CLA amplifies family culture and client support with Microsoft 365 tools

CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) is a professional services firm with 120 locations across the United States. Their mission to elevate members as they help build careers inspired them to select Microsoft 365 to jump-start their organization’s digital transformation. After COVID-19 restrictions sent everyone home to work remotely, members immediately started using Teams to continue engaging with learning solutions and driving the organization’s competitive advantage through a close-knit culture. Using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint also helped them protect the organization. And, they're expanding their use of Dynamics 365 to map their clients’ journeys, using data to generate insights.

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Enabling teams to do their best work ​with cloud technology

Every customer is in a different place in their hybrid work journey. Whatever unique hybrid work pain points have been identified, Microsoft Modern Work solutions can help. With an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure, Modern Work solutions are built on a foundation of security and privacy to help every organization in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line. To thrive in this new hybrid world, people and organizations need solutions that are fluid, dynamic, and cloud-powered. With 73% of employees saying they want flexible remote work options to stay, leaders need to pay attention. Sign up and stay connected. We can help secure your journey ​to the cloud.

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How To Transition In An Increasingly Populated Cloud

When the entire economy was disrupted by COVID and operations migrated online, one of the primary elements that kept enterprises viable was cloud migration. It's no surprise that businesses are fast adjusting to this multibillion-dollar market, especially in the aftermath of the epidemic. Because of the enhanced capabilities and benefits provided by the cloud, businesses are increasingly reconsidering every operation in favor of it. Virtually any company of any size can quickly transition to the cloud with the right provider, enhancing productivity, availability, and saving money on operations. Read the Forbes article to learn what leaders are doing to join the craze that has been dubbed the new normal.

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Transition to Cloud with Microsoft 365

Be more productive from anywhere, secure your business with technology you can trust, and get one cost-effective solution for secure collaboration. Microsoft 365 is uniquely positioned to help you build more resilience, streamline IT operations, consolidate vendors, and enable higher employee productivity. Check out an infographic illustrating how to empower users with devices designed to meet the ways you work. Learn about cost savings and benefits of Microsoft 365 +Surface. Examples are: -Flexible, premium devices designed to maximize productivity and collaborative experiences -Zero-touch deployment and unified management drive down costs and complexity for a distributed workforce -Security from chip-to-cloud with a zero-trust security model Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you become a leader in digital transformation and the future of hybrid work.

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Using Microsoft Teams and Power Platform Integration to create collaborative apps

In today’s hybrid world of work, people have a multitude of collaboration tools and apps that they can use to get work done. There’s an opportunity for organizations to create purposeful collaborative platforms that can integrate various apps and provide people with a new way to work without switching between applications and processes. In this Microsoft-produced e-book, learn about how Microsoft Power Platform’s set of low-code tools for building and deploying complex business solutions also function for analyzing and visualizing data, automating business processes, and interacting with virtual agents. Learn about how Teams and Power Platform integrate various capabilities for developers, as well as how it simplifies and increases developer productivity. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you to improve your business efficiency and gain the competitive edge you need.

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Korean biopharma company enters into the next phase with big tech

Microsoft’s ‘modern workplace’ is a hybrid business model that makes use of cloud-based Microsoft 365 tools and services to create an agile system that can help any company evolve. IT leaders are embracing modern by doing the following: migrating company data and tools to the cloud; moving from classic to modern SharePoint; flattening site architecture and getting rid of subsites; and connecting modern team sites to Microsoft 365 groups and teams. Learn about the top reasons why teams using modern workplace strategies have increased collaboration, contentment, and learning.

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Transition to Cloud with Microsoft Teams

Cloud transformation has become a top priority for industries. A recent survey showed 80% of customers intend to accelerate their digital transformation and 60% indicate security and compliance budgets have gone up to better defend customer’s infrastructures in these remote or hybrid work scenarios. Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork that helps drive more effective and secure meetings—and since participants can dial in from anywhere, it extends itself in becoming an inclusive part of the new workspace. This infographic illustrates how Teams enables collaboration with capabilities for chatting, meetings, and files access from any device, from anywhere. Get a link to a 2021 Gartner report and learn how Microsoft was recognized as a leader for meeting solutions. Sign up to stay connected. Microsoft 365 is uniquely positioned to help your organization build more resilience through cloud solutions.

