2B buying and selling, with 42% of US sellers reporting that their organization has fewer salespeople than before COVID-19. In this second part of a partner-facing-only infographic series about how to be a Microsoft 365 & Dynamic 365 Sales Professional, get sample questions sellers should ask to take the conversation to Business Decision Makers (BDMs). Check out the table with references to specific questions for specific management audiences. Whether you’re selling to SMBs and have an opportunity to talk to a Sales Executive, Sales Manager, or Sales Operations Manager, these helpful tips will set you in forward motion. (Note: This infographic is partner-facing only.)

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Streamline workflows and accelerate sales

The pandemic fundamentally changed B2B buying and selling, as 42% of US sellers report their organization has fewer salespeople than before COVID-19. At the same time, the average buying committee has grown from 11 to 17 members, but the amount of time buyers spend with sellers has dropped to 17%—over 80% of the buyers’ time is spent researching online and discussing matters internally. Microsoft has fundamentally upended the sales culture, and with help from the Activate Digital Sales solution space, you can take advantage of prioritized cases to unlock data to discover your next opportunity Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you understand customers so that you can personalize every sale.

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This is how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing influencer marketing

AI is a complicated learning system that requires continuous human vetting and iteration. While it has improved the influencer marketing game, it’s still only as good as the instructions the marketer gives it. AI can also correct mishaps with brand names and logos, and automatically redirect posts to the company's social media page. Learn what leaders in the industry are saying about why it’s important to pay attention to how AI bots field interactions with consumers when it comes to sales.

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Virgin Atlantic reaches new heights with innovations powered by the Microsoft Cloud

Virgin Atlantic chose Microsoft 365 as the platform for its digital transformation to support the digitalization that will keep the airline at the forefront of the industry. With security top of mind, they created an app using Teams to help them better manage their fleet and get a better picture of potential maintenance delays. Virgin was able to speed up processes and improve tasks after going through this transformation phase—including the adoption of security tools like Microsoft Defender. Having access to a wide range of modern collaboration tools and quick solutions helped them coordinate their workforce. Microsoft Teams now plays a vital role in their hybrid workforce. Read the customer success story and learn how Microsoft 365 can help improve the overall efficiency and work processes of any organization.

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Microsoft 365 & Dynamics 365Sales Professional - Better Together Part I

Understanding customers is essential when personalizing sales. In this partner-facing-only infographic looks at how to have conversations with customers about new Dynamics 365 applications, especially with sellers targeting SMBs. Get ahead of the curve with a list of differentiators and the accompanying conversation starters you can use to address them. Learn about how Microsoft 365 works with Dynamics 365 Sales Professional regarding Outlook, Word, Teams, Excel, Power BI, and SharePoint. Also—get a link to a video about how to accelerate digital selling with Dynamics 365. (Note: this infographic is NOT intended for customer use.)

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How Rockwell Automation used Microsoft 365 to bolster more than a century of success

Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest industrial automation and information company, serves more than one hundred countries, with more than 23,000 people serving the connected enterprise. Since COVID-19 hit the manufacturing sector hard, Rockwell’s challenge was to help automate tasks and collaborate more. Rockwell embraced Microsoft 365, which helped them pivot to remote work quickly. With employees suddenly working from home, safety and security were of utmost concern. The embedded security structure within Microsoft Teams alleviated those fears and allowed Rockwell to step up without missing a beat. Power BI enabled them to automate systems, saving countless hours of employee time they could put towards other innovations.

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Activate Digital Selling: A holistic approach

Customers have changed more than we realize. They have a ton of access to information via social and digital channels, and they use it to make better, more informed decisions. How has selling changed as clients' research and engagement capabilities have become more digital and advanced? To compete effectively, businesses must take a more holistic approach to accelerate revenue outcomes by transforming selling with an intelligent, comprehensive digital sales collaboration platform. Tools like Dynamics 365, Office 365, Azure, and Power Platform work to integrate data and AI. Review the infographic to learn how Microsoft is approaching digital sales to integrate marketing, commerce, and sales to deliver modern customer experiences.

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Customer stories showcase traction for Microsoft’s business apps division

Rapid digital shifts in the business market have forced organizations to up their cloud game and application services. Sales teams need to discover changes in customer intent and act quickly to remain competitive. Business apps such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform have been successful because of the pre-trained AI models within the application, which makes it easier to deliver in right time experiences (RTE). RTE are products, services and applications which provide the right information to the right person at the right time on their device of choice. To create RTEs, a company must connect real-time data, partner with, and open data via AI-driven analytics.

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Activate Digital Selling: Connect with customers through their preferred channel

 The global pandemic gave way to new priorities shaped by a year (and then some) of crisis. With the acceleration of hybrid work, sellers now understand they need to help customers be better buyers. But how? The shift in B2B buying has reconfigured B2B selling, and sellers can focus on connecting with customers through their preferred mechanism. Review the infographic to learn about individualizing selling at scale, including ways to unlock data to discover opportunities.

