Tuesday, August 17, 2021

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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