Coca-Cola Beverages Africa uses Microsoft technology to simplify its operations

Corporate digitization was the main goal of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) when choosing Microsoft Dynamics to take on the challenge. CCBA had numerous infrastructure issues and they needed to improve the ability of the different parts of the company to work and collaborate seamlessly. When they adopted Microsoft solutions—including Dynamics 365, Azure, and Microsoft 365—their financial operations improved. Customer relationships were strengthened, and they were able to drive HR capabilities through modernized analytic models. Watch the close-captioned video for inspiration about how the company combined customer engagement, security, and analytics into a single platform.

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Total Economic Impact of Zero Trust Solutions from Microsoft

In a post-pandemic world, hybrid and remote work have become ubiquitous and expected. Yet information security leaders face growing challenges as digital estates continue to grow in complexity, their organizations adapt to the realities of hybrid work, and they face an increase in ransomware and sophisticated cyberattacks. Enabling hybrid and remote work is a necessity, and by using Microsoft solutions to implement a Zero Trust architecture, organizations can improve their security posture, increase organizational agility, and empower their employees. Click here to learn more.

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Cloud migration and modernization with Azure tools and resources

Discover why important businesses around the world trust Microsoft Azure to accelerate their digital transformation. In this brief video you will learn how, with Azure, you will pay less using enterprise grade infrastructure, innovate faster by modernizing your apps and data, protect your assets with trusted cloud security, and so much more. By safely migrating to the cloud, your company can improve agility and reliability to effectively capitalize on new opportunities and overcome new challenges.

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Connect to customers through their preferred channel

Today’s sales team needs more than traditional sales force automation to respond to an unpredictable selling environment that includes rapidly changing buyer preferences, sudden changes in business outlook, and fast-moving competitors. Dynamics 365 Sales gives partners an adaptive selling solution to help sales teams put customers first. At the center of the solution is an adaptive, intelligent system—prebuilt and ready to go—that actively monitors myriad signals and distills them into actionable insights, so sales teams can anticipate buyer needs and deliver friction-free buying experiences. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you collaborate with peers to accelerate revenue.

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Secure access for a connected world

Hamilton Beach Brands, a global designer, distributor, and marketer of small kitchen appliances, runs lean with 500 employees. The company has distribution centers in Mexico, Canada, and the United States and international suppliers who handle manufacturing. Vice President of IT Christina Hollingsworth was hired expressly to transform the company’s IT environment. She turned to Microsoft Security. Microsoft Entra, our new product family that encompasses all of Microsoft’s identity and access capabilities helps Hamilton Beach provide secure access to everything for everyone by providing identity and access management, cloud infrastructure entitlement management, and identity verification. Read more here.

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Ensure data security, optimize operational processes, and improve profitability

Modernize digital processes and stay relevant by using Windows Server and Azure SQL Server to ensure data security, optimize operational processes, and improve profitability. With Windows Server and SQL Server on Azure, you pay less and get more by running any part of your business in the cloud—on your terms and on your timeline. In modernizing and scaling ​with flexibility, you can migrate server apps to Azure and bridge existing infrastructure. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you keep your organization secure with up-to-date technology and continuous advancement.

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Secure access for a connected world: Meet Microsoft Entra

What could the world achieve if we trusted in every digital experience and interaction? This question has motivated Microsoft to think differently about identity and access, inspiring Microsoft Entra, our new product family that encompasses all of Microsoft’s identity and access capabilities. The Entra family includes Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), as well as two new product categories: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) and decentralized identity. The Entra family of products will help provide secure access to everything for everyone, by providing identity and access management, cloud infrastructure entitlement management, and identity verification. Read more about Microsoft Entra. We’re here to help every step of the way.

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Let’s stay connected!

Keeping up with the changing security landscape is challenging, and many businesses have large gaps in coverage. Now is the time to find integrated business security solutions built to work across platforms and cloud environments. We can help safeguard your people, data, and infrastructure. Sign up for our mailing list to explore how the world’s most comprehensive approach to security can help your small business. Let’s stay connected!

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2022

IT leadership in 2022 will be unlike any other time in history. Changes in recent years have been dramatic, resulting in massive shifts in business and technology, resulting in the ‘hybrid’ business model as the new normal. Along with employee safety, cybersecurity, and customer expectations for quick service delivery, what should IT leaders be focusing on? Learn about CIOs' top priorities, including ideas about how to cope with Covid-19, reinforce privacy, upgrade talent recruitment and retention, and more.

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New security solutions to help secure small and medium businesses

How can businesses that lack the resources and technological expertise of large organizations hold the line against cybercriminals? The commercialization of cybercrime has led to an increase in the frequency and sophistication of attacks on small and medium-sized businesses. Business interruption is a top concern. For smaller businesses, this type of impact can be hard to manage--with potential financial, operational, and customer trust implications. Microsoft Defender for Business brings cross-platform endpoint security capabilities to many small business customers worldwide.

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Modernize your .NET Apps and data on Azure

Ensuring your business-critical apps are up and running is crucial to satisfying customers and outpacing the competition. That’s why there’s no better cloud destination for your web applications and databases than Azure. Take advantage of auto-scaling, high availability, and various migration tools that simplify the transition from on-premises. This infographic illustrates the four stages of the cloud migration process: pre-migration, migration, post-migration, and optimization. Get the details about the tools to migrate workloads to the cloud with minimal code changes. Sign up and stay connected. We’ll help you with your unique cloud transition journey.

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Small businesses deserve big security

Security is one of the top concerns and most challenging responsibilities facing businesses today, and for good reason. In the last year, phishing, ransomware, and malware attacks have increased in volume and sophistication. If you have a small business, it can be hard to know where to start. Microsoft Defender for Business was made just for you. It was specially designed to bring the power of enterprise-grade endpoint security to businesses with up to 300 employees--all in an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution. Click here to learn more. We can help.