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Activate Digital Selling: Four steps to accommodate the new buyer reality

The customer journey has changed. Almost all B2B exchanges are done digitally today, and research suggests today’s buying groups are more diverse than ever, with millennials making up the single biggest B2B buyer group. To stay relevant, sellers need to guide and collaborate with customers remotely, understand their customers and strengthen relationships, optimize processes to reduce costs, and help teams adapt to rapidly changing environments. Review the infographic for bullet points and fast facts about the new buying reality.

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Optimize processes ​and help teams to adapt

In today’s digitized world, gaining insights-based, collaborative engagement is the solution to optimizing sales processes. Learning about your customer and understanding sales data to identify ideal targets, recommend best actions, and collaborate with peers, will result in accelerated revenue. Interactive digital selling provides a genuine opportunity for sales teams to gain real-time data and insights to build strong, long-term customer relationships—and to help customers adapt and transition to the cloud. Tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales help pave the way. Sign up to learn more about digital selling.

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Create human connection with Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Connecting with customers and building trust to create strong relationships is essential in today’s digital era. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator have joined forces to offer an adaptive solution that anticipates customers’ needs as they change. With LinkedIn Navigator’s vast network of business decision makers, you can find the right customers, better understand what they care about, and connect in a more meaningful way. Put the human touch back into every customer interaction.

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Advances in digital behavior analytics are transforming how retailers sell online

COVID-19 accelerated the predominance of online sales. The result is an increased need to personalize the shopper experience—not reduce it. Real-time segmentation that factors things like location, gender, and age are still important, but what’s more important is understanding specific consumer intent. AI-driven solutions unleash insights about individual interests, motivations, and potential conversions. Instead of bombarding customers with information based on common characteristics, personalization using AI makes shoppers feel seen and heard.

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The Partner Opportunity For Microsoft Business Applications ISV

The Microsoft Business Applications ISV Connect Program offers ISV partners a framework to assess potential business opportunities related to building, managing, and selling Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner—capturing multiple revenue opportunities. Access platforms, tools, resources, and support designed to help you develop, publish, and market your business apps. Be a Microsoft partner and obtain the tools to fully develop your selling potential. Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help you navigate the world of Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner.

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Understand your customers and strengthen relationships remotely

The world has changed, and the workplace continues to evolve post-pandemic. Understanding your customer is essential for personalizing sales—knowing your client wants and needs leads to effective engagements. With increased work happening in the cloud, products like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Dynamics 365 Sales help you stay agile, meeting customers wherever they are. Sign up to learn more about how to effectively engage with digital selling.

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This LinkedIn tool could boost your sales

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a premium subscription-based app specializing in prospecting and tracking sales prospects. Its advanced search engine helps identify ideal candidates by looking for leads or accounts—filtering search results based on geography, industry, company size, role, seniority level, and more. With Sales Navigator, marketers can engage new leads and connections and discover new ones automatically. The Team version connects popular CRM applications and captures your Sales Navigator activity.

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Britax Römer creates a unified e-commerce solution with Dynamics 365

Child car seat and stroller engineer/manufacturer Britax Romer designs and delivers its safety products to retailers across Europe. To innovate and keep ahead of the competition, it needed to automate, digitize, and give savvy customers and retailers the information they needed in one place—as well as fulfill deliveries in record time. Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions enabled the retailer consumer guidance toward the best safety products for children.

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Las historias de clientes impulsan las aplicaciones empresariales de Microsoft.

Los cambios digitales rápidos en el mercado empresarial forzaron a las organizaciones a mejorar su rendimiento en la nube y en los servicios de aplicaciones. Los equipos de ventas tienen que descubrir cambios en las intenciones del cliente para actuar con rapidez y mantenerse en la competencia. Las aplicaciones empresariales como Microsoft Dynamics 365 y Power Platform tuvieron éxito gracias a los modelos ya entrenados en IA dentro de la aplicación, lo que facilita brindar experiencias en el momento correcto (RTE). RTE son los productos, los servicios y las aplicaciones que brindan la información correcta a la persona correcta en el momento correcto en el dispositivo que haya elegido. Para crear RTE, una compañía tiene que conectar información en tiempo real, hacer socios y abrir información vía analítica basada en la IA.

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Activate Digital Selling: Conéctate con clientes a través de su canal de preferencia

 La pandemia global abrió camino a nuevas prioridades moldeadas por un año (y luego, algo) de crisis. Con la aceleración del trabajo híbrido, ahora los vendedores entienden que necesitan ayudar a los clientes a ser mejores compradores. ¿Pero cómo? El cambio en las compras de B2B reconfiguró las ventas B2B y los vendedores pueden concentrarse en conectarse con clientes a través de su mecanismo de preferencia. Revisa la infografía para conocer sobre cómo individualizar las ventas en escala, inclusive las maneras de desbloquear información para descubrir oportunidades.