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Be productive from anywhere with industry-leading apps

Companies are under pressure to stay relevant and efficient in the digital business era. Microsoft 365 is uniquely positioned to help organizations of all sizes build resiliency through cloud solutions that enable higher employee productivity and satisfaction—and improve their bottom line by streamlining IT operations and vendor consolidations. Learn about how to keep customers safe through state-of-the art security solutions and the newest applications that make it all possible. Sign up and stay connected. We’ll help you increase your company's momentum by gaining secure access to applications, products, and services from anywhere in the world at any time.

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4 reasons remote teams should go all in on Microsoft’s modern workplace

Microsoft’s ‘modern workplace’ is a hybrid business model that makes use of cloud-based Microsoft 365 tools and services to create an agile system that can help any company evolve. IT leaders are embracing modern by doing the following: migrating company data and tools to the cloud; moving from classic to modern SharePoint; flattening site architecture and getting rid of subsites; and connecting modern team sites to Microsoft 365 groups and teams. Learn about the top reasons why teams using modern workplace strategies have increased collaboration, contentment, and learning.

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Major mineral water producer boosts productivity and saves costs by creating reports in the cloud

"IDS Borjomi Ukraine is a leader in the natural mineral water market in Ukraine. As the company is constantly expanding its services, it needed to scale up its server performance. To generate daily reports, the team wanted modern digital tools that would enable faster data processing and scaling on demand. The shift to Azure Synapse Analytics made all that possible. In addition, Power BI integrated data about sales teams’ activities, stock-keeping units, product orders and much more. The cloud solution not only saved time but cost as well. The company has saved more than 30 percent of the budget compared to expanding its on-premises resources and can scale it up whenever needed. "

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Microsoft Services & Fast Track for Microsoft 365

"Transition to Cloud means moving from on-premises to a cloud or hybrid environment. It also means helping employees be more productive from anywhere and delivering cost-effective solutions for secure collaboration. In this infographic, get tips on how to begin your modern transformation, such as: - Evaluate where you are right now versus where you want to be - Use an iterative approach centered around employee experiences - Focus on key workplace transformation areas like remote work, frontline empowerment, and security Learn about the 4-step Microsoft approach and process to empower organizations to put innovation into practice. Find out more about how to move confidently to the cloud and accelerate adoption with Microsoft FastTrack services. Sign up and stay connected. We’ll help you innovate with Microsoft 365 to deliver modern cloud experiences. "

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C.H. Robinson keeps its supply chain experts connected with Microsoft 365

"In today’s global business market, the ability to provide on-demand, real-time visibility for customers has become more important than ever, and C.H. Robinson has been at the forefront of the digital transformation in the supply chain industry. The company accelerated its modern workplace plan after implementing a remote work environment in response to COVID-19, including quickly deploying Microsoft 365 and its integrated portfolio of solutions. What’s more, by implementing Microsoft Teams, they enabled virtual collaboration spaces where teams can have open conversations and are able to interact while working on their new produce brand, Robinson Fresh®."

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Transition to Cloud: Secure your business with technology you can trust

Today’s complicated virtual business reality makes it difficult to secure fragmented IT or cloud point solutions. As we’ve seen, natural disasters and political tensions require always-on from anywhere tech solutions. We know that Microsoft 365 helps businesses stay agile in these uncertain economic times with cost savings and cloud advances. Need proof? This infographic illustrates how organizations further along in their transition from on-prem to the cloud are more likely to report positive experiences among employees and end users about securing data and personal privacy.

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Cloud Sector Boom Accelerated By Digital Transformation

Cloud migration and digital transformation are no longer IT industry buzzwords. The cloud transition is growing and changing the way businesses operate as they overcome initial concerns about security, regulation, and cost to embrace cloud computing and data storage. Cloud migration allows for digital transformation and the adoption of digitally enabled business models across all industries. Companies are moving away from owning and managing their own servers and infrastructure on-premises and third-party data centers toward private virtualized and public clouds. Learn more about how cloud transition is shaping the way companies function and what leaders in all industries are saying.

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Transition to Cloud: A journey to Modern Work with Microsoft 365

The digital transformation of the business world has pushed businesses to address new challenges: remote work, cloud migration, and device security is the new normal. Today’s decision makers need to create people connections, address burnout, and work toward consolidating apps. With Microsoft 365, you get a platform boosted with industry-leading apps, intelligent cloud services, and world-class security. You can download and sync devices, detect threats before issues occur, simplify through vendor consolidation, and so much more. This infographic explains the 6 ways Microsoft 365 apps and services can ease your organization’s journey to modern work.

