Harcourts' latest move: Office 365
New technology platforms were needed to support our plan to operate in 100 countries, says CIO Jason Willls.
New technology platforms were needed to support our plan to operate in 100 countries, says CIO Jason Willls.
“Businesses are hungry to seize new opportunities using technologies like machine learning and predictive analytics."
This isn't your parent's Microsoft Office. Recent activity culminating with the SharePoint Conference 2014 shows that Microsoft is making its Office suite more social, more integrated with both home-grown and acquired Microsoft technologies, more analytical and more cloud-friendly.
Lincoln University will look to expand bring-your-own-device (BYOD) options, and work to expand capabilities to the staff in 2014.
After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.
Law firm Holland & Knight already had a who's who of best-of-breed communications products deployed when the firm's IT team decided it needed to replace the tangled mess of PBX systems that provided voice lines at its many offices. It chose to jettison them all in favor of an infrastructure built on Microsoft Lync Server 2013.