Tuesday, November 26, 2024

What Is the New Hushed Hybrid Work Trend?

The new hushed hybrid work trend has employees colluding with the managers to allow work-from-home days in secret. This trend has both benefits and drawbacks-as well as far reaching implications for business ops and talent acquisition.

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Work smarter: 3 practical ways to increase productivity for your small business

According to a Microsoft Work Trend Index Special Report, 85% of business leaders say hybrid work makes them feel less confident about employees' productivity. This makes it critical that you help employees work smarter by staying focused on the work that's most important. The Microsoft eBook, "Work smarter: 3 practical ways to increase productivity for your small business," provides guidance. Download the eBook for tips and how to put them to work.

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Microsoft Teams boosts productivity with collaborative apps | Microsoft 365 Blog

How worried are you that hybrid work is making your employees less, not more, productive? If you're concerned, you're not alone. Let's start a conversation on how to keep employees focused on what matters most.

What are your biggest roadblocks to making fast, data-driven decisions? Is it talent shortage, lacking the right tools, budget constraints or something else? 🤔 #Analytics

What are your biggest roadblocks to making fast, data-driven decisions? Is it talent shortage, lacking the right tools, budget constraints or something else? 🤔 #Analytics

Domino's Pizza: Ensuring customer satisfaction with data-driven demand planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Read the case study to discover how Domino's pizza created exceptional customer experiences by delivering the right product to the right store at the right time with Dynamics 365's demand planning, AI, automation, and analytics capabilities. Contact us to discuss achieving similar results for your organization.

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How AI-Powered Immunoscience is Transforming Healthcare

See how new AI tech is helping to make connections between diseases once thought to be unrelated, unlock treatment options, and usher in a new era of drug discovery. Interested in exploring how AI can transform your industry or business? Just hit reply to schedule a demo of a customizable AI solution.

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Cloud computing in the United States - statistics & facts

Discover all statistics and data on Cloud computing in the United States now on statista.com!

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Cybersecurity Has a Talent Shortage. Here's How to Close the Gap

By embracing future-ready workforce practices to close the cybersecurity talent gap, employers will be in a better position to capitalize on opportunities and address emerging threats. Cybersecurity experts at are ready to help you strengthen your security posture.

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Simplify IT operations with observability and AIOps

IT teams face multiple operational challenges that can be effectively addressed with the right observability and AIOps solution.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your Copilot for Work

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Microsoft 365 Copilot isn't just a better way of doing the same things. It's an entirely new way of working. Watch this video for a quick demo.

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Grow your small business with Microsoft 365

Discover how new innovations in Microsoft 365 across AI, payments, collaboration tools, and security can help small and medium businesses grow.

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How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed? Let Us Count the Ways

The 2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, held last spring at Rutgers-New Brunswick, focused on the impacts of AI on society and higher education. Key takeaways include AI's amazing ability to automate tedious manual tasks (e.g., transcribing handwritten historical documents into text), streamlining the admissions process and significantly improving the feedback loop.

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Many Businesses Are Nearing the Completion of Their Cloud Migrations

Within three years, many organizations will be running most applications on public clouds, new CDW research finds.

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The Cybersecurity Burnout Crisis Is Reaching The Breaking Point

CISOs face rising burnout from overwork and evolving cyberthreats. Organizations must invest in resources and support to retain workers and strengthen security defenses. is ready to discuss with you how you can strengthen your organization's security without having to hire new talent or burning out your IT team/

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Repay 'Digital Debt' By Simplifying IT Infrastructure

Are you in digital debt? Find out how excessive business tools and notifications can lead to burnout and decreased creativity. Get actionable tips on driving IT efficiency, erasing digital debt and reinvigorating your exhausted staff.

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Hybrid work is growing the fastest in these 5 industries

Among the top categories, account management work saw the highest growth rate (62%) in hybrid job postings over the past six months. As hybrid work adoption accelerates across most industries, is ready to work with you ensure that your company's hybrid work model is optimized for everything from talent retention to collaboration and profitability.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Use Teams for your business

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration application that helps you, your employees and customers stay connected, share files and work together. This short video shows how you can use Teams in your business. Watch the video for a quick demonstration of using Teams to reach people in a hurry, chat one-to-one or in groups, see who's available and busy, make audio and video calls, schedule meetings with anyone, and organize and collaborate on projects. Ready to start using Teams in your business? Everlasting Fairytale's Microsoft collaboration and productivity experts are ready to help. Contact us.