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Defend against modern attacks with cloud-native SIEM and XDR

Microsoft empowers your organization’s defenders by putting the right tools and intelligence in the hands of the right people. Combine SIEM and XDR to increase efficiency and effectiveness while securing your digital estate. Get insights across your entire organization with our cloud-native SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel. Use integrated, automated XDR to protect your end users with Microsoft 365 Defender and secure your infrastructure with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Click here to learn more. We can help.

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Windows Server on Azure The ultimate guide

For more than 20 years, Windows Server has been the operating system of choice for enterprise workloads. This e-Book will show you how to use the resources provided by Microsoft and its partners to learn about all of Microsoft Azure's capabilities and how to put your Windows Server skills to work for your business in the cloud computing era. Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help you discover and learn more about all the features Azure offers to improve your company’s cloud transition.

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Microsoft demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

For the fourth consecutive year, MITRE Engenuity’s independent ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations confirmed that Microsoft 365 Defender delivers industry-leading protection. Microsoft 365 Defender XDR solution displayed top-class coverage by successfully surfacing to the security operations center (SOC) a single comprehensive incident per each of the simulated attacks. This comprehensive view detailed suspicious device and identity activities, coupled with unparalleled coverage of adversary techniques across the entire attack chain. Microsoft 365 Defender also demonstrated 100% protection by blocking both attacks in the early stages. Learn how Microsoft’s comprehensive coverage can defend your business. We’re here to help.

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PBSF combines medicine with cloud technology to treat newborns at high risk of neurological injury

Brazilian company Protecting Brains & Saving Futures (PBSF) has developed a system to monitor the brain activity in newborns who are at elevated risk of neurological injury. The technology relies on a central data hub populated with information from hospitals built on Microsoft Azure. The structure supports reliable storage of more than 200,000 hours of monitoring which allows for the analysis that has become essential for the development of fresh solutions. PBSF founder Gabriel Variane says this about the company’s partnership with Microsoft and its adoption of Azure: “We’ve always thought the cloud was the smartest model for us to provide our service, and this is proving to be true. Today we have one of the largest neonatal brain monitoring databases in the world

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Let’s stay connected!

Keeping up with the changing security landscape is challenging, and many businesses have large gaps in coverage. Now is the time to find integrated business security solutions built to work across platforms and cloud environments. We can help safeguard your people, data, and infrastructure. Sign up for our mailing list to explore how the world’s most comprehensive approach to security can help your business. Let’s stay connected!

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Get to know Azure SQL

Azure SQL is a set of fully managed, secure, and intelligent SQL database services that provide a wide range of SQL deployment options from edge to cloud. Learn about how you can leverage existing licensing to seamlessly migrate to the cloud with SQL on Virtual Machines. Get the scenarios and benefits of choosing Azure SQL databases in an illustrated graphic that addresses the overall cloud migration effort and administration continuum. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you navigate the world of cloud migration and support your unique migration journey.  

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Threat Actor Insights

Microsoft Security is actively tracking threat actors across observed nation- state, ransomware, and criminal activities. These insights represent publicly published activity from Microsoft Security threat researchers, and provides a centralized catalog of actor profiles. Learn about the most recent threats, by industry, to see which actors your organization should be looking out for. Click here to learn more. We’re here to help as you develop your comprehensive threat protection plan.

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Let’s stay connected!

Keeping up with the changing security landscape is challenging, and many businesses have large gaps in coverage. Now is the time to find integrated business security solutions built to work across platforms and cloud environments. We can help safeguard your people, data, and infrastructure. Sign up for our mailing list to explore how the world’s most comprehensive approach to security can help your business. Let’s stay connected!

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Capita sets itself up for hybrid work with Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Even before COVID-19 brought the need for increased agility and adaptability into sharp focus, Capita employees were asking for more flexibility, with options for hybrid work and bring-your-own-device. The business process outsourcing leader rallied its organization behind a “New Ways of Working” strategy--a plan to mobilize the workforce, provide increased opportunity for collaboration and participation, and support a more flexible work environment. With the help of Microsoft Security solutions, the result is both a productivity boost and an enhanced experience for Capita workers. The company is also enjoying simplified operation for administrators and reduced overall IT costs. Click here to learn more.

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Run mission critical workloads in a cloud infrastructure with seamless hybrid capabilities

Windows Server and SQL Server have unbeatable offers, seamless hybrid capabilities, and unmatched security. Migrate your SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the performance and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure. Run your applications and business-intelligence workloads on the same virtual machine or dedicated host, but with more management capabilities. Sign up and stay connected. We’ll help you innovate with SQL Server on Azure.

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Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

Cloud data management helps with data management across cloud platforms. Using the cloud as a data storage tier can help with disaster recovery, backup, and long-term archiving. With cloud data management, resources can be purchased as needed. But the landscape of vendors and offerings is becoming more complex as database management systems migrate to the cloud. This e-book shows how Gartner's Magic Quadrant can help data and analytics executives make the best decisions possible in a complex and rapidly changing market. Subscribe to stay connected—we´ll help you better understand the cloud migration scenario for a smooth, well-informed transition.

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SolarWinds extends its database performance product reach via Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Leaders of organizations understand that using Azure SQL Server enables the modernization of their digital processes. Case in point: SolarWinds, a leading provider of IT management software, is staying relevant in its database performance monitoring products by using the Microsoft® Azure® Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. In it, users with committed Azure spend can purchase SolarWinds database performance monitoring products. Organizations that take advantage of the offer can simplify the purchase, deployment, management, and renewal of SolarWinds database products to receive the in-depth performance and environmental data teams need to optimize the performance of Microsoft SQL Server and other leading database platforms running on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments.

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