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Ten Reasons Your Business Should Use Power BI

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The business world is driven by data. Sales, marketing, customer service, operations, production and human resources continuously create mountains of data on a daily basis. If used correctly, that data is like gold. It informs decisions, improves customer understanding, guides strategic planning, helps manage risk and provides an immense advantage…

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Your Microsoft 365 Licensing – Upcoming Changes

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Microsoft has introduced the New Commerce Experience (NCE), which will affect all users of Microsoft seat-based solutions. This is the most significant change to their license billing and terms since 2015. From January 2022, Microsoft 365, Dynamic 365, Power Platform and Windows 365 subscriptions will change. How will this affect…

Become a Microsoft Teams Power User

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Anyone who has been following Smile IT knows what a big fan we are of Microsoft Teams. An office communication juggernaut, Teams streamlines internal and external interactions and is an immense boost to productivity. Teams may be an easy program to get the hang of, but behind the ease-of-use lurks…

How Microsoft Office 365 Helps You Work Remotely

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Millions of us around the world are now safely ensconced in our home offices. We no longer have the ability to catch up with colleagues over the water cooler, meet around a computer to work on a project or call a boardroom meeting. It’s a heck of a transition to…

A Microsoft 365 Migration Framework

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You’ve decided to move your business across to Microsoft 365. Congratulations – enhanced communications, improved efficiency and a generally slicker operation are within reach. Not to mention the exceptional remote work capabilities you’ll enjoy, which is becoming more important as the officescape evolves. But… the migration doesn’t just happen. There’s…

The Ten Best Microsoft Azure Tools

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We’re big fans of Microsoft Azure here at Smile IT. This is the game changing cloud technology of the future – you can read exactly what it is in this blog post here. Today we’re going to go a bit deeper into the actual Azure services, and look at the…

Goodbye Skype for Business. We Prefer Microsoft Teams!

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Support for Skype for Business ended in July 2021. Since then Microsoft Teams has grown in user numbers and in stature, helping fuel the remote work revolution that lockdowns thrust onto us.. The significant investments Microsoft has made into turning Teams into a ‘teamwork hub’ have really paid off. They…

Microsoft Azure: The Cloud’s Game Changer

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The IT industry is pretty renowned for its ambiguous buzzwords that are really tough to get your head around. Perfect example – ‘the cloud’. It’s awesome and amazing and everyone acknowledges that it’s the future and the future is here. Just don’t ask them to explain what the cloud is,…