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Cloud sticker shock: that's what many CFOs experience after a period of time with cloud services, as usage and data transfer and storage costs mount. Those savings from "renting" compute services and applications versus buying it all quickly vanish. But it's not about the money saved — instead, it's about the money made through agility, speed to market, and innovation. Read More...

Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes? Read More...

How prepared is your organization to accelerate remediation and minimize disruption when a breach occurs? Let the experts at Belinda CZ s.r.o. help you improve your cyber resilience strategy by scheduling a complimentary cyber resiliency consultation. View: Cyber Resiliency Consultation

The EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which aims to "bolster cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware and software products," could have severe unintended consequences for open source software, according to leaders in the open source community. Read More...

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Your business's long-term growth depends in large part on the ability to innovate quickly and at scale. Book a free demo of an AI-powered solution designed to accelerate your product development. View: Accelerate innovation with a new AI-powered solution—free demo

Every company's needs are different when it comes to figuring out flexible schedules that work for a particular organization. However, it's clear that it's now essential to support flexibility in different work styles for your people and teams. Read the blog for insight on six simple ways to enable flexible work at your organization. Read More...

Digital initiatives need to drive transformation across your business including financial, operational and organizational processes. Yet many enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions fall short on unifying and connecting business processes. A new era of AI-based operational systems is emerging in response. Forrester Consulting calls then digital operations platforms (DOPs). Agile and experience-driven, these systems include Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. To provide customers with a framework for evaluating the potential financial impact of Dynamics 365 Finance on their organizations, Microsoft commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study. Download your complimentary copy of the study to explore key findings and the benefits, costs and risks associated with adopting Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. View: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

Christmas comes now for companies using Microsoft's MFA Server who want to upgrade to the next generation Azure MFA. Microsoft has unveiled its new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to make migrating to the next generation Azure MFA smoother and easier. The Azure MFA, Microsoft's new flagship MFA server, is designed to provide lower TCO, simpler deployment and better security than the MFA Server. Read this Microsoft article to get more details on the Server and Migration Utility. Read More...

Security operations (SecOps) teams are often flooded with security alerts and information, making it difficult for them to focus on the most important, high value projects. Give your SecOps team the right tools to help them increase efficiency and focus on what matters most. Download this eBook to learn how to empower your security team to focus on the most important issues. View: 3 Reasons to Shift to Integrated Threat Protection

Brian Behlendorf, OpenSSF GM, is laying out plans to fund open source supply chain security in a slowing economy and speak out against the EU's Cyber Resilience Act. Read this blog for insight. Read More...

Welcome back!To help readers track the frenzy around generative artificial intelligence, we launched The Information's Generative AI Database, listing 39 startups that make AI models or build services on top of them. Together, those companies have raised more than $15 billion from more than 50 ... Read More...

Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023). It is widely believed that the Read More...

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How do you make flexible work the best it can be for different employees? Where do you start? Let a @Microsoft #hybridwork expert from Belinda CZ s.r.o. provide the right answers. #WorkTrends #FutureOfWork

Microsoft Dynamics 365 helps organizations in finance and operations succeed amid hyper-competitive and ever-changing market forces. Watch this video for an overview of how you can use agile project-based services in Dynamics 365 to adapt faster, work smarter and perform better.

When Greggs bakery chain needed a toolset to simplify managing a hybrid environment built from acquisitions, it found the secret sauce in Microsoft Azure Arc. Read the customer story to learn how the +80-year-old company benefits from a less complex and more secure hybrid and multi cloud environment.

The best way to future proof your business is to move more of your applications and workloads to a cloud infrastructure that can satisfy varying requirements. With Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can create different environments for different needs. Discover how organizations accelerate their digital transformation and how Azure tools and resources can help your business migrate and modernize in the cloud. Watch this video.

As your organization continues to face the risk of cyber-attacks, your security operations (SecOps) team needs ever more innovative solutions to identify and block constantly changing virus signatures. This involves empowering your SecOps teams with technology to assess threats and vulnerabilities and provide a plan-of-action. A posture management strategy includes not only industry standards and best practices, but also the unique circumstances of the organization including recent attacks and what vulnerabilities enabled the attackers. This article explains how Microsoft 365 Defender's new threat-informed posture recommendations give SecOps teams the ability to detect and manage threats more effectively. Read the article and contact us to learn how Belinda CZ s.r.o. can help you plan and implement an effective posture management strategy. Read More...

The oil and gas industry uses a variety of complex systems and technologies that are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Now, through the Cyber Resilience Pledge, more than 20 global CEOs have committed to work together to improve cyber resilience across the ecosystem. Read about their collective efforts in this Journal of Petroleum Technology blog post. Read More...

The AI boom in 2023 will have significant implications for cloud computing. Read More...

The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago. Read More...

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Even in the usually exciting world of cybersecurity, discussions on enterprise security budgets tend to veer toward the mundane. However, today's Read More...

