Explaining why analytics leaders have higher profitability

You will be surprised by how much top analytical leaders saved compared to their industry standard. Reduced customer acquisition costs, increased revenue potential, and amazing growth opportunities abound when you utilize great analytic tools that Microsoft Azure solutions provide. It's commonly known that understanding what is going on with your organization, customer, and industry is what makes companies successful. So why are so many companies slow to adopt solid analytical practices? The top ranked had four key characteristics in common, and they're simpler than you may think.

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Ten predictions for the Internet of Things in 2018

IoT is poised to become the backbone of future customer value. Infrastructure surrounding the IoT is beginning to shift to the edge and to specialized IoT platforms. Developers will have a significant impact on IoT devices and initiatives, but what about the European decision on commercializing IoT data? These 10 predictions about IoT lay it all out--and on the line--in 2018. Read the article and find out more.

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Microsoft Partners in Health Connecting with Azure

See how Microsoft cloud services help 18,000 employees at Partners In Health stay connected--even in remote places--to help save time, money, and lives. The increased efficiency provided by Azure means that dollars saved go directly to aid people in need. The ability to collaborate and incorporate changes improves the way Partners In Health provides people with healthcare.

Can you automate your business without losing that personal touch?

Automating business processes can mean substantial gains for your company, but you can't forget about the personal interaction your customer needs. It's a balancing act. Managing the customer relationship requires trust, loyalty, and an established rapport. Automation requires balance to preserve that relationship dynamic and enhance the overall customer experience.

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Use Business Process Automation to Increase Productivity

Office 365's business process automation helps businesses work more efficiently so they can achieve more. Indivior uses it to accelerate their research for a cure to opioid addiction. It streamlines, automates, and transforms business processes with rich forms, workflows, and custom mobile apps so that you don't have to. It handles the redundant, repetitive tasks so that you can focus on impact. Contact us today to find out how Office 365 can benefit your business.

Untangling airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure

Manchester Airport is a busy place. Handling over 23 million travelers each year, it is important to maximize efficiency. Using Microsoft Azure, a research team is doing just that. With models designed on open source tools, the team is analyzing data from planes taxiing to untangle the delays and conflicts that slow travel. Utilizing the computing power of Azure will help this project reduce delays, reduce environmental impacts, and save money.

British Airways Leverages Visual Studio 2017 and Microsoft Azure to Unite its Global Workforce

In this clip, Lantel Cloud looks at how Azure tools and services, along with Visual Studio 2017, support British Airways developers as they innovate to deliver company information across all employee devices and platforms. Now all 40,000 employees can access the same information with unprecedented ease, thanks to single sign-on. Let us show you how your organization can achieve ground-breaking connectedness and innovation.

Broadclyst School - Surface Hub teamworking

This week, Lantel Cloud takes a look at how the Microsoft Surface Hub and #Office365 help student teams at the Broadclyst School usher their innovative ideas to market in the Global Enterprise Challenge. With Microsoft tools supporting the process from start to finish, the Enterprise Challenge provides more than an engaging learning experience for Broadclyst students; it helps them develop skills they'll need in life.

Create a small business office that lets you work from anywhere

Creating a mobile office can boost your productivity, and help you work from anywhere. These tips will help you create a mobile office.

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Keep Software Costs Down with Office 365

Lantel Cloud takes a deeper look at how Microsoft Office 365 helps small business owner Scott Naucler keeps software costs down thanks to Office 365's low monthly subscription cost. One license of Office 365 is good for use on up to FIVE devices for a single user, which means that you can get more stuff done anywhere, anytime - and at a reasonable cost. Contact us today to find out how we can help you do the same!

HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays

Infographic highlights the key differentiators of HPE Nimble Storage, including guaranteed more storage, more effective capacity and 99.9999% availability.

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Critical Capabilities for Solid-State Arrays

Gartner Magic Quadrant analysis of 19 solid-state arrays across five high-impact use cases to quantify what's important to infrastructure and operations leaders. Includes recommendations for infrastructure and operations leaders for vendor selection and deployment.

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Build forms from scratch and handle responses with Microsoft Forms

There are only so many hours in a day. That's why our customers use Microsoft Forms and Flow to automate tasks between apps and services. Microsoft Forms is a part of Office 365 Education that allows teachers and students to quickly and easily create custom quizzes, surveys, questionnaires, registrations, and more. Microsoft Flow works by letting your apps talk to each other Using Microsoft Forms and Flow saves time so teachers can do more of what they love to do--teach. Download this guide to see how Microsoft Flow can help you optimize!

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Today's Innovative Businesses: Focusing on What Matters Most - Infographic

Innovation is the name of the game today. Why let redundant, repetitive tasks stand in the way when #Office365 provides business-process automation to handle them for you? Microsoft Forms lets your customers gather valuable information through surveys, quizzes, and polls. With Microsoft Flow, they can create automated workflows between apps and services. #Office365 has intelligence at its core to deliver the insights and assistance that help your customers do their best work.

