Microsoft Teams is no longer just a chat and video app — when planned, instrumented and governed as a platform it becomes a measurable source of cost avoidance, productivity and customer‑facing value that CFOs and boards can understand and defend. Recent market studies and enterprise rollouts...
CPA Practice Advisor’s 2025 Innovation Awards make a blunt, industry‑shifting statement: artificial intelligence has moved from “useful” to essential for modern accounting, audit, and tax practices—an assertion reflected in this year’s winners and finalists, nearly all of which embed agentic or...
The webinar “HITS in the cloud: elevate your SQL Server strategy with Azure Arc” delivered a practical, business‑focused playbook for modernising SQL Server estates across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments — emphasising unified management, automated compliance, flexible licensing, and...
Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...
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Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted sharply: in the space of weeks the company moved to narrow open employee forums, tighten campus access after a high‑profile sit‑in, and set a firm, phased requirement that many staff spend at least three days a week in the office — a package of changes...
Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep.
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