Despite escalating cyberattacks, many businesses are reducing security spending as part of overall cost cutting initiatives in a time of economic uncertainty. But the wrong cuts could leave you vulnerable to attacks with devastating financial implications. We can help you put together a cost-effective cybersecurity plan that will keep your business safe. Book your free consultation today. View: Planning a cybersecurity budget—free consultation

From separating application services to a security strategy, building the right cloud computing architecture will have a long-term impact on your business. Read More...

Some large US firms are beginning to embrace ChatGPT and other AI technology. Still, questions about accuracy and data privacy have led some to bar its use. Read More...

Check out this use case story to learn how media agency Carat was able to form the partnership that allowed Microsoft Teams to become the Official Collaboration Platform of the NFL. Read More...

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Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance). What settings are available in Azure AD to help you manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations? Receive a free Azure Active Directory Demo with an expert from our team when you schedule direct. View: Azure Active Directory Demo

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is a managed threat hunting service that provides security operation centers (SOCs) with expert-level monitoring and analysis. This video unpacks how Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting works by walking through a real-world example of a pervasive phishing campaign. Watch the video:

The uncertain economy has hit cruise company Carnival and logistics giant FedEx in very different ways. Their respective cybersecurity chiefs discuss what that means for their budgets. Read More...

The pandemic brought to light the importance of agility and adaptability in the face of change. To be able to pivot quickly and meet the ever-changing needs of customers, enterprises are increasingly focusing on service-centric business models that provide recurring revenue streams. To better understand these trends, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to explore where companies are succeeding, struggling and investing to move toward service-centric business models and project-based operations. Read this blog for a summary of findings focusing on three major areas of needs. Read More...

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There are unique endpoint security challenges associated with cloud-based systems. Here are some strategies to address them. Read More...

Commentary: Generative AI can help democratize 3D design, but it won't replace skilled artistry anytime soon. Read More...

Disruptive echo effects, poor room acoustics and choppy video are some common issues that hinder the effectiveness of online calls and meetings. Read the blog to learn how Microsoft Teams is improving such audio and video challenges through AI and machine learning. Read More...

Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance). This article shows how to use cross-tenant access settings to manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations — even across clouds. Read the blog for a walkthrough of managing external access with inbound and outbound settings, default settings, organizational settings and others. In addiiton, get tips for comparing settings for different scenarios. Read More...

Organizations need to be able to communicate and collaborate at work in a way that is simple, flexible and effective. Microsoft Teams continues to provide exactly that and has added Live Captions. Now, Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop can detect what's being said and who's saying it in real-time captions. Read the blog to learn how this feature enhances the experience of team members who prefer visual cues when collaborating and ensures everyone can follow the conversation effectively.  Read More...

Land O'Lakes Inc has nearly ten thousand endpoint devices, and multiple cloud platforms and applications, all of which need security from viruses and cyber-attackers. When the company was seeking enterprise-wide security to protect its many on-site, cloud and mobile devices and applications, it turned to Microsoft Security. Land O'Lakes shares its experience with Microsoft Security in this customer story. Get the story for lessons learned about staying secure and productive. Read More...

With the threat of recession looming, chief information security officers (CISOs) will increasingly see cybersecurity budgets constrained. So how can companies focus their limited cybersecurity investments on the controls that matter most? This article breaks cybersecurity investments into three categories: 1) controls that defend against threats in a particularly impactful way, 2) measures that validate that these controls are operating as intended and 3) capabilities that automate (1) and (2). All three of these categories will be important to consider moving forward, as business profile, attack surface complexity, and related threats change. This article discusses the elements of a good cybersecurity program, resources you can use, and how to determine the controls that will matter most for your own company. Read More...

Complaints about poor data quality are ubiquitous across every industry. Here's how to ensure your company can gain meaningful data insights, leverage data at scale, gain agility, and make better-informed decisions. Read More...

Manufacturers that amass more and more data without a clear plan or functional use cases risk losing out to competitors and falling behind the curve. A smarter approach to data empowers your organization to unlock the full potential and power of its industrial data. Read More...

The transition to hybrid work requires transforming business processes. Make sure you're making all the right moves by setting up a hybrid work solutions consultation with an expert from Belinda CZ s.r.o.. View: Hybrid Work Solutions Consultation

Belinda CZ s.r.o. can help accelerate your migration to the cloud with Fast Track for Azure. Schedule a free cloud migration readiness assessment with one of our experts. View: Free Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment

In this self-guided demo, learn how to use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to generate actional insights that drive efficiency and improve productivity Read More...

Azure Active Directory is available as an identity provider option for B2B collaboration by default. If an external guest user has an Azure AD account through work or school, they can redeem your B2B collaboration invitations or complete your sign-up user flows using their Azure AD account. This technical blog post shows you how to permit guest users to sign in with their Azure AD account, verify publishers' domain and walks you through next steps. Read it for a quick demo. Read More...

