Tag: Microsoft

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; The enterprise automation landscape is changing, as issues such as the fragility of RPA, the proliferation of SaaS apps, and shadow IT drive companies to look for new, more user-friendly and empowering forms of integration and automation. RPA is one of the most talked about new technologies, but many businesses aren’t sure how to implement it. Those that have face high failure rates. In fact, according to Forbes, “an EY study found 30 to 50 percent of initial RPA projects fail,” and Deloitte reports that a survey of 400 global organizations found ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Jigisha Deb. According to the Customers | The Future of B-to-B Customer Experience reportby Walker Information Inc, by 2020, analysts predict that customer experience will outpace price and product as a key brand differentiator. Across the customer journey, now's the time to optimize the customer experience, from the first time a customer visits the website or campaign landing page to when they receive the product and contact you for helpwith the right tools in place to capture feedback across a variety of channels.Enter Microsoft Forms Pro. Forms Pro is a customer feedback solution that ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Each month, Mike Loukides creates a list of things he finds interesting or important in the technology world. Some items are personal observations or summaries of interesting conversations. Most items on the list have links to media sources—some original sources, some from other reporting, whichever is more informative. Privacy and security trends DNS over HTTPS is rolling out in all major browsers. This is important. Although there are some security concerns, and opposition from ISPs, DNS over HTTPS makes it much more difficult for ISPs (and others) to track and resell your internet usage habits ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Eric Hanson. MemSQL is uniquely suited to real-time analytics, where data is being ingested, updated, and queried concurrently with aggregate queries. Real-time analytics use cases often are based on event data, where each separate event has a timestamp. It’s natural to interpret such a sequence of events as a time series. Prior to the 7.0 release, MemSQL delivered many capabilities that make it well-suited to time-series data management [Han19]. These include: a scaled-out, shared-nothing architecture that supports transactional and analytical workloads with a standard SQL interface, fast query execution via compilation and vectorization, combined with scale ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The past couple of months have been nothing short of fantastic for the Power BI team. Even with the holiday season fast approaching, our engineers continued to work hard and deliver some of most anticipated features across Power BI service and mobile. In case you missed it, here’s a quick recap all the announcements we made in the months of October and November: Refresh your Power BI dataset using Power Automate We released a new Refresh a dataset action to the Power BI connector for Power Automate. You can now trigger refreshes for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. APN Immersion Days are a benefit to APN Advanced and Premier tier Consulting Partners. These APN Partners can leverage AWS branded content (e.g. Presentations, hands-on labs , and other assets) built for various AWS services and solutions to help address key customers questions. We have a number of AWS Immersion Day workshops available for our APN Partners. Topics and services covered include: Database Migration Service, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, EC2 Spot, Elastic MapReduce, Redshift, Containers, Running Microsoft workloads on AWS, Landing Zone, Data Engineering, Security & Compliance, Serverless, IoT, and many more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: angelhua. By Fred Wurden, GM Enterprise and BenchmarkingAWS has spent the last 11 years working with you to migrate and run your Windows workloads on AWS, and gained valuable experience along the way. We’ve taken this learning and evolved our products, services, and programs to make AWS the best place to run Windows workloads. We are excited to announce the new Migration Acceleration Program for Windows (MAP for Windows), which launches in Q1 2020. MAP for Windows provides prescriptive guidance, specialist consulting support, tooling, training, and services credits to help reduce the risk and cost ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Shruti Shukla. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for some time now. What was once an elusive technology only accessible to those with vast resources and budget is now being democratized and attainable for every organization. With prebuilt AI capabilities embedded in enterprise solutions, organizations can now benefit from AI. Organizations can process and interpret enormous volumes of data at scale in order to derive insights that power more informed business decisions and better customer experiences, all with less time, effort, and cost.Customer experiences help organizations stand out from the competition, but it's impossible ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_admin. Stackdriver log integration expands functionality across on-prem and multi-cloud Kubernetes, databases and applications with 50+ log sources GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – Dec 3, 2019 – IT monitoring integration innovator Blue Medora today announced general availability and open access of 50+ log source integrations through its BindPlane log streaming platform, for all Google’s Stackdriver customers. This follows the October beta release and announcement from Google Cloud bringing BindPlane’s log services to market at no additional licensing cost to Stackdriver customers. Stackdriver and BindPlane together bring an in-depth hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud and on-premises view into a single dashboard, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Priya Shetty. Since the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 in February 2019, customers have been getting insights at cloud scale faster than ever before. Integration to analytics engines is critical for their analytics workloads and equally important is the ability to programmatically ingest, manage, and analyze data. This ability is critical for key areas of enterprise data lakes such as data ingestion, event-driven big data platforms, machine learning, and advanced analytics. Programmatic access is possible today using Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 REST APIs or Blob REST APIs. In addition, customers can ... Read More