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Microsoft Teams vs Slack
Using Slack? If you own Office/Microsoft 365 then we can help you save significant money while improving your end-user experiences. Not only does Teams (Service within Office/Microsoft 365) offer the same or similar capabilities, but it is also offering new and...
Still Using Zoom? Try Microsoft Teams
Are you still using Zoom? If you own Office/Microsoft 365 then we can help you save significant money while improving your end-user experiences. Most of us have day jobs that prevent us from staying up to date on the latest features being released by our Software...
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1
Highlights from Dynamics 365, Release Wave 1 Dynamics 365 Marketing continues to invest in collaboration by enabling collaborative content creation with Microsoft Teams. Marketers can use content fragments and themes to improve authoring efficiency. Investments in...
Power BI January Updates released by Microsoft
Optimize your Processes and Gain Deep Insights with Process Mining Process mining, provides direct data insights across an organization’s daily business processes, helping identify inefficiencies to improve how they work. Now with the preview of process mining in...
Covenant Welcomes New Partners
The Partners of Covenant Technology Partners are thrilled to announce that Doug Neff and David Friedrichs have joined the partnership as of January first. Both Doug and David are proven leaders who have been instrumental in the growth and success Covenant has...
Cloud Computing Conceptions Clarity
Cloud computing has become a challenge for business and IT alike. How an IT application can be developed and deployed has more choices than ever before. Cloud software and service providers always report Cloud computing costs less than On-Premises computing....
CRM Latest and Greatest Updates December 2021
During our webinar Pamela Beste went over the latest and greatest features in Dynamics CRM! Items that were covered: Sales Accelerator Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365 CE Integration Voice for Customer Service And more! If you have any questions please contact...
Power BI Jumpstart
Our Power BI Jumpstart is an end-to-end engagement to accelerate your organization’s Power BI implementation. There is no one-size-fits-all approach with Power BI and, while there are several solutions we typically suggest, it is entirely based on your...
Microsoft Ignite Recap
Microsoft Ignite features four main themes: empowering everyone for a new world of hybrid work, building a hyperconnected business, innovating anywhere from multi-cloud to edge, and protecting everything with end-to-end security. Keep reading to learn more about...
Covenant’s Client Appreciation Event
Covenant held a client appreciation event at Novellus on Main Street where we had lively conversation, tasty food, and an enriching mixology class with our wonderful clients! We will be hosting another one early in 2022 and hope to see you there!...
What’s New in Microsoft Teams for October 2021
October 8, 2021 Reply to a message in chat You can now reply to a specific message in chat! Hover over the message you want to reply to and select More options Microsoft Teams more options icon > Reply. A preview of the message you’re replying to will show up in...
Azure App Service
Have you been looking for a fully-managed, secure platform for your web apps? Azure App Service is designed to help you build, deploy, and scale your web apps and APIs on your terms. Work with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or php, in containers or...
New Pricing Model for Microsoft 365
There have been changes made to commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since Office 365 launched a decade ago. This updated pricing reflects the increased value delivered to customers over the past 10 years. Let’s take a look at...
6 Integral Parts of Digital Transformation
In today’s chaotic business landscape, the right technology can level the playing field between businesses of all sizes. Adopting a solution that facilitates internal communication and collaboration empowers smaller businesses to compete with industry leaders. With...
Maximizing the Value of your Systems
Are you capturing all the value you can from your cloud-based application investments? Is the rapid change of pace and enhancements challenging your ability to know what you own? In the past, we developed a business plan for an application generally focusing on one...
Power BI 2021 MBAS Recap
The pace of innovation around Power BI never seems too slow. At Microsoft’s recently concluded Business Application Summit, the Power BI team shared another exciting slate of new and planned features for the industry leading analytics platform. Highlighting just a...
Top 12 Reasons to Move to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement in the Cloud
Top 12 Reasons to Move to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement in the Cloud: Will be running the latest and greatest from Microsoft with seamless upgrades as part of bi-yearly release waves. Easily support a synched sandbox and production environment without the...
14 Reasons to NOT stay on an older version of CRM
Reasons to NOT stay on an older version of CRM: More than likely the version has reached end of life and is no longer supported by Microsoft. Underlying Database and Operating system support will also fall out of support Unsupported software is a security...
Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary
Reporting Power Automate for Power BI Small multiples: padding controls and combo chart support New and improved shapes Invert axis and continuous axis sorting Modeling DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services CROSSFILTER supports...