In the Microsoft Security eBook, "3 Reasons to Shift to Integrated Threat Protection," explore the benefits of leaving behind disjointed, bolted-on security solutions. Learn how an integrated approach empowers your SecOps team, enhances employee productivity and provides comprehensive threat protection with SIEM and XDR. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook and discover how to defend against modern attacks by building in security with an integrated, end-to-end, cloud-native solution. View: 3 Reasons to Shift to Integrated Threat Protection

No company is better positioned to help organizations meet the demands of hybrid work than Microsoft. Read the blog to gain insight on why Microsoft is recognized as a leader in seven different Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports, eight different Forrester Wave™ reports, and eight different IDC MarketScape reports. Read More...

This pivot to remote and hybrid work has reshaped employee behaviors and expectations. Read the blog to gain additional insight on the findings from a recent Microsoft hybrid work report. Read More...

Gartner has identified four supply chain reinventions based on supply chain leader priorities. Yet even where reinventions and priorities align, a lack of progress remains in several areas including closing the gap between time spent making a decision and executing it. With only 7% reporting having real-time decision execution, what is the prognosis for supply chain future? In this blog post, Gartner lays out a 5-year reinvention roadmap to supply chain of the future. Read the blog for insight. Read More...

In this video, Andy Malone, Microsoft MVP and certified trainer, demos Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) basics. From architecture to setting up users to assigning licenses, Andy walks through everything you need to know to make the most of Azure AD's rich functionality. Ready to learn! Watch the demo to participate in a busy section packed with demos.

Every year, millions of travelers book flights with the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) app, just one of many customer-friendly innovations that the company has pioneered in its 75-year history. As a digital leader in an industry still recovering from the 2020 travel bans, SAS relies on Azure to lower infrastructure costs and gain agility for its development teams. Read the customer story to learn how the continuous collaboration SAS received from Microsoft and the FastTrack for Azure team helped the airline save money and simplify processes for their application team. Read More...

Dish TV India - the country's leading provider of home satellite services - needed to increase scalability while ensuring a high level of security. When technology began constraining Dish TV's ability to offer live event streaming, the company migrated to Microsoft cloud-based applications with Microsoft Unified Support for Azure. With Microsoft Unified for Azure, Dish TV today gets access to superior technology, world-class cloud expertise from a designated team. Read the customer story to learn more. Read More...

eClinicalWorks is a national innovation leader with cloud-based solutions for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, patient engagement and population health management. When the company sought additional capacity to manage the influx of data and network traffic, it looked to Microsoft Azure. With Azure, eClinicalWorks now benefits from greater platform agility, resilience and uptime. Get the story to see how the organization leverages these benefits into deployments that ensure high availability. Read More...

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In the Microsoft Security eBook, "3 Reasons to Shift to Integrated Threat Protection," explore the benefits of leaving behind disjointed, bolted-on security solutions. Learn how an integrated approach empowers your SecOps team, enhances employee productivity and provides comprehensive threat protection with SIEM and XDR. Download your complimentary copy of the eBook and discover how to defend against modern attacks by building in security with an integrated, end-to-end, cloud-native solution. View: 3 Reasons to Shift to Integrated Threat Protection

Microsoft is delivering innovative enhancements in Microsoft Teams focused on improving audio and video challenges through AI and machine learning. Read the blog to gain insight on the new improvements. Read More...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales enables companies to increase sales efficiency and improve effectiveness. These benefits are driven by better data visibility, streamlined workflows and the automation of previously manual tasks that give sellers more time to sell and sales managers more time to coach their teams. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed nine decision-makers at a total of six organizations with experience using Dynamics 365 Sales. Download this report to explore key findings. View: The Total Economic ImpactTM of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

East London NHS Foundation Trust's (ELFT) approach to quality improvement is deeply rooted in data to understand the opportunities and test the impact of interventions. When ELFT embarked on a strategy to enable data-driven decision-making closer to the point of care, it chose Microsoft's Intelligent Data Platform including Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Power BI. Get the story to learn from ELFT's experience powering quality improvements and making real-world impacts on patient care with Power BI and Microsoft Azure. Read More...

After 8 years, Microsoft has finished the "lifting and shifting" of its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure and this has the company rethinking everything. Read the blog to learn how the company is retooling to take advantage of all the cloud has to offer. Read More...

Successful BEC (business email compromise) attacks cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars annually. What are the most common types of BEC attacks? View this infographic for an at-a-glance.

The mission of Koppert is making agriculture and horticulture healthier and more productive and sustainable by working in partnership with nature. Most of the products Koppert produces and ships are living organisms with a limited shelf life, leaving no room for error in the supply chain. Adding to the challenge is the complexity of meeting rapidly changing compliance requirements across 30 countries. When the company's customized, legacy Dynamics AX 2009 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system stopped keeping up, Koppert decided to move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance, supply chain and sales operations. Get the story on how moving to Dynamics 365 helps Koppert enhance customer service, improve order delivery and build a strong foundation for growth and agility. Read More...

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From reducing manual operations to more strategic initiatives, AI's impact on telecom offers critical lessons for other industries. Read More...