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Digital Defense Report

nformed by over 8 trillion daily security signals and observations from our security and threat intelligence experts, the Digital Defense Report presents telemetry and insights about the current state of cybersecurity. Get the latest insights about the threat intelligence landscape and guidance from experts, practitioners, and defenders at Microsoft.

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Activate Digital Selling: Cuatro pasos para adaptarse a la actualidad de compradores

La trayectoria del cliente cambió. Hoy en día, casi todos los intercambios B2B se hacen de manera digital y los estudios sugieren que los grupos de compradores de hoy en día son más diversos que nunca y los “millennials” forman parte del único grupo de compradores B2B más grande. Para mantenerse competitivos los vendedores deben guiar y colaborar con los clientes de forma remota, entender a sus clientes y fortalecer sus relaciones, optimizar los procesos para reducir costos y ayudar a tus equipos a adaptarse rápidamente a los entornos rápidamente cambiantes. Revisa la infografía para buscar puntos y datos concretos sobre la nueva realidad de las compras.

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Social Quote Carousel – Sian John MBE

See what Siân John MBE, Microsoft’s EMEA Director for Cybersecurity Strategy says about the importance of a modern approach to cybersecurity.

Optimiza los procesos y ayuda a los equipos a adaptarse a los cambios

En el mundo digitalizado de hoy, conseguir un compromiso colaborativo basado en la información es la solución para optimizar los procesos de venta. Aprender sobre tu cliente y entender la información de ventas para identificar objetivos ideales, las mejores acciones recomendadas y colaborar con tus pares, tendrá como resultado grandes ingresos. Las ventas en línea interactivas brindan una oportunidad genuina para los equipos de ventas para conseguir información en tiempo real, conocimientos para desarrollar relaciones sólidas con el cliente, así como a largo plazo y ayudarles a los clientes a adaptarse y hacer su transición hacia la nube. Herramientas como LinkedIn Sales Navigator y Microsoft Dynamics 365 ayudan a abrir el camino. Regístrate para conocer más sobre las ventas digitales.

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Drive Trust and Agility

Intelligent security can help businesses adapt at speed and empower their people to achieve more. Microsoft’s e-book ‘Drive Trust and Agility’, shares how a successful security strategy can instil confidence, enable productivity, inspire customer trust and drive innovation. Learn the ways you can build cyber resilience, including how simplifying security is often the best form of protection, protect your organisation from cyberthreats, enable secure remote work for everyone and build a culture of security.

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Crea una conexión humana con Dynamics 365 Sales y LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

Conéctate con clientes y crea confianza para desarrollar relaciones sólidas es esencial en la era digital de hoy en día. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales y LinkedIn Sales Navigator unieron fuerzas para ofrecer una solución adaptativa que anticipa las necesidades de los clientes a medida que cambian. Con la gran red de responsables de la toma de decisiones en empresas en la red del navegador de LinkedIn, puedes encontrar a los clientes correctos, entender mejor qué les interesa y conectarte de una manera más significativa. Vuelve a poner el toque humano en cada interacción con clientes.

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Securing the New World of Work

Security has become a key element of competitive advantage. Secure access and identity are front and centre of our online world, with the focus on making security as frictionless as possible. A successful security strategy needs a multidisciplinary approach team and approach. Discover how to drive trust and agility in a complex and distributed digital landscape with an integrated security platform.

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Los avances en el análisis del comportamiento digital cambian cómo vender en línea.

La COVID-19 aceleró el protagonismo de las ventas en línea. El resultado es una necesidad constante de personalizar la experiencia del cliente, no reducirla. La segmentación en tiempo real que tiene en cuenta aspectos como la ubicación, el género y la edad sigue siendo importante, pero lo que es más importante es comprender la intención específica del consumidor. Las soluciones basadas en la IA ofrecen información sobre los intereses, las motivaciones y las posibles conversiones de las personas. En vez de bombardear a los clientes con información basada en características comunes, la personalización y el usar la IA hace que los compradores se sientan vistos y escuchados.

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Modern Security Strategies

Maintain trust and build resilience by taking an active, uncompromising approach to security and risk management. Learn how a modern security strategy protects organisation’s data no matter where employees are.

