By John Brandon – The best process always wins in business. When any company decides to improve how their employees complete tasks, which functions are automated and which ones benefit from emerging technology, and when the entire company is focused on … Continue reading →
By LILY HAY NEWMAN – Internet-connected gadgets like light bulbs and fitness trackers are notorious for poor security. That’s partly because they’re often made cheaply and with haste, which leads to careless mistakes and outsourcing of problematic parts. But it’s also partly due to the lack … Continue reading →
By Mark Jones – It doesn’t matter if you’re working on a home computer with lots of sensitive documents and family photos, or if you’re a small business owner with years of client files and tax records. You’re likely storing … Continue reading →
Brian Madden – Microsoft recently announced a new flow as part of their newly renamed Power Automate workflow app called UI flow. What makes it stand apart from their previous flows is that it uses robotic process automation (RPA). Now, RPA isn’t … Continue reading →
By Kevin Casey – Like most emerging or new-to-you technologies, robotic process automation (RPA) comes with a learning curve. What is RPA? What are some uses for it? Is RPA the same thing as AI? And so on. Thankfully, there are readily accessible ways – from … Continue reading →
In September, I looked at Microsoft Flow, which is Microsoft’s workflow automation app. At Microsoft Ignite 2019, they renamed it Power Automate, in order to make the name better fit the Power Platform branding. Microsoft dedicated several breakout sessions to covering all … Continue reading →
MSDW Editorial Team – In light of GDPR and other data protection regulations, the Power BI team worked with the Information Security and Cloud App Security teams over the last six months. The result is customizable and persistent sensitivity labels, data … Continue reading →
By Simon Chandler – It might sound like the stuff of dystopian science fiction, but connecting workers and employees through the Internet of Things (IoT) will provide a significant boost to workplace productivity and safety. Even now, startups and major … Continue reading →
By Catalin Cimpanu – ConnectWise, a Florida-based company that provides remote IT management solutions, is warning customers that hackers are targeting its software to gain access to client networks and install ransomware. ConnectWise Automate is a software package that lets IT … Continue reading →
When Excel entered the scene in the mid ’80s, businesses discovered an entirely new way to organize and interact with their data. With Excel, enterprises could keep a growing mass of crucial information on a central platform, reducing paper trails … Continue reading →