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Skype for Business Capabilities Guide

Skype for Business combines audio, video, and web conferencing into a single user experience. This enables employees to choose the right communication method for any collaborative assignment. Skype for Business is designed to help people work together from all kinds of meeting spaces. It's easy to use whether there's one presenter or dozens, and it's built to work in concert with a wide range of devices and conferencing technologies. Evaluate how it will help your organization with this e-book.

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Accelerate your business with the right online meeting solution - Infographic

Staying connected allows for the greatest productivity and innovation. With Office 365 and Skype for Business, you will be able to connect face-to-face from virtually anywhere in the world. With one click, anyone can join online meetings from any device. Connect with your team anywhere using mobile apps, allowing you to work from the office, at home, or on the road. From collaborative team sessions to live streaming a meeting on your laptop or dialing into a conference using your phone, Skype for Business is designed for all your meeting needs.

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Ten reasons your business needs a strategy now to capitalize on the Internet of Things

At Lantel Cloud, we recognize the effort our customers make in becoming truly digital businesses. At the same time, we know that our customers need a strategy to implement the Internet of Things (IoT). If you're unconvinced your organization needs a strategy, we've come up with "Ten reasons your business needs a strategy now to capitalize on the Internet of Things." Find out more by downloading the brochure.

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Move to the Intelligent Edge with Azure - Infographic

Billions of devices are connected to the internet, transmitting trillions of messages; if you aren't doing something with that data, you are missing out. Use the Azure IoT Suite to connect your devices and scale with ease. Moving to the intelligent edge by utilizing all of your devices means you are closer to the source of your data, enabling better analysis and more insights. Improve efficiency with IoT.

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Microsoft Practice Development Playbook: Enterprise Mobility + Security

Focused on Enterprise Mobility + Security? The goal of this playbook is to help our customers understand what they need to do to accelerate and optimize their EMS-focused practice. In this playbook, we'll point to resources that our customers should be aware of and provide valuable information on driving new revenue opportunities, strategies for marketing, selling, and capturing leads, as well as building deeper and longer team engagements.

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Data Analytics Around the World with Azure - Infographic

Azure App Service allows you to quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps on any platform. Azure Active Directory ensures that you meet rigorous performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements. With the ability to easily add SSL certificates, single sign-on verification, and identity service integration available for your apps, Azure ensures you and your customers are secure.

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Backing up your data in Microsoft Azure

At Lantel Cloud, we want you to gain insight on how to provide customers with an easy, affordable backup and archival cloud solution. That's why we've provided you with this tailored product on Azure Backup. Check out these talking points and instill customer confidence in the safety of their data with Azure security, privacy, and compliance practices. Build long-term, value-added services for Backup and capitalize on this market opportunity.

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Back up your data in the cloud with Azure - Infographic

Forget costly tape backup. Who needs that expensive hassle when #Azure delivers backup solutions that securely extend your customers' on-premises backup-storage and data-archiving tasks to the cloud? They can reduce their forecasting risks while transforming capex commitments to a pay-as-you-go model. And #Azure ensures they'll receive more than 99 years of retention for their backup data. Your customers enjoy peace of mind knowing their data is backed up, stored, and archived securely--and affordably.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Accelerates Digital Transformation

At a time when organizational and infrastructure agility is more important than ever, choices around server hardware can separate success from failure. IT organizations supporting the needs of digitally transformed businesses should take a look at the new HPE ProLiant server. The right combination of performance, security and affordability, the platform is well-suited for virtualization and memory intensive applications. This report from Moor Insights & Strategy takes a deep dive into the HPE ProLiant DL385 architecture and workloads that can benefit from it.

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HIAG Data Enables Hybrid IT with HPE and Microsoft Azure Stack

See how HIAG Data delivers a hybrid cloud platform to its customers to help them build out new applications quickly and migrate traditional workloads to the cloud.

HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee

This brochure outlines details of the HPE Nimble Storage Guarantee, describing the details and why the company can make the guarantee. Say goodbye to the anxiety and disruption of unexpected downtime. HPE Nimble Storage has proven availability of 99.9999% across its installed base and guarantees it for every customer and every array.

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Overcoming the Obstacles to the All-Flash Data Center

Getting to all-flash is an important strategic initiative. This eBook outlines concrete steps to get there in a cost-effective and non-disruptive way, helping organizations avoid missteps such as needing to rip out storage before achieving ROI or increasing complexity with silos.

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Going global with learning projects and finding the right tool to help

"Digital collaboration and co-creation is a must-have skill in today's global economy." Read how one educator uses Microsoft tools, such as Microsoft Forms, Skype in the Classroom, and Sway, to help students develop 21st Century skills and work together anytime, anywhere. The right technology can provide the opportunity to break common barriers to global collaboration, such as language, distance, and resources. This post was originally posted on EducationBlog.Microsoft.com.