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Partner Opportunity For Microsoft Business Applications ISV

Las aplicaciones empresariales de Microsoft para ISV del programa Connect ofrece a los socios una infraestructura para evaluar posibles oportunidades relacionadas con desarrollar, gestionar y vender aplicaciones empresariales de Microsoft como un socio de Microsoft al captar muchas oportunidades de ingresos. Accede a plataformas, herramientas, recursos y soporte diseñado para ayudarte a desarrollar y vender tus aplicaciones de empresa. Conviértete en un socio de Microsoft y obtén herramientas para desarrollar tu potencial de ventas por completo. Suscríbete para mantenerte conectado; te ayudaremos a navegar el mundo de las aplicaciones empresariales de Microsoft como un socio de Microsoft.

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Security and Risk Management Customer Interviews

Rob Greg CIO at Arup and Sian John, Microsoft’s Chief Security Advisor discuss organisations can be more cyber resilient, and how you can start building a strong security strategy. They share their own experiences on ensuring remote workers stay secure and productive, and talk about the importance of building customer and employee trust.

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Becoming resilient by understanding risks

This is the first in a series of blogs by Mark Simos Lead Cybersecurity Architect, Cybersecurity Solutions Group and Sarah Armstrong-Smith Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft. Explore how to manage challenges associated with keeping an organization resilient against cyberattacks and data breaches. This series will examine both the business and security perspectives and then look at the powerful trends shaping the future. This blog series is unabashedly trying to help you build a stronger bridge between cybersecurity and your organizational leadership.

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A people-first approach to fostering cyber resilience

Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft shares her learnings on fostering cyberresilience in organisations. She talks about how a people-led approach and an integrated security strategy cuts across siloes, acting as an enabler for every aspect of a business, driving agility and innovation.

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Remote developer productivity

The way people work and live changed drastically during 2020. As companies had to quickly transition to remote work, the challenges became clear. From adopting a new culture to overcoming collaboration and remote shipping challenges, there had to be an integral solution for these types of issues. The customers’ objective is to enable a remote Development paradigm that allows their developers to invent with purpose as effectively (if not more so) as before this situation. They expect any investments they make in the cloud now to accrue benefits to the way they’ll continue to operate after the world has transitioned to the new normal. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a wide variety of tools and platforms, from Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio—helping companies build business resilience. Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help your development teams code, collaborate, and ship their internal and customer-facing apps even while working as a remotely distributed team.

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Entiende a tus clientes y fortalece las relaciones de forma remota

El mundo ha cambiado y el espacio de trabajo sigue evolucionando luego de la pandemia. Entender a tu cliente es esencial para personalizar tus ventas; saber qué quiere y necesita tu cliente da como resultado compromisos eficaces. Con un incremento de trabajo en la nube, los productos como LinkedIn Sales Navigator y Dynamics 365 Sales te ayudan a mantenerte competitivo y encontrar clientes en donde sea que estén. Regístrate para saber más acerca de cómo comprometerse de forma eficaz con las ventas digitales.

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Esta herramienta de LinkedIn puede impulsar tus ventas

LinkedIn Sales Navigator es una aplicación prémium basada en una suscripción que se especializa en buscar clientes potenciales y rastrear las ventas potenciales. Su motor de búsqueda avanzado te ayuda a identificar clientes potenciales al buscar líderes o cuentas, filtrando los resultados de la búsqueda según la región geográfica, el tamaño de la empresa, el rol, el nivel de antigüedad y más. Con el navegador de ventas, los vendedores pueden atraer a nuevos líderes, conexiones y descubrir nuevos de forma automática. La versión de Teams conecta aplicaciones populares de CRM y capta tu actividad del navegador de ventas.

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How modern security helps you stay productive and resilient

Siân John MBE, Microsoft’s EMEA Director for Cybersecurity Strategy talks about the importance of a modern approach to cybersecurity, with tools that have built-in protection, makes it easier for organisations to work together, from anywhere. Learn how AI and automation can free up security and IT teams so they can focus on value-add work, delivering innovation to your organisation.

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Britax Römer crea una solución de comercio electrónico unificada con Dynamics 365

Britax Romer, el ingeniero/fabricante europeo de asientos de auto para niños y cochecitos diseña y entrega productos de seguridad a los distribuidores de toda Europa. Para innovar y adelantarse a la competencia, necesitaba automatizar, digitalizar y otorgarle a los perspicaces clientes y distribuidores la información que necesitaban en un solo lugar, así como haciendo entregas en tiempo récord. Las soluciones de Microsoft Dynamics 365 le otorgaron al consumidor al por menor una guía para los mejores productos más seguros para niños.

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Get the most out of Microsoft Azure with Visual Studio

If you have a Microsoft Visual Studio subscription, make sure you explore the benefits that come with it—or you may be leaving value on the table. Use your monthly Microsoft Azure credits and Azure training, DevTest pricing, Azure DevOps, support, and more. Get an overview of all your benefits and even project ideas for how to use your credits.

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Leveraging security to build customer trust

When security is built-in and treated like an enabler rather than a pain point, it frees up employees to be able to do their best work. Supported by AI and machine learning to help take over the low-level monitoring, your cybersecurity team can focus on higher-level tasks. This translates to better customer experiences and protection over your whole digital estate, including data.