Creating a Data-Driven Culture using Power BI
Enable everyone across your organization to make confident decisions using real-time analytics. Self-Service Analytics at Enterprise Scale Reduce the added cost, complexity, and security risks of multiple solutions with an analytics platform that scales the entire...
Blogs
Microsoft Teams Update For May 2022
Desktop and Web Show as: comes to Teams Now in Teams, when you schedule a meeting, private appointment, or vacation, you can choose how that meeting shows in your calendar. Just like in Outlook, you can choose from Free, Tentative, Busy, Working elsewhere,...
Azure Synapse Analytics May 2022 Updates
Introducing the Azure Synapse Influencer Program We’re pleased to announce the Azure Synapse Influencer program. We’re excited to share this program with the community and begin welcoming new members starting today. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure...
Power BI May Updates Released by Microsoft
Announcing General Availability of Automatic Aggregations Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of automatic aggregations, along with several important improvements. By using automatic aggregations in Power BI Premium, you can unlock...
Our New Partnership with LMS365
We are excited to announce our Partnership with LMS365! Who are they: LMS365, a Microsoft Preferred Solution, is one of the fastest-growing cloud-based Learning Management Solutions in the market today. LMS365 provides a modern, integrated, and familiar...
Dynamics 365 Relaunch
Clayco had previously implemented a "One Size Fits All" Dynamics solution. They were experiencing low adoption and realizing limited value from their technology investment.
Dynamics 365 Field Service Implementation
The tech service company had an outdated Service module that required all manual input, handwriting on tickets by technicians, and manual spreadsheet tracking against service agreements. The business had a sustainable growth rate of over 20% each year and this model was not aligned with their growth.
Company Moves from Old Applications to a Modern Platform
Fast growing "essential" company reduces risk by moving from unsupported applications to a modern platform.
Azure Synapse Analytics April 2022 Updates
CI-CD for Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool using YAML templates Purpose of this blog: 1.Defined end-end process of SQL Pool Deployment from Visual studio SSDT code check-in to continuous integration(Build pipeline) and continuous deployment(Release pipeline) from project...
Power BI April Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI April 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the April 2022 update. We are excited to announce New format pane and Power BI Goals updates, tooltips drill actions support for more build-in visuals, error bars for clustered column and bar charts preview feature,...
Microsoft Teams Update For April 2022
Desktop and Web LinkedIn integration now available in Teams You can now see LinkedIn profiles in one-on-one chats. To view someone's profile, select the LinkedIn tab of the chat if they have one available. Learn more at Use LinkedIn in Teams. ...
Azure Synapse Analytics March 2022 Updates
Azure Synapse Analytics March Update 2022 Welcome to the March 2022 Azure Synapse update! This month, we have SQL, Apache Spark for Synapse, Security, Data integration, and Notebook updates for you. Watch our monthly update video! Implementing Spark...
Microsoft Teams Updates For March 2022
Desktop and Web Find someone's time zone You can now see what time it is where your colleagues are when you look at their contact info. Hover on a person's profile picture and under Contact, you'll see the local time for that person. Watch the Microsoft...
Power BI March Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI March 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the March 2022 update. We are happy to announce a couple new features this month! How about error bars for line charts and dynamic format strings support for all chart elements? Also, we have some updates to the Azure...
Azure Logic Apps or Power Automate?
Today the IT landscape is littered with so many services, products, and tools it is difficult to keep up. I am not surprised that many clients are unaware of the many tools available to them, let alone choosing the “best fit”. One tool it seems that many clients...
Advanced Find is gone! Introducing Modern Advanced Find
With the 2022 Release Wave 1 for Dynamics 365, we are getting an update to Advanced Find. This is currently available for Public Preview, and General Availability is expected (as of today) in April 2022. At first glance, I was not at all thrilled with this change....
Dynamics 365 Release Wave 1 2022
Missing Jump Bar In the last release wave of 2021, you may remember that there was a bug with the entity grid views and that the alpha bar, or Jump Bar as it’s known in Power Platform, was missing. Microsoft fixed this issue, however you may still notice that it is...
Healthcare Client O365 Case Study
Our Healthcare Client has a very complex O365 environment with over 30,000 users. Providing Tier 2 and Tier 3 support to address and resolve identified and reported issues was problematic with delated resolution of user issues as well as overall low user satisfaction with the resolution process. The delated user resolution caused operational issues resulting in reduced efficiencies and effectiveness of our client's operations.
How Microsoft Viva Can Help Your Business
The shift to remote work came abruptly, and many organizations turned to Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools to help them with their companies’ objectives. While the tools to get the work done and collaborate have been a game changer, the results have led to...
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