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From helping personalize customer engagement to building a real-time retail supply chain, improving productivity & proactively mitigating disruptions, @MSFTDynamics365 delivers truly transformative capabilities. ✨ Details: #AIpower

From helping personalize customer engagement to building a real-time retail supply chain, improving productivity & proactively mitigating disruptions, @MSFTDynamics365 delivers truly transformative capabilities. ✨ Details: #AIpower

Thread creates game-changing solution for IT service providers with Azure OpenAI service

How can cutting-edge technology and strategic collaboration revolutionize your business? Learn from the remarkable success story of Thread Professional Services. By leveraging the power of Microsoft Azure and OpenAI services, Thread Professional Services achieved unprecedented growth and overcame significant challenges. Get the story for highlights of benefits and to discover the secrets of Thread's success using the transformative power of Azure and OpenAI to drive innovation, efficiency and growth.

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Shaping the future of retail with AI and Dynamics 365

From helping personalize customer engagement to building a real-time retail supply chain, improving productivity and proactively mitigating disruptions, Dynamics 365 can do wonders for your company. Read the blog for a deep dive into how the new AI-powered solution is transforming retail and contact us to discuss how you can put AI to work for your business.

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AI Changes Big and Small Computing

Data centers will get bigger, while more processing will move closer to the edge. The exponential growth in data centers necessary to meet AI's computing demands will have massive implications for businesses and the economy.

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The power of purpose-built cloud infrastructure

With the cookie cutter cloud model becoming more obsolete due to cloud requirements varying across different businesses and industries, purpose-built cloud-which can be customized to handle specific workloads, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and greater resource utilization-is quickly gaining steam as the superior alternative. Read the article to learn more.

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'The worst thing you can do' after a data breach, according to a cybersecurity expert

Data breaches are so common that you may be tempted to ignore them altogether. But doing so is a big mistake, cybersecurity experts say.

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Generative AI Causes Costly Mistakes for Enterprise Buyers

Confusion surrounding generative AI exists in the market, leading enterprises into unnecessary expense and delays, according to Gartner's Erick Brethenoux.

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Was Hybrid The Wrong Approach To Delivering Workplace Flexibility?

Despite the growth of hybrid workplace policies, many organizations struggle to make them work. A broader, more multi-faceted approach to workplace flexibility can help.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Has your organization considered a low-code approach to building a chatbot to improve efficiency and streamline customer service ops? We'd love to hear about your experience! #NextGenAI

Has your organization considered a low-code approach to building a chatbot to improve efficiency and streamline customer service ops? We'd love to hear about your experience! #NextGenAI

2023 State of Goal Setting Report

The process of setting goals in a systematic way before managing and sharing progress is the nucleus for organizational accomplishment. Goals are created to define and attain success, but they are only useful when they are documented clearly and referred to regularly. In December 2022, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the goal setting and management process within enterprise-sized companies globally, to understand the role that clear goal setting and management frameworks and outcomes play in business success and employee experience (EX). Download your complimentary copy of the Forrester report to explore key findings.

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Global consulting firm CAI boosts business agility and operational alignment with Viva Goals and the OKR framework

CAI helps clients design, deliver, operate, and maintain quality, critical manufacturing facilities by pooling the global resources of more than 800 employee-owners. As the company grew and expanded its services and delivery capabilities, the need for more modern goal setting and management approaches became apparent. That's when CAI adopted Microsoft Viva Goals. Viva Goals is a module in the Microsoft Viva customer experience platform designed to enhance productivity, collaboration and employee wellbeing. Read this customer story to learn how CAI benefits from Viva Goals and its seamless integrations with Microsoft Teams and Power BI to better plan, manage and communicate objective and key results (OKR) frameworks to ensure alignment with business strategy.

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Build solutions faster with Microsoft Power Platform and next-generation AI

Microsoft Power Platform empowers developers to solve business problems faster and more cost-effectively, while providing end users with a seamless way to incorporate AI into their projects, thereby boosting productivity. Read the blog for details and contact a Microsoft Power Platform consultant at Everlasting Fairytale to discuss our flexible pricing and implementation options.

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The Billion-Dollar AI Gamble: Data Centers As The New High-Stakes Game

Explore the vital role of data centers in powering AI and the digital economy, and discover why understanding their use cases is key to making successful investments. Read this Forbes article for an excellent overview of the different types of data centers and the critical role they play in today's economy.

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What are the Most Popular Cloud Platforms Among Tech Pros?

For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) seemed to dominate tech professionals' cloud usage. Is that still the case? Or have competing web platforms made strides in adoption over the past few years?

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Top 10 Cybersecurity Strategies

Cyber Magazine takes a look at the top 10 cyber strategies that can help enterprises improve their security posture

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Updating Enterprise Technology to Scale to "AI Everywhere"

Companies can't scale their AI solutions without also reshaping their technology function to enable this massive shift. Taking an "AI everywhere" approach to re-architecting the tech stack is a critical, foundational step. Equally important will be upgrading current ways of working to make the best use of new AI solutions, which will require bringing the discipline of software development to the adoption of AI models.

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Productivity problems persist for HR with hybrid workplace 'fauxductivity'

Half of managers still believe staff are engaging in "fauxductivity" — or faking activity and pretending to work while on the clock, a survey found.

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