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NHS Blood and Transplant build new electronic Donorpath record system on Azure

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHS BT) is the authority responsible for managing organ donation and transplant services, as well as blood and blood product donation services, in the UK’s national health service. NHS BT leveraged Azure to improve the organ donation process and the experience of patients and donor families. The new Donorpath system has transformed the administrative process of organ donation, giving as much as forty percent of time back to the nurses, while taking advantage of the scalability, resiliency, and the security Azure provides.

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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. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you navigate the world of GitHub and Azure DevOps and share helpful tips to get started.

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Allica Bank exists to help UK SMEs succeed

Allica Bank delivers on the ambition to empower SMEs by providing a full suite of digitally enhanced financial products. In order to do this, they are powered by modern technology and tools but built on real human relationships and trust. As a bank, data security and compliance with UK banking regulations were the two top priorities for the team. They chose to go with proven software that Allica Bank considered to be best in-class, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics CRM and Azure.

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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.

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Customer Stories Medley

A short medley of customer stories showing how a modern security strategy empowers them to deliver better customer experiences, empower productivity and become more agile and resilient.

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Accelerate developer velocity using any platform, any language, and any cloud

Teams that adopt DevOps culture, practices, and tools become high-performing—building better products faster for greater customer satisfaction. This improved collaboration and productivity is essential to achieve business goals such as accelerating time to market, adapting to the market and competition, maintaining system stability and reliability, and improving the mean time to recovery. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you learn more about Azure DevOps with GitHub and Visual Studio from Microsoft.

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Security and Risk Management

Customer trust is everything. Take an active, uncompromising approach to your security and risk management to protect your critical data and assets.

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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.

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4 ways to build cyber resilience

Discover the four ways to build cyber resilience and help organisations adapt at speed, build trust and empower everyone to achieve more. Take an active, uncompromising approach to security with an integrated security platform, protecting critical data and services, enabling remote work, and building resilient cyberteams.

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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. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you navigate the world of DevSecOps and understand how to successfully adopt it.

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What is DevOps?

DevOps as an ideal is revolutionizing the way organizations communicate and how they handle their daily work. Learn how this process brings together development and operations teams—who have traditionally been pitted against each other—and allows them to align on value and work toward a common goal.

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Cloud computing will be a gold mine in the post-COVID era

Companies needed to embrace change as the COVID-19 pandemic brought new challenges and continues to have a multi-sector impact on nations, businesses, and citizens. As cloud computing continues growing, there are three major trends for the post-COVID era: cost optimization, containerization and serverless computing, and edge computing. Understand these various cloud options and see how they're going to play out in the near term.

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Microsoft Azure Arc: Enabling management & data services outside Azure infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Arc is a set of software technologies that is designed to help companies meet their governance challenges and make Azure services available everywhere across their diverse and sometimes sprawling infrastructures. With Azure Arc, familiar Azure tools, technologies, and methods can be used across environments, including environments with limited or no connectivity to Azure. Subscribe to stay connected—we'll help you navigate the world of Azure Arc and unleash the potential for growth within your company.

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Telstra eyes monitoring and securing its hybrid cloud with Azure Arc

Telstra is creating a highly secure infrastructure that's fully connected under a single control plane. Data security and regulatory compliance are at the forefront of its mission, as it builds and architects applications in a connected cloud. In moving its on-premises datacenters and consolidating them in the cloud, and also leaning on edge computing and various cloud platforms to deliver distributed telecommunications services, Telstra is relying on the adaptability and control of Microsoft Azure Arc to implement a single control plane across all platforms. This helps Telstra on its mission to grow its service offerings as Australia's leading telecommunications company.

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Modernize Endpoints A Zero Trust approach

The approach to modernizing endpoints is realized with Microsoft 365—and Microsoft Zero Trust is the model for security. With Zero Trust in place, employees can perform from anywhere in the world while maintaining tight control over core security needs. Let the Microsoft intelligent security cloud and endpoint leadership be your guide. Take a look at this infographic and advance your journey toward the Zero Trust model.

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Choosing the right solution for your hybrid and cloud estate

With Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled data services you get Azure innovation, cloud benefits, and a flexible cloud-billing model across your data estate—using any hardware and any Kubernetes. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you find the right path for your data using Azure Arc.

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Azure Arc brings the best of public cloud to on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud

Azure Arc is the Microsoft hybrid and multicloud platform that seamlessly extends the capabilities of the Azure public cloud to on-premises data centers, edge locations, and any public cloud. Customers with investments in Azure can centrally manage and govern infrastructure running in varied environments. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is expanding its capabilities to support non-Azure resources running outside of the public cloud—and Azure Arc is the glue binding these external sources to ARM.

