For this month’s blog we continue our Hidden Gems of Microsoft 365 series with Microsoft Bookings.

Microsoft Bookings is a handy app to help organise meetings and schedule appointments, for you and your team, which can also be integrated with Microsoft Teams to further streamline your business workflow.

In this month’s blog we will be looking at Managed IT Services. Retailers may not think twice about outsourcing in areas such as logistics, but more and more are realising the benefits of outsourcing their IT departments.

Every business, no matter the sector or scale, utilises hardware in their day-to-day operations, so employing and maintaining the correct hardware for the job is an ongoing process that is vital to your business’s success. This blog helps you understand best practice.

An omnichannel retailing strategy helps retailers engage customers through multiple digital and physical touchpoints. The aim is to create consistent brand experiences, wherever the customer is in the purchasing journey.

In this blog we explain omnichannel vs multichannel retailing and detail how omnichannel strategies offer a unified customer experience.

We have looked at Power Apps in a previous blog, but this month we will look at how you can use robotic process automation (RPA) to easily streamline your repetitive business processes with Power Automate.

Cybercriminals may try and infiltrate your business via email attacks with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Here we look at some of the main threats to your email security so you can better understand the risks to your business and improve email protection.

This month we are looking at Power Apps, Microsoft’s solution to building low-code apps, with little to no developer experience, to transform the way your business operates.

In last month’s Microsoft Planner blog we looked at Microsoft’s powerful planning tool. This month we delve into Microsoft To Do, another key app in the Microsoft task ecosystem which helps you manage and achieve those tasks on a day-to-day basis.

Planner and To Do work hand in hand to help you take control of your workload. Where Planner is a team task organiser, To Do is a personal task organiser.

Leading on from last months Microsoft Teams blog, we will continue by looking at an app that is a key feature in the Microsoft 365 task ecosystem, the Microsoft Planner app. This intuitive visual collaboration and planning software can be used as a standalone app or as part of the larger integrated Microsoft task experience. Allowing groups of any size to plot-out projects and organise tasks in a way that is both visually appealing and easy to follow.

Last month we took a deep dive into the benefits of SharePoint (link to last months blog), briefly touching on how well SharePoint and Teams go hand in hand to produce a seamless collaborative workflow. Today we will look further into Microsoft Teams features which unify real-time messaging, video conferencing, collaboration and organisational tools helping you streamline your business workflow and improve productivity.

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For the second instalment of our Microsoft 365 Hidden Gems series, we look at SharePoint and its powerful mobile intranet capabilities to keep your team informed and bring your team together whether they are in the office, working from home or in a different country. Join us to find out why SharePoint has risen to be one of the top-rated intranet platforms in the world.

To kick-off the Hidden Gems blog series we will be looking at OneDrive the powerful cloud storage solution that provides at least 1TB of secure file back-up and syncing across all platforms and devices, even o Mac and Mobile.

In our Hidden Gems of Microsoft 365 series, we'll take a look at some of the lesser-known Microsoft 365 apps, highlighting their various features and benefits. The big bonus is that they're all bundled with your Microsoft 365 subscription, providing you more bang for your buck and potentially saving you money over third-party apps that do the same activities.

Business endpoint protection from Webroot, the company that brings you BrightCloud® the largest threat intelligence database in the world. The perfect solution for protecting all your network endpoints from phishing, ransomware, malware, and other cyberattacks.

Our award-winning Business Continuity Suite ensures data is always available and disruption to productivity is minimised. With complete protection against accidental or malicious deletion, ransomware, malware, natural disasters and any many other scenarios, we protect your business from external and internal threats and get you back up and running in as little as 5 minutes.

Flexible Cloud Computing that grows with your business. The Microsoft Azure platform offers businesses large and small the flexibility and security of cloud computing. Azure combines over 200 products and cloud services to create a unique cloud environment tailored to your individual needs.

Since the rise of SaaS in the early 2000’s we have become increasingly reliant on cloud based applications to power our businesses. And what's not to love?

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