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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...
Incredible Real-World Applications Prove the IoT Is Here to Stay
As author Peter Daisyme accurately puts it, "While many people debate whether little computers in wrist devices, clothing, refrigerators and vehicles will truly change our lives, actionable change is already occurring on the business application side of the IoT."...
The 3 Phases of an Effective IoT Strategy
IoT is quickly becoming the most important business revolution of the digital age, with its implications being felt across all industries worldwide. However, unlocking the true potential of IoT requires not only a clear roadmap with specific objectives, but also a...
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting Learn about the cost savings and business benefits that companies experienced by using Windows Virtual Desktop for their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). This 2020 Forrester Consulting study commissioned...
Key apps are phasing out of Internet Explorer 11
Transition to the latest Microsoft BrowserIs your business still using Internet Explorer 11?If so, please keep these dates in mind: November 30, 2020: Microsoft Teams web app stopped supporting Internet Explorer 11, which could impact productivity for your...
Five ways to know you are ready for connected field service
Empower your team to proactively resolve issues, maximize productivity, and increase customer satisfaction with connected field service. Discover if your company is ready for connected field service with these five indicators. Contact our team to learn more!
Manufacturing a better future with Microsoft
Improve your customers' business outcomes while increasing your own margins and competitiveness with the power of #DigitalTransformation. Watch this video to discover five ways to manufacture a better future with #Microsoft, and contact us for a complimentary briefing to learn more!
TKC Holdings Case Study
TKC decided to team up with Covenant Technology Partners to use their expertise when it comes to workflow solutions.
Nortek Case Study
Recognizing that scale of operations in serving customers after the sale was limiting its growth potential and allowing client satisfaction issues, Nortek selected Covenant Technology Partners, a St. Louis, Missouri-based Microsoft partner to help implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM.
CPQSync™ by Cincom for Construction
Covenant Technology Partners and our partner, Cincom Systems, would like to help construction companies that drive business for project estimators. 2020 proved that resilience through digital transformation is key to keeping business and construction jobs running...
Skype for Business is Retiring!
On July 31, 2021, Microsoft will be turning off Skype for Business Online. Microsoft advises that Skype users upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams extends the capabilities of Skype for Business, bringing together chat, meetings, calling, collaboration, app...
Blogs
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...
Teams Voice Workshop – Microsoft AppSource
Organizations today are searching for the perfect collaboration suite that enables their workers to chat, share files, make calls, and hold conference calls securely. Some are combining services with Zoom or Slack in their quest to achieve this goal. But what is...
Power BI Success Story
We successfully matured & transformed the organization's reporting solution. We migrated them from MicroStrategy to PowerBI which, in turn, provided them much more robust reporting capabilities while increasing their return on investment.
Clayco Gains Time Entry Efficiencies Using Power Platform
A Construction company gains Time Entry efficiencies using Power Platform.
Clayco Gains Employee Response Form with Power Platform
Clayco works with Covenant Technology Partners to gain employee response form with Power Platform.
Microsoft Teams Updates For February 2022
Desktop and Web Pin a Message in Chat Pin a specific message to the top of a chat so that it is always visible to the members of the chat—regardless of the number of messages that come afterwards. Pin or unpin any message and select the pinned message to...
Power BI February Updates Released by Microsoft
Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary Welcome to the February 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce a variety of new and highly anticipated features such as new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters support for more data sources, deployment...
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...
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