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A First Device Supported by Microsoft Endpoint Manager for Frontline Workers

In today's fragmented technology environment, it's important for leaders to support the frontline workforce with a customized user experience. Microsoft Endpoint Manager plays an important role in large scale projects requiring a secure environment to operate efficiently, such as with RealWear's assisted reality wearable device—controlled by using simple voice commands, which frees the hands for the job. Its reliable features enable businesses to configure, manage and gather data from their devices with simple security and device management.

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Reimagine your digital endpoint estate

Growing concerns about employee experiences—including securing mobile devices and working with flexibility—call for endpoint modernization. The value in Microsoft 365 is its innovation in secure, cloud-connected management as well as its awareness of employee satisfaction (including the acceleration of onboarding of all workers). Take stock in your endpoint estate and start using modern products like Cloud Configuration and Endpoint Manager to manage Windows devices on-premises today. Review this infographic and discover the key components that enable unified device management.

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Cloud PaaS experience for data workloads on-premises, in multicloud, and at the edge

Easily organize and govern Windows, Linux, SQL Server, and Kubernetes clusters across data centers, the edge, and multicloud environments right from Azure. Sign up to stay connected! We'll help you accelerate innovation with Azure Arc.

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EY extends app management and security beyond the cloud with Azure Arc

As a global leader in strategy, taxes, and consulting, EY has a cloud-first strategy for its global data centers. Using Microsoft Azure Arc, EY is able to run data systems on-premises and in all its different clouds from a single pane of management—in full accordance with compliance and regulatory requirements. Azure Arc helps EY automate its operations— no small challenge in dealing with a hybridcloud.

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Deploy and protect endpoints for hybrid and frontline work

Today's transforming business scenario calls for an innovative approach. With a higher number of hybrid employees and a growing frontline base, it's more important than ever to secure endpoints, especially mobile. You can future-proof your business and mitigate risks with Microsoft 365. Key capabilities of products like Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Defender, and Azure Active Directory include broad device support, automatic enrollment, configured shared devices, custom device experiences, and more. Review the infographic to learn how to implement and protect every endpoint for remote and hybrid staff and frontline workers.

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Unify management and security with Microsoft cloud, apps, and endpoints

Today's workers require adaptability since they often use various devices to accomplish tasks. Microsoft cloud, apps, and endpoints combine services you may already be using, such as Microsoft Intune, which are part of the Microsoft 365 stack designed to help secure access, protect data, and respond and manage risk. Use Endpoint Manager to deploy and configure apps to keep teams connected, apply Azure Virtual Desktop for fast, familiar access to internal resources, access Surface Hub to support a vast device ecosystem, and secure conditional access to mobile apps with Azure Active Directory.

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Azure Arc-enabled data services

There are multiple on-premises challenges that range from patching and upgrading to data security and governance. With Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled data services, your company can get Azure innovation, cloud benefits, and flexible cloud billing across its data estate—with better cost efficiency and from anywhere in the world. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you innovate with Azure Arc to deliver the right cloud experience for your data workloads.

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Azure Arc—the future of hybrid and multicloud

What is Microsoft Azure Arc? It's a game changer for developers, IT, and database administrators. Now, rather than managing separate resources individually, they can be collected in Azure Resource Manager—unlocking governance and policy tools across the entire disparate infrastructure. Fully manage on-premises, edge, and hybridcloud from one place.

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REI embraces hybrid work with Microsoft Teams and Surface Hub

REI is the largest consumer cooperative in the United States specializes in camping gear, outdoor apparel, and equipment. The popular Northwest company uses Microsoft Teams Connect capabilities to simplify how employees collaborate with external parties outside the company—with Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Intune key to its strategy for protecting mobile devices. During the pandemic, REI sold their campus and were fully committed to a hybrid work strategy. The fact that they had implemented products within the Microsoft 365 platform helped ensure their success in their new workplace environment.

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Activate Digital Selling: A holistic approach

Customers have changed more than we realize. They have a ton of access to information via social and digital channels, and they use it to make better, more informed decisions. How has selling changed as clients' research and engagement capabilities have become more digital and advanced? To compete effectively, businesses must take a more holistic approach to accelerate revenue outcomes by transforming selling with an intelligent, comprehensive digital sales collaboration platform. Tools like Dynamics 365, Office 365, Azure, and Power Platform work to integrate data and AI. Review the infographic to learn how Microsoft is approaching digital sales to integrate marketing, commerce, and sales to deliver modern customer experiences.

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Cloud migration essentials

The key to successful cloud migration is breaking the process into steps—regardless of why your organization wants to move or how complex your current environment is. The benefits of migration can be immediate in terms of time and budget. Just remember, whether you're in the early stages of assessment or fully planning your approach, migration is always easier with a trusted provider like Microsoft. Sign up to download the "Cloud migration essentials" e-book and discover an essential guide to successful migrations of servers and virtual machines.

