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6 10, 2017

The Impact of Ignite on the Future of Your Office 365

2021-07-01T10:55:31-07:00October 6th, 2017|

We had the pleasure of hosting a “Post-Ignite” webinar last Monday with Microsoft MVP Vlad Catrinescu. In the webinar, titled “The Impact of Ignite on the Future of Your Office 365", Vlad outlined seven major areas where announcements made at the Sept. 25 – 29 Microsoft Ignite Conference will affect SharePoint and Office 365 in [...]

21 09, 2017

Application Portals: An In-depth Look

2024-12-06T05:15:52-08:00September 21st, 2017|

We gave an overview of the advantages of using Applications Portals in a previous blog article. We explained how our applications use these portals to encourage users to engage with SharePoint. The portals give users a friendly, intuitive interface to interact with the Help Desk, the Support Desk, Purchasing, HR, or other business applications. These [...]

12 09, 2017

Application Portals: Putting Users in the Driver’s Seat

2024-07-30T07:28:14-07:00September 12th, 2017|

One way our applications boost the power of SharePoint and Office 365 is through the use of Application Portals. These Application Portals give users ways to engage effectively with our applications, thereby driving user adoption and accelerating usage of SharePoint and Office 365. Application Portals differ from Intranets, Team Sites, and Comm Sites in [...]

6 09, 2017

Office 365 Personalized Search Leverages Office Graph

2021-01-21T09:20:42-08:00September 6th, 2017|

As we documented in our whitepaper, Future Tech Trends in Office 365, the fastest growing trend in Office 365 / SharePoint — and, arguably, the entire IT ecosystem — is Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the Office 365 realm specifically, we're talking about Office Graph. Office Graph uses machine learning and predictive analytics to map [...]

28 08, 2017

The Problem with Delve

2024-07-23T04:43:09-07:00August 28th, 2017|

In our last blog article, we talked about Predictive Analytics and its use by Microsoft in Office Graph and Office Delve. We raised issues with this kind of predictive approach and discussed the limitations. In this article, we will focus on Delve particularly and explore why it is having difficulty living up to its [...]

14 08, 2017

Predictive Analytics: Yea or Nay?

2024-07-26T03:50:29-07:00August 14th, 2017|

The latest buzzwords in IT revolve around the use of historical and current data to predict the future: Predictive Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science are all topics getting a lot of traction these days. The general idea is that massive volumes of data undergo cleansing (formatting, parsing, outliers removed) and are then fed into [...]

2 08, 2017

Crow Canyon Opens Rhode Island Office to Serve East Coast Customers

2021-01-22T11:38:42-08:00August 2nd, 2017|

Crow Canyon Software, a global software company based in the Bay Area of California, has opened its East Coast office in downtown Wakefield, Rhode Island. It will host an Open House Thursday, August 3rd to celebrate the opening of the office. Crow Canyon provides business solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 [...]

31 07, 2017

Crow Canyon Adds In-Context Help with Content Panda

2024-07-09T07:10:20-07:00July 31st, 2017|

Crow Canyon Software today announced its partnership with Content Panda that adds in-context help to Crow Canyon applications for SharePoint and Office 365. Content Panda has a unique help system that places panda icons in the applications so that users can click them and get the in-context help they need. "In-context help makes our [...]

28 07, 2017

The Importance of Being Adaptive: Using Resilient Software

2021-01-21T09:23:20-08:00July 28th, 2017|

In our article Choosing Resilience Over Reliability, we discussed the difference between "imagined systems" and "found systems." The former are built for reliability, with backups and failover systems in-place; the assumption is that things will work as they are supposed to. The latter are designed for resilience with the ability to recover quickly from [...]

19 07, 2017

Office 365 Groups Come Into Their Own

2024-08-14T00:43:42-07:00July 19th, 2017|

As a concept, Office 365 Groups initially existed as a way to group together people with a shared commonality (e.g., working together on the same project). This grouping mechanism was largely relegated to basic applications, such as security, permissions, and distribution. Microsoft had a plan for Groups, however, and now that plan is starting [...]

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