1 12, 2017

Application Portals & Intranets: How Do They Interact?

2021-01-20T12:00:39-08:00December 1st, 2017|

Recently we introduced the concept of the SharePoint Application Portal as a friendly, functional interface for users to engage with our SharePoint-integrated applications. In our initial blog article, we discussed the benefits of application portals for both users and admins; in a subsequent article, we went into more detail about how our application portals facilitate [...]

21 11, 2017

Microsoft & AI in Office 365: Progress, but also Concerns

2021-05-05T13:59:11-07:00November 21st, 2017|

In the Crow Canyon blog, we've had several articles about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, covering Microsoft’s embracing of the technology and the implications of that. We've discussed predictive analytics, the problem with Delve, and Office 365's new personalized search capability. This September’s Ignite conference went into detail about Microsoft’s AI-related progress – [...]

31 10, 2017

“ITIL Lite”: The Benefits of ITIL without the Overhead

2021-01-20T12:07:07-08:00October 31st, 2017|

In our whitepaper, ITIL Lite: Service Management for SMBs, we introduced the concept of “ITIL Lite”: an SMB-friendly version of the ITIL service management framework that provides the benefits of ITIL without the overhead of adhering to the complete set of ITIL standards. As you may know, ITIL, short for “Information Technology Infrastructure Library”, [...]

17 10, 2017

Four Reasons to Use Crow Canyon’s Office 365 Applications

2021-01-20T12:24:45-08:00October 17th, 2017|

People ask us why they should use our Office 365 applications instead of SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions or client-server programs. Here are four reasons why using our SharePoint & Office 365 applications is the way to boost productivity and lower costs in a modern business environment: Single-Sign On (SSO) Users only have [...]

6 10, 2017

The Impact of Ignite on the Future of Your Office 365

2021-07-01T10:55:31-07:00October 6th, 2017|

We had the pleasure of hosting a “Post-Ignite” webinar last Monday with Microsoft MVP Vlad Catrinescu. In the webinar, titled “The Impact of Ignite on the Future of Your Office 365", Vlad outlined seven major areas where announcements made at the Sept. 25 – 29 Microsoft Ignite Conference will affect SharePoint and Office 365 in [...]

21 09, 2017

Application Portals: An In-depth Look

2023-04-17T09:16:57-07:00September 21st, 2017|

We gave an overview of the advantages of using Applications Portals in a previous blog article. We explained how our applications use these portals to encourage users to engage with SharePoint. The portals give users a friendly, intuitive interface to interact with the Help Desk, the Support Desk, Purchasing, HR, or other business applications. [...]

12 09, 2017

Application Portals: Putting Users in the Driver’s Seat

2021-01-21T09:20:02-08:00September 12th, 2017|

One way our applications boost the power of SharePoint and Office 365 is through the use of Application Portals. These Application Portals give users ways to engage effectively with our applications, thereby driving user adoption and accelerating usage of SharePoint and Office 365. Application Portals differ from Intranets, Team Sites, and Comm Sites in [...]

28 07, 2017

The Importance of Being Adaptive: Using Resilient Software

2021-01-21T09:23:20-08:00July 28th, 2017|

In our article Choosing Resilience Over Reliability, we discussed the difference between "imagined systems" and "found systems." The former are built for reliability, with backups and failover systems in-place; the assumption is that things will work as they are supposed to. The latter are designed for resilience with the ability to recover quickly from [...]

19 07, 2017

Office 365 Groups Come Into Their Own

2021-01-21T09:23:31-08:00July 19th, 2017|

As a concept, Office 365 Groups initially existed as a way to group together people with a shared commonality (e.g., working together on the same project). This grouping mechanism was largely relegated to basic applications, such as security, permissions, and distribution. Microsoft had a plan for Groups, however, and now that plan is starting [...]

22 06, 2017

“Communication Sites” Coming to SharePoint Online

2021-01-21T09:24:10-08:00June 22nd, 2017|

The SharePoint momentum continued last month when Microsoft held the SharePoint Virtual Summit, with announcements of new features for SharePoint and Office 365 – changes to OneDrive, Groups, Flow, PowerApps, and the SharePoint Framework. Also announced was “SharePoint Communication Sites”, aka “Comm Sites”, an alternative to SharePoint Team Sites. In a post in Microsoft’s [...]

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