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Protect your endpoints with top EDR software

Companies must now consider endpoint detection and response software (EDR) with AI and machine learning capabilities, as well as threat intelligence databases, to function in a safer, evolving digital environment. However, most of the features users expect from popular EDR tools, such as device control, advanced threat targeting, and rollback, are either unavailable or require an additional fee. Microsoft Defender for Endpoints (formerly Defender Advanced Threat Protection) integrates into the source code of Windows, making it an obvious choice for its devices. (It's also available for Mac and Linux.) Defender for Endpoints simplifies management while also providing strong security and a wide variety of standard features.

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How Microsoft and Grundfos work to provide safe drinking water to the world

GRUNDFOS is looking to play a key role in helping cities reduce their energy usage and hit environmental sustainability targets. Learn how Microsoft Azure plays a crucial role in this effort.

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Microsoft Endpoint Manager is a solution that provides on-premises and cloud-based devices with tools (as well as the ability to co-manage with them) to provision, deploy, manage, and secure endpoints. It also enables insights into endpoint health and performance and remediates vulnerabilities in multiple areas—all while significantly reducing costs. It gives organizations the enhanced control and monitoring to support employees with minimal impact on user experience while preventing data loss and applying Zero Trust best practices. Subscribe to stay connected—we'll help you ensure a more secure, productive work environment throughout your organization.

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Customer stories showcase traction for Microsoft's business apps division

Rapid digital shifts in the business market have forced organizations to up their cloud game and application services. Sales teams need to discover changes in customer intent and act quickly to remain competitive. Business apps such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform have been successful because of the pre-trained AI models within the application, which makes it easier to deliver in right time experiences (RTE). RTE are products, services and applications which provide the right information to the right person at the right time on their device of choice. To create RTEs, a company must connect real-time data, partner with, and open data via AI-driven analytics.

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Three simple ways to migrate your web applications to Azure App Service

Migrating your applications using Microsoft Azure App Service can be simple. Redeploy code using your existing CI/CD pipeline, containerize your application, and deploy using Docker Imager—or use the Migration Assistant tool. Would you like to learn more about Azure App Service? Sign up to stay connected so we can keep you up to date on the fastest ways to migrate your applications using the latest cloud computing technology.

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Mitigating the hidden risks of digital transformation

As companies plan their digital transformation strategies, it is crucial to keep in mind four key areas where these efforts can introduce risk: multicloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure, digital supply chains and sales channels, Internet of Things (IoT), and automation and analytics. Discover how risks can be mitigated to prevent innovation from becoming a hazard.

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Activate Digital Selling: Connect with customers through their preferred channel

The global pandemic gave way to new priorities shaped by a year (and then some) of crisis. With the acceleration of hybrid work, sellers now understand they need to help customers be better buyers. But how? The shift in B2B buying has reconfigured B2B selling, and sellers can focus on connecting with customers through their preferred mechanism. Review the infographic to learn about individualizing selling at scale, including ways to unlock data to discover opportunities.

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Deploy and protect endpoints for hybrid work environments

Digital transformation is accelerating and keeping up with advancements adds complexity for workers, technology, and security teams. With an ever-expanding attack surface, leaders are challenged to manage a growing number of devices and endpoints. Meet the evolving needs of today's business world with modern endpoints built on the Microsoft 365 and intelligent security cloud. You can build security into apps and device experiences that help reduce the threat of endpoint vulnerability, including adoption of Zero Trust and Secure Endpoints for Frontline workforce devices. Sign up to say connected—we'll help you learn more about how to deploy and protect endpoints for hybrid work environments.

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The new normal: Hybrid work means greater focus on endpoint security

We used to think of network security as a perimeter issue, but with so many endpoints, the perimeter no longer exists. Employees now work from various locations using different devices, making it is close to impossible for any single IT team to confirm that they're using protection mechanisms. Employees require safe, versatile endpoint experiences to perform at their best from anywhere in the world. How can organizations protect themselves? Endpoint security seeks out viruses, malware, and other risks and, if it finds them, it works to mitigate the risk to the rest of the network by keeping it locked down.

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Microsoft Edge as default browser for access to legacy web apps and better security

Today's users are looking for more ways to remain productive while working on any device. Businesses have security top of mind, and so with those two goals, Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline chose Microsoft Edge as its single web browser. The IT team responsible for the Microsoft Edge deployment of over 130,000 employees enrolled every Windows 10 device in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. With Microsoft Edge now on their internal store, end users could install it on-demand—a perfect solution for employees who are asking for more ways to work the way that they want. With a consolidated default browser, legacy web apps are secure.

