Category : Crow Canyon Blog

28 08, 2018

Is Microsoft Updating Office 365 Too Fast Too Often?

2024-07-26T03:58:33-07:00August 28th, 2018|

Recent discussions among Microsoft MVP’s resulted in a blog published last week by MVP Stacy Deere-Strole, “Keeping Up with Microsoft: Realistic or Not?”. In this article, Stacy states that “every Tuesday, there is a new change to Office 365” and that makes it “harder and harder” to keep up. Stacy talks about the frustration [...]

7 08, 2018

Case Study: Management of Virtual Machine Environments

2021-07-07T15:32:20-07:00August 7th, 2018|

Virtual Machines are used extensively in the IT world. They are easily brought up and taken down, allowing quick deployment and reconfiguration, while saving on resources. Virtual Machines, or “VMs”, are especially useful when testing hardware and software in different environments. One of our clients builds virtual machine “laboratories” for the US Military. Our [...]

24 07, 2018

Case Study: FOI Requests for Government Agency

2024-07-26T03:11:05-07:00July 24th, 2018|

Government and agencies in the public sector face challenges keeping up with the needs and requests of the people they are chartered to serve. These agencies are often dealing with heavy workloads, limited staff, and a lack of modern, effective IT solutions. But the growing use of SharePoint and Office 365 in the government [...]

13 07, 2018

Request Management with SharePoint – A Primer

2024-08-21T03:20:42-07:00July 13th, 2018|

New hardware, office supplies, access to databases, purchase approvals, leave requests, benefit updates, travel reimbursements – these are just some of the many types of requests that an organization has to contend with every day. Without an organized system in place to manage the requests, a company will suffer from wasted time and lost efficiency [...]

21 06, 2018

Five Areas That Power Up Your Support Desk

2024-07-23T05:24:21-07:00June 21st, 2018|

Let's face it, the only time that Support teams receive e-mails or calls is when something is wrong. After all, no one calls up an IT Help Desk just to say "Hello!" and give a jolly greeting. It's also a given that the person initiating the communication is probably not in the best of [...]

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 [...]

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