Help customers do more with less

Microsoft 365 E3 continues to be critically important in helping customers do more with less, and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners are essential in helping us reach more customers.

Experience Microsoft Teams Premium

The new offering from Microsoft - Teams Premium - builds on the current Teams experience, incorporating additional features to help make Teams meetings even more personalised, intelligent, and secure. We go through the list of features, including virtual appointments and webinars.

Compare plans for your modern workplace

Microsoft 365 has so many different flavours and suites within suites that it can often be difficult to find the right fit for your modern workplace. That's where expert advice from Umbrellar Powered by Pax8's Sasha Vovchenko comes in.

Turning custom apps into affordable reality

The Shed Shop are a well-established business delivering custom garden sheds all over the North Island. With recent expansions highlighting risks and inefficiencies in their paper-based system, they reached out to Teal Software for a digital solution.

Enlighten Designs announces new strategic partnership with Powell Software

Enlighten Designs' new partnership gives them the ability to expand their expertise in providing modern workplace solutions.

Avoiding the traps of low-code apps

Interest in low code apps is booming. This is generally good news as there’s a lot of value to tap into. However, with the popularity of these new tools is a hidden cost, the likes of which we have seen before. Rhys Glidden, Client Director at Enlighten Designs, takes us through the potential risks of low/no code apps and how to sidestep the traps that businesses often fall into.

The underlying principles of Zero Trust

Mobile Mentor is a global leader in the endpoint ecosystem and Microsoft’s 2021 Partner of the Year. Certified by Microsoft, Apple and Google, their engineers live and breathe endpoint security and work tirelessly with clients to balance endpoint security with an empowering employee experience.

Using Microsoft 365 in the public sector – what every CIO and information manager needs to know

If you want to live in a fair and just democracy, you need to be able to examine how decisions are made by the public agencies that represent our interests.

1st Party, 3rd Party, Your Party. Why the Microsoft Dynamics Platform is a game changer

Why reinvent the wheel? Low and no-code approaches and the rise of citizen developers

The urgency to speed up application development and a software development skills-shortage is fueling the rise of low and no-code platforms. New Zealand companies are taking notice.

Five ways to rock working ‘free-range’

As covid continues to drag on, more organisations are looking at the 'free-range' way of working - but there's definitely an art to working away from the office. Tune in to these pointers on how to be productive and healthy- wherever you're working from.

Windows apps coming to Chromebooks

A plan to make native Windows apps available on Google Chromebook for the first time could be a game-changer, says one IT provider to the education sector who is seeing growing demand for the entry-level laptops.

Efficiency, accountability and trust: Connecting a remote workforce over Teams

Covid-19 was a wake-up call for premium meat supplier First Light, but its business was quickly propelled forward using tech that – they discovered – had been with them all along.

Wearables for social distancing – what will it look like, who will use them?

In many countries, staying apart from one another remains critical to counter the current pandemic.

How this cloud-based tech solution is helping protect Kiwi businesses from money laundering.

Think money-laundering doesn’t affect New Zealand? Jenine Colmore-Williams asks you to think again, and has developed software to help keep the crims at bay.

Gisborne District Council’s new intranet improves communication with Office 365 and Information Leadership

Gisborne District Council (GDC) is a local government authority based in the North Island of New Zealand. Information Leadership partnered with GDC to deliver an intranet on their existing Office 365 platform. This sets them up to take advantage of the Office 365 toolset and incorporate cloud technology enhancements as required. The purpose of the project was to improve communication and bring staff together.

Business resilience and community with David Downs and Scott Arrol

In this episode David Howden (Head of Cloud, Umbrellar) is joined by David Downs (Task Force Lead, MBIE) and Scott Arrol (CEO, NZHIT) as they discuss resiliency and community within New Zealand businesses

Microsoft 365 – rebranding to increase commercial clarity

Microsoft is rebranding to communicate a more intuitive package offering amongst almost global demand for comprehensive personal computing set up.

What is the role of Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner network for local business?

I asked its New Zealand Director 'what's next?' as she readies for her next move.

Helping government make the right decisions – Dot Loves Data’s Government Director on what’s behind their Covid-19 Response Dashboard

I asked Government Director of Dot Loves Data, Justin Lester, about their Covid-19 Response Dashboard that’s being used by ACC, MBIE and other decision makers in their agenda setting amid the disruption.

Modern Service Management for Azure

Power BI with Umbrellar and Aceso

Showcasing BI in health

Earlier this year, we were very proud to partner with Aceso and exhibit at both Future Now in Auckland and HINZ in Wellington.

Is your data backup solution out of the ark?

In the presence of constant pressure to meet the expectations of internal and external customers for continuous product and service innovation, capabilities that are well hidden from view can linger continuously at the back of the funding queue.