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Activate Digital Selling: Four steps to accommodate the new buyer reality

The customer journey has changed. Almost all B2B exchanges are done digitally today, and research suggests today's buying groups are more diverse than ever, with millennials making up the single biggest B2B buyer group. To stay relevant, sellers need to guide and collaborate with customers remotely, understand their customers and strengthen relationships, optimize processes to reduce costs, and help teams adapt to rapidly changing environments. Review the infographic for bullet points and fast facts about the new buying reality.

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Optimize processes ​and help teams to adapt

In today's digitized world, gaining insights-based, collaborative engagement is the solution to optimizing sales processes. Learning about your customer and understanding sales data to identify ideal targets, recommend best actions, and collaborate with peers, will result in accelerated revenue. Interactive digital selling provides a genuine opportunity for sales teams to gain real-time data and insights to build strong, long-term customer relationships—and to help customers adapt and transition to the cloud. Tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales help pave the way. Sign up to learn more about digital selling.

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Microsoft accelerates telco transformation

Security, agility, collaboration, and productivity—learn why telecommunication companies are embracing the cloud to take their industry to the next level.

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Strengthening connection with remote communities with Windows 365

Nunavut, located in the northernmost region of Canada, has a large population under the age of 25, distributed across remote communities with no connecting roads. The IT team in Nunavut's government collaborated with Microsoft on a pilot rollout of Windows 365 to help maintain remote government operations during COVID-19 and as part of a larger strategic initiative to provide more efficient community services to all its citizens. With Windows 365, Nunavut can deploy virtual endpoints to a government employee's device using Microsoft Endpoint Manager—no small challenge in dealing with getting users up and running with personalized, highly secure cloud PC service.

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Microsoft Azure supports your Java workloads and processes

Microsoft Azure can help achieve your goals with the freedom and flexibility to build, manage, and deploy Java applications anywhere. Sign up to stay connected so we can help you modernize your Java apps and stay up to date on the latest cloud computing trends.

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Create human connection with Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Connecting with customers and building trust to create strong relationships is essential in today's digital era. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and LinkedIn Sales Navigator have joined forces to offer an adaptive solution that anticipates customers' needs as they change. With LinkedIn Navigator's vast network of business decision makers, you can find the right customers, better understand what they care about, and connect in a more meaningful way. Put the human touch back into every customer interaction.

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Transition to Cloud: Secure your business with technology you can trust

Today's complicated virtual business reality makes it difficult to secure fragmented IT or cloud point solutions. As we've seen, natural disasters and political tensions require always-on from anywhere tech solutions. We know that Microsoft 365 helps businesses stay agile in these uncertain economic times with cost savings and cloud advances. Need proof? This infographic illustrates how organizations further along in their transition from on-prem to the cloud are more likely to report positive experiences among employees and end users about securing data and personal privacy.

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How to migrate to the cloud

The transition from local servers to the cloud is a multistep process that requires preparation. The steps are similar—they just vary depending on the size, infrastructure, and cloud migration goals of each company. Compliance with this basic checklist should ensure a smooth transition. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to correctly migrate to the cloud.

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Four strategies for modernizing your business applications

Among the options for application modernization is a spectrum—running from a simple lift-and-shift of the application to a new platform to a full rewrite. Each of these strategies responds to specific situations and requirements, so it's important to understand which one is best for your business. Subscribe to learn about the four strategies for modernizing your business applications. We can help you stay connected and up to date on the latest cloud computing trends.

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Advances in digital behavior analytics are transforming how retailers sell online

COVID-19 accelerated the predominance of online sales. The result is an increased need to personalize the shopper experience—not reduce it. Real-time segmentation that factors things like location, gender, and age are still important, but what's more important is understanding specific consumer intent. AI-driven solutions unleash insights about individual interests, motivations, and potential conversions. Instead of bombarding customers with information based on common characteristics, personalization using AI makes shoppers feel seen and heard.

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The Partner Opportunity For Microsoft Business Applications ISV

The Microsoft Business Applications ISV Connect Program offers ISV partners a framework to assess potential business opportunities related to building, managing, and selling Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner—capturing multiple revenue opportunities. Access platforms, tools, resources, and support designed to help you develop, publish, and market your business apps. Be a Microsoft partner and obtain the tools to fully develop your selling potential. Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help you navigate the world of Microsoft Business Applications as a Microsoft partner.

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Fast forward: How cloud computing could transform risk management

Attitudes toward the shift to cloud computing are changing—even in the banking world, which has been reluctant to make the transition from on-premises to the cloud due to customer data security concerns. The chief information officer (CIO) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston noted recently that ignoring the cloud may introduce security vulnerabilities as on-premises vendors discontinue support for their products. Learn what executives are saying about how and why risk management needs to act now. Get up to speed on the benefits across the six stages of the life cycle for risk model development, and how Microsoft 365 can help build cloud computing infrastructures.

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