Category : Office 365

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 [...]

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 [...]

22 06, 2017

“Communication Sites” Coming to SharePoint Online

2024-07-26T01:06:16-07:00June 22nd, 2017|

The SharePoint momentum continued last month when Microsoft held the SharePoint Virtual Summit, with announcements of new features for SharePoint and Office 365 – changes to OneDrive, Groups, Flow, PowerApps, and the SharePoint Framework. Also announced was “SharePoint Communication Sites”, aka “Comm Sites”, an alternative to SharePoint Team Sites. In a post in Microsoft’s [...]

13 06, 2017

SharePoint & Office 365 — Ideal Tools for Business Process Automation

2021-01-21T09:24:52-08:00June 13th, 2017|

At Crow Canyon we know that using our SharePoint software applications can contribute substantially to lowering costs and increasing efficiency, while providing better service to employees and customers. We know this because we have seen it happen for so many of our customers. Our initial conversations with customers frequently involve discussing how a legacy [...]

8 06, 2017

Gather, Automate, Liberate – Chris McNulty On Business Transformation with SharePoint & Office 365

2021-01-21T09:27:50-08:00June 8th, 2017|

I had the opportunity at the recent Denver SharePoint Fest to attend Chris McNulty’s presentation on “SharePoint Business Apps”. McNulty, a Microsoft Senior Product Manager, covered a lot of ground, but I want to focus on one area he emphasized – Transforming Business Processes with SharePoint & Office 365. McNulty presented three aspects of [...]

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