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Transition to Cloud Deployment checklist

Businesses rely on cloud transformation for the stability and agility it offers to their operations. Microsoft 365 enables this transformation by realizing modern work environments where users are productive and secure while working from anywhere. Review the infographic and get started today with this 5-step deployment checklist. Learn how you can rapidly deploy Teams, secure access, provide employees with adequate support, and more.

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Security and privacy with an integrated portfolio of cloud services

Businesses rely on cloud transformation for the stability and agility it offers to their operations. Microsoft 365 enables this transformation by realizing modern work environments where users are productive and secure while working from anywhere. Secure your business with technology you can trust, ensure only the right users have access without affecting productivity, and protect your data through security best practices and easy-to-use policies that prevent accidental data leaks. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you learn more about making the transition to the cloud and into a more secure environment.

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Goodyear drives more remote collaboration to keep plants running with Microsoft Teams

As a company dedicated to keeping people moving, Goodyear tire company wasn’t about to slow down because of global travel restrictions due to COVID-19. When engineers could no longer travel to factories for equipment installation or troubleshooting, Goodyear turned to Microsoft Teams running on RealWear voice controlled, assisted-reality wearable computers to bring the engineering experts into the plants virtually—enabling instantaneous collaboration from remote locations, and saving money on travel costs.

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Why Businesses Must Invest in Cloud Adoption to Thrive in the Post-Pandemic World?

Digital transformation is not a new requirement for business leaders, but the pandemic has boosted the urgency as companies rush to improve agility, speed, and data-driven decision-making. Whether through modern application adoption, streamlining IT operations and/or consolidating vendor relationships, today’s businesses seek to increase end-user productivity, satisfaction, and bottom-line improvements—all of which can be accomplished through modern cloud solutions. As businesses adopt new technologies, investing in a strong cloud infrastructure will become critical in helping organizations grow and thrive in the post-pandemic world. According to data and research, in the coming years, there will be two types of businesses: those that rely primarily or entirely on the cloud, and those that go out of business. Learn what experts are saying about how to be the former.

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Building a Resilient Organization through Integrated Cloud-based IT

The results of a double-blind, online survey of 500 IT decision makers responsible for device, productivity, collaboration, and endpoint management tools, showed an increase efficiency and drove business growth by harnessing organizational knowledge to provide rich insights. Learn about the three general stages of Microsoft 365 adoption regarding your business’s IT device management approach in this case study. Subscribe to stay connected. We’ll help you take an active role in shaping your organization’s resiliency.

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Fluid, dynamic, and cloud-powered solutions

Microsoft is uniquely positioned for partnership with any organization’s modern digital transition journey. Solutions like Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 provide an end-to-end, integrated portfolio of cloud solutions. Built on a foundation of security and privacy, the Azure platform helps businesses in every industry build resilience and improve the bottom line. Communication is seamless, dynamic, and collaborative. Sign up to say connected—we’ll help you learn more about making the transition to the cloud.

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Why Hybrid Cloud Data Management Makes Good Business Sense

Cloud adoption has become a path many companies take toward transitioning to an agile structure. Most are eager to reap the benefits of reorganizing their business plans and implementing a hybrid cloud—a computing environment that combines an on-premises datacenter with a public cloud, allowing data and applications to be shared between them. A hybrid cloud strategy encourages competitiveness and enables flexibility of a company's IT infrastructure. The appeal of a hybrid cloud computing strategy points to low costs, dynamic software implementation, and high IT security. Learn more about the advantages of hybrid cloud data management and read what global business decision makers are saying.

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Special Olympics leaders use Microsoft Teams to build community and shape the future

When Grace, a Special Olympics athlete and global youth leader from New Zealand, heard that a friend of hers had to miss a long-awaited competition due to transportation issues, her response was to help build an app that ensured other athletes wouldn’t run into similar problems. She teamed up with fellow global youth leader Jack, and the pair worked on a project designed to connect Special Olympics athletes with transportation. When COVID-19 threatened to stall the project’s momentum, the duo quickly turned to Microsoft Teams to collaborate and continue developing their app, making sure their inclusive initiative didn’t miss a beat. Teams enabled them to communicate across continents and stay on track with their plans.

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