Category : Crow Canyon Blog

12 06, 2018

Managing “Critical Assets” for a Nuclear Power Plant CASE STUDY

2023-07-13T13:35:26-07:00June 12th, 2018|

All electricity generators and transmitters in the US and Canada need to comply with strict government regulations. These rules are perpetuated by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, or “NERC” for short. NERC’s goal is a “highly reliable and secure North American bulk power system”, which we all certainly appreciate when we use our [...]

11 06, 2018

What’s Coming in SharePoint 2019

2025-02-21T03:57:40-08:00June 11th, 2018|

With a much-ballyhooed announcement at the SharePoint Conference North America last month, SharePoint 2019 officially arrived… well, sort of. The early preview won’t start until “Summer 2018” with most RTM features ready for preview later in 2018 or early 2019. But what is it all about? SharePoint 2019 Breakdown Microsoft still hasn’t released a [...]

2 05, 2018

SharePoint Conference North America: Here We Come!

2024-07-26T02:54:30-07:00May 2nd, 2018|

The excitement is building for the NITRO Studio, our application creation platform for Office 365 and SharePoint. NITRO Studio is a unique collection of apps that enhance SharePoint with forms, workflows, reporting, portals, and more. Our goal is to “put the power in your hands” so you can easily create applications, whether simple or [...]

20 04, 2018

Case Study: SharePoint Solves Check Voucher Routing Problems at State Agency

2025-01-31T03:24:02-08:00April 20th, 2018|

Our client, a large state agency, required an efficient system for generating check vouchers that could replace paper-driven and time-consuming manual processes. A check voucher is a request to submit payment for an invoice. Vouchers start their lives in one of the agency's 18 local offices. The vouchers then need to go through a [...]

12 04, 2018

Case Study: Crow Canyon Corrects Communication Concerns for Consulting Company

2021-07-07T15:38:26-07:00April 12th, 2018|

Clearly, email is not an effective way to manage requests – tracking and assigning requests, getting status, sending alerts, instituting workflows, generating reports, and more, are all hard, if not impossible, to implement with an email-based system. Most often, an email request will go “below the horizon” and get forgotten about until the end [...]

4 04, 2018

Bing for Business Powers Internal Search

2024-08-14T00:38:29-07:00April 4th, 2018|

In the late 1990s, Microsoft decided to jump into the search engine arena with "MSN Search." Over the years, this product underwent several transformations, first to "Windows Live Search" and then to "Live Search." In 2009, after much reshuffling, rebranding, and reorganization, Microsoft settled on "Bing", which has been the preferred name for Microsoft's [...]

9 03, 2018

Case Study: Request Tracking Solution for U.S. Government Agency

2021-07-07T15:39:26-07:00March 9th, 2018|

The Crow Canyon Request Manager for SharePoint transformed the way a U.S. government agency worked, empowering it to move away from outdated manual processes and embrace digitized and automated solutions that integrate seamlessly with its existing IT framework. Two challenges: Regulations and Outdated Methods When it comes to regulations, few sectors are as stringent [...]

28 02, 2018

Case Study: User Access Request System for Medical Institute

2025-01-31T03:13:59-08:00February 28th, 2018|

In Medieval times, armored guards stood outside a city’s gate to keep an eye on who was coming and going. Access to the city needed to be tightly controlled. Fast forward a thousand years and access is managed not by armored guards but by IT security systems. The world is markedly different, but the [...]

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