Category : Office 365

14 10, 2016

Making SharePoint & Office 365 Even Better with NITRO™

2024-07-23T05:09:03-07:00October 14th, 2016|

Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint are, without a doubt, the leaders in the world of IT productivity and collaborative environments. In the five years since its launch, Office 365 has become the most popular enterprise cloud service. Office 365 is now firmly entrenched as the productivity platform of choice for many U.S. enterprises. SharePoint [...]

21 09, 2016

NITRO™ In-Depth: UI/UX

2024-07-23T04:26:32-07:00September 21st, 2016|

Crow Canyon’s NITRO™ is a back-end technological layer that forms the foundation of our SharePoint and Office 365-integrated solutions. With our NITRO-powered applications, you no longer have to settle for run-of-the-mill, standardized SharePoint or Office 365 environments that do not meet your business needs. Instead, you can turn SharePoint and Office 365 into "Digital [...]

8 09, 2016

User Adoption: It’s All About UI/UX

2024-07-22T06:10:21-07:00September 8th, 2016|

Earlier this year we posted a blog introducing the O.V.E.R. Methodology, a process designed to effectively address potential challenges when introducing changes into an organization. As IT companies mature, it's natural to introduce many types of change, such as administrative, HR, and procedural changes. One of the most significant changes that a company can [...]

31 08, 2016

Choosing Resilience Over Reliability

2024-08-13T05:53:51-07:00August 31st, 2016|

In our Southwest’s Summer Screwup article, we wrote about how a router failure at Southwest Airlines resulted in at least $10 million in lost revenue and millions more in associated costs throughout the travel industry. While doing research for that article, we came across a presentation by Richard Cook, MD, who studied complex systems [...]

22 08, 2016

ITSM: Adding Structure When It’s Needed

2024-12-09T04:27:58-08:00August 22nd, 2016|

IT Service Management (ITSM) is all about helping organizations align their IT services with their business needs. It is an approach to IT Management that seeks to make the delivery of IT services efficient, process-driven, and proactive. Key ITSM concepts Increasing Efficiency in IT organizations The driving mission of ITSM is to increase efficiency. Management [...]

18 07, 2016

User Experience Improvements Come to SharePoint

2021-01-21T10:02:35-08:00July 18th, 2016|

Microsoft SharePoint can do awesome things, but its interface can be quite unintuitive at times. The result has been that while the number of SharePoint licenses has increased rapidly year-over-year, end-user adoption rates have not followed suit. By contrast, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools has evolved into a leader in intuitive, user-friendly [...]

7 07, 2016

Implementing a SharePoint-based Help Desk That Meets ITIL Service Desk Standards

2025-01-31T05:10:32-08:00July 7th, 2016|

In the late 1980s, the UK government decided to tackle the need for standardization in the burgeoning IT industry. Over time, this set of standards coalesced into a program called IT Service Management (ITSM) and, within that program, a specific subset of practices evolved that is now referred to as ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure Library. [...]

24 06, 2016

“It’s Our Policy to Have Policies

2024-07-23T04:48:37-07:00June 24th, 2016|

Keeping documentation on policies, procedures, and guidelines up-to-date – and making sure the responsible employees read and abide by them – is one of the major headaches of many businesses. It is also critical to meeting regulatory and compliance requirements as well as avoiding fines from overseeing agencies. Where does this apply? Just about [...]

15 06, 2016

Have you heard about Microsoft Flow and PowerApps?

2021-07-01T10:41:03-07:00June 15th, 2016|

The new SharePoint Development Framework was not the only news to come out of San Francisco at Microsoft's Future of SharePoint event last month -- Microsoft Flow and Microsoft PowerApps also made their appearance. These new tools are aimed at increasing business efficiency, particularly in terms of automation. Going with the Flow Microsoft Flow [...]

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