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Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. Earlier this year, we made a commitment to shift to 100 percent renewable energy supply in our buildings and datacenters by 2025. On this journey, we recognize that how we track our progress is just as important as how we get there. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021. Vattenfall and Microsoft are also announcing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Faisal Mohamood. Today, more than ever, your organization needs to adapt to changing business conditions with incredible speed and efficacy. Whether you're shifting to digital sales or streamlining your supply chain, Dynamics 365 plays a pivotal role in digital transformation initiatives by bringing customers and business priorities together with the next generation of CRM and ERP applications.Underpinning many of these successful initiatives is FastTrack for Dynamics 365, a Microsoft engineering powered customer success program that enables organizations to accelerate Dynamics 365 implementations and go live with confidence.Available at no incremental cost to our customers, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: AJ Ezzour. Most sales organizations understand the value of maintaining an accurate sales forecast. However, many are still tracking forecasts with a time-consuming spreadsheet. This blog post provides some best practices for using forecasting capabilities in Dynamics 365 Sales to help simplify creating accurate forecasts, even during rapidly changing conditions.Benefits of sales forecastingSales forecasting is a projection of the sales that your organization expects to make within a set timeframe. Having current and accurate sales forecasting empowers you to better allocate your resources, modify your strategy to address unforeseen circumstances, and provide critical coaching ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . A well-written resume is the foundation of your job hunt; however, resume writing is overwhelming. There’s so much pressure to make your resume stand out, so many formats and styles to choose from. Figuring out how to focus on the most important parts of your career and experiences based on your current job seeking goals is challenging. panom73 / Getty Images Log in or subscribe to Insider Pro to download our resume templates.  Getting your resume just right in order to attract the attention of recruiters, HR pros and hiring managers is in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lucia Stanham. A need for hybrid and multicloud strategies for financial services The financial services industry is a dynamic space that is constantly testing and pushing novel use cases of information technology. Many of its members must balance immense demands—from the pressures to unlock continuous innovation in a landscape with cloud-native entrants, to responding to unexpected surges in demand and extend services to new regions—all while managing risk and combatting financial crime. At the same time, financial regulations are also constantly evolving. In the face of the current pandemic, we have seen our customers accelerate ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xema Pathak. It is imperative to monitor the health of your virtual machine. But how much time do you spend reviewing each metric and alert to monitor the health of a virtual machine? We are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for virtual machines guest health feature that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is outside the acceptable range. This feature provides you: A simple experience to monitor the overall health of your virtual machine. Out-of-the-box health monitors based on key VM metrics to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . For Gary Brantley, the road ahead is paved with innovative technologies, and to get there, the CIO of the City of Atlanta has moved full throttle to attain operational efficiencies since the pandemic began.This has included a move to “collapse several different tools” such as redundant CRM and permitting software packages that various departments and agencies in the city were using, Brantley says.Another area where Brantley has achieved operational efficiencies is in going entirely paperless since April — no small effort for a municipality that has “huge legislative packets,’’ he says. “We’re really a paper-driven organization.”Before ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The perception that the disruptions of 2020 would result in IT projects being stalled or retired hasn’t played out. Rather, it’s the opposite. While overall IT budgets have declined, in areas critical to business health, such as digital transformation, investment is booming. IDC data suggests that spending on digital transformation projects will grow 10.4 per cent for the year.The reason behind the investment ranges from organisations looking to fortify their business resilience through the disruption (for example, by allowing staff to work remotely), through to a desire to prepare the business for the other end of ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, more companies are accelerating digital transformations, including fast-tracking their move to the cloud. Company leaders are recognizing that cloud has quickly become the foundation that’s required to enable rapid scalability and reliability and to fuel new sources of innovation and growth. With access to the cloud comes agility and flexibility, both of which are imperative to meet changing consumer and market demands.At the same time, companies are facing increasing pressure to solve large socioeconomic challenges and operate as responsible businesses. CIOs are uniquely positioned to guide their companies to make the right ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Edan Hauon. Listening to the challenges many of our customers are facing with increasingly working online, we've developed new capabilities in Dynamics 365 to discover email messages, meetings, and phone call activities related to an opportunity, and then to factor these signals into the score.Capturing activities to determine opportunity healthA healthy opportunity will usually have activities happening in it like email messages, meetings, and phone calls. Many of our predictive opportunity scoring customers were gathering these signals manually to determine opportunity health. We've replaced the need for customers to manually track activities by using ... Read More