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Lizo | Digital transformation in the oil & gas industry: seamless scaling and automatic updating

Updating software and installing on-premises infrastructure takes time—time away from running your business. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB processing time skips from weeks to a mere few minutes—something that only cloud technology can accomplish. Check out this video to watch how moving to the cloud allows a company to maximize the potential of their software and their business.

Interested in what Azure could do for your business? Contact Waypoint Digital Networks today.

Explore how Surface Go 2 can work for you

Have you met the Surface Go 2? With the ability to run powerful desktop software and the convenience of a tablet, you’ll never be unprepared for where your day takes you. Weighing only less than 1.2 pounds, Surface Go 2 goes where you go. #SurfaceforBusiness #SurfaceGo2

Zero-Touch Deployment: A cornerstone of modern device management

Have you thought about how to manage your organization’s devices securely and remotely? Microsoft Zero-Touch Deployment could be your solution. Take care of remote onboarding, device updates, and security for your entire organization. Azure AD for Microsoft Surface can take your technology where it’s never been before. #SurfaceforBusiness

How to Become a Leadership Influencer

Customers are looking for content from their trusted colleagues and industry leaders, but they also want inspiration. Maybe you have both! In his article, “How to Become a Leadership Influencer,” Tom Popomaronis suggests you choose a topic in which you can produce inspirational writing—such as one of the most challenging obstacles of your career and how you overcame it. Read the entire article for more suggestions on offering leadership, influence and inspiration.

Sales Engagement – The Definitive Guide

What makes sales engagement technologies different from other “new innovations” when it comes to adopting them for your business?

This biggest difference is that sales reps are actually happy to use them. Unlike past technologies that were more of a chore for reps, simply providing data to higher ups, sales engagement technology, like Dynamics 365, adds value directly to the tasks sales reps perform throughout the day: from identifying new prospects to deepening relationships with current customers.

Invest in a technology that your sales reps will actually use and will provide a ROI for your business. Contact us to learn more.

Top 10 Security Deployment Actions with Microsoft 365

Threats come from all areas, from malware attacks to compromised user credentials, and even accidental data leaks caused by human error. Naturally, it follows that an effective security system should have tools to cover all these areas.

Using tools like Azure Active Directory and Single Sign On, you can protect your system from common user credential problems while Azure Information Protection can keep your data encrypted and secure even if it’s shared outside of your system.

We understand the security problems facing your business are far from simple, which is why our multifaceted solution contains tools to address each one.

Bringing Apps and Start-ups Together

Cloud service providers can play a key role in the modernization of app development simply by using open-source databases on the cloud, reducing time-to-market. This is helpful since more and more consumers are using apps not only for social networking, but for news, food, information, and more. Read “Bringing Apps and Start-ups Together” by Prabhakar Jayakumar, and connect with Waypoint Digital Networks for more SMB content.

Modern Deployment in the Remote Workplace

With Zero Touch Deployment, Surface devices are ready to go, right out of the box. No time-intensive device imaging. No large upfront costs. Just an easy, streamlined, and instantaneous experience. The user unboxes their Surface device, which can be remotely imaged and ready for use with little or no interaction from them, and gets to work. Quick and simple.

#zerotouchdeployment #surfaceforbusiness #remoteworkforce

How to Turn Your Business Goals into a Strong Social Media Strategy

Do you develop social media strategies to align with your actual business goals, or do you post, share, tweet and like according to what you *think* your audience might want? Too many users don’t connect their goals with their strategies, according to writer Elissa Liu. Read her article, “How to Turn Your Business Goals into a Strong Social Media Strategy” and subscribe to Waypoint Digital Networks for more tips to stay ahead of the game!

Increasing employee productivity with Microsoft Search in Bing and PowerApps

You want your employees to be their most creative, innovative, and productive always. So does Microsoft. To improve their employee experience, Microsoft implemented Microsoft Search in Bing to enhance the discoverability of information, people, and apps. It helps their employees to find internal resources and complete common tasks in one place. Now you can take those same tools and create a modern IT infrastructure for your employees, and we can help. At Waypoint Digital Networks, we have years of experience helping businesses just like yours update and modernize their IT. Contact us today to learn more.