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15 ways to keep your remote staff efficient and productive

With the increase of remote working arrangements, it's imperative to stay ahead of the game to keep your team efficient, productive, and satisfied. This article compiles 15 tips to ensure communication, collaboration, and expectations are kept in check for remote teams. Leverage these takeaways along with technology, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business, to drive efficiency and productivity among your teams. This article was originally posted on Forbes.com.

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Communicate better with Skype for Business

Microsoft Office 365 Skype for Business is a powerful collaboration application that enables Indivior to connect employees from around the globe. Their teams utilize instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls to stay current on research developments. Skype offers the functionality for up to 250 people to collaborate on a project, ensuring the right people can participate on the project. Skype for Business ensures Indivior is connected globally, enabling productivity.

Transforming the Australian agricultural industry

Working with agriculture's leading growers, The Yield is providing sensors and customized information services to help farmers make faster decisions in managing weather and environmental factors, ensuring better productivity and profitability. The ability to turn data into useful information that can be utilized in the field in real time takes the guesswork and risk out of growing. Human ingenuity will never be replaced in the industry, but now it is augmented with incredible technology.

How big data analytics provide personalized customer experience

Big data itself is a huge chunk of meaningless data, until it is analyzed and crunched into structured sets. Yet, the process of analyzing this meaningless data to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions, could be the next gold mine for your company. It's no wonder the big data analytics sector in India is expected to witness eightfold growth to reach $16 billion by 2025. Read this article to learn how big data analytics can drive positive customer experience, why this is a gold mine of information, and the technology behind this customer experience personalization.

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3 Reasons Why Cloud Is Driving Business Efficiency

This article covers the advantages provided to organizations that implement cloud services for enhanced effectiveness through technology. At the top of the list of benefits are scalability and flexibility; other benefits include pay-as-you-go pricing models, security, and the opportunity for companies to focus on their core business model rather than management of the environment. Learn why efficiency is the name of the game in the entrepreneurial world and why many high-growth businesses are utilizing cloud-based infrastructure from the start! This article was originally posted on Inc.com.

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Predicting ocean chemistry using Microsoft Azure

Taylor Shellfish, a company that farms oysters in ocean waters off the coast of Washington, uses Azure to provide them with insights into the chemical levels of the ocean to predict the needs of the upcoming season. Once the season starts, Azure helps them monitor massive amounts of incoming data, offering the ability to adjust to changing conditions. With knowledge comes power, and Azure provides the greatest computing power available, letting you make well-informed decisions.

Top e-retailer ASOS bets big on Azure to power a stellar digital experience for its 12 million customers.

In this clip, Lantel Cloud looks behind the scenes at how Microsoft Azure powers online retailers like ASOS, a leading fashion destination, in providing stellar customer service. By delivering massive scalability and globally consistent experiences, Azure helps ensure that the 12-million-plus ASOS customers can find and purchase what they need in record time. Let us show you Azure can help you create and maintain happy customers too. After all, the competition is only a click away.

Broadclyst School - Online dining

In this clip, Lantel Cloud learns how Office 365 with Microsoft Forms supports high-tech consensus building in Broadclyst School's dining hall. By entering immediate feedback into a Forms survey after each meal, students provide data for Forms to analyze and deliver results that inform kitchen food orders and menu design. Contact us--we'll show you how Office 365 with Forms can help satisfy stakeholder appetites in your organization.

Do Great Work with Office 365, Even When There's No Internet

Lantel Cloud takes a deeper look at how Microsoft Office 365 helps small business owner Scott Naucler and his three employees do their best work from anywhere - the office, a client site, or even 300 feet in the air atop a wind turbine. Office 365's AutoSave feature helps Turbine Test Services get the job done by automatically saving their changes as they work. If there's no Internet, the folks at Turbine Test Services don't stress! They know that AutoSave (a feature which is always-on) will sync their changes as soon as they're back online. Contact us today to find out how we can help you maximize the flexibility that Office 365 provides.

Not sure collaboration is for you? Here are 5 reasons to go for it.

All small business owners should actively seek out collaboration opportunities in their businesses in order to become more successful. Here's why.

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The Intelligent Edge: What it is, what it's not, and why it's useful

The Intelligent Edge is an exciting place! It provides analytic capabilities that were formerly confined to on-premises or cloud datacenters. This comprehensive article explores how the Intelligent Edge can yield deeper insights faster to transform your business. You will take a deep dive into the 3 Cs of the Intelligent Edge--connectivity, compute, and control--to learn what it is, what it isn't, the benefits to computing at the edge, and getting started with intelligent Internet